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Inside: Carl Hiaasen's 'Fever Beach'; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/21/florida-duh/
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Portland, #Seattle and #Vancouver!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
https://pluralistic.net/tour
(New dates just added in #SanDiego and #Denver!)
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Carl Hiaasen's 'Fever Beach': If you didn't laugh, you'd have to cry.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115413254138515330
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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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@pluralistic That looks like a page from an American Science & Surplus catalog. RIP 😢
#20yrsago WSJ tech writer damns DRM https://web.archive.org/web/20051027023456/http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20051020.html
#20yrsago Fundraiser: donate $500 to shut up loudmouth message-board poster https://www.metafilter.com/dios-rothkofundraiser.mefi
#20yrsago Chinese activist to Jerry Yang: You are helping to maintain an evil system https://web.archive.org/web/20051027021122/https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blogs/gelman/archives/003388.shtml/
#15yrsago Canadian gov’t scientists protest gag order, go straight to public with own website https://web.archive.org/web/20101020142208/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/federal-scientists-go-public-in-face-of-restrictive-media-rules/article1761624/
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#15yrsago Scary Godmother: delightful, spooky graphic storybook for kids https://memex.craphound.com/2010/10/20/scary-godmother-delightful-spooky-graphic-storybook-for-kids/
#10yrsago The Welcome to Night Vale novel dances a tightrope between weird humor and real pathos https://memex.craphound.com/2015/10/20/the-welcome-to-night-vale-novel-dances-a-tightrope-between-weird-humor-and-real-pathos/
#10yrsago How a lobbyist/doctor couple are destroying Worker’s Comp across America https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-corporate-americas-plan-to-ditch-workers-comp
#10yrsago How the market for zero-day vulnerabilities works https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/the-rise-of-the-zero-day-market/
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#15yrsago Scary Godmother: delightful, spooky graphic storybook for kids https://memex.craphound.com/2010/10/20/scary-godmother-delightful-spooky-graphic-storybook-for-kids/
#10yrsago The Welcome to Night Vale novel dances a tightrope between weird humor and real pathos https://memex.craphound.com/2015/10/20/the-welcome-to-night-vale-novel-dances-a-tightrope-between-weird-humor-and-real-pathos/
#10yrsago How a lobbyist/doctor couple are destroying Worker’s Comp across America https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-corporate-americas-plan-to-ditch-workers-comp
#10yrsago How the market for zero-day vulnerabilities works https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/the-rise-of-the-zero-day-market/
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