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It's the start of a long weekend and I've found myself with a backlog of links, so it's time for another linkdump - the eighteenth in the (occasional) series. Here's the previous installments:

https://pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/

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https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/25/anthology/#lol-no

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Inkjump Linkdump; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/25/anthology/

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For the rest of May, my bestselling solarpunk utopian novel The Lost Cause (2023) is available as a $2.99, DRM-free ebook!

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-lost-cause-4

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: They brick you because they can; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/24/record-scratch/

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The interior of a luxury sedan as seen from the driver's PoV, with the driver's hands on the wheel. Mounted to the vent is a Spotify 'Car Thing' - a $90 tablet designed to stream Spotify music. The image has been altered. The sky behind the driver's windscreen is animated TV static. The album thumbnail on the Car Thing UI has been replaced with a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. A skeletal robed figure, clutching a sheaf of documents headed with the Spotify logo, reaches out a bony finger to prod at the Car Thing from the left side of the image.

pluralistic,
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For the rest of May, my bestselling solarpunk utopian novel The Lost Cause (2023) is available as a $2.99, DRM-free ebook!

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-lost-cause-4

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In "The Scorpion and the Frog," a trusting frog gives a scorpion a ride across a brook, only to be stung to death by his passenger upon arrival. The dying frog gasps "why?" and the scorpion replies, "I am sorry, but I couldn't resist the urge. It's my character":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/24/record-scratch/#autoenshittification

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The interior of a luxury sedan as seen from the driver's PoV, with the driver's hands on the wheel. Mounted to the vent is a Spotify 'Car Thing' - a $90 tablet designed to stream Spotify music. The image has been altered. The sky behind the driver's windscreen is animated TV static. The album thumbnail on the Car Thing UI has been replaced with a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. A skeletal robed figure, clutching a sheaf of documents headed with the Spotify logo, reaches out a bony finger to prod at the Car Thing from the left side of the image.

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I have been a published writer since I was 17, and never in all those years have I encountered worse editorial suggestions than the automated ones generated by Microsoft Office365.

Makes Clippy look like EB White.

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@natrhein I mean, just demanding that you expand every instance of "it's" into "it is." FFS.

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: How finfluencers destroyed the housing and lives of thousands of people; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/22/koteswar-jay-gajavelli/

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pluralistic,
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For the rest of May, my bestselling solarpunk utopian novel The Lost Cause (2023) is available as a $2.99, DRM-free ebook!

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Cause-Cory-Doctorow-ebook/dp/B0BQGGP2XT/

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pluralistic,
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@justinas Yes.

pluralistic,
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@justinas Just download it from the Kindle web interface and install it on the reader of your choice.k

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@justinas

See, e.g.

https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/questions/7622/how-to-download-transfer-from-kindle-or-amazon-com-to-pc

https://www.reddit.com/r/Calibre/comments/zoowad/downloading_books_from_kindle_app_calibre/

https://www.epubor.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-download-kindle-books.html

You'll get an AZW file.

If your reader doesn't support that natively, there's lots of free, easy AZW-EPUB or AZW-MOBI converters.

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/23/spineless/

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pluralistic,
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For the rest of May, my bestselling solarpunk utopian novel The Lost Cause (2023) is available as a $2.99, DRM-free ebook!

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-lost-cause-4

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I can't get a definitive answer on whether TV static (see attached) constitutes a strobe effect that could endanger people with photosensitive epilepsy. Anyone know? PEAT (the only tool that measures this, seemingly?!) is Windows-only and won't run under WINE.

See https://craphound.com/static.html

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@rndeon it got compressed - here's the original:

https://craphound.com/static.html

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Hey, @mozilla I'm really proud to be a paid Media Monitor subscriber, and I'm happy with the service, too.

But why do your emails pass their links through a tracking redirection service controlled by a third party?

My May statement links through https://blrv1ly5.r.us-west-2.awstrack.me/

?!

pluralistic,
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@dphiffer @mozilla @themarkup I can appreciate this; I run my mail over Mailman for this reason. It's very primitive, but at least it just delivers the email I enqueue, rather than inserting trackers in it.

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@dphiffer @mozilla @themarkup At EFF, we've had a variety of providers (e.g. Civi) who would do the same for us, even for very large mailing lists.

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A decade ago, a hedge fund had an improbable viral comedy hit: a 294-page slide deck explaining why Olive Garden was going out of business, blaming the failure on too many breadsticks and insufficiently salted pasta-water:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/940944/000092189514002031/ex991dfan14a06297125_091114.pdf

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https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/23/spineless/#invertebrates

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US politicians, the courts, the media, and even unions are lining up to knuckle under to another stolen election like 2000. But preparing for a general strike is a way to counteract this seeming near-certainty, to prepare for the worst, and most importantly to change the narrative of helplessness. https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-will-you-do-if-the-election (via @pluralistic)

pluralistic,
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@jpaskaruk 2028: https://inthesetimes.com/article/may-day-2028-general-strike-working-class

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The crash of 2008 imparted many lessons to people who were only dimly aware of finance, especially how complexity was a way of disguising fraud and recklessness. That was really the first lesson of 2008: "financial engineering" is mostly a way of obscuring crime behind a screen of technical jargon.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/22/koteswar-jay-gajavelli/#if-you-ever-go-to-houston

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pluralistic,
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@KSargent Thank you - I can't locate this typo, though?

pluralistic,
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@bkim different publisher (UK and EU rights are Bloomsbury, not macmillan) so probably not

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Oh, fuck you, British Airways.

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