Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: The worst possible antitrust outcome; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/03/unpunishing-process/
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: The worst possible antitrust outcome; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/03/unpunishing-process/
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The most enshittification-proof way to get the Enshittification audiobook, ebook and hardcover is to pre-order them on my Kickstarter! Help me do an end-run around the Amazon/Audible audiobook monopoly and disenshittify your audiobook experience in the process:
http://disenshittification.org
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When I try to support it I get into an infinite loop of "Making sure you're human", check the box, then back to "Making sure you're human." I'm using LibreWolf; guess I'll try something else just long enough to get to the page I need.
The worst possible antitrust outcome: Hope you like enshittification.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115142377130746674
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Hey look at this
* Apologies: You Have Reached the End of Your Free-Trial Period of America! https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/09/america-free-trial-services/684072/?gift=jQN1t1D1nkO2TQodBiz5KLmz9qdi35_pconlf7F6jjg
* The Happiest Place on Earth https://ramblingreaders.org/book/442124/s/the-happiest-place-on-earth
* the brompton-ness of it all https://backofmind.substack.com/p/the-brompton-ness-of-it-all
* I am a Private Citizen Seeking to Hold My Government Accountable. Dr. Vinay Prasad, a Government Doctor, Killed My YouTube Channel. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/vinayprasadlovescensorship/ (h/t Boing Boing)
* Lawbreaking as a Method of Competition https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5433014
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#15yrsago German “secure” ID cards compromised on national TV, gov’t buries head in sand https://web.archive.org/web/20100826072237/http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20100824-29359.html
#15yrsago Applying “ownership” to links, public domain material does more harm than good https://locusmag.com/2010/09/cory-doctorow-proprietary-interest/
#5yrago How to report on vote-by-mail https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/02/free-steven-donziger/#write-the-vote
#5yrsago Amazon's weird, terrible Flex https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/02/free-steven-donziger/#chickenized-flex
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#5yrsago Russia didn't hack Michigan https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/02/free-steven-donziger/#mittenski
#5yrsago Amazon drivers hide phones in trees https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/02/free-steven-donziger/#phone-trees
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Yesterday's threads: All (antitrust) politics are local; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115135451372215524
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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels
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My next nonfiction book is "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," out from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 7:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
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