#5yrsago — Public Fediverse posts

#15yrsago Advice for self-publishers: why should anyone care about your book? https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-why-should-anyone-care/

#5yrsago A letter to a discouraged young writer https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/05/why-bother/

#1yrago Why Wikipedia works https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before

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#15yrsago Advice for self-publishers: why should anyone care about your book? https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-why-should-anyone-care/

#5yrsago A letter to a discouraged young writer https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/05/why-bother/

#1yrago Why Wikipedia works https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before

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#15yrsago Advice for self-publishers: why should anyone care about your book? https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-why-should-anyone-care/

#5yrsago A letter to a discouraged young writer https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/05/why-bother/

#1yrago Why Wikipedia works https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before

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#15yrsago Advice for self-publishers: why should anyone care about your book? https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-why-should-anyone-care/

#5yrsago A letter to a discouraged young writer https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/05/why-bother/

#1yrago Why Wikipedia works https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before

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#15yrsago Advice for self-publishers: why should anyone care about your book? https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-why-should-anyone-care/

#5yrsago A letter to a discouraged young writer https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/05/why-bother/

#1yrago Why Wikipedia works https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before

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#5yrsago “Slow #multitasking” is the good kind of multitasking https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_harford_a_powerful_way_to_unleash_your_natural_creativity/transcript

#5yrsago Even as Google was making nice during employee walkout, it was secretly asking the Trump administration to ban email #LaborOrganizing https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-24/google-urged-the-u-s-to-limit-protection-for-activist-workers

#5yrsago Denver’s legendary #TatteredCover bookstore “breaks up” with #Audible https://www.tatteredcover.com/dear-audible

#5yrsago Emboldened by the LA teachers’ “blue state” victory, Denver’s teachers declare strike https://www.democracynow.org/2019/1/23/a_blue_state_teacher_rebellion_denver

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#5yrsago Now on the Internet Archive: #Kavanaugh’s 1983 yearbook https://archive.org/details/cupola-1983/mode/2up

#5yrsago #SexWorkers pioneered the internet, and now the internet has rejected them https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvazy7/sex-workers-pioneered-the-early-internet

#5yrsago Ontario businesses want #DougFord to kill leave for #DomesticAbuse survivors, allow mandatory high heeled shoes https://web.archive.org/web/20190524175216/https://north99.org/2018/10/01/ontario-business-lobby-calls-additional-paid-domestic-abuse-leave-other-rules-harmful-to-business-begs-ford-to-repeal-it/

#1yrago An #antitrust murder whodunnit: I accuse #JudgeBork with the #PowellMemo in the #SmokeFilledRoom https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/03/powell-memo/#means-motive-opportunity

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#15yrsago UK will make foreigners carry #RFID identity cards and put us in a huge, Orwellian database http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7634111.stm

#10yrsago #Verizon wants to slow down your favorite websites unless they pay bribes https://web.archive.org/web/20130926172412/https://www.alternet.org/media/verizons-outrageous-plot-crack-internet-charging-tolls-web-sites

#10yrsago Big Content and #BigTelcos make copyright propaganda for California public schools https://www.wired.com/2013/09/mpaa-school-propaganda/

#5yrsago Want the platforms to police bad speech and fake news? The #CopyrightWars want a word with you https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/platform-censorship-lessons-copyright-wars

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#5yrsago #SAD: #Doonesbury’s collected Trump strips afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted https://memex.craphound.com/2018/09/18/sad-doonesburys-collected-trump-strips-afflict-the-comfortable-and-comfort-the-afflicted/

#5yrsago Photos: #HongKongDisneyland in the aftermath of Super Typhoon #Mangkhut https://disneyandmore.blogspot.com/2018/09/photos-hong-kong-disneyland-devastated.html</a.

#5yrsago #AjitPai: California #NetNeutrality law is “illegal” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/ajit-pai-calls-californias-net-neutrality-rules-illegal/

#5yrsago North Carolina #Verizon customers, trapped by #HurricaneFlorence, say they’re being throttled and upsold https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/9glj90/big_shout_out_to_verizon_for_throttling_data_for/

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#15yrsago #BletchleyPark kicks so much ass https://memex.craphound.com/2008/07/20/bletchley-park-kicks-so-much-ass/

#15yrsago Spamwar’s worst mistakes being recapitulated by the #CopyrightWars https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/jul/15/copyright.filesharing

#10yrsago Cheap, easy, no-mess #ColdBrewCoffee https://memex.craphound.com/2013/07/20/cheap-easy-no-mess-cold-brew-coffee/

#5yrsago UK government accidentally includes #Scarfolk poster endorsing culls of rabid children in official publication https://twitter.com/Scarfolk/status/1020290984549249026

#5yrsago UK government defends the use of under 16s as covert operatives https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/20/child-spies-used-only-when-very-necessary-says-downing-street

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#5yrsago #ScottPruitt is such a colossal asshole that the lobbyists who were bribing him with nearly-free lodgings evicted him https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/06/politics/pruitt-trump/index.html

#5yrsago GOP Congressgangster #RalphNorman does not regret pulling a loaded gun on constituents from “Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/04/06/lawmaker-pulls-out-loaded-gun-during-meeting-with-constituents/

#1yrago The Ed Sheeran problem, or, how the record industry got what it asked for https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/08/oh-why/#two-notes-and-running

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