Pluralistic: 20 Sep 2022 Book-banning wingnuts are a tiny, vocal minority

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Book-banning wingnuts are a tiny, vocal minority: The moral majority is neither.
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Pluralistic: 19 Sep 2022 How to ditch Facebook without ditching your friends

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How to ditch Facebook without ditching your friends: A new interop design fiction from EFF.
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Pluralistic: 16 Sep 2022 Moneylike

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Moneylike: My Locus Magazine column about what makes money money.
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Pluralistic: 15 Sep 2022 California's antitrust case against Amazon

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California's antitrust case against Amazon: Amazon's monopoly is so noisy, it even managed to wake antitrust's King Log.
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Pluralistic: 14 Sep 2022 The Chokepoint Capitalism tour!

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The Chokepoint Capitalism tour: Ottawa, Toronto, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles (and beyond!)
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Pluralistic: 13 Sep 2022 Survival of the Richest

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Survival of the Richest: Douglas Rushkoff on the eschatology of libertarian exit.
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Pluralistic: 12 Sep 2022 Spotify is a ripoff, a Spotify exclusive

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Spotify steals from artists, a Spotify exclusive: More Chokepoint Capitalism stunt-publishing.
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Pluralistic: 10 Sep 2022 American healthcare did a fuckery, the White House has a plan for Big Tech big-data

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American healthcare did a fuckery: A trillion prices can't be wrong.
The White House has a plan for Big Tech: Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerberg and Joe Biden all agree.
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Pluralistic: 09 Sep 2022 How to die without getting rooked

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Guide to a ripoff-free funeral: Terminal-stage capitalism.
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Pluralistic: 08 Sep 2022 Billionaires as policy-failure factories; In Real Life, in real life

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Every billionaire is a factory for producing policy failures: On the "attack philanthropy" of Barre Seid.
The horrifying tale of a blockchain-based virtual sweatshop: "Anda's Game" was a warning, not a suggestion.
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