Pluralistic: Tech's benevolent-dictator-for-life to authoritarian pipeline (10 Dec 2024)

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Tech's benevolent-dictator-for-life to authoritarian pipeline: It's damned hard to be an anti-authoritarian in a C-suite.
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Pluralistic: Predicting the present (09 Dec 2024)

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Predicting the present: Thinking about "Radicalized" after Brian Thompson's assassination.
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Pluralistic: A year in illustration (2024) (07 Dec 2024)

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A year in illustration (2024): Call me immodest, but I really think I've upped my game.
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Pluralistic: Battery rationality (06 Dec 2024)

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Battery rationality: Ringing down the curtain on 9/11's security theater.
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Pluralistic: Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar's "The Big Fix" (05 Dec 2024)

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Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar's "The Big Fix": Ugh, Canada.
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Pluralistic: "That Makes Me Smart" (04 Dec 2024)

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"That Makes Me Smart": When "unfair and deceptive" becomes fair game.
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Pluralistic: Canada sues Google (03 Dec 2024)

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Canada sues Google: This is the US playbook we SHOULD be following.
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Pluralistic: All the books I reviewed in 2024 (02 Dec 2024)

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All the books I reviewed in 2024: Plus three of my own.
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Pluralistic: Bossware is unfair (in the legal sense, too) (26 Nov 2024)

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Bossware is unfair (in the legal sense, too): Neotaylorists wielding digital calipers, breaking the law.
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Pluralistic: The far right grows through "disaster fantasies" (25 Nov 2024)

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The far right grows through "disaster fantasies": Armageddon tired of this bullshit.
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