Pluralistic: Poor people pay higher time tax (10 Feb 2023)

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Poor people pay higher time tax: The rich truly do get more hours in the day.
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Pluralistic: Copyright won't solve creators' Generative AI problem (09 Feb 2023)

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Copyright won't solve creators' Generative AI problem: The machine-learning monkey's paw.
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Pluralistic: The Collective Intelligence Institute (07 Feb 2023)

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The Collective Intelligence Institute: Asking more than 'what technology does' and demanding to know who it does it FOR and who it does it TO.
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Pluralistic: Bruce Schneier's "A Hacker's Mind" (06 Feb 2023)

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Bruce Schneier's "A Hacker's Mind": Thinking about tactics AND power.
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Pluralistic: When Facebook came for your battery, feudal security failed (05 Feb 2023)

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When Facebook came for your battery, feudal security failed: A tale of whistleblowers, security through obscurity, and binding arbitration.
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Pluralistic: Higher interest rates increase both the monetary supply and inflation (04 Feb 2023)

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Higher interest rates increase both the monetary supply and inflation: It takes a lot of motivated reasoning to believe otherwise.
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Pluralistic: Netflix wants to chop down your family tree (02 Feb 2023)

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Netflix wants to chop down your family tree: The enshittification cycle comes for your most private domain.
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Pluralistic: Johnson and Johnson's bankruptcy gambit fails (01 Feb 2023)

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Johnson and Johnson's bankruptcy gambit fails: A key defeat in J&J's War On Vulvas.
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Pluralistic: Canada's privatised shadow civil service (31 Jan 2023)

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Canada's privatised shadow civil service: Tories claim governments are incompetent, Liberals prove it.
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Pluralistic: The real scandal is overclassification; The Australian Chokepoint Capitalism Tour (30 Jan 2023)

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The real scandal is overclassification: I'd explain it, but I'd have to kill you.
The Australian Chokepoint Capitalism Tour: Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra (twice!).
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