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Inside: "Flexible labor" is a euphemism for "derisking capital"; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/10/zero-sum-zero-hours/
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
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"Flexible labor" is a euphemism for "derisking capital": It's a zero-sum game.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115525357862176966
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Hey look at this
* Aurora Borealis Reliefs https://www.aurora-borealis-reliefs.com/
* Trump's winning 2024 coalition has evaporated https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-winning-2024-coalition-has
* The Future of Online Privacy Hinges on Thousands of New Jersey Cops https://www.wired.com/story/daniels-law-new-jersey-online-privacy-matt-adkisson-atlas-lawsuits/
* Digi-Comp I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digi-Comp_I
* Blocking of Cloudflare IPs in Spain https://cybersecurityadvisors.network/2025/04/15/la-liga-blocking-of-cloudflare-ips-in-spain/
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#20yrsago Where do trolls come from? https://web.archive.org/web/20051124144047/http://www.barbelith.com/topic/22769
#20yrsago Lists of corrupted CDs https://web.archive.org/web/20051104092309/http://ukcdr.org/issues/cd/bad/
#20yrsago Wanna sue the pants off Sony? https://web.archive.org/web/20051113134057/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004149.php
#20yrsago Katamari sushi https://www.flickr.com/photos/59199828@N00/61624921/
#20yrsago Sony’s EULA is worse than their rootkit https://web.archive.org/web/20051113134044/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php
#20yrsago List of CDs infected with Sony’s rootkit DRM https://web.archive.org/web/20051113134049/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004144.php
#15yrsago TSA: checkpoint groping doesn’t exist https://web.archive.org/web/20101112010440/http://blog.tsa.gov/2010/11/white-house-blog-backscatter-back-story.html?showComment=1289329969182#c8438617926094279566
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#10yrsago Unevenly distributed future: America’s online education systemhttps://medium.com/@cshirky/the-digital-revolution-in-higher-education-has-already-happened-no-one-noticed-78ec0fec16c7
#10yrsago Chelsea Manning’s statement for Aaron Swartz Day 2015 https://www.aaronswartzday.org/chelsea-manning-2015/
#10yrsago Unevenly distributed futures: Hong Kong’s amazing towershttps://www.peterstewartphotography.com/Portfolio/Stacked-Hong-Kong
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#5yrsago UK corporate registrar bans code-injection https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/09/boundless-realm/#timmy-drop-tables
#5yrsago Student data breaches vastly underreported https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/09/boundless-realm/#leaky-edtech
#5yrsago Boundless Realms https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/09/boundless-realm/#fuxxfur
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#5yrsago UK corporate registrar bans code-injection https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/09/boundless-realm/#timmy-drop-tables
#5yrsago Student data breaches vastly underreported https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/09/boundless-realm/#leaky-edtech
#5yrsago Boundless Realms https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/09/boundless-realm/#fuxxfur
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#10yrsago EU wants to require permission to make a link on the Web https://felixreda.eu/2015/11/ancillary-copyright-2-0-the-european-commission-is-preparing-a-frontal-attack-on-the-hyperlink/
#10yrsago Federal judge orders NSA to stop collecting and searching plaintiffs’ phone records https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/nsa-ordered-stop-collecting-querying-plaintiffs-phone-records
#10yrsago Here’s the kind of data the UK government will have about you, in realtime https://web.archive.org/web/20151112034545/https://icreacharound.xyz/
#10yrsago The CIA writes like Lovecraft, Bureau of Prisons is like Stephen King, & NSA is like… https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/nov/09/famous-writers-agency-foia-offices/
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#10yrsago EU wants to require permission to make a link on the Web https://felixreda.eu/2015/11/ancillary-copyright-2-0-the-european-commission-is-preparing-a-frontal-attack-on-the-hyperlink/
#10yrsago Federal judge orders NSA to stop collecting and searching plaintiffs’ phone records https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/nsa-ordered-stop-collecting-querying-plaintiffs-phone-records
#10yrsago Here’s the kind of data the UK government will have about you, in realtime https://web.archive.org/web/20151112034545/https://icreacharound.xyz/
#10yrsago The CIA writes like Lovecraft, Bureau of Prisons is like Stephen King, & NSA is like… https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/nov/09/famous-writers-agency-foia-offices/
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#20yrsago Where do trolls come from? https://web.archive.org/web/20051124144047/http://www.barbelith.com/topic/22769
#20yrsago Lists of corrupted CDs https://web.archive.org/web/20051104092309/http://ukcdr.org/issues/cd/bad/
#20yrsago Wanna sue the pants off Sony? https://web.archive.org/web/20051113134057/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004149.php
#20yrsago Katamari sushi https://www.flickr.com/photos/59199828@N00/61624921/
#20yrsago Sony’s EULA is worse than their rootkit https://web.archive.org/web/20051113134044/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php
#20yrsago List of CDs infected with Sony’s rootkit DRM https://web.archive.org/web/20051113134049/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004144.php
#15yrsago TSA: checkpoint groping doesn’t exist https://web.archive.org/web/20101112010440/http://blog.tsa.gov/2010/11/white-house-blog-backscatter-back-story.html?showComment=1289329969182#c8438617926094279566
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