Pluralistic: 12 Apr 2021

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Fraud-resistant election-tech: A "transparent" ballot-marking device.
Big Tech's secret weapon is switching costs, not network effects: Mr Zuckerberg, tear down that wall.
Podcasting How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: Part 2.
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Pluralistic: 11 Apr 2021

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Google's short-lived data-advantage: Don't believe the criti-hype.
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Pluralistic: 10 Apr 2021

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Youtube blocks advertisers from targeting "Black Lives Matter": On the impossibility of "brand safety."
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Pluralistic: 8 Apr 2021

Today's links

We CAN have nice things: Why – and how – America's New New Deal should go VERY VERY big.
Howard Dean's racist, genocidal pharma sellout: Once a progressive lion, now a shill for the worst companies on Earth. Fuck that guy sideways with a brick.
60 seconds of giddy, terrifying, delightful surrealism: The magic realism of Fernando Livschitz.
This day in history: 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 07 Apr 2021

Today's links

Leaked NYPD "goon squad" manual: The NYPD isn't "undertrained" – the cruelty is the point.
Door Dashers organize app-defeating solidarity: The #DeclineNow movement vs Tony's Casino.
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Pluralistic: 06 Apr 2021

Today's links

Podcasting How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: Part one of five(ish).
The real cancel culture: Multiple-choice union-busting.
Ad-tech's algorithmic cruelty: What technology does isn't as important as who it does it TO.
Folio Society publishes Philip K Dick's short fiction: Books as artifacts.
This day in history: 2011, 2016
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Pluralistic: 05 Apr 2021

Today's links

How Facebook will benefit from its massive breach: Creating a problem does not qualify you to solve the problem.
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Pluralistic: 03 Apr 2021

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Consumerism won't defeat Georgia's Jim Crow: You're not an ambulatory wallet.
China's antitrust surge: "Consumer welfare" means corporate rule.
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Pluralistic: 02 Apr 2021

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The zombie economy and digital arm-breakers: Debts that can't be paid won't be paid, but still…
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Pluralistic: 01 Apr 2021

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Ontario's drug-dealer premier is shockingly bad at distributing vaccines: How is it that Doug Ford was so good at slinging hash, and is so bad at vaccinating?
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