Pluralistic: 05 Nov 2020

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Ant, Uber, and the true nature of money: Money vs finance.
Scarfolk & Environs: "Road & Leisure Map for Uninvited Tourists."
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Pluralistic: 03 Nov 2020

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Deep Reckonings: Using deepfakes to conjure a contrafactual reality in which monsters confront their legacies.
Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results: The limits of theory-free statistical inference.
How Audible robs indie audiobook creators: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.
Get an extra vote: Reminders from friends and family to vote have a bigger effect on turnout than anything campaigns do.
A hopeful future: Optimism and pessimism are both fatalism.
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Pluralistic: 02 Nov 2020

Today's links

Trump's electoral equilibrium: Slugs voting for salt.
Trump billed the White House $3 per glass of water: Keeping his campaign promises.
Trustbusting Google: My Daily Beast editorial.
Podcasting part 21 of Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town: "A glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read."
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Pluralistic: 31 Oct 2020

Today's links

The Americans: Love letters from voluntary exiles.
D2020: Roll for initiative.
Shanghai's walking building: Five stories' worth of ambulatory primary school.
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Pluralistic: 30 Oct 2020

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Facebook loses users, makes more money: It's good to be king.
DRM horror-stories needed: Your chance to change the law.
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Pluralistic: 29 Oct 2020

Today's links

Amazon says only corporations own property: Everyone else is a licensor.
Violent cops' deadly victim complex: Murderers hiding behind victims' rights laws.
Sue your medical bully: A recipe for small-claims victory.
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Pluralistic: 28 Oct 2020

Today's links

RIAA's war on youtube-dl: The rise of the resistance.
Trump abandons supporters to freeze: More death cult shit.
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Pluralistic: 27 Oct 2020

Today's links

Ferris wheel fine dining: First the Budapest Eye, next, the world!
Monopolies Suck: There is nothing harder to kill than an idea whose time has come to pass.
The president's extraordinary powers: Congress handed the president emergency powers for centuries and never took them back (uh-oh).
Comcast v Comcast: Which is weird, because Universal owns Comcast.
Surveillance startup protected sexual harassers: Willingness to surveil is correlated with sociopathy.
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Pluralistic: 26 Oct 2020

Today's links

Phone surveillance, made in Canada: Octasic takes over Harris's Stingray division.
Chile restores democratic rule: Neoliberal's first gunshot has stopped echoing.
Someone Comes to Town, Part 20: "A glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read." -Gene Wolfe
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Pluralistic: 25 Oct 2020

Today's links

Facebook threatens ad-transparency group: Ad Observatory gets the Power Ventures treatment.
The madness of elite varsity sports: WWI by another means.
Bob Dylan sings a EULA: You've already made a legally binding commitment to watch this.
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