Pluralistic: This is your brain on fraud apologetics (24 Feb 2023)


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Pluralistic: Fighting the privacy wars, state by state (23 Feb 2023)


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Pluralistic: Matt Ruff's "Destroyer of Worlds" (21 Feb 2023)


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Pluralistic: Turbotax is blitzing Congress for the right to tax YOU (20 Feb 2023)


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Pluralistic: Pluralistic is three (19 Feb 2023)


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Twiddler

Configurability for Me, But Not Forย Thee.

A mandala made from a knob and button-covered control panel.
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Tracking Exposed is a scrappy European nonprofit that attempts to understand how online recommendation algorithms work. They comine data from volunteers who install a plugin with data acquired through โ€œheadless browsers,โ€ to attempt to reverse-engineer the principles that determine what you see when you visit or search Tiktok, Amazon, YouTube, Facebook or Pornhub.

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Pluralistic: Google's chatbot panic (16 Feb 2023)


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Pluralistic: Nathan J. Robinson's "Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments" (14 Feb 2023)


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Pluralistic: Obama's turncoat antitrust enforcer is angry about the Google breakup (13 Feb 2023)


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Pluralistic: After Ohio rail disaster, Buttigieg is silent on restoring the safety standards Trump repealed (11 Feb 2023)


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