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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 2 hours ago

#25yrsago A dotcom founder's tale (funny) https://features.slashdot.org/story/01/05/04/1541239/the-worst-of-times

#20yrsago Shell UK abandons chip-and-pin after £1M fraud https://web.archive.org/web/20060508044110/https://www.snakeoillabs.com/2006/05/07/shell-stops-accepting-chip-and-pin-in-fraud-fiasco-bp-to-follow/

#15yrsago Typewriter bust: Grandfather https://web.archive.org/web/20110511033756/http://jemayer.tumblr.com/post/5260317696

#10yrsago Kobo “upgrade” deprives readers of hundreds of DRM-locked ebooks https://www.teleread.com/drm-nightmare-after-recent-upgrade-kobo-customers-report-losing-sony-books-from-their-libraries/

#10yrsago Venerable hacker zine Phrack publishes its first issue in four years https://phrack.org/issues/69/1

Phrack

Introduction

Click to read the article on phrack

Making sure you're not a bot!

Jeremy Mayer
Bust V (Grandfather)
22”x11”x17”
... - Jeremy Mayer

Jeremy Mayer Bust V (Grandfather) 22”x11”x17” Assembled typewriter parts 2011 I was going to wait to show this piece until I finished my book. The book is taking forever.

SnakeOil Labs » Shell stops accepting Chip and Pin in Fraud Fiasco, BP to follow?

The Worst Of Times - Slashdot

Note: Troubled dot-commer Kurt Gray wrote this eloquent and tragic story -- a story all too typical in today's troubled tech market, when even the best ideas can be swept aside by a market that just isn't ready for them. Probably more than a handful of you can sympathize with the havoc that an econo...

#25yrsago #10yrsago #15yrsago #20yrsago

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Krazov

@Krazov@mstdn.social · activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@pluralistic Yesterday, I've seen the episode of "DoroHedoro" where there was a character called Turkey who had a mask like that.

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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 2 hours ago

Trump's fruitless search for a goreable ox: You can keep billionaires happy, or you can fight the cost of living crisis, but not both.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116544778106297332

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 2 hours ago

Hey look at this

* The simple statistical error Republican Supreme Court justices used to gut the VRA https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-08-simple-math-error-scotus-callais-vra

* Message to Congress on Curbing Monopolies. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/message-congress-curbing-monopolies

* The Scam Artistry of the Right’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels https://jacobin.com/2026/05/peterson-musk-tate-right-victimization

* Ploopy Bean Pointing Stick https://ploopy.co/shop/bean-pointing-stick/

Bean Pointing Stick [PREORDER] – Ploopy

The Scam Artistry of the Right’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

The Right’s con men promise liberation for those who feel themselves superior but are held back by the leveling institutions of mass mediocrity. Their rhetoric intoxicatingly combines feelings of superiority with a sense of dispossessed victimization.

The simple statistical error Republican Supreme Court justices used to gut the VRA

The Court says vote dilution can be proven only after "controlling" racial polarization for partisan polarization. This is a nonsensical and impossible test

Message to Congress on Curbing Monopolies. | The American Presidency Project

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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 2 hours ago

#25yrsago A dotcom founder's tale (funny) https://features.slashdot.org/story/01/05/04/1541239/the-worst-of-times

#15yrsago Typewriter bust: Grandfather https://web.archive.org/web/20110511033756/http://jemayer.tumblr.com/post/5260317696

#10yrsago Venerable hacker zine Phrack publishes its first issue in four years https://phrack.org/issues/69/1

Phrack

Introduction

Click to read the article on phrack

Making sure you're not a bot!

Jeremy Mayer
Bust V (Grandfather)
22”x11”x17”
... - Jeremy Mayer

Jeremy Mayer Bust V (Grandfather) 22”x11”x17” Assembled typewriter parts 2011 I was going to wait to show this piece until I finished my book. The book is taking forever.

SnakeOil Labs » Shell stops accepting Chip and Pin in Fraud Fiasco, BP to follow?

The Worst Of Times - Slashdot

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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 2 hours ago

#10yrsago Panama Papers whistleblower issues statement, naming and shaming failed states and institutions https://web.archive.org/web/20160506180902/https://panamapapers.icij.org/20160506-john-doe-statement.html

#5yrsago The FTC's (kick-ass) Right to Repair report https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/07/pro-act-class-war/#we-fixit

#5yrsago The PRO Act and worker misclassification https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/07/pro-act-class-war/#sectoral-balances

#1yrago Mark Zuckerberg announces mind-control ray (again) https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/07/rah-rah-rasputin/#credulous-dolts

https://pluralistic.net

Pluralistic: 07 May 2021

Panama Papers Source Offers Documents To Governments, Hints At More To Come

Source known only as John Doe says income inequality

Medium

Mark Zuckerberg announces mind-control ray (again)

The business model for AI is the same as the business model for Big Data — bilking credulous advertisers.

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