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So *that's* what tempted me into one more blog post for the year - an absolutely perfect distillation of the uselessness of "the biggest business in the world," whose masters are the degenerate gamblers wh buy and sell our politicians, set our policy, and control our lives. They're the ones enshittifying the internet, burning down the planet, and pushing Elon Musk towards trillionairedom.

It's their world, and we just live on it.

For now.

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High profile lawsuits and gunshy labels killed that presumption, and today, sampling remains a gigantic, ugly mess:

https://memex.craphound.com/2011/07/08/creative-license-how-the-hell-did-sampling-get-so-screwed-up-and-what-the-hell-do-we-do-about-it/

Which is all to say that the ongoing growth of the public domain, after its 20-year coma, is a most welcome experience - but if you think the public domain is great, wait'll you see what fair use can do for creativity!

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No one needs the disenshittification tools that let us avoid surveillance, rent-seeking and extraction more than Americans. And once someone else goes into business selling them, we'll be able to buy them.

Buying digital tools that are delivered over the internet is a hell of a lot simpler than buying cheap medicine online and getting it shipped from a Canadian pharmacy.

For an America First guy, Trump is sure hell-bent on ending the American century.

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But a militant labor movement could turn that to its advantage, because militants know that when Trump fires the refs, you don't have to stop the game - you can *throw out the rule book*:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/29/which-side-are-you-on-2/#strike-three-yer-out

This is the historic opportunity and challenge before us - to occupy our unions, save our workplace democracies, and then save our national democracy itself.

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It's true that technology *can* give rise to novel regulatory challenges, but it's also true that claiming that a technology is so novel that existing regulation can't resolve its problems is just a way of buying time to commit more crimes before the regulators finally realize that your flashy new technology is just a boring old scam.

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