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Pluralistic: You can't shop your way out of a monopoly (05 Mar 2024)
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Pluralistic: Electrons, not molecules (06 Mar 2024)
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Pluralistic: 1900s futurism (07 Mar 2024)
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Pluralistic: Palantir's NHS-stealing Big Lie (08 Mar 2024)
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Pluralistic: The Foilies (11 Mar 2024)
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Pluralistic: Your car spies on you and rats you out to insurance companies (12 Mar 2024)
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Pluralistic: Bullies want you to think they're on your side (13 Mar 2024)
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Pluralistic: The Coprophagic AI crisis (14 Mar 2024)
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Pluralistic: Wellness surveillance makes workers unwell (15 Mar 2024)
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Pluralistic: Working class Dems who campaign on economics beat Trumpists in elections (20 Mar 2024)
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Pluralistic: Why Millenials aren't leaving Tiktok (21 Mar 2024)
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Pluralistic: The antitrust case against Apple (22 Mar 2024)
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Pluralistic: Someday, we'll all take comfort in the internet's "dark corners" (23 Mar 2024)
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Pluralistic: Conspiratorialism and the epistemological crisis (25 Mar 2024)
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Pluralistic: Meatspace twiddling (26 Mar 2024)
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Pluralistic: End of the line for corporate sovereignty (27 Mar 2024)
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Pluralistic: The credit card fee victory is a defeat (28 Mar 2024)
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Pluralistic: Subprime gadgets (29 Mar 2024)
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Pluralistic: Async mugwump linkdump (30 Mar 2024)
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Pluralistic: Humans are not perfectly vigilant (01 Apr 2024)
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Pluralistic: Prison-tech company bribed jails to ban in-person visits (02 Apr 2024)
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Pluralistic: Too big to care (04 Apr 2024)
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Pluralistic: General Mills and cheaply bought "dietitians" co-opted the anti-diet movement (05 Apr 2024)
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Pluralistic: How to shatter the class solidarity of the ruling class (08 Apr 2024)
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Pluralistic: Steven Brust's "Lyorn" (09 Apr 2024)
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Pluralistic: The unexpected upside of multinational monopoly capitalism (10 Apr 2024)
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Pluralistic: No, "convenience" isn't the problem (12 Apr 2024)
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Pluralistic: Twinkfrump Linkdump (13 Apr 2024)
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Pluralistic: How to screw up a whistleblower law (15 Apr 2024)
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Pluralistic: Rebecca Roque's "Till Human Voices Wake Us" (16 Apr 2024)
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Pluralistic: The true post-cyberpunk hero is a noir forensic accountant (17 Apr 2024)
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Pluralistic: Podcasting "Capitalists Hate Capitalism" (18 Apr 2024)
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Pluralistic: Precaratize bosses (19 Apr 2024)
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Pluralistic: Greedflation, but for prisoners Greedflation, but for prisoners (20 Apr 2024)
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Pluralistic: Paying for it doesn't make it a market (22 Apr 2024)
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Pluralistic: "Humans in the loop" must detect the hardest-to-spot errors, at superhuman speed (23 Apr 2024)
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Pluralistic: The specific process by which Google enshittified its search (24 Apr 2024)
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Pluralistic: Antitrust is a labor issue (25 Apr 2024)
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Pluralistic: The tax sharks are back and they're coming for your home (27 Apr 2024)
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Pluralistic: Cigna's nopeinator (29 Apr 2024)
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Pluralistic: Live Nation/Ticketmaster is buying Congress (30 Apr 2024)
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Pluralistic: Boeing's deliberately defective fleet of flying sky-wreckage (01 May 2024)
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Pluralistic: CDA 230 bans Facebook from blocking interoperable tools (02 May 2024)
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Pluralistic: Google is (still) losing the spam wars to zombie news-brands (03 May 2024)
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Pluralistic: Rosemary Kirstein's "The Steerswoman" (04 May 2024)
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Pluralistic: Amazon illegally interferes with an historic UK warehouse election (06 May 2024)
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Pluralistic: The disenshittified internet starts with loyal "user agents" (07 May 2024)
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Pluralistic: AI is a WMD (09 May 2024)
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Pluralistic: Algorithmic feeds are a twiddler's playground (11 May 2024)
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Pluralistic: AI "art" and uncanniness (13 May 2024)
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Pluralistic: Even if you think AI search could be good, it won't be good (15 May 2024)
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Pluralistic: Utah's getting some of America's best broadband (16 May 2024)
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Pluralistic: You were promised a jetpack by liars (17 May 2024)
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Pluralistic: Monopoly is capitalism's gerrymander (18 May 2024)
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Pluralistic: The new globalism is global labor (20 May 2024)
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Pluralistic: Linkrot (21 May 2024)
