Pluralistic: AI and the fatfinger economy (02 May 2025)

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AI and the fatfinger economy: Every slip of the finger in money in the bank.
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Pluralistic: Apple faces criminal sanctions for defying App Store antitrust order (01 May 2025)

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Apple faces criminal sanctions for defying App Store antitrust order: They lied to the judge, then covered it up, and now she's PISSED.
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Pluralistic: Republicans want to force students to pay off scam college loans (30 Apr 2025)

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Republicans want to force students to pay off scam college loans: Incredibly, they've found a way to make student debt WORSE.
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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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Mike Lee and Jim Jordan want to kill the law that bans companies from cheating you: Section 5 of the FTC Act is a century-old Swiss Army Knife for fighting corruption.
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Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs (27 Apr 2025)

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The enshittification of tech jobs: Our last line of defense has fallen.
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Pluralistic: Every complex ecosystem has parasites (24 Apr 2025)

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Every complex ecosystem has parasites: The only way to eliminate fraud and waste is to become a trivial walled garden.
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Pluralistic: Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People' (23 Apr 2025)

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Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People': "Too big to care."
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Pluralistic: More Everything Forever (22 Apr 2025)

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More Everything Forever: Science fiction is an allegory, not a prediction.
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Pluralistic: Trump's FTC opens the floodgates for tariff profiteering (21 Apr 2025)

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Trump's FTC opens the floodgates for tariff profiteering: PROS Holdings and co will make billions telling companies how to rip you off.
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Pluralistic: Against transparency (19 Apr 2025)

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Against transparency: *Caveat emptor* is grifter for, "Surprise, you're dead!"
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