Pluralistic: Apple threatens to stop selling iPhones in the EU (26 Sep 2025)

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Apple threatens to stop selling iPhones in the EU: Yeah, right.
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Pluralistic: The worst possible antitrust outcome (03 Sep 2025)

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The worst possible antitrust outcome: Hope you like enshittification.
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Pluralistic: Bragging about replacing coders with AI is a sales-pitch (05 Aug 2025)

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Bragging about replacing coders with AI is a sales-pitch: The reality is more complex.
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Pluralistic: AI and the fatfinger economy (02 May 2025)

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AI and the fatfinger economy: Every slip of the finger is money in the bank.
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Pluralistic: Apple faces criminal sanctions for defying App Store antitrust order (01 May 2025)

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Apple faces criminal sanctions for defying App Store antitrust order: They lied to the judge, then covered it up, and now she's PISSED.
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Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs (27 Apr 2025)

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The enshittification of tech jobs: Our last line of defense has fallen.
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Pluralistic: Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People' (23 Apr 2025)

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Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People': "Too big to care."
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Pluralistic: Tariffs and monopolies (07 Apr 2025)

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Tariffs and monopolies: As American as eating all the apple pie.
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Pluralistic: Trump loves Big Tech (24 Mar 2025)

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Trump loves Big Tech: So much for the "Khanservatives."
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Pluralistic: Gandersauce (08 Mar 2025)

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Gandersauce: Disruption for thee, but not for me.
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