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So if you're a Microsoft Office subscriber and you just got a notice that the price went up.

Know that the price didn't really go up. What is happening is that they are now charging you for Copilot.

You can opt-out by cancelling your subscription. When you do, they will offer a Office365 "classic" option which is at the previous price and doesn't include Copilot.

I am VERY excited about this open source printer project. We are pretty light users of our HP inkjet printer, so much so that we've had ink cartridges dry on us, forcing replacement. The ability to refill cartridges would mean that I'd be able to set up a cron job to do a test print every once in a while to keep the cartridges from gumming up.

Not to mention being out from the "phone home" DRM/auto-update bullsh*t.

@pluralistic would be proud

https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer

Our "mainstream" media are consistently botching their jobs, directly -- and IMO willfully -- assisting the fascists who are destroying our nation.

Occasional pieces of real journalism do not begin to fix Big Journalism's malpractice. Mike Masnick has more:

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/30/the-mainstream-media-is-catastrophically-failing-to-meet-the-moment/

In democracies, we're told, politicians exist to reflect and enact the popular will; but the truth is, politicians' primary occupation is *thwarting* the will of the people, in preference to the will of a small group of wealthy, powerful people.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/07/the-people-no/#water-flowing-uphill

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Those mRNA vaccine programs that RFK Jr. is killing because he claims they don't work?
The people who invented them got the f***ing Nobel Prize.
And they've saved literally millions of lives already.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/rfk-jr-pulls-funding-for-vaccines-being-developed-to-fight-respiratory-viruses