Pluralistic: Apple's robo-repo (25 Jul 2026)

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Apple's robo-repo: Privatizing the risk premium, socializing its costs.
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Pluralistic: The games industry's self-induced traumatic brain injury (17 Nov 2025)

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The games industry's self-induced traumatic brain injury: Amnesia is video games' default state.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Object permanence: Sony DRM nonpology; Misprinted prefab houses; Canada's repair law can't be fixed; BNL's USB-stick release; Pornoscanners vs pleats; The Internet will always suck.
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Pluralistic: By all means, tread on those people (26 Aug 2025)

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By all means, tread on those people: We know you love freedom, we just wish you'd share.
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Object permanence: The right to bear cameras; GOP wants slavery for undocumented migrants; Telepresence Nazi-punching.
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Pluralistic: How my DRM-free principles left me owning the rights to a German audiobook (21 Jul 2025)

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How my DRM-free principles left me owning the rights to a German audiobook: This isn't my usual crowdfunder!
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Object permanence: Internet addiction, Dems fund DHS urban invasions, AI art and anti-cooption, FCC vs prison profiteers
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Pluralistic: Are the means of computation even seizable? (14 May 2025)

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Are the means of computation even seizable?: Magic Saran Wrap is a mind-game.
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Pluralistic: Brother makes a demon-haunted printer (05 Mar 2025)

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Brother makes a demon-haunted printer: The internet is a portal to hell.
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Pluralistic: There Were Always Enshittifiers (04 Mar 2025)

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There Were Always Enshittifiers: My March, 2025 Locus Magazine column.
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Object permanence: 2015, 2020, 2024
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Pluralistic: They were warned; Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 4) (13 Jan 2025)

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They were warned: "We've had enough of experts."
Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 4): Electronic needles, digital haystacks.
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This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024
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Pluralistic: Kickstarting a new Martin Hench novel about the dawn of enshittification (07 Jan 2025)

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Kickstarting a new Martin Hench novel about the dawn of enshittification: A crime thriller of pyramid schemes, faith scams, weird PCs, Reaganomics, punk rock, and San Francisco during the AIDS crisis (and Amazon won't sell it!).
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2005, 2020
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Pluralistic: Quinque gazump linkdump (12 Oct 2024)

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Quinque gazump linkdump: A sprinkling of inklings for the weekend.
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