Pluralistic: David Graeber's "Pirate Enlightenment" (24 Jan 2023)

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David Graeber's "Pirate Enlightenment": The true, swashbuckling lives of matriarchs, anarchists, and pirates at the crossroads of the world.
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Pluralistic: Eggflation is just more price-gouging (23 Jan 2023)

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Eggflation is just more price-gouging: Cal-Maine Foods owns every egg brand you've ever heard of and its profits are up 65%.
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Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification (21 Jan 2023)

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Tiktok's enshittification: The company manually allocates surplus to creators, and they can take it away again, too.
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This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018
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Pluralistic: Why the Fed wants to crush workers (19 Jan 2023)

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Why the Fed wants to crush workers: Fall of Rome speedrun.
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Pluralistic: Care Inflation (18 Jan 2023)

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Care Inflation: The inflation no one wants to talk about.
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Pluralistic: Eleanor Janega's "Once and Future Sex" (17 Jan 2023)

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Eleanor Janega's "Once and Future Sex": The true, weird, horny history of medieval gender and sex.
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This day in history: 2013, 2018
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Pluralistic: 1,000,000 stranded Southwest passengers deserved better from Pete Buttigieg (16 Jan 2023)

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1,000,000 stranded Southwest passengers deserved better from Pete Buttigieg: The worst US aviation failure in history was a long time coming, and could have been averted.
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Pluralistic: Kate Beaton's "Ducks" (14 Jan 2023)

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Kate Beaton's "Ducks": A memoir of oil, misogyny and economic precarity.
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Pluralistic: Booklist on "Red Team Blues" (13 Jan 2023)

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Booklist on "Red Team Blues": "Another winner from an sf wizard who
has always proved himself adept at blending genres for both adults and teens."
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Pluralistic: John Deere's repair fake-out; Good riddance to the Open Gaming License (12 Jan 2023)

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Good riddance to the Open Gaming License: Hasbro accidentally gives us more freedom.
John Deere's repair fake-out: So many strings attached.
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