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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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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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!).
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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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Pluralistic: A sexy, skinny defeat device for your HP ink cartridge (30 Sep 2024)

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A sexy, skinny defeat device for your HP ink cartridge: A machine in the middle that's too cheap to meter.
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Pluralistic: Thinking the unthinkable (19 Sep 2024)

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Thinking the unthinkable: At a certain point, we have to admit that the correct amount of radium in your suppository is zero.
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Pluralistic: Apple vs the "free market" (15 Aug 2024)

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Apple vs the "free market": Meet the new boss, worse than the old boss.
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Pluralistic: Kitchensink callithump linkdump (29 Jun 2024)

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Kitchensink callithump linkdump: All the news I couldn't fit.
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Pluralistic: It's been twenty years since my Microsoft DRM talk (18 Jun 2024)

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It's been twenty years since my Microsoft DRM talk: It looks like you're trying to avert the DRM apocalypse…
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