Pluralistic: Blowtorching the frog (05 Mar 2026) executive-dysfunction

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Blowtorching the frog: If I must have enemies, let them be impatient ones.
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Object permanence: Bill Cosby v Waxy; Rodney King, 20 years on; Peter Watts v flesh-eating bacteria; American authoritarianism; Algebra II v Statistics for Citizenship; Ideas lying around; Banksy x Russian graffists; TSA v hand luggage; Hack your Sodastream; There were always enshittifiers.
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Supreme Court saves artists from AI: Just because you're on their side, it doesn't mean they're on your side.
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Object permanence: KKK x D&D; Martian creativity; Scott Walker's capital ringers; UK v adblocking; Shitty jihadi opsec.
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No one wants to read your AI slop: If you must do this, for god's sake, do it privately.
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Object permanence: AOL email tax; Ebook readers' bill of rights; Sanders media blackout.
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California can stop Larry Ellison from buying Warners: These are the right states' rights.
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Object permanence: RIP Octavia Butler; "Midnighters"; Freeman Dyson on "The Information"; Korean Little Brother filibuster; Privacy isn't property; With Great Power Came No Responsibility; Unsellable A-holes; Cardboard Cthulhu; Chinese map fuzzing.
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If you build it (and it works), Trump will come (and take it): Trump wants Big Tech to win, not to play fair.
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Object permanence: Harpercollins v libraries; Rothfuss x Firefly; Bookseller seethings; If magazine; HBR v executive pay; Apple caves on encryption.
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The whole economy pays the Amazon tax: You can't shop your way out of a monopoly.
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Object permanence: Math denial; Disney v young Tim Burton; Make v Sony; American oligarchs' wealth (2011); New Librarian of Congress; The Mauritanian; Bossware.
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Socialist excellence in New York City: The real efficiency is insourcing and ending public-private partnerships.
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Object permanence: UK antipiracy office will catch Firefox crooks; Batpole flip-top bust; "Order of Odd-Fish"; Scott Walker v fake Kochl; Billg wants to backdoor Microsoft; NSA spied on world leaders; Trump They Live mask; "Unicorns vs Goblins"; Covid German.
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Deplatform yourself: Copyright infringement is your least entertainment dollar.
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Object permanence: "Lawer" threatens suit; Landmark metaphotos; 3DP v (c); Forced arbitration; Imperial Scott Walker; Keysigning ritual; Polyfingered robot dictaphone; DNS bug; Register of copyright damns term extension; How Anonymous decides; Christchurch quake people-finder; Minor HP disenshittification; US v developing world at WIPO; TfL v anagram tube-map; Disneyland waiting; Internet of Garbage.
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A perforated corporate veil: The Brazilian method for curbing corporate power.
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Object permanence: Social media turned US parties into host organisms for third parties; "Citizens" are hired actors; Insured exoskeletons; Talking with Snowden and Gibson.
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Six years of Pluralistic: Time flies when you're writing the web.
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Object permanence: MBA phrenology; Sony's DRM CEO is out; Midwestern Tahrir; Reverse Centaurs and AI.
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