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Inside: "Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware Works"; and more!
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@rgulick Fixed. Thanks.
I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Miami, #Burbank and #Lisbon!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
https://pluralistic.net/tour
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"Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware Works": Steampunk dinosaurs scratch-build a pressurized air-based, Turing complete, universal von Neumann machine.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115498091031536637
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Hey look at this
* Zohran Mamdani: “Hope Is Alive” https://jacobin.com/2025/11/zohran-mamdani-election-victory-speech/
* Credit Card-Thin Handheld Has 300 Games and A Multiplayer Cable https://www.yankodesign.com/2025/11/05/credit-card-thin-handheld-has-300-games-and-a-multiplayer-cable/
* ‘The Big Short’ Investor Michael Burry Bets Against AI Hype https://gizmodo.com/the-big-short-investor-michael-burry-bets-against-ai-hype-2000681316
* I'm an Amazon employee, and I co-sign this letter anonymously https://www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter#sign-form
* Epic and Google agree to settle their lawsuit and change Android’s fate globally https://www.theverge.com/policy/813991/epic-google-proposed-settlement
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#20yrsago Google print hurts kids! https://memex.craphound.com/2005/11/05/hospital-google-print-hurts-kids/
#15yrsago HOWTO graft the RFID from a payment-card onto your phone https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2010/rfid-transplantation/
#15yrsago Lincolnbot Mark I https://web.archive.org/web/20101107224026/http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/11/walt-disney-one-mans-dream-re-opens-with-new-magic-fond-memories-at-disney’s-hollywood-studios/
#15yrsago Crutchfield Dermatology of Minneapolis claims copyright in everything you write, forever, to keep you from posting complaints on the net https://memex.craphound.com/2010/11/05/crutchfield-dermatology-of-minneapolis-claims-copyright-in-everything-you-write-forever-to-keep-you-from-posting-complaints-on-the-net/
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#15yrsago Botmasters include fake control interface to ensnare security researchers https://web.archive.org/web/20101106004833/https://blog.tllod.com/2010/11/03/statistics-dont-lie-or-do-they/
#15yrsago Young Asian refugee claimant sneaks onto Air Canada flight from HK disguised as old white guy https://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/11/04/canada.disguised.passenger/index.html
#15yrsago Zoo City: hard-boiled South African urban fantasy makes murder out of magic https://memex.craphound.com/2010/11/05/zoo-city-hard-boiled-south-african-urban-fantasy-makes-murder-out-of-magic/
#15yrsago Shortly after Murdoch buys National Geographic, he fires its award-winning journalists https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2011/07/20/wall-street-journal-under-rupert-murdoch/
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#10yrsago British government will (unsuccessfully) ban end-to-end encryption https://memex.craphound.com/2015/11/05/british-government-will-unsuccessfully-ban-end-to-end-encryption/
#10yrsago Man killed by his tapeworm’s cancer https://www.livescience.com/52695-tapeworm-cancer.html?cmpid=514645
#10yrsago Washington Redskins’ lawyers enumerate other grossly offensive trademarks for the USPTO https://www.techdirt.com/2015/11/04/how-redskins-delightfully-vulgar-court-filing-won-me-over/
#10yrsago New Zealand’s lost colossus: all-mechanical racetrack oddsmaking computer https://hackaday.com/2015/11/04/tote-boards-the-impressive-engineering-of-horse-gambling/
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