Pluralistic: Pluralistic is five (19 Feb 2025)

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Pluralistic is five: Blogging as a way of clawing back your attention.
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Pluralistic: America and "national capitalism" (18 Feb 2025)

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America and "national capitalism": How the EU should respond to Trumpism.
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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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Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces: The Gilded Age has entered the chat.
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Pluralistic: Skinnamarinkstump Linkdump (15 Feb 2025)

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Skinnamarinkstump Linkdump: Mostly lighthearted links from the road.
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Pluralistic: Premature Internet Activists (13 Feb 2025)

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Premature Internet Activists: The retconning of tech rights.
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Pluralistic: Trump's Tiktok two-step is a lesson for future presidents (12 Feb 2025)

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Trump's Tiktok two-step is a lesson for future presidents: Deference to corrupt institutions didn't get Democrats re-elected.
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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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Musk steals a billion dollars from low-income Americans and sends it to Intuit: Forcing you to pay Turbotax to send data to the IRS that it already has is the DEFINITION of government inefficiency.
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Pluralistic: Hugh D'Andrade's "The Murder Next Door" (10 Feb 2025)

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Hugh D'Andrade's "The Murder Next Door": A graphic memoir.
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Pluralistic: Dinkscrump Linkdump (08 Feb 2025)

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Dinkscrump Linkdump: A bushel of links before I leap into the void.
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Pluralistic: "The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets" (07 Feb 2025)

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"The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets": Maureen Tkacik on the monstrous corporate raider running DOGE.
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