Pluralistic: Yanis Varoufakis's "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?" (28 Sep 2023)

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Yanis Varoufakis's "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?": Socialism or barbarism.
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Pluralistic: Intuit: "Our fraud fights racism" (27 Sept 2023)

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Intuit: "Our fraud fights racism": Apparently, ripping off Black people with the Freefile scam is a form of reparations.
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Pluralistic: Brian Merchant's "Blood In the Machine" (26 Sep 2023)

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Brian Merchant's "Blood In the Machine": Reclaiming the Luddites from the victors' history.
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Pluralistic: Podcasting "How To Think About Scraping" (25 Sept 2023)

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Podcasting "How To Think About Scraping": How to preserve the benefits of web-scraping while targeting the real harms.
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Joe Biden is headed to a UAW picket-line in Detroit

“I want to do it, now make me do it.”

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Joe Biden will join striking workers on a UAW picket-line in Detroit on Tuesday.

No sitting president in US history has ever walked a picket line with strikers.

This is a big deal.

It’s great.

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Pluralistic: Down in the (link)dumps (23 Sept 2023)

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Down in the (link)dumps: A link sundae for a fall Saturday.
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Pluralistic: Apple fucked us on right to repair (again) (22 Sept 2023)

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Apple fucked us on right to repair (again): "Parts-pairing" is a scam.
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Pluralistic: "Efficiency" left the Big Three vulnerable to smart UAW tactics (21 Sept 2023)

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"Efficiency" left the Big Three vulnerable to smart UAW tactics: A system without slack is easily disrupted.
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Pluralistic: Kashmir Hill's "Your Face Belongs to Us" (20 Sept 2023)

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Kashmir Hill's "Your Face Belongs to Us": A candid, whistleblower-informed history of Clearview AI.
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Pluralistic: Justin C Key's "The World Wasn't Ready For You" (19 Sep 2023)

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Justin C Key's "The World Wasn't Ready For You": Black horror that cuts with a surgical scalpel.
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