Pluralistic: Podcasting "How To Make a Child-Safe TikTok"; Serializing the first chapter of Red Team Blues (17 Apr 2023)

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Podcasting "How To Make a Child-Safe TikTok": My Medium column on a surveillance-free internet.
Serializing the first chapter of Red Team Blues: Meet Marty Hench and his "foolish and ungainly and luxurious tour bus."
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Pluralistic: SVB bailout for everyone except affordable housing projects (15 Apr 2023)

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SVB bailouts for everyone – except affordable housing projects: Even the shareholders got billions.
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Pluralistic: Is antitrust anti-labor? (14 Apr 2023)

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Is antitrust anti-labor?: tl;dr: no.
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Pluralistic: Gig apps trap reverse centaurs in wage-stealing Skinner boxes (12 Apr 2023)

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Gig apps trap reverse centaurs in wage-stealing Skinner boxes: Twiddled to death through algorithmic wage discrimination.
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Pluralistic: Alissa Quart's 'Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream' (10 Apr 2023)

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Alissa Quart's 'Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream': Divided we fall.
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Pluralistic: Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk (08 Apr 2023)

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Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk: Ad targeting isn't "efficient."
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Pluralistic: Clarence Thomas and the generosity of a far-right dark-money billionaire (06 Apr 2023)

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Clarence Thomas and the generosity of a far-right dark-money billionaire: Harlan Crow showered the judge with millions in off-the-books, illegal "gifts."
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Pluralistic: Elizabeth Warren on weaponized budget models (04 Apr 2023)

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Elizabeth Warren on weaponized budget models: We could have nice things, but computer says no.
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Pluralistic: The problem with economic models (03 Apr 2023)

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The problem with economic models: Ideology disguised as math.
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Pluralistic: Flickr to copyleft trolls: drop dead (01 Apr 2023)

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Flickr to copyleft trolls: drop dead: Pixsy's predators no longer welcome.
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