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Pluralistic: Deplatform yourself (23 Feb 2026)


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  • Deplatform yourself: Copyright infringement is your least entertainment dollar.
  • Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
  • Object permanence: "Lawer" threatens suit; Landmark metaphotos; 3DP v (c); Forced arbitration; Imperial Scott Walker; Keysigning ritual; Polyfingered robot dictaphone; DNS bug; Register of copyright damns term extension; How Anonymous decides; Christchurch quake people-finder; Minor HP disenshittification; US v developing world at WIPO; TfL v anagram tube-map; Disneyland waiting; Internet of Garbage.
  • Upcoming appearances: Where to find me.
  • Recent appearances: Where I've been.
  • Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em.
  • Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em.
  • Colophon: All the rest.

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Pluralistic: Six Years of Pluralistic (19 Feb 2026)


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Pluralistic: Pluralistic is five (19 Feb 2025)


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Pluralistic: Proud to be a blockhead (21 Dec 2024)


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Pluralistic: Pluralistic is four; The Bezzle excerpt (Part III) (20 Feb 2024)


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Pluralistic: A year in illustration, 2023 edition (21 Dec 2023)


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Pluralistic: Pluralistic is three (19 Feb 2023)


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A blurred roulette wheel in motion. Image by Angelo_Giordano, CC0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
Image by Angelo_Giordano, CC0

There was a time when I would read the whole internet, every day.

Oh, not all of it. But when Usenet — the internet’s first widescale social media — was bridged into Fidonet (a network of dial-up BBSes), my local free bulletin board system began to import several hundred Usenet newsgroups, updating several times per day. I would dial up to this BBS and read my way through all of the new posts on these groups.

Early on, this was easy. Then, as traffic picked up, and as more newsgroups entered the feed, it got harder. Then it got impossible.

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Pluralistic: 24 May 2021


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