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Pluralistic: How finfluencers destroyed the housing and lives of thousands of people (22 May 2024)
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Pluralistic: Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp (23 May 2024)
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Pluralistic: They brick you because they can (24 May 2024)
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Pluralistic: Inkjump Linkdump (25 May 2024)
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Pluralistic: Against Lore (27 May 2024)
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Pluralistic: The Pizzaburger Presidency (29 May 2024)
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Pluralistic: Real innovation vs Silicon Valley nonsense (30 May 2024)
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Pluralistic: Emil Ferris's long-awaited "My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two" (01 Jun 2024)
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Pluralistic: Ticketmaster jacks us for billions so it can pocket millions (03 Jun 2024)
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Pluralistic: Joseph Cox's "Dark Wire" (04 June 2024)
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Pluralistic: Surveillance pricing (05 Jun 2024)
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Pluralistic: UK publishers suing Google for $17.4b over rigged ad markets (06 Jun 2024)
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Pluralistic: The airlines were patient zero in the junk-fee plague (07 Jun 2024)
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Pluralistic: Uplinkchump Linkdump (08 Jun 2024)
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Pluralistic: The CFPB is genuinely making America better, and they're going HARD (10 Jun 2024)
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Pluralistic: Robin Sloan's "Moonbound" (11 Jun 2024)
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Pluralistic: An end to the climate emergency is in our grasp (12 Jun 2024)
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Pluralistic: The health industry's invisible hand is a fist (13 Jun 2024)
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Pluralistic: Microsoft pinky swears that THIS TIME they'll make security a priority (14 Jun 2024)
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Pluralistic: Sphinxmumps Linkdump (15 Jun 2024)
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Pluralistic: Bankruptcy is very, very good (17 Jun 2024)
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Pluralistic: It's been twenty years since my Microsoft DRM talk (18 Jun 2024)
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Pluralistic: How to design a tech regulation (20 Jun 2024)
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Pluralistic: Neither the devil you know nor the devil you don't (21 Jun 2024)
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Pluralistic: Weinersmith and Boulet's "Bea Wolf"(24 Jun 2024)
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Pluralistic: Mirion Malle's "So Long Sad Love" (25 Jun 2024)
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Pluralistic: Cleantech has an enshittification problem (26 Jun 2024)
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Pluralistic: Copyright takedowns are a cautionary tale that few are heeding (27 Jun 2024)
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Pluralistic: The reason you can't buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you (28 Jun 2024)
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Pluralistic: Kitchensink callithump linkdump (29 Jun 2024)
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Pluralistic: Austin Grossman's 'Fight Me' (01 Jul 2024)
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Pluralistic: The true, tactical significance of Project 2025 (14 Jul 2024)
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Pluralistic: Foxx Nolte's "Hidden History of Walt Disney World" (15 Jul 2024)
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Pluralistic: Bowen McCurdy and Jordan Morris's "Youth Group" (16 Jul 2024)
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Pluralistic: Richard R John's "Network Nation" (18 Jul 2024)
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Pluralistic: FCC strikes a blow against prison profiteering (19 Jul 2024)
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Pluralistic: AI art has no anti-cooption immune system (20 Jul 2024)
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Pluralistic: Unpersoned (22 Jul 2024)
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Pluralistic: Holy CRAP the UN Cybercrime Treaty is a nightmare (23 Jul 2024)
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Pluralistic: FTC vs surveillance pricing (24 Jul 2024)
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Pluralistic: AI's productivity theater (25 Jul 2024)
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Pluralistic: Fintech bullies stole your kid's lunch money (26 Jul 2024)
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Pluralistic: A profoundly stupid case about video game cheating could transform adblocking into a copyright infringement (29 Jul 2024)
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Pluralistic: An open copyright casebook, featuring AI, Warhol and more (30 Jul 2024)
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Pluralistic: The largest campaign finance violation in US history (31 Jul 2024)
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Pluralistic: Why is this Canadian university scared of you seeing its Privacy Impact Assessment? (01 Aug 2024)
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Pluralistic: The reverse-centaur apocalypse is upon us (02 Aug 2024)
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Pluralistic: Rsync corrump linkdump (03 Aug 2024)
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Pluralistic: Leveraged buyouts are not like mortgages (05 Aug 2024)
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Pluralistic: Circular battery self-sufficiency (06 Aug 2024)
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Pluralistic: The Google antitrust remedy should extinguish surveillance, not democratize it (07 Aug 2024)
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Pluralistic: Private equity rips off its investors, too (08 Aug 2024)
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Pluralistic: "Carbon neutral" Bitcoin operation founded by coal plant operator wasn't actually carbon neutral (09 Aug 2024)
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Pluralistic: The paradox of choice screens (12 Aug 2024)
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Pluralistic: Madeline Ashby's 'Glass Houses' (13 Aug 2024)
