Pluralistic: 16 Apr 2022

Today's links

Ryan North's 'How to Take Over the World': Popular science as a series of supervillainous thought-experiments.
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Pluralistic: 13 Apr 2022

Today's links

America's 400 top earners pay less tax than you: Propublica continues to mine the IRS Files.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Pluralistic: 12 Apr 2022

Today's links

Daniel Pinkwater's "Crazy in Poughkeepsie": Another Pinkwater masterpiece, in which we sojourn to whale heaven.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Pluralistic: 11 Apr 2022

Today's links

Podcasting "When Automation Becomes Enforcement": Are disappearing messages part of end-to-end encryption, or are they just DRM?
The "algospeak" dialect: An emerging vocabulary designed to evade machine censorship.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Pluralistic: 09 Apr 2022

Today's links

John M Ford's "Aspects": An unfinished masterpiece by a legend of science fiction and fantasy.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Pluralistic: 08 Apr 2022

Today's links

The Ed Sheeran problem, or, how the record industry got what it asked for: A dog that caught the bus wheel.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Pluralistic: 07 Apr 2022

Today's links

The antitrust case against gig companies: Either they're violating employment law, or they're violating antitrust.
Cops prove how stupid the SMART Act is: Blasting Disney tunes as a way to foil accountability.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Pluralistic: 06 Apr 2022

Today's links

How trade secrets swallowed your right to know: A corporate veto over your environment, health, and civic duty.
The Mormon Church owns the most valuable property portfolio in America: At least $15,700,000,000 in holdings.
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Pluralistic: 05 Apr 2022

Today's links

Amazon's new employee chat app blocks "fairness," "grievance" and "diversity": "Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?"
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Pluralistic: 04 Apr 2022

Today's links

Podcasting "The Best Defense Against Rubber-Hose Cryptanalysis": The cypherpunks were wrong (but also right)
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