Pluralistic: Billionaire-proofing the internet; Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 5) (14 Jan 2025)

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Billionaire-proofing the internet: Scolding people for choosing popular services is no way to build a popular movement.
Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 5): Now we're just haggling over the price.
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The cod-Marxism of personalized pricing: From each to their ability, to each according to their need?
Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 3): DEFINITELY not a pyramid scheme.
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Occupy the Democratic National Committee: A deliberately weak institution that has failed us again and again.
Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 2): Meet the women of Computing Freedom.
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Chapter One of "Picks and Shovels" (Part 1): My next novel is the origin story of Martin Hench, Silicon Valley's greatest forensic accountant.
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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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Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em.
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Sympathy for the spammer: The desperate and credulous are superspreaders in the botshit pandemic.
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Private equity ghouls have a new way to steal from their investors: Continuation funds are a multi-billion-dollar blackmail racket.
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