Pluralistic: "Brand safety" killed Jezebel (11 Nov 2023)

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"Brand safety" killed Jezebel: Reality isn't brand-safe.
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Pluralistic: Big Telco's fury over FCC plan to infuse telecoms policy with facts (10 Nov 2023)

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Big Telco's fury over FCC plan to infuse telecoms policy with facts: Dickey Amendments for everything.
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Pluralistic: The enshittification of garage-door openers reveals a vast and deadly rot (09 Nov 2023)

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The enshittification of garage-door openers reveals a vast and deadly rot: Firms undisciplined by competition, regulation, or self-help measures.
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Pluralistic: Biden wants to ban ripoff "financial advisors" (08 Nov 2023)

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Biden wants to ban ripoff "financial advisors": Big gubmint wants to take away your freedom to starve to death in old age.
Announcing The Lost Cause Tour: LA, Stratford, Concord, Simsbury, Toronto, New York and Chapel Hill!
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Pluralistic: Naomi Alderman's 'The Future' (07 November 2023)

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Naomi Alderman's 'The Future': Billionaire preppers vs the end of the human race.
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Pluralistic: Amazon is a ripoff (06 Nov 2023)

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Amazon is a ripoff: New Amazon paradox just dropped.
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Pluralistic: A link-clump demands a linkdump (05 Nov 2023)

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A link-clump demands a linkdump: Fit the ninth.
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Pluralistic: Big Tech's "attention rents" (03 Nov 2023)

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Big Tech's "attention rents": Enshittification comes out of the barrel of an algorithm.
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Pluralistic: Social Security is class war, not intergenerational conflict (01 Nov 2023)

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Social Security is class war, not intergenerational conflict: If conservatives were really interested in millennial life-chances, they'd demand inheritance taxes, not Social Security cuts.
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Pluralistic: The impoverished imagination of neoliberal climate "solutions" (31 Oct 2023)

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The impoverished imagination of neoliberal climate "solutions": "All of the above" is a highly selective proposition.
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