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Pluralistic: The one weird monopoly trick that gave us Walmart and Amazon and killed Main Street (14 Aug 2024)
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Pluralistic: Apple vs the "free market" (15 Aug 2024)
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Pluralistic: MIT libraries are thriving without Elsevier (16 Aug 2024)
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Pluralistic: "Disenshittify or Die" (17 Aug 2024)
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Pluralistic: Corporate Bullshit (19 Aug 2024)
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Pluralistic: Nalo Hopkinson's "Blackheart Man" (20 Aug 2024)
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Pluralistic: Marshmallow Longtermism (04 Sep 2024)
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Pluralistic: America's best-paid CEOs have the worst-paid employees (09 Sep 2024)
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Pluralistic: Matt Bors's "Justice Warriors: Vote Harder" (11 Sep 2024)
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Pluralistic: Anti-cheat, gamers, and the Crowdstrike disaster (16 Sep 2024)
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Pluralistic: Christopher Brown's 'A Natural History of Empty Lots' (17 Sep 2024)
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Pluralistic: There's no such thing as "shareholder supremacy" (18 Sep 2024)
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Pluralistic: Thinking the unthinkable (19 Sep 2024)
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Pluralistic: Tech monopolists use their market power to invade your privacy (20 Sep 2024)
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Pluralistic: What the fuck is a PBM? (23 Sep 2024)
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Pluralistic: Margaret Killjoy's "The Sapling Cage" (24 Sep 2024)
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Pluralistic: Academic economists get big payouts when they help monopolists beat antitrust (25 Sep 2024)
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Pluralistic: When prophecy fails, election polling edition (26 Sep 2024)
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Pluralistic: Return to work and dying on the job (27 Sep 2024)
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Pluralistic: Sandra Newman's "Julia" (28 Sep 2024)
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Pluralistic: A sexy, skinny defeat device for your HP ink cartridge (30 Sep 2024)
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Pluralistic: Everyday homeowners are human shields for Wall Street's Internet of Shit slumlords (01 Oct 2024)
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Pluralistic: Epic Systems, a lethal health record monopolist (02 Oct 2024)
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Pluralistic: Prime's enshittified advertising (03 Oct 2024)
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Pluralistic: Doublethink sump linkdump (05 Oct 2024)
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Pluralistic: China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI's backdoor (07 Oct 2024)
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Pluralistic: Google's new phones can't stop phoning home (08 Oct 2024)
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Pluralistic: Cars bricked by bankrupt EV company will stay bricked (10 Oct 2024)
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Pluralistic: Lina Khan's future is the future of the Democratic Party β and America (11 Oct 2024)
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Pluralistic: Quinque gazump linkdump (12 Oct 2024)
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Pluralistic: Dirty words are politically potent (14 Oct 2024)
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Pluralistic: Of course we can tax billionaires (15 Oct 2024)
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Pluralistic: You should be using an RSS reader (16 Oct 2024)
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Pluralistic: Blue states should play "constitutional hardball" (18 Oct 2024)
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Pluralistic: Penguin Random House, AI, and writers' rights (19 Oct 2024)
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Pluralistic: Retiring the US debt would retire the US dollar (21 Oct 2024)
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Pluralistic: Scientific American endorses Harris (23 Oct 2024)
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Pluralistic: The housing crisis considered as an income crisis (24 Oct 2024)
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Pluralistic: Ian McDonald's "The Wilding" (25 Oct 2024)
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Pluralistic: Keeping a suspense file gives you superpowers (26 Oct 2024)
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Pluralistic: The US Copyright Office frees the McFlurry (28 Oct 2024)
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Pluralistic: Conspiratorialism as a material phenomenon (29 Oct 2024)
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Pluralistic: AI's "human in the loop" isn't (30 Oct 2024)
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Pluralistic: Shifting $677m from the banks to the people, every year, forever (01 Nov 2024)
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Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024)
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Pluralistic: Neal Stephenson's "Polostan" (04 Nov 2024)
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Pluralistic: How to have cancer (05 Nov 2024)
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Pluralistic: Every internet fight is a speech fight (06 Nov 2024)
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Pluralistic: Antiusurpation and the road to disenshittification (07 Nov 2024)
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Pluralistic: General Strike 2028 (11 Nov 2024)
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Pluralistic: Boss politics antitrust (12 Nov 2024)
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Pluralistic: America's richest Medicare fraudsters are untouchable (13 Nov 2024)
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Pluralistic: Canada's ground-breaking, hamstrung repair and interop laws (15 Nov 2024)
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Pluralistic: Harpercollins wants authors to sign away AI training rights (18 Nov 2024)
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Pluralistic: Forcing Google to spin off Chrome (and Android?) (19 Nov 2024)
