Pluralistic: Bullies want you to think they're on your side (13 Mar 2024)

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Bullies want you to think they're on your side: Bosses (not migrants) take workers' wages, and corporations (not readers) want writers' money.
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Pluralistic: The Cory Doctorow Humble Bundle (03 Mar 2024)

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The Cory Doctorow Humble Bundle: Name your price, get ebooks, back EFF!
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Pluralistic: The majority of censorship is self-censorship; The Bezzle excerpt (Part V) (22 Feb 2024)

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The majority of censorship is self-censorship: …But the majority of self-censorship is intentionally cultivated by an outside power.
The Bezzle excerpt (Part V): Keep your hands at 10 and 2.
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Pluralistic: Middlemen without enshittification; The Bezzle excerpt (Part II) (19 Feb 2024)

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Middlemen without enshittification: Not every author can be a DIY author.
The Bezzle excerpt (Part II): Let's learn about copyright termination!
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Pluralistic: How a billionaire's mediocre pump-and-dump "book" became a "bestseller" (15 Feb 2024)

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How a billionaire's mediocre pump-and-dump "book" became a "bestseller": A convincer to prolong the bezzle.
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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: 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: Linkdump Minkchump (16 Dec 2023)

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Linkdump Minkchump: A thoroughly assorted Saturday.
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Pluralistic: "Brand safety" killed Jezebel (11 Nov 2023)

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"Brand safety" killed Jezebel: Reality isn't brand-safe.
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Pluralistic: A link-clump demands a linkdump (05 Nov 2023)

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A link-clump demands a linkdump: Fit the ninth.
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