Today's threads (a thread).

Inside: Gig workers around the globe; Mutual Aid and David Graeber; Facebook algorithm boosts pro-Facebook news; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/22/kropotkin-graeber/

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CORRECTION: Yesterday's edition erroneously described the Framework laptop as the first system to receive a 10/10 from Ifixit. A few other laptops have received this rating. I regret the error.

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Gig workers around the globe: One disease, many pathologies.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/106971366297227822

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Mutual Aid and David Graeber: A new, illustrated edition of Kropotkin's masterpiece, with an introduction from the great, much-missed hero of Occupy.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/106975779387470560

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Facebook algorithm boosts pro-Facebook news: Orwell was an optimist.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/106976287081703720

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#15yrsago Rented AT&T home phone cost elderly woman $2,000 over 40 years https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2006-09-14-phone_x.htm

#15yrsago French DRM activists surrender to police https://web.archive.org/web/20070110181344/http://stopdrm.info/index.php?2006/09/20/110-compte-rendu-de-l-operation-des-interoperabilisateurs-volontaires

#10yrsago Cost of raising middle-income child in USA increases by 40% over ten years https://money.cnn.com/2011/09/21/pf/cost_raising_child/index.htm

#5yrsago HTML standardization group calls on W3C to protect security researchers from DRM https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/html-standardization-group-calls-w3c-protect-security-researchers-drm

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#5yrsago I have found a secret tunnel that runs underneath the phone companies and emerges in paradise https://memex.craphound.com/2016/09/22/i-have-found-a-secret-tunnel-that-runs-underneath-the-phone-companies-and-emerges-in-paradise/

#5yrsago China’s elites appear to be exfiltrating billions while on holidays https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-21/suitcases-of-cash-chinese-travel-data-hint-at-capital-outflows

#5yrsago Wells Fargo fired the whistleblowers who reported massive fraud, and that’s a crime https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/21/investing/wells-fargo-fired-workers-retaliation-fake-accounts/index.html

#5yrsago Phoebe and her unicorn are back in Razzle Dazzle Unicorn! https://memex.craphound.com/2016/09/22/phoebe-and-her-unicorn-are-back-in-razzle-dazzle-unicorn/

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