Pluralistic: How tech changed global labor struggles for better and worse (02 Dec 2022)

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How tech changed global labor struggles for better and worse: Seize the means of computation!
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Pluralistic: All the books I reviewed in 2022 (01 Dec 2022)

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All the books I reviewed in 2022: A year in books.
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Pluralistic: Booz Allen ticketmastered America's public lands (30 Nov 2022)

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Booz Allen tickemastered America's public lands: An arms dealer makes millions on junk fees from National Parks visitors.
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Pluralistic: The looming accountancy apocalypse (29 Nov 2022)

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The Big Four accounting firms are one (more) scandal away from collapse: Mutually assured destruction at the heart of the economy.
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Pluralistic: How monopoly enshittified Amazon/28 Nov 2022

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How monopoly enshittified Amazon: Chokepoint Capitalism ruins everything.
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Pluralistic: 23 Nov 2022 Citizens United and the FTX meltdown

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Citizens United and the FTX meltdown: The Keating Five were amateurs.
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Pluralistic: 22 Nov 2022 Tax prep services send sensitive financial info to Facebook

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Tax prep services send sensitive financial info to Facebook: And they didn't even know they were doing it.
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Pluralistic: 21 Nov 2022 Universities secretly sold their students to online casinos

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Universities secretly sold their students to online casinos: It's varsity-level corruption.
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Pluralistic: 17 Nov 2022 Private equity health-care monopolies are on a profitable killing spree

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Private equity health-care monopolies are on a profitable killing spree: And you thought it was bad before.
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Pluralistic: 15 Nov 2022 Tracers In the Dark

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Tracers in the Dark: Andy Greenberg's gripping true crime tale of cryptocurrency forensics.
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