Pluralistic: 27 May 2021

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Workers want real jobs: Bosses want contract, temp and gig workers.
Canadians! #NoSiteBlocking: You have until May 31 to send comments against Bill C-10.
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Pluralistic: 26 May 2021

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Monopolists are winning the repair wars: Again.
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Pluralistic: 25 May 2021

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We promised this vaccine waiver 20 years ago: The WTO was always a scam.
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Pluralistic: 24 May 2021

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Podcasting "The Memex Method": Reading my inaugural Medium column for my podcast.
Watomatic, for lower Whatsapp switching costs: Comcom in action.
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Pluralistic: 23 May 2021

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How the Sacklers rigged the game: Kickstarting the opioid epidemic and escaping with a fortune bigger than the Rockefellers'.
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Pluralistic: 22 May 2021

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How the filibuster dies: Lessons from Adam Jentleson's "Kill Switch."
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Pluralistic: 21 May 2021

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Debunking the arguments for vaccine apartheid: "Wait your turn" is not epidemiologically sound.
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Pluralistic: 19 May 2021

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Dead, broke: What it's like to inherit nothing but debt.
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Pluralistic: 18 May 2021

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A simple, incomplete ransomware defense: Attribution is hard, but whatever works.
Community Health Services sued its way through the pandemic: When health is a business, medical debt is an asset.
Apple's complicity in Chinese state oppression: Corporations don't have character, they have incentives.
What Would Open Source Look Like If It Were Healthy: Sumana Harihareswara's Github talk.
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Pluralistic: 17 May 2021

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Paygo, false consciousness and the IRS: Why we can't have nice things.
The Public Interest Internet: Reviving pre-enclosure glory.
Concluding How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: Now, onto the audiobook mastering!
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