Pluralistic: The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble (26 May 2026)

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The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble: No one had to force-feed the web to workers.
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Object permanence: Website graveyard; Anti-librarian witch-hunt; Denmark v Marmite; The unnecessariat.
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Pluralistic: No honor among (ad-tech) thieves (25 May 2026)

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No honor among (ad-tech) thieves: Including "and" and "the."
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Object permanence: Budweiser nunchuks; GOP vote-suppressor voted illegally; Airbnb enshittifies; Oculus enshittifies; Nintendo copyfrauds its fans; Meritocracy to eugenics pipeline; Ultima Online crisis management; SNES cartridge urinal; JJ Abrams x Axanar, "Sex Criminals"; Beating school filters for fun; Orphan works; Japanese ATM heist; How the Sacklers rigged the game.
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Pluralistic: Shopping isn't politics (21 May 2026)

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Shopping isn't politics: The personal isn't political.
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Object permanence: Neither arphid nor RFID; Gor novel sex slave cult; Violent economist sex criminals; Vade et caca in pilleum et ipse traheatur super aures tuo; "We Stand on Guard"; Healthy FLOSS; Lawsuits 2.0; CDC v zombie apocalypse; Gandhi's speeches; Apple v games about Palestine; Second Life chuds v Bernie; UK was never a "white" country; Dead, broke; Who Broke the Internet? (III)
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Pluralistic: There's no such thing as "age verification" (19 May 2026)

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There's no such thing as "age verification": The foreseeable and foreseen consequences of "something must be done"/"there, I've done something."
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Object permanence: Apple Stores exist; Responsible spam; Australia loves Hollywood('s copyright); TCP over Syrian donkey; Icelandic Pirate get funded; Algorithmic cruelty; Trump loves data brokers; Douglas Adams, vindicated; Blog history; Sex names; Flickr's Gamma; "Fuzzy Nation"; The Intercept publishes Snowden docs; Software version of CIA sabotage manual; Who owns covid vaccines? Anal clenching v depression; Web is 10; Danish birds x ringtones; Office-supply X-wing; Nintendo 3DS license sucks is unbelievably bad; Public Interest Internet.
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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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Making sense of Trump's unscheduled sudden midair disassembly of the American empire: Don't mistake "powerful" for "durable."
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Object permanence: Copyrighted law; Viral videos v cops; Crooked banker v tiny bat; "Infested"; Can the means of computation be seized?
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Pluralistic: No one wants a permanent gerontocracy (15 May 2026)

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No one wants a permanent gerontocracy: The one policy everyone agrees on.
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Object permanence: Wolfengitmo; Facebook condemns Google privacy invasion; Michael Moore on bin Laden; TSA v babies; Tendril perversion; "Buy now"; Uber Ch(eats); Who Broke the Internet (II)?
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Pluralistic: Kickstarting "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" (14 May 2026)

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Kickstarting "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI": How to be a better AI critic.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Object permanence: RIP Douglas Adams; R2-trashcan; EFF v W3C; RIP shonky Disneyland; Stolen oligarch forks; Anal fisting site breached; "Reading With Pictures"; "Napier's Bones"; Trump v his base's welfare.
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Pluralistic: Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm (13 May 2026)

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Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm: AGI works best in a K-hole.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Object permanence: Woz's remotes; Furbeowulf; Vinge on AR; Oligarch buys FSU; DNC x GOP megadonors; John Key v Panama Papers; Two elevators, one shaft; Save Firefox! "Cyclopedia Exotica"; Eat the brood.
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Pluralistic: A fascist paradigm (12 May 2026)

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A fascist paradigm: The change that changed everything.
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Object permanence: Openstreetmap x Isle of Wight; Found grocery lists; Mayor wants to pray away potholes; Designing a D120; "Too Like the Lightning."
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Pluralistic: 2024 (apart from the obvious) (11 May 2026)

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2024 (apart from the obvious): Some unforced errors.
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Object permanence: Denmark legalizing music trading; Babysuit; Patent Office invites "peer review"; DRM protest at the Bastille; Scientology's "super powers"; Banana Dalek; Florida v pediatricians' gun safety advice; Copyright filters and wage theft; "Who Broke the Internet?" Vatican astronomer v Creationism; Teens, privacy and Facebook; Čapek's graveside robot; Save iTunes; NZ laundered money for Latinamerica's looters; Memex Method.
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