Pluralistic: Forcing Google to spin off Chrome (and Android?) (19 Nov 2024)

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Forcing Google to spin off Chrome (and Android?): Structural separation is the ultimate anti-cheat hack.
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Pluralistic: Harpercollins wants authors to sign away AI training rights (18 Nov 2024)

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Harpercollins wants authors to sign away AI training rights: Rights come from power.
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Pluralistic: Canada's ground-breaking, hamstrung repair and interop laws (15 Nov 2024)

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Canada's ground-breaking, hamstrung repair and interop laws: It's time for the "radical extremists" to have their day.
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Pluralistic: America's richest Medicare fraudsters are untouchable (13 Nov 2024)

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America's richest Medicare fraudsters are untouchable: When you're famous they let you do it.
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Pluralistic: Boss politics antitrust (12 Nov 2024)

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Boss politics antitrust: Trump will use Xi Xinping's "anti-corruption" playbook.
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Pluralistic: General Strike 2028 (11 Nov 2024)

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General Strike 2028: Unions fight fascism.
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Pluralistic: Antiusurpation and the road to disenshittification (07 Nov 2024)

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Antiusurpation and the road to disenshittification: We've got the wrong kind of middlemen.
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Pluralistic: Every internet fight is a speech fight (06 Nov 2024)

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Every internet fight is a speech fight: And every internet fight is a sovereignty fight.
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Pluralistic: How to have cancer (05 Nov 2024)

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How to have cancer: Unleash the Karen.
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Pluralistic: Neal Stephenson's "Polostan" (04 Nov 2024)

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Neal Stephenson's "Polostan": Raising the curtain on a post-cyberpunk sf series about the dawn on the nuclear age.
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