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Pluralistic: Expert agencies and elected legislatures (21 Nov 2024)
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Pluralistic: Reverse engineers bust sleazy gig work platform (23 Nov 2024)
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Pluralistic: The far right grows through "disaster fantasies" (25 Nov 2024)
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Pluralistic: Bossware is unfair (in the legal sense, too) (26 Nov 2024)
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Pluralistic: All the books I reviewed in 2024 (02 Dec 2024)
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Pluralistic: Canada sues Google (03 Dec 2024)
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Pluralistic: "That Makes Me Smart" (04 Dec 2024)
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Pluralistic: Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar's "The Big Fix" (05 Dec 2024)
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Pluralistic: Battery rationality (06 Dec 2024)
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Pluralistic: A year in illustration (2024) (07 Dec 2024)
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Pluralistic: Predicting the present (09 Dec 2024)
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Pluralistic: Tech's benevolent-dictator-for-life to authoritarian pipeline (10 Dec 2024)
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Pluralistic: The housing emergency and the second Trump term (11 Dec 2024)
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Pluralistic: A Democratic media strategy to save journalism and the nation (12 Dec 2024)
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Pluralistic: The GOP is not the party of workers (13 Dec 2024)
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Pluralistic: Social media needs (dumpster) fire exits (14 Dec 2024)
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Pluralistic: Happy Public Domain Day 2025 to all who celebrate (17 Dec 2024)
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Pluralistic: Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app (17 Dec 2024)
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Pluralistic: Trumpism's healthcare fracture-lines (20 Dec 2024)
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Pluralistic: Proud to be a blockhead (21 Dec 2024)
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Pluralistic: Winning coalitions aren't always governing coalitions (06 Jan 2025)
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Pluralistic: Kickstarting a new Martin Hench novel about the dawn of enshittification (07 Jan 2025)
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Pluralistic: The Brave Little Toaster (08 Jan 2025)
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Pluralistic: Chapter One of "Picks and Shovels" (Part 1) (09 Jan 2025)
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Pluralistic: Occupy the Democratic National Committee; Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 2) (10 Jan 2025)
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Pluralistic: The cod-Marxism of personalized pricing; Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 3) (11 Jan 2025)
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Pluralistic: They were warned; Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 4) (13 Jan 2025)
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Pluralistic: Billionaire-proofing the internet; Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 4) (14 Jan 2025)
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Pluralistic: Canada shouldn't retaliate with US tariffs; Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 6 β CONCLUSION) (15 Jan 2025)
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Pluralistic: Fu-Schnickens (17 Jan 2025)
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Pluralistic: Pinkslump linkdump (18 Jan 2025)
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Pluralistic: Enshittification isn't caused by venture capital (20 Jan 2025)
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Pluralistic: Kier Starmer appoints Jeff Bezos as his "first buddy" (22 Jan 2025)
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Pluralistic: Defense (of the internet) (from billionaires) in depth (23 Jan 2025)
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Pluralistic: The first days of Boss Politics Antitrust (24 Jan 2025)
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Pluralistic: It's not a crime if we do it with an app (25 Jan 2025)
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Pluralistic: It's pretty easy to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget, actually (27 Jan 2025)
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Pluralistic: All bets are off (29 Jan 2025)
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Pluralistic: Petard (Part I) (30 Jan 2025)
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Pluralistic: Petard (Part II) (31 Jan 2025)
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Pluralistic: Petard, Part III (01 Feb 2025)
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Pluralistic: Petard, Part IV (03 Feb 2025)
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Pluralistic: Ron Deibert's "Chasing Shadows" (04 Feb 2025)
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Pluralistic: MLMs are the mirror-world version of community organizing (04 Feb 2025)
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Pluralistic: Announcing the Picks and Shovels book tour (06 Feb 2025)
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Pluralistic: "The Fagin figure leading Elon Muskβs merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets" (07 Feb 2025)
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Pluralistic: Dinkscrump Linkdump (08 Feb 2025)
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Pluralistic: Hugh D'Andrade's "The Murder Next Door" (10 Feb 2025)
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Pluralistic: Musk steals a billion dollars from low-income Americans and sends it to Intuit (11 Feb 2025)
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Pluralistic: Trump's Tiktok two-step is a lesson for future presidents (12 Feb 2025)
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Pluralistic: Premature Internet Activists (13 Feb 2025)
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Pluralistic: Skinnamarinkstump Linkdump (15 Feb 2025)
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Pluralistic: Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces (17 Feb 2025)
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Pluralistic: America and "national capitalism" (18 Feb 2025)
