Pluralistic: Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall! (15 Oct 2025)

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Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall! What the Eurostack is missing.
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Object permanence: Giga pudding; What Technology Wants; Blue Screens of Death; Bernie outperforming Obama; DRM in JPEGs; Dirty words are politically potent; Fury Road 8-bit side-scroller; History of web auth; Prop 22 is a scam.
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How to fix the UK housing crisis: Reconverting homes to human rights, rather than assets.
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The curious, intertwined history of climate and digital rights activism: It's going much [better|worse] than expected.
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A disenshittification moment from the land of mass storage: Score one for the good guys.
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Object permanence: Douglas Copeland's depressing 10-year outlook; Unicorn poop; The brainwashing grift.
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California bans algorithmic price-fixing: Bye-bye, Realpage.
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Object permanence: Android can't stop phoning home; FBI wants its bug back; Bikram can't copyright yoga; Prison debaters trounce Harvard.
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They're just trying to earn a buck: No, they're taking what they can get.
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Object permanence: Milk jug Storm Trooper; HIV-positive muppet; Optimal copyright; EU v NSA; Pig bomb; Maine's disgraceful public defenders; Google Reader launches; Bill Gates hates Blu-Ray; NYPD steals Black woman's BMW and puts her in a mental institution; Baby flask; Zombie mouth cupcakes.
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Apple's unlawful evil: Everyone's a rogue capitalist now.
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Object permanence: Why copyright wars matter; Car accidents aren't accidents; Ayn Rand, firefighter; Most sound recordings are unavailable; Kill the Dead; XKCD map; Lockdown with kindergartners; Facebook's living will; Ad tech bubble; The Internet is for end-users; Squeeze Me.
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When your ISP pays you: The New Deal keeps on giving.
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Object permanence: Internet Archive scans books; Europe's Broadcast Flag; Three middle-finger salute; The enshittification of Prime.
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Decarbonization at a distance: A post-American century that runs on sunshine.
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Object permanence: Human shields for Internet of Shit slumlords; Tubemap with one-bedroom flat prices; Years of Repair; Internet of Lying Things; Dieselgate for TVs; Apple kills Chinese RSS readers.
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