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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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GratianRiter, to random German
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Thank you @pluralistic ! Thank you very much! Especially for making me cry, sitting in my car, listening to "The Lost Cause" audio book on a regular basis.

Please tell me, their will be a german Translation, so I can get it for all my nonenglish reading friends and make them cry as well.

Seriously: It's deeply moving and we need a german edition asap! 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽

pluralistic,
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@GratianRiter I hope so! My German publisher has been very enthusiastic lately.

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The disenshittified internet starts with loyal "user agents"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/07/treacherous-computing/

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pluralistic,
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I'm in Tartu, Estonia!

TOMORROW (May 8), 6PM: Prima Vista Literary Festival keynote, "Overcoming the Enshittocene,"
University of Tartu Library (Struwe 1)

May 10: 8AM: Science Fiction Research Association talk, "AI, copyright and creative workers’ labor rights"
Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures building (Lossi 3, lobby)

May 10, 3PM: A talk for hackers on seizing the means of computation
(University of Tartu Delta Centre, Narva 18, room 1037)

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pluralistic,
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@col000r https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/16/how-to-make-the-least-worst-mastodon-threads/

pluralistic,
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@col000r Thanks!

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There's one overwhelmingly common mistake that people make about enshittification: assuming that the contagion is the result of the Great Forces of History, or that it is the inevitable end-point of any kind of for-profit online world.

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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/2024/05/07/treacherous-computing/#rewilding-the-internet

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Amazon illegally interferes with an historic UK warehouse election; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/06/one-click-to-quit-the-union/

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pluralistic,
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I'm in Tartu, Estonia!

May 8, 6PM: Prima Vista Literary Festival keynote, "Overcoming the Enshittocene,"
University of Tartu Library (Struwe 1)

May 10, 8AM: Science Fiction Research Association talk, "AI, copyright and creative workers’ labor rights"
Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures building (Lossi 3, lobby)

May 10, 3PM: A talk for hackers on seizing the means of computation
(University of Tartu Delta Centre, Narva 18, room 1037)

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pluralistic, to random
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Amazon is very good at everything it does, including being very bad at the things it doesn't want to do. Take signing up for Prime: nothing could be simpler. The company has built a greased slide from Prime-curiosity to Prime-confirmed that is the envy of every UX designer.

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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/2024/05/06/one-click-to-quit-the-union/#foxglove

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Well that's a hell of a chart

https://www.ft.com/content/dc47c5f3-9bd4-4da0-a5cb-c795efd14c9c?accessToken=zwAGF77R-34okdPcR8Xzm9RNoNOly8eV79FMnA.MEUCIQDlzK8iKXqo2IyOBx3R95kEVglrA1-3Z4mV7SAgvpY71AIgFYrY0LX0A5YB_Wsm5EFBv08XfD1H5letjmzX-ZO_lw8&sharetype=gift&token=959a5d69-00b3-4117-b2cd-5231e1dccc9c

via @jjn1

https://memex.naughtons.org/monday-6-may-2024/39413/

pluralistic, to random
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If you listen to F1 on your phone cranked to max in public places (e.g. airports) you are a fucking war criminal and you are going to Hell for ten billion years when you die.

pluralistic,
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@askDNA https://kagi.com/search?q=what+is+f1

pluralistic, to random
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Cyberpunk trifecta

Me with Bruce Sterling on the streets of Turin
Me with Neal Stephenson at a bookstore in Seattle

pluralistic,
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@chetwisniewski sorry! Bigger room next time!

pluralistic,
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@timethief red team blue

18+ pluralistic, to random
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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Rosemary Kirstein's "The Steerswoman"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/04/the-wulf/

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pluralistic,
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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me TONIGHT (May 4) in VANCOUVER:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/solo-reading-cory-doctorow-the-bezzle-tickets-876989167207

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pluralistic,
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I'm coming to Tartu, Estonia!

May 8, 6PM: Prima Vista Literary Festival keynote, "Overcoming the Enshittocene,"
University of Tartu Library (Struwe 1)

May 10, 8AM: Science Fiction Research Association talk, "AI, copyright and creative workers’ labor rights"
Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures building (Lossi 3, lobby)

May 10, 3PM: A talk for hackers on seizing the means of computation
(University of Tartu Delta Centre, Narva 18, room 1037)

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pluralistic, to random
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For decades, scammy "book doctors" and vanity presses spun a tale about how Big Publishing was too conservative and risk-averse for really really adventurous books, and the only way to get your visionary work published was to pay them to fill your garage with badly printed books that you'd spend the rest of your life trying to get other people to read:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/04/self-publishing/

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pluralistic,
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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/2024/05/04/the-wulf/#underground-fave

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yaygya, to random
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Here to see @pluralistic!

pluralistic,
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@yaygya thank you for coming!

pluralistic, to random
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Has anyone managed to use the CCPA (or GDPR?) to force Mailchimp to cough up a list of all the mailing lists you've been nonconsensually added to?

pluralistic, to random
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The DRM-free ebooks for my pre-apocalyptic, hopeful climate emergency novel The Lost Cause is on sale in the USA!

Today, you can get the Kobo edition for $2.99:

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

And all month, the Kindle edition is also $2.99:

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Cause-Cory-Doctorow-ebook/dp/B0CF5475GR

pluralistic,
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@arikb It's the same deal with every one. Publisher gets 70%, and I get 30% of that.

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Google is (still) losing the spam wars to zombie news-brands; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/03/keyword-swarming/

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pluralistic,
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I'm coming to Tartu, Estonia!

May 8, 6PM: Prima Vista Literary Festival keynote, "Overcoming the Enshittocene,"
University of Tartu Library (Struwe 1)

May 10, 8AM: Science Fiction Research Association talk, "AI, copyright and creative workers’ labor rights"
Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures building (Lossi 3, lobby)

May 10, 3PM: A talk for hackers on seizing the means of computation
(University of Tartu Delta Centre, Narva 18, room 1037)

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