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Pluralistic: Pluralistic is five (19 Feb 2025)
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Pluralistic: Ad-tech targeting is an existential threat (20 Feb 2025)
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Pluralistic: We bullied HP into a minor act of disenshittification (22 Feb 2025)
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Pluralistic: How an obscure advisory board lets utilities steal $50b/year from ratepayers (24 Feb 2025)
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Pluralistic: Apple's encryption capitulation (25 Feb 2025)
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Pluralistic: With Great Power Came No Responsibility (26 Feb 2025)
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Pluralistic: Zincchump Linkdump (01 Mar 2025)
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Pluralistic: Ideas Lying Around (03 Mar 2025)
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Pluralistic: There Were Always Enshittifiers (04 Mar 2025)
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Pluralistic: Brother makes a demon-haunted printer (05 Mar 2025)
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Pluralistic: Two weak spots in Big Tech economics (06 Mar 2025)
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Pluralistic: Gandersauce (08 Mar 2025)
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Pluralistic: Eggflation is excuseflation (10 Mar 2025)
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Pluralistic: Daniel Pinkwater's "Jules, Penny and the Rooster" (11 Mar 2025)
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Pluralistic: Firing the refs doesn't end the game (12 Mar 2025)
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Pluralistic: The future of Amazon coders is the present of Amazon warehouse workers (13 Mar 2025)
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Pluralistic: Amazon annihilates Alexa privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading (15 Mar 2025)
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Pluralistic: David Enrich's "Murder the Truth" (17 Mar 2025)
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Pluralistic: AI can't do your job (18 Mar 2025)
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Pluralistic: You can't save an institution by betraying its mission (19 Mar 2025)
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Pluralistic: Ray Nayler's "Where the Axe Is Buried" (20 Mar 2025)
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Pluralistic: Twinkump Linkdump (22 Mar 2025)
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Pluralistic: Trump loves Big Tech (24 Mar 2025)
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Pluralistic: Why I don't like AI art (25 Mar 2025)
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Pluralistic: The AOC-Sanders anti-oligarch tour is all about organizing (26 Mar 2025)
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Pluralistic: Reality-Based Communities (27 Mar 2025)
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Pluralistic: Big Tech and "captive audience venues" (28 Mar 2025)
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Pluralistic: #RedForEd rides again in LA (29 Mar 2025)
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Pluralistic: Private-sector Trumpism (31 Mar 2025)
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Pluralistic: Anyone who trusts an AI therapist needs their head examined (01 Apr 2025)
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Pluralistic: What's wrong with tariffs (02 Apr 2025)
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Pluralistic: End-stage capitalism (04 Apr 2025)
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Pluralistic: How the world's leading breach expert got phished (05 Apr 2025)
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Pluralistic: Tariffs and monopolies (07 Apr 2025)
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Pluralistic: EFF's lawsuit against DOGE will go forward (09 Apr 2025)
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Pluralistic: The most remarkable thing about antitrust (that no one talks about) (10 Apr 2025)
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Pluralistic: Zuckerberg in the dock (11 Apr 2025)
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Pluralistic: Blue Cross of Louisiana doesn't give a shit about breast cancer (12 Apr 2025)
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Pluralistic: Machina economicus (14 Apr 2025)
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Pluralistic: Tesla accused of hacking odometers to weasel out of warranty repairs (15 Apr 2025)
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Pluralistic: Trump fought the law and Trump won (16 Apr 2025)
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Pluralistic: Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case (18 Apr 2025)
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Pluralistic: Against transparency (19 Apr 2025)
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Pluralistic: Trump's FTC opens the floodgates for tariff profiteering (21 Apr 2025)
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Pluralistic: More Everything Forever (22 Apr 2025)
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Pluralistic: Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People' (23 Apr 2025)
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Pluralistic: Every complex ecosystem has parasites (24 Apr 2025)
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Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs (27 Apr 2025)
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Pluralistic: Mike Lee and Jim Jordan want to kill the law that bans companies from cheating you (29 Apr 2025)
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Pluralistic: Republicans want to force students to pay off scam college loans (30 Apr 2025)
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Pluralistic: Apple faces criminal sanctions for defying App Store antitrust order (01 May 2025)
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Pluralistic: AI and the fatfinger economy (02 May 2025)
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Pluralistic: Bridget Read's 'Little Bosses Everywhere' (05 May 2025)
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Pluralistic: The Adventures of Mary Darling (06 May 2025)
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Pluralistic: Mark Zuckerberg announces mind-control ray (again) (07 May 2025)
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Pluralistic: Who broke the internet? (08 May 2025)
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Pluralistic: Trump can't do ANYTHING for his base (12 May 2025)
