Pluralistic: 01 Oct 2022 How Palantir will steal the NHS


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Pluralistic: 29 Sep 2022 Porn on Tumblr is a complicated subject


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Pluralistic: 28 Sep 2022 Maintaining monopolies with the cloud


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Pluralistic: 27 Sep 2022 Federalist Society v Corporate Personhood


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25 Sep 2022 McKinsey and Providence colluded to force poor patients into destitution


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Oil is Bankrupt (If We Want It)

Alberta’s Oil Companies Are the Walking Dead.

This figure shows how Alberta’s let-the-future-pay-for-cleanup funding model is playing out. The red curve shows the growth of cleanup liabilities, which accumulate as new wells are drilled and not cleaned up. The blue curve shows the assets that will pay for this cleanup — the industry’s future income (assuming various prices of oil and gas).

Albert’s oil-patch is a zombie, the walking dead. The companies that extract oil there owe more money than they can pay, more than they can borrow, more than they can earn. If they were made to pay their lawful debts, they would all go bankrupt, and, in so doing, would end the extraction of one of the dirtiest, worst sources of oil in the world.

Now, there’s an argument that all the oil companies are busted, Alberta or no. If they were made to pay for the damage they’ve done to our world, the millions their deadly products have killed and the billions they threaten, they would all be cleaned out.

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Pluralistic: 24 Sep 2022 Billionare grifters hate her


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Pluralistic: 22 Sep 2022 Twitch's Chokepoint Capitalism


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Pluralistic: 20 Sep 2022 Book-banning wingnuts are a tiny, vocal minority


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Pluralistic: 19 Sep 2022 How to ditch Facebook without ditching your friends


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