Pluralistic: The largest campaign finance violation in US history (31 Jul 2024)

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The largest campaign finance violation in US history: The "greater fools" election.
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Pluralistic: FCC strikes a blow against prison profiteering (19 Jul 2024)

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FCC strikes a blow against prison profiteering: The cost of a prison phone-call drops from $11.35 to $0.90.
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Pluralistic: How to screw up a whistleblower law (15 Apr 2024)

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How to screw up a whistleblower law: We want kingpins, not powerless underlings.
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Pluralistic: How a billionaire's mediocre pump-and-dump "book" became a "bestseller" (15 Feb 2024)

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How a billionaire's mediocre pump-and-dump "book" became a "bestseller": A convincer to prolong the bezzle.
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Pluralistic: Solar is a market for (financial) lemons (27 Jan 2024)

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Solar is a market for (financial) lemons: Our Slow AIs have an alignment problem.
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Pluralistic: Kickstarting "The Bezzle" audiobook, sequel to Red Team Blues (10 Jan 2024)

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Kickstarting "The Bezzle" audiobook, sequel to Red Team Blues: Another Wil Wheaton banger, necessitated by Amazon's perfidy.
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Pluralistic: Kelly and Zach Weinersmith's "A City On Mars" (09 Jan 2024)

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Kelly and Zach Weinersmith's "A City On Mars": Life in space sucks, is grotesquely expensive, and produces little useful science.
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Pluralistic: No, Uber's (still) not profitable (09 August 2023)

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No, Uber's (still) not profitable: A relentless, world-leading innovator in ever-sweatier balance sheet tricks, accounting gimmicks and hopium.
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Pluralistic: 05 Aug 2022

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Uber's still not profitable: An effective wealth transfer of $2.8 billion from labor to capital in just three months.
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Pluralistic: 11 Feb 2022

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The Big Lie that keeps the Uber bezzle alive: A credulous press continues to report massive losses as profitability.
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