Pluralistic: Greenwashing set Canada on fire (16 Sept 2023)

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Greenwashing set Canada on fire: A generation of idealistic Canadian kids broke their backs every summer "planting thousands of blowtorches a day."
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
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Pluralistic: Capitalists hate capitalism (09 June 2023)

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Capitalists hate capitalism: Merck's version of "market pricing" is "whatever we ask for."
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This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
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Pluralistic: 17 Mar 2022

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Late stage capitalism is weird capitalism: A planned economy run by Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2017, 2021
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Pluralistic: 19 Feb 2021

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My talks with Edward Snowden and William Gibson: Two wonderful books for your TBR.
Complicity, incompetence, leadership and Capitol Police: A deep postmortem and legal repercussions.
How Republicans froze Texas solid: Market Lysenkoists.
Uber loses court battle, steals wages, censors whistleblower: Big bezzle energy.
This day in history: 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 04 Oct 2020

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Normal isn't enough: The post-pandemic economy.
Why I love the Haunted Mansion: My interview with Nelda Live.
1000 Hours of Outrage: A crowdsourced retrospective of the Trump years.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
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Pluralistic: 08 Aug 2020

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Peter Thiel was right: Capitalism is incompatible with democracy.
Google bans anticompetitive vocabularies: But not anticompetitive conduct.
Free the law: The PACER rent is too damned high.
Jailed for pen-testing: Kafka in Iowa.
This day in history: 2010, 2019
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