Hackers' Pub

One of the lucky career breaks I've had was writing the ACM TechNews and ACM SIGDA email news summaries from 2000-2005. It paid terribly, and I had to be at work at 6:30 a.m. but I learned a whole lot.

Anyway, I just saw that the ACM's magazine, The Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery (CACM) is now open and free! As in, there's nothing behind a paywall any longer, including archived articles. The ACM's entire Digital Library will be open in January 2026. Really, really cool!

And so to celebrate, here's an opinion piece from the CACM's October edition from @pluralisticCory Doctorow about why tech workers who hate enshittification need to unionize.

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/tech-workers-versus-enshittification/

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