Pluralistic: Amazon's financial shell game let it create an "impossible" monopoly (01 Mar 2024)

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Amazon's financial shell game let it create an "impossible" monopoly: If you think the company's profits come from AWS, you've been suckered, too.
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Pluralistic: Dinkclump Linkdump; The Bezzle excerpt (Part VI) (23 Feb 2024)

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Dinkclump Linkdump: A rare, out-of-cycle linkdump.
The Bezzle excerpt (Part VI): The thrilling conclusion!
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Pluralistic: Three AI insights for hard-charging, future-oriented smartypantses (31 Jan 2024)

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Three AI insights for hard-charging, future-oriented smartypantses: A little bit of nonsensewatching for a Wednesday.
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Pluralistic: Kinkslump Linkdump (09 Dec 2023)

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Kinkslump Linkdump: A week's worth of assortment.
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Pluralistic: Amazon is a ripoff (06 Nov 2023)

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Amazon is a ripoff: New Amazon paradox just dropped.
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Pluralistic: Amazon's bestselling "bitter lemon" energy drink was bottled delivery driver piss (20 Oct 2023)

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Amazon's bestselling "bitter lemon" energy drink was bottled delivery driver piss: Amazon immediately spotted an undercover reporter but missed that the bestselling 'Release Energy' was its drivers' urine.
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Pluralistic: The internet is not a (link)dump truck (30 Sept 2023)

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The internet is not a (link)dump truck: It's a series of totally tubular links.
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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: 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: How unions won a 30% raise for every fast food worker in California (14 Sept 2023)

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How unions won a 30% raise for every fast food worker in California: Hot labor summer was just for openers.
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