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Pluralistic: Who Broke the Internet? Part II (13 May 2025)
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Pluralistic: Are the means of computation even seizable? (14 May 2025)
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Pluralistic: Trump's CFPB kills data broker rule (15 May 2025)
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Pluralistic: Plinkpump linkdump (17 May 2025)
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Pluralistic: Who Broke the Internet? Part III (19 May 2025)
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Pluralistic: The meritocracy to eugenics pipeline (20 May 2025)
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Pluralistic: Strange Bedfellows and Long Knives (21 May 2025)
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Pluralistic: Drinkslump linkdump (24 May 2025)
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Pluralistic: Who Broke the Internet, Part IV (26 May 2025)
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Pluralistic: AI turns Amazon coders into Amazon warehouse workers (27 May 2025)
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Pluralistic: America is a scam (28 May 2025)
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Pluralistic: Farewell (for the moment) (30 May 2025)
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Pluralistic: The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice (18 Jun 2025)
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Pluralistic: Your Meta AI prompts are in a live, public feed (19 Jun 2025)
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Pluralistic: Oregon bans the corporate practice of medicine (20 Jun 2025)
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Pluralistic: Daniel de VisΓ©'s 'The Blues Brothers' (21 Jun 2025)
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Pluralistic: The case for a Canadian wealth tax (23 Jun 2025)
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Pluralistic: Surveillance pricing lets corporations decide what your dollar is worth (24 Jun 2025)
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Pluralistic: What's a "public internet?" (25 Jun 2025)
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Pluralistic: Surveillance is inequality's stabilizer (26 Jun 2025)
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Pluralistic: Bill Griffith's 'Three Rocks' (27 Jun 2025)
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Pluralistic: Antitrust defies politics' law of gravity (28 Jun 2025)
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Pluralistic: How much (little) are the AI companies making? (30 Jun 2025)
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Pluralistic: Tessa Hulls's "Feeding Ghosts" (2 Jul 2025)
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Pluralistic: Trump's not gonna protect workers from forced labor (03 Jul 2025)
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Pluralistic: Semantic drift versus ethical drift (14 Jul 2025)
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Pluralistic: When Google's slop meets webslop, search stops (15 Jul 2025)
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Pluralistic: Ellen Ullman's "Close to the Machine" (16 Jul 2025)
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Pluralistic: MAGA crackup (18 Jul 2025)
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Pluralistic: Conspiratorialism and neoliberalism (19 Jul 2025)
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Pluralistic: How my DRM-free principles left me owning the rights to a German audiobook (21 Jul 2025)
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Pluralistic: Conservatism considered as a movement of bitter rubes (22 Jul 2025)
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Pluralistic: Installing Android phones in Blackberry chassis (23 Jul 2025)
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Pluralistic: Trump's FCC abandons the future (24 Jul 2025)
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Pluralistic: Iranian brickwork, arbitrated pillows, smothered comics, and aerogel desalination (26 Jul 2025)
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Pluralistic: How twiddling enshittifies your brain (28 Jul 2025)
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Pluralistic: Boss-politics antitrust and the MAGA crackup (29 Jul 2025)
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Pluralistic: Delta's AI-based price-gouging (30 Jul 2025)
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Pluralistic: You can't fight enshittification (31 Jul 2025)
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Pluralistic: Mattie Lubchansky's 'Simplicity' (01 Aug 2025)
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Pluralistic: AI's pogo-stick grift (02 Aug 2025)
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Pluralistic: AI software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot (04 Aug 2025)
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Pluralistic: Bragging about replacing coders with AI is a sales-pitch (05 Aug 2025)
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Pluralistic: Which jobs can be replaced with AI? (06 Aug 2025)
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Pluralistic: Good ideas are popular (07 Aug 2025)
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Pluralistic: Millionaire on billionaire violence (10 Aug 2025)
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Pluralistic: Goodhart's Law (of AI) (11 Aug 2025)
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Pluralistic: Maga's boss class think they are immune to American carnage (13 Aug 2025)
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Pluralistic: "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit (14 Aug 2025)
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Pluralistic: Bluesky creates the world's weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration clause (15 Aug 2025)
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Pluralistic: LLMs are slot-machines (16 Aug 2025)
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Pluralistic: Zuckermuskian solopsism (18 Aug 2025)
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Pluralistic: Charlie Jane Anders' "Lessons in Magic and Disaster." (19 Aug 2025)
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Pluralistic: Become unoptimizable (20 Aug 2025)
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Pluralistic: Melissa Mendes's "The Weight" (21 Aug 2025)
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Pluralistic: Radical juries (22 Aug 2025)
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Pluralistic: Friction cannot be reduced, it can only be redistributed (23 Aug 2025)
