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Inside: Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/11/nothing-personal/
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“workers won't show up if they don't get paid, and customers won't buy things that cost everything they have…Unless, of course, you are an academic publisher, in which case this is just how you do business.” @pluralistic
Amen. I don’t mind that my work as author, peer reviewer and Associate Editor for journals is pro-bono, but do mind that publishing companies charge exorbitant prices that restrict access to what we make for free. I’m shifting my work to open access journals. #PeerReview
I'm and the end of my tour for my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
My last two events are CCC in #Hamburg, Dec 27-30:
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/infos/index.html
and the Tattered Cover in #Denver, Jan 22:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937
I hope you can make it!
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Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars: A/B splitting your way into doing a total fucking racism.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115701820448094490
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Hey look at this
* Uber is selling your ride and food ordering data to advertisers for marketing insights https://boingboing.net/2025/12/08/uber-is-selling-your-ride-and-food-ordering-data-to-advertisers-for-marketing-insights.html
* 404 Media Is Making a Zine https://www.404media.co/404-media-is-making-a-zine/
* Maybe a General Strike Isn’t So Impossible Now https://labornotes.org/2025/12/maybe-general-strike-isnt-so-impossible-now
* The Naibbe cipher: a substitution cipher that encrypts Latin and Italian as Voynich Manuscript-like ciphertext https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01611194.2025.2566408
* Bringing organizational maturity to radical groups https://blog.bl00cyb.org/2025/12/bringing-organizational-maturity-to-radical-groups/
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