Pluralistic: The future of Amazon coders is the present of Amazon warehouse workers (13 Mar 2025)

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The future of Amazon coders is the present of Amazon warehouse workers: It's here, it's just not evenly distributed.
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Pluralistic: Bossware is unfair (in the legal sense, too) (26 Nov 2024)

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Bossware is unfair (in the legal sense, too): Neotaylorists wielding digital calipers, breaking the law.
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Pluralistic: The reverse-centaur apocalypse is upon us (02 Aug 2024)

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The reverse-centaur apocalypse is upon us: Microsoft, Oracle, and other bossware dealers are transforming our workplaces with "virtual whips."
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Pluralistic: FCC strikes a blow against prison profiteering (19 Jul 2024)

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FCC strikes a blow against prison profiteering: The cost of a prison phone-call drops from $11.35 to $0.90.
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Pluralistic: Someday, we'll all take comfort in the internet's "dark corners" (23 Mar 2024)

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Someday, we'll all take comfort in the internet's "dark corners": The Sea of Enshittification is rising and your online home will eventually be flooded.
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Pluralistic: Prison-tech is a brutal scam – and a harbinger of your future (14 Feb 2024)

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Prison-tech is a brutal scam – and a harbinger of your future: My next novel predicts the present.
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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: Autoenshittification (24 July 2023)

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Autoenshittification: How the computer killed capitalism.
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Pluralistic: Gig apps trap reverse centaurs in wage-stealing Skinner boxes (12 Apr 2023)

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Gig apps trap reverse centaurs in wage-stealing Skinner boxes: Twiddled to death through algorithmic wage discrimination.
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Pluralistic: Netflix wants to chop down your family tree (02 Feb 2023)

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Netflix wants to chop down your family tree: The enshittification cycle comes for your most private domain.
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