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Pluralistic: Enshittification, the audiobook (the Kickstarter) (25 Aug 2025)
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Pluralistic: By all means, tread on those people (26 Aug 2025)
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Pluralistic: The capitalism of fools (28 Aug 2025)
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Pluralistic: A weekend's worth of links (30 Aug 2025)
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Pluralistic: Darth Android (01 Sep 2025)
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Pluralistic: All (antitrust) politics are local (02 Sep 2025)
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Pluralistic: The worst possible antitrust outcome (03 Sep 2025)
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Pluralistic: Canny Valley (04 Sep 2025)
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Pluralistic: Why Wikipedia works (05 Sep 2025)
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Pluralistic: Stock buybacks are stock swindles (06 Sep 2025)
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Pluralistic: FingerspitzengefΓΌhl (08 Sep 2025)
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Pluralistic: Trump steals $400b from American workers (09 Sep 2025)
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Pluralistic: Hate the player AND the game (10 Sep 2025)
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Pluralistic: Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox (11 Sep 2025)
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Pluralistic: Wallet voting (13 Sep 2025)
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Pluralistic: No such thing as selective censorship resistance (16 Sep 2025)
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Pluralistic: AI psychosis and the warped mirror (18 Sep 2025)
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Pluralistic: Conspiratorialism's causal chain (17 Sep 2025)
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Pluralistic: Catch this! (16 Jan 2026)
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Pluralistic: The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification (17 Jan 2026)
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Pluralistic: Social media without socializing (19 Jan 2026)
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Pluralistic: AI is how bosses wage war on "professions" (20 Jan 2026)
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Pluralistic: Google's AI pricing plan (21 Jan 2026)
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Pluralistic: The petty (but undeniable) delights of cultivating unoptimizability as a habit (22 Jan 2026)
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Pluralistic: Trump and the unmighty dollar (26 Jan 2026)
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Pluralistic: Carney isn't a hero (and that's OK) (27 Jan 2026)
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Pluralistic: Disenshittification Nation (29 Jan 2026)
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Pluralistic: Threads' margin is the Eurostack's opportunity (30 Jan 2026)
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Pluralistic: Stock swindles (02 Feb 2026)
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Pluralistic: Michael Swanwick's "The Universe Box" (03 Feb 2026)
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Pluralistic: Justin Key's "The Hospital at the End Of the World" (04 Feb 2026)
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Pluralistic: All laws are local (05 Feb 2026)
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Pluralistic: Luxury Kafka (06 Feb 2026)
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Pluralistic: End of the line for video essays (07 Feb 2026)
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Pluralistic: The Epstein class and collapse porn (09 Feb 2026)
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Pluralistic: The Nuremberg Caucus (10 Feb 2026)
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Pluralistic: Europe takes a big step towards a post-dollar world (11 Feb 2026)
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Pluralistic: Doctors' union may yet save the NHS from Palantir (12 Feb 2026)
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Pluralistic: Trump antitrust is dead (13 Feb 2026)
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Pluralistic: The online community trilemma (16 Feb 2026)
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Pluralistic: What's a "gig work minimum wage" (17 Feb 2026)
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Pluralistic: Six Years of Pluralistic (19 Feb 2026)
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Pluralistic: A perforated corporate veil (20 Feb 2026)
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Pluralistic: Deplatform yourself (23 Feb 2026)
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Pluralistic: Socialist excellence in New York City (24 Feb 2026)
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Pluralistic: The whole economy pays the Amazon tax (25 Feb 2026)
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Pluralistic: If you build it (and it works), Trump will come (and take it) (26 Feb 2026)
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Pluralistic: California can stop Larry Ellison from buying Warners (28 Feb 2026)
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Pluralistic: No one wants to read your AIΒ slop (02 Mar 2026)
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Pluralistic: Supreme Court saves artists from AI (03 Mar 2026)
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Pluralistic: Blowtorching the frog (05 Mar 2026) executive-dysfunction
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Pluralistic: The web is bearable with RSS (07 Mar 2026)
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Pluralistic: Billionaires are a danger to themselves and (especially) us (09 Mar 2026)
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Pluralistic: Ad-tech is fascist tech (10 Mar 2026)
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Pluralistic: AI "journalists" prove that media bosses don't give a shit (11 Mar 2026)
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Pluralistic: Three more AI psychoses (12 Mar 2026)
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Pluralistic: Corrupt anticorruption (14 Mar 2026)
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Pluralistic: Tools vs uses (16 Mar 2026)
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Pluralistic: William Gibson vs Margaret Thatcher (17 Mar 2026)
