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@pluralistic Fantastic to mee you today and get books signed!!! Have a great rest of your tour!
I am inordinately tickled by the derivative terminology spawned from the neo-word-root here.
It pleases my etymology-geek soul....
I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in Burbank (TODAY!), Lisbon, Cardiff, Oxford and London!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
https://pluralistic.net/tour
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@pluralistic we’ll wait for you in Italy too!
Facebook's fraud files: 10% of gross ad revenue coming from fraudulent ads.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115514829511838947
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Hey look at this
* Dick Cheney Doesn’t Deserve Your Heartfelt Eulogies https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/dick-cheney-death-iraq-war/
* Queen West Complete, Summer 2015 https://crowdfundr.com/queenwest2015?ref=ab_4OgKuqNTSbD4OgKuqNTSbD
* Does Ubiquitous Computing Need Interface Agents? https://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~coopes/comp319/2016/papers/UbiquitousComputingAndInterfaceAgents-Weiser.pdf (h/t Robin Sloan)
* America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani https://prospect.org/2025/11/04/americas-dumbest-billionaires-fail-to-stop-zohran-mamdani/
* Why Solarpunk is already happening in Africa https://climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarpunk-is-already-happening (h/t Hacker News)
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#20yrsago Singapore’s stocking-foot executioner https://web.archive.org/web/20051029103210/http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17057851-2,00.html
#20yrsago Cinemas as police-states: why box-office revenue is in decline? https://web.archive.org/web/20051107024915/https://www.politechbot.com/2005/11/04/how-the-mpaa/
#20yrsago Westchester Co’s clueless WiFi lawmakers demonstrate cluelessness http://www.psychicfriends.net/blog/archives/2005/11/06/idiot_politicians_in_my_neighborhood.html
#20yrsago Katamari Damacy homemade models http://www.harveycartel.org/mare/pics/katamari.html
#15yrsago Cut-up artist alphabetizes the newspaper https://web.archive.org/web/20101109012930/http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/11/kim-rugg-london-artists-knife-skills-knack-precision/
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#15yrsago Colorado DA drops felony hit-and-run charges against billion-dollar financier because of “serious job implications” https://web.archive.org/web/20101108122254/http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20101104/NEWS/101109939/1078&ParentProfile=1062
#10yrsago A Freedom of Information request for UK Home Secretary Theresa May’s metadata https://www.techdirt.com/2015/11/06/uk-home-secretary-says-dont-worry-about-collection-metadata-foia-request-made-her-metadata/
#10yrsago Religious children more punitive, less likely to display altruism https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/06/religious-children-less-altruistic-secular-kids-study
#10yrsago Once again, the SFPD blames a cyclist for his own death without any investigation https://sfist.com/2015/11/04/sfpd_once_again_blames_cyclist_for/
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#10yrsago Paid Patriotism: Pentagon spent millions bribing sports teams to recognize military service https://www.huffpost.com/entry/defense-military-tributes-professional-sports_n_5639a04ce4b0411d306eda5e
#10yrsago Spy at will! FCC won’t force companies to honor Do Not Track https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/fcc-wont-force-websites-to-honor-do-not-track-requests/
#10yrsago TPP will let banks write their own regulations and stick taxpayers with the bill https://theintercept.com/2015/11/06/ttp-trade-pact-would-give-wall-street-a-trump-card-to-block-regulations/
#10yrsago Typewriter portraiture, the strange story of 1920s ASCII art https://web.archive.org/web/20151108220746/https://pictorial.jezebel.com/the-typewriter-ascii-portraits-of-classic-hollywood-and-1738094492
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#15yrsago Colorado DA drops felony hit-and-run charges against billion-dollar financier because of “serious job implications” https://web.archive.org/web/20101108122254/http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20101104/NEWS/101109939/1078&ParentProfile=1062
#10yrsago A Freedom of Information request for UK Home Secretary Theresa May’s metadata https://www.techdirt.com/2015/11/06/uk-home-secretary-says-dont-worry-about-collection-metadata-foia-request-made-her-metadata/
#10yrsago Religious children more punitive, less likely to display altruism https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/06/religious-children-less-altruistic-secular-kids-study
#10yrsago Once again, the SFPD blames a cyclist for his own death without any investigation https://sfist.com/2015/11/04/sfpd_once_again_blames_cyclist_for/
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