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

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How to ditch Facebook without ditching your friends: A new interop design fiction from EFF.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Pluralistic: 14 Jul 2021

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Facebook employees stalk users: Moral hazard vs the ACCESS Act.
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Pluralistic: 22 Jun 2021

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Improving the ACCESS Act: Six ways to make the most important tech law of the legislative season even better.
Juul's junk science: Reporting bias makes vaping's safety is a hazy mess.
Peloton bricks its treadmills: Your kids are dead because you didn't buy the subscription.
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Pluralistic: 21 Jun 2021

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Podcasting "Inside the Clock Tower": Reading my Consumer Reports story about an interoperable future.
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Pluralistic: 16 Jun 2021

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Suing all of ad-tech: Will an EU country finally enforce the GDPR?
Interop Sci-Fi: Inside the Clock Tower, my interoperability sf for Consumer Reports.
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Pluralistic: 12 Jun 2021

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The ACCESS Act: The most significant interop legislation in US history.
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Pluralistic: 25 Mar 2021

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Zuckerpunch: Don't trust Mark Zuckerberg to solve the Facebook problem.
Good news about news co-ops: Save journalism, not media monopolies.
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Pluralistic: 22 Feb 2021

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What Democrats need to do: Don't just stand there, govern.
Automated functional drone manufacture: Robutts stole my jerb.
Privacy Without Monopoly Pt 2: This week on my podcast.
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