Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Apple vs the "free market"; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/15/private-law/
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You call it enshittification. I call it rent-seeking techno feudalism. :)
https://wintertrabex.substack.com/p/big-tech-wants-monetization-to-go
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I'm coming to BURNING MAN! On TUESDAY (Aug 27) at 1PM, I'm giving a talk called "DISENSHITTIFY OR DIE!" at PALENQUE NORTE (7&E). On WEDNESDAY (Aug 28) at NOON, I'm doing a "Talking Caterpillar" Q&A at LIMINAL LABS (830&C).
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Community voting for SXSW is live! If you wanna hear Rida Qadri and me talk about how gig workers can disenshittify their jobs with interoperability, vote for this one!
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/150498
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Apple vs the "free market": Meet the new boss, worse than the old boss.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112966196883462220
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Hey look at this
* Framework Laptop 13 reviewed, again: Meteor Lake meh, Linux upgrades good https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/framework-laptop-13-reviewed-again-meteor-lake-meh-linux-upgrades-good/
* The Neighborliness Option https://prospect.org/politics/2024-08-14-neighborliness-option-chicago-migrants-dnc/
* Animatronic Tropical Bird Build Kits http://www.tropitronics.com/
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#15yrsago Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede, one of the all-time great American comedy sf novels, will be a movie https://memex.craphound.com/2009/08/13/buddy-holly-is-alive-and-well-on-ganymede-one-of-the-all-time-great-american-comedy-sf-novels-will-be-a-movie/
#15yrsago Dingbat dictatorship in Belarus invents magical anti-cancer pockets for school uniforms https://web.archive.org/web/20090820215848/http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/08/13/belarus_develops_school_uniform_that_makes_tin_foil_hates_obsolete
#10yrsago Comcast, Time Warner make huge “donations” to party honoring their FCC overseer https://www.techdirt.com/2014/08/12/comcast-time-warner-cable-spend-big-to-honor-fcc-commissioner-overseeing-their-merger-review/
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#10yrsago Comcast leaves customer on hold for 3 hours, closes the office and goes home https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/2ddxku/comment/cjoqmdo/
#10yrsago Brooklyn Law Clinic students scare away patent trolls https://medium.com/patents-technology-law/law-students-fend-off-a-patent-troll-2b8a708277fc
#10yrsago Groucho Marx on comics and depression https://memex.craphound.com/2014/08/13/groucho-marx-on-comics-and-depression/
#10yrsago How Gary Gygax lost control over D&;D and TSR https://medium.com/@increment/the-ambush-at-sheridan-springs-3a29d07f6836
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