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Inside: Boeing, Spirit and Jetblue, a monopoly horror-story; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/22/anything-that-cant-go-on-forever/

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    • pluralistic OP ,
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    Catch me in ! I'll be at Books and Books in Coral Gables TONIGHT (Jan 22) at 8PM:

    https://www.booksandbooks.com/event/in-person-an-evening-with-cory-doctorow/

    Berliners: @otherlandberlin has added a second date (Jan 28) for my book-talk after the first one sold out - book now!

    https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/zusaetzlicher-autor-innenabend-mit-cory-doctorow.html?day=20240128&times=1706466600,1706466600

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    pluralistic OP ,
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    I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by ! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

    http://thebezzle.org

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    Boeing, Spirit and Jetblue, a monopoly horror-story: 43 years later, Reagan's other shoe drops.

    https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111799735550047130

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    Image: Vitaly Druchenok (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ECAir_Boeing_737-306_at_Brazzaville_Airport_by_Vitaly_Druchenok.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en -- Joe Ravi (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panorama_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_Building_at_Dusk.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
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    • 18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    Hey look at this

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    Vote absentee, avoid machines http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2004/01/22/avoid_diebold_register_absentee.html

    Air travel “security” as theater of the absurd https://web.archive.org/web/20040130200202/https://idlewords.com/2004/01/security_as_theater.htm

    GOP electronically burgled Dems’ computers https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2004/01/3327-2/

    heirs don’t own https://web.archive.org/web/20040211100427/http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-01/22/11.45.film

    DVD cartel backs off, wins, aren’t “secret” https://www.eff.org/cases/dvdcca-v-bunner-and-dvdcca-v-pavlovich

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    RIP, https://web.archive.org/web/20040202031838/https://www.worldchanging.com/archives/000338.html

    Media helped create the financial meltdown https://web.archive.org/web/20090125204013/http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/01/23/the_medias_role_in_the_financial_crisis/

    ’s free web video increased DVD sales by 23,000 percent https://mashable.com/archive/youtube-boost-sales

    of Canada puts its archives online, free https://www.nfb.ca/explore-all-films/

    ’s “nature” shows: whistleblowers detail crimes, animal cruelty, fakery https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/01/animal-abuse-drugs-call-of-the-wildman-animal-planet/

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    Teach your phones to lie to apps about whether it’s rooted https://lifehacker.com/rootcloak-hides-root-access-from-specific-applications-1505596942

    , famed documentary series, is back on DVD and Youtube https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/eyesontheprize/

    One Soul: 18 interwoven lives in a graphic novel that pushes the boundaries https://memex.craphound.com/2014/01/22/one-soul-18-interwoven-lives-in-a-graphic-novel-that-pushes-the-boundaries/

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    i
    government sends text to protesters: “Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance” https://memex.craphound.com/2014/01/23/ukraine-government-sends-text-to-protesters-dear-subscriber-you-are-registered-as-a-participant-in-a-mass-disturbance/

    What Makes Jo Walton So Great https://www.tor.com/2014/01/21/what-makes-jo-walton-so-great/

    After repeal, Comcast, Charter and Verizon cut investment in their networks https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/01/sorry-ajit-comcast-lowiered-cable-investment-despite-net-neutrality-repeal/

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    implicated in access to lobbied FCC to fight consent for sharing https://www.vice.com/en/article/vbwgw8/zumigo-phone-location-data-sold-lobbied-fcc-consent

    Limits to : Trump’s tax-cut “boom” fizzles https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/23/business/investment-boom-tax-cuts-economy/index.html

    Corporate America projects giant profits from climate disasters https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-22/muggy-disney-parks-downed-at-t-towers-firms-tally-climate-risk

    After six days, settle their strike, wringing huge concessions out of the school district https://jacobin.com/2019/01/la-teachers-strike-contract-arlene-inouye/

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    Winners Take All: the Edition (how elites launder looting with phoney ) https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/22/the-new-elites-phoney-crusade-to-save-the-world-without-changing-anything

    How a political outsider’s fundraising tool is helping insurgent, working-class Dems mount primary challenges and campaigns https://theintercept.com/2019/01/23/grassroots-analytics-campaign-donations/

    Senator Mark Warner’s Stop STUPIDITY Act would protect federal employees’ pay during https://www.scribd.com/document/398006535/Stop-the-Shutdowns-Transferring-Unnecessary-Pain-and-Inflicting-Damage-In-The-Coming-Years-Act

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    Republican Arizona lawmaker revives doomed “porn tax” to fund Trump’s doomed https://www.vice.com/en/article/gyapwj/arizona-porn-blocking-bill-trump-border-wall

    An annotated bibliography of in https://www.anarchysf.com

    The sad history of as a lens for understanding the state of social media today https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/the-linux-of-social-media-how-livejournal-pioneered-then-lost-web-blogging/

    Teen Vogue explainer: what are “resistance, rebellion, and revolution?” https://www.teenvogue.com/story/resistance-rebellion-revolution-explainer-interviews

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    English and Welsh have seven years left to catalogue the nation’s footpaths, or they will be absorbed into private lands https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/the-search-for-englands-forgotten-footpaths

    A list of all the in (surprisingly long!) https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2019/01/booze-gin-joints-crazy-world/

    Walking the Plank https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/22/walking-the-plank/

    is just more price-gouging https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/23/cant-make-an-omelet/#keep-calm-and-crack-on

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    Saturday's threads: Brinklump Linkdump; and more!

    https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111789061563820570

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    My latest novel is "The Lost Cause," a solarpunk novel of radical hope in the climate emergency, from Tor Books (US)/Head of Zeus (UK):

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    Signed, personalized copies available from Dark Delicacies:

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    Both are national bestsellers!

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    My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

    https://craphound.com/shop/

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by ! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

    http://thebezzle.org

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    GoblinQuester ,
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    @pluralistic oooh, cool, I just happening to be in Miami and having a hotel next to Coral Gables … but I’m down with con-crud, and that is a gift anyone don’t want. (And I can hardly stand up).

    pluralistic OP ,
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    @GoblinQuester I'm sorry to hear it! Perhaps some other time!

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