Pluralistic: Dow promised to turn sneakers into playground surfaces, then dumped them in Indonesia (26 Feb 2023)

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Dow promised to turn sneakers into playground surfaces, then dumped them in Indonesia: Corporate "recycling" programs are just obfuscated landfills.
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Pluralistic: This is your brain on fraud apologetics (24 Feb 2023)

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This is your brain on fraud apologetics: The curious comfort of victim-blaming.
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Pluralistic: Fighting the privacy wars, state by state (23 Feb 2023)

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Fighting the privacy wars, state by state: Treating Congress as damage and routing around it.
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Pluralistic: Matt Ruff's "Destroyer of Worlds" (21 Feb 2023)

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Matt Ruff's "Destroyer of Worlds": A return to "Lovecraft Country."
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Pluralistic: Turbotax is blitzing Congress for the right to tax YOU (20 Feb 2023)

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Turbotax is blitzing Congress for the right to tax YOU: Why do Americans have to pay Intuit to tell the IRS things it already knows?
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Pluralistic: Pluralistic is three (19 Feb 2023)

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Pluralistic is three: Time flies when you're writing blogs.
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Pluralistic: Google's chatbot panic (16 Feb 2023)

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Google's chatbot panic: On the infinite insecurities of a self-styled creative genius who really just buys other people's ideas.
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Pluralistic: Nathan J. Robinson's "Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments" (14 Feb 2023)

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Nathan J. Robinson's "Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments": A seriously good look at some seriously bad arguments.
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Pluralistic: Obama's turncoat antitrust enforcer is angry about the Google breakup (13 Feb 2023)

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Obama's turncoat antitrust enforcer is angry about the Google breakup: You know you're doing something right when…
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Pluralistic: After Ohio rail disaster, Buttigieg is silent on restoring the safety standards Trump repealed (11 Feb 2023)

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After Ohio rail disaster, Buttigieg is silent on restoring the safety standards Trump repealed: Civil War-era brake systems were good enough for General Sherman…
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