Hey look at this

* The pivot https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/10/the-pivot-1.html

* Video Game Union Workers Rally Against $55 Billion Saudi-Backed Private Acquisition of EA https://www.eurogamer.net/ea-union-workers-rally-against-55bn-saudi-backed-private-acquisition-with-formal-petition-to-regulators

* China Has Overtaken America https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/china-has-overtaken-america

* How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/

* OpenAI Needs $400B In The Next 12 Months https://www.wheresyoured.at/openai400bn/

* China Forces Bessent to Embrace Anti-Monopoly https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/welcome-to-the-anti-monopoly-movement

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#20yrsago EFF cracks hidden snitch codes in color laser prints https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/

#20yrsago Nielsen’s top-10 blog usability mistakes https://www.nngroup.com/articles/weblog-usability-top-ten-mistakes/

#20yrsago Microsoft employee calls me a communist and a liar and insists that a Microsoft monopoly will be good for Norwayhttps://memex.craphound.com/2005/10/17/msft-employee-cory-is-a-liar-and-a-communist-msft-is-good-for-norway/

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#20yrsago Fox shuts down Buffy Hallowe’en musical despite Whedon’s protests Fox shuts down Buffy Hallowe’en musical despite Whedon’s protests https://web.archive.org/web/20051021235310/http://www.counterpulse.org/calendar.shtml#buffy

#20yrsago Norway’s public broadcaster sells out taxpayers to Microsoft https://memex.craphound.com/2005/10/16/norways-public-broadcaster-sells-out-taxpayers-to-microsoft/

#20yrsago Lifehackers profile in NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/magazine/meet-the-life-hackers.html

#20yrsago Pan-European DRM proposal https://dissected web.archive.org/web/20051105035811/http://www.eff.org/IP/DRM/NAVSHP/

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Hey look at this

* Trump’s EV retreat: a huge win for his #1 rival https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/business/trump-ev-retreat-china-nightcap

* Tech Workers Versus Enshittification https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/tech-workers-versus-enshittification/

* Whistle Work https://heidiwaterhouse.com/political-whistle-work/ (h/t Sumana)

* About Cory Doctorow's "Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall!" https://euro-stack.com/blog/2025/10/tear-down-this-wall

* Atlanta’s city-run grocery sees early success, sparking debate over government’s role https://www.foxnews.com/politics/atlantas-city-run-grocery-sees-early-success-sparking-debate-over-governments-role

* How Russell Vought Became Trump’s Shadow President https://www.propublica.org/article/russ-vought-trump-shadow-president-omb

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Hey look at this

* How I Became a Populist https://newrepublic.com/article/201171/alvaro-bedoya-ftc-became-populist

* Introducing the Bantam Tools EggBot https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2025/bantam-tools-eggbot/

* Framework flame war erupts over support of politically polarizing Linux projects https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/14/framework_linux_controversy/

* AI Won’t Replace Jobs, but Tech Bros Want You to Be Afraid It Will https://gizmodo.com/ai-wont-replace-jobs-tech-bros-want-you-terrified-2000670808

* US Passport Power Falls to Historic Low https://www.henleyglobal.com/newsroom/press-releases/henley-global-mobility-report-oct-2025

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Hey look at this

* Cory Doctorow Thinks He Knows How to Fix the Internet https://slate.com/technology/2025/10/cory-doctorow-enshittification-internet-tech-silicon-valley.html

* How to Save the Internet From “Enshittification” https://jacobin.com/2025/10/internet-enshittification-antitrust-tech-doctorow

* Jeep software update bricks vehicles, leaves owners stranded https://www.thestack.technology/jeep-software-update-bricks-vehicles-leaves-owners-stranded/

* Anti-Monopolism as an Ideology of the Left https://lpeproject.org/blog/anti-monopolism-as-an-ideology-of-the-left/

* Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI https://www.404media.co/lawyer-using-ai-fake-citations/

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