Pluralistic: "The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets" (07 Feb 2025)

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"The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets": Maureen Tkacik on the monstrous corporate raider running DOGE.
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Pluralistic: Announcing the Picks and Shovels book tour (06 Feb 2025)

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Announcing the Picks and Shovels book tour: There's a nonzero chance that you and I will shortly be in the same city!
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Pluralistic: MLMs are the mirror-world version of community organizing (04 Feb 2025)

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MLMs are the mirror-world version of community organizing: In the mirror world, community organizers are community predators.
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Pluralistic: Ron Deibert's "Chasing Shadows" (04 Feb 2025)

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Ron Deibert's "Chasing Shadows": How Citizen Lab invented "counterintelligence for civil society."
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Pluralistic: Petard, Part IV (03 Feb 2025)

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Petard, Part IV: Smart is at least as important as evil.
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Pluralistic: Petard, Part III (01 Feb 2025)

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Petard, Part III: The Termite Mound is revealed as the Roach Motel.
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Pluralistic: Petard (Part II) (31 Jan 2025)

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Petard (Part II): Systematizing and automating the struggle.
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Pluralistic: Petard (Part I) (30 Jan 2025)

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Petard (Part I): I fought the ISP and the ISP won.
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Pluralistic: All bets are off (29 Jan 2025)

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All bets are off: Tearing up the rulebook doesn't end the games, it just gets rid of the rules.
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Pluralistic: It's pretty easy to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget, actually (27 Jan 2025)

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It's pretty easy to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget, actually: Just end all the private-sector profiteering.
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