Pluralistic: Subprime gadgets (29 Mar 2024)

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Subprime gadgets: What a remote-brick app tells us about debt collection in the age of trusted computing.
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Pluralistic: The antitrust case against Apple (22 Mar 2024)

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The antitrust case against Apple: End of the line for Apple exceptionalism.
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Pluralistic: An Epic antitrust loss for Google (12 Dec 2023)

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An Epic antitrust loss for Google: They can't help but put it in writing.
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Pluralistic: To save the news, repeal the app tax (07 June 2023)

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To save the news, repeal the app tax: The latest in "saving the news from Big Tech."
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Pluralistic: How to save the news from Big Tech (18 May 2023)

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How to save the news from Big Tech: Four prescriptions from EFF.
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Pluralistic: How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store (21 Dec 2022)

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How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store: …and what we should do about it.
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Pluralistic: 28 Jul 2022

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Your computer is tormented by a wicked god: Bootkits are why we can't have nice things.
Peter Thiel's evil, but he's not an "evil genius": How to criticize self-mythologizing villains.
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Pluralistic: 08 Jun 2021

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Rabbits: PK Dick meets Qanon: Terry Miles's debut novel of conspiratorial madness.
Apple's manorial security: Works well, fails badly – think different?
Billionaires don't pay tax: Leona Helmsley was an unrecognized genius.
Google and France agree on ad-tech interop: Not the kind of competition we want.
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Pluralistic: 03 May 2021

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Dishwashers have become Iphones: Meet the Bob Cassette Rewinder.
Part 5 of How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: This week on my podcast!
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Pluralistic: 02 Oct 2020

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Call center workers pay for the privilege: Propublica breaks open the massive, secretive abuser Arise, fronted by Disney, Airbnb, Intuit, Comcast, Carnival and more.
Dan Hillier's Six Women/Six Men: New "box sets" from the spooky, brilliant collagist.
Apple kills RSS readers in China: Chekhov's Law for DRM strikes again.
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