Pluralistic: Async mugwump linkdump (30 Mar 2024)

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Async mugwump linkdump: A weekend assortment.
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Pluralistic: Subprime gadgets (29 Mar 2024)

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Subprime gadgets: What a remote-brick app tells us about debt collection in the age of trusted computing.
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Pluralistic: The credit card fee victory is a defeat (28 Mar 2024)

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The credit card fee victory is a defeat: Small cartels beat large industries every time.
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Pluralistic: End of the line for corporate sovereignty (27 Mar 2024)

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End of the line for corporate sovereignty: ISDSes are on the ropes, and not a moment too soon.
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Pluralistic: Meatspace twiddling (26 Mar 2024)

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Meatspace twiddling: Cyberspace may never evert, but it can certainly prolapse.
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Pluralistic: Conspiratorialism and the epistemological crisis (25 Mar 2024)

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Conspiratorialism and the epistemological crisis: We may not know what's in the box, but we can tell if it's been damaged in transit.
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Pluralistic: Someday, we'll all take comfort in the internet's "dark corners" (23 Mar 2024)

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Someday, we'll all take comfort in the internet's "dark corners": The Sea of Enshittification is rising and your online home will eventually be flooded.
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Pluralistic: The antitrust case against Apple (22 Mar 2024)

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The antitrust case against Apple: End of the line for Apple exceptionalism.
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Pluralistic: Why Millenials aren't leaving Tiktok (21 Mar 2024)

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Why Millennials aren't leaving Tiktok: It's the same reason that Boomers can't leave Facebook.
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Pluralistic: Working class Dems who campaign on economics beat Trumpists in elections (20 Mar 2024)

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Working class Dems who campaign on economics beat Trumpists in elections: But they rarely beat the Dem establishment in primaries.
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