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Pluralistic: Love of corporate bullshit is correlated with bad judgment (19 Mar 2026)
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Pluralistic: Understaffing as a form of enshittification (23 Mar 2026)
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Pluralistic: Goodhart's Law vs "prediction markets" (24 Mar 2026)
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Pluralistic: The cost of doing business (25 Mar 2026)
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Pluralistic: Market participation is exhausting (30 Mar 2026)
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Pluralistic: State Dems must stop ICE from stealing the midterms (31 Mar 2026)
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Pluralistic: Trumpismo vs minilateralism (01 Apr 2026)
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Pluralistic: It's extremely good that Claude's source-code leaked (02 Apr 2026)
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Pluralistic: EU ready to cave to Trump on tech (04 Apr 2026)
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Pluralistic: Your boss wants to use surveillance data to cut your wages (06 Apr 2026)
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Pluralistic: Switzerland's Goldilocks fiber (07 Apr 2026)
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Pluralistic: Process knowledge (08 Apr 2026)
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Pluralistic: Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" (09 Apr 2026)
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Pluralistic: Canny Valley and Creative Commons (10 Apr 2026)
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Pluralistic: Don't Be Evil (11 Apr 2026)
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Pluralistic: Austerity creates fascism (13 Apr 2026)
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Pluralistic: In praise of (some) compartmentalization (14 Apr 2026)
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Pluralistic: Rights for robots (15 Apr 2026)
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Pluralistic: A Pascal's Wager for AI Doomers (16 Apr 2026)
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Pluralistic: Tiktokification shall set us free (17 Apr 2026)
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Pluralistic: Georgia's voting technology blunder (18 Apr 2026)
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Pluralistic: Comrade Trump (20 Apr 2026)
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Pluralistic: Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's "Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed" (21 Apr 2026)
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Pluralistic: It's not a crime if we do it (to nurses) with an app (22 Apr 2026)
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Pluralistic: The (other) problem with automatic conversion of free software to proprietary software (23 Apr 2026)
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Pluralistic: A free, open visual identity for enshittification (24 Apr 2026)
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Pluralistic: Ada Palmer's "Inventing the Renaissance" (25 Apr 2026)
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Pluralistic: The enshittification multiverse (27 Apr 2026)
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Pluralistic: Vicky Osterweil's "The Extended Universe" (28 Apr 2026)
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Pluralistic: How not to ban surveillance pricing (30 Apr 2026)
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Pluralistic: The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus (02 May 2026)
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Pluralistic: Demand destruction vs fuel-superceding infrastructure (04 May 2026)
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Pluralistic: The three armies fighting for the post-American world (05 May 2026)
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Pluralistic: In praise of vultures (06 May 2026)
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Pluralistic: Bubbles are REALLY evil (07 May 2026)
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Pluralistic: Lee Lai's "Cannon" (08 May 2026)
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Pluralistic: Trump's fruitless search for a goreable ox (09 May 2026)
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Pluralistic: 2024 (apart from the obvious) (11 May 2026)
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Pluralistic: A fascist paradigm (12 May 2026)
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Pluralistic: Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm (13 May 2026)
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Pluralistic: Kickstarting "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" (14 May 2026)
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Pluralistic: No one wants a permanent gerontocracy (15 May 2026)
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Pluralistic: Making sense of Trump's unscheduled sudden midair disassembly of the American empire (16 May 2026)
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Pluralistic: There's no such thing as "age verification" (19 May 2026)
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Pluralistic: Shopping isn't politics (21 May 2026)
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Pluralistic: No honor among (ad-tech) thieves (25 May 2026)
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Pluralistic: The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble (26 May 2026)
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Pluralistic: AI and a world without migrants (27 May 2026)
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Pluralistic: Hold on for dear life (28 May 2026)
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Pluralistic: Carneyism without Carney (30 May 2026)
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Pluralistic: Molly Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country' (01 Jun 2026)
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Pluralistic: The tedious power of storytelling (02 Jun 2026) must-we-pretend
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Pluralistic: Delusion as a service (04 Jun 2026)
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Pluralistic: Refining humanity (05 Jun 2026)
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Pluralistic: Criticizing the everything machine (06 Jun 2026)
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Pluralistic: Naomi Kritzer's "Obstetrix" (09 Jun 2026)
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Pluralistic: The world has moved on (11 Jun 2026)
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