Pluralistic: Private equity rips off its investors, too (08 Aug 2024)

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Private equity rips off its investors, too: Remorseless, greedy scumbags are – unsurprisingly – also disloyal.
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Pluralistic: The Google antitrust remedy should extinguish surveillance, not democratize it (07 Aug 2024)

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The Google antitrust remedy should extinguish surveillance, not democratize it: "People like relevant ads" is a lie, and "attribution" is an abomination.
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Pluralistic: Circular battery self-sufficiency (06 Aug 2024)

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Circular battery self-sufficiency: 125m of tons of battery material is one *seventeenth* of our annual road transportation oil extraction.
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Pluralistic: Leveraged buyouts are not like mortgages (05 Aug 2024)

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Leveraged buyouts are not like mortgages: Corporate raiders and investment banks conspiring to steal companies.
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Pluralistic: Rsync corrump linkdump (03 Aug 2024)

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Rsync corrump linkdump: A roundup of stray but worthy links.
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Pluralistic: The reverse-centaur apocalypse is upon us (02 Aug 2024)

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The reverse-centaur apocalypse is upon us: Microsoft, Oracle, and other bossware dealers are transforming our workplaces with "virtual whips."
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Pluralistic: Why is this Canadian university scared of you seeing its Privacy Impact Assessment? (01 Aug 2024)

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Why is this Canadian university scared of you seeing its Privacy Impact Assessment: What is Langara College so afraid of?
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Pluralistic: The largest campaign finance violation in US history (31 Jul 2024)

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The largest campaign finance violation in US history: The "greater fools" election.
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Pluralistic: An open copyright casebook, featuring AI, Warhol and more (30 Jul 2024)

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An open copyright casebook, featuring AI, Warhol and more: Up-to-date, erudite, and free!
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Pluralistic: A profoundly stupid case about video game cheating could transform adblocking into a copyright infringement (29 Jul 2024)

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A profoundly stupid case about video game cheating could transform adblocking into a copyright infringement: Actual property rights are less important than the metaphorical property rights of "IP."
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