Pluralistic: 2600's amazing Hackers on Planet Earth con may go down to enshittification (19 Jan 2024)

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2600's amazing Hackers on Planet Earth con may go down to enshittification: Remember, hacking is more than just a crime: it's a survival trait.
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Pluralistic: Demon-haunted computers are back, baby (17 Jan 2024)

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Demon-haunted computers are back, baby: Surely no one will ever find a way to abuse this security system that treats the computer's owner as an attacker.
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Pluralistic: The super-rich got that way through monopolies (17 Jan 2024)

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The super-rich got that way through monopolies: A report in honor of Davos.
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Pluralistic: American education has all the downsides of standardization, none of the upsides (16 Jan 2024)

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American education has all the downsides of standardization, none of the upsides: A common core, but no commons.
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Pluralistic: Sympathy for the spammer (15 Jan 2024)

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Sympathy for the spammer: The desperate and credulous are superspreaders in the botshit pandemic.
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Pluralistic: Tech workers and gig workers need each other (13 Jan 2024)

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Tech workers and gig workers need each other: Each disenshittifies the other.
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Pluralistic: The Cult of Mac (12 Jan 2024)

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The Cult of Mac: You cannot reason a person out of a position they did not reason themself into in the first place.
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Pluralistic: The REAL AI automation threat to workers (11 Jan 2024)

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The real AI automation threat to workers: The robot can't replace you, but it CAN replace your shitty boss.
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Pluralistic: Kickstarting "The Bezzle" audiobook, sequel to Red Team Blues (10 Jan 2024)

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Kickstarting "The Bezzle" audiobook, sequel to Red Team Blues: Another Wil Wheaton banger, necessitated by Amazon's perfidy.
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Pluralistic: Kelly and Zach Weinersmith's "A City On Mars" (09 Jan 2024)

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Kelly and Zach Weinersmith's "A City On Mars": Life in space sucks, is grotesquely expensive, and produces little useful science.
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