Pluralistic: 11 Mar 2022

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The SEC must not legitimize fake "carbon offsets": Net zero is not zero.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017
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Pluralistic: 13 Feb 2022

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Podcasting Part II of "The Internet Heist": Big Content wants to plug your A-Hole!
Comprehensive synthesis of the technological, ecological and political critique of blockchainism: It's all about the externalities.
Eating invasive species: How to structure an invasivorism that doesn't hunger for more invaders.
This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
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Pluralistic: 09 Feb 2022

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Litigation finance pits greed against greed: There was a late-stage captialism that swallowed a fly…
Occupy the SEC on bank mergers: The Herfindahl-Hirschman Index considered harmful.
This day in history: 2012, 2017, 2021
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Pluralistic: 04 Feb 2022

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A covid vaccine for your airways: The promising science of nasal spray vaccines.
Rail monopolies destroyed the American supply chain: Heads they win, tails we lose.
This day in history: 2012, 2017, 2021
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Pluralistic: 04 Jan 2022

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Science fiction is a Luddite literature: My latest column for Locus Magazine.
Neal Stephenson's 'Termination Shock': Geoengineering and the end of the world.
Stellar images of quack exercise machines: A memento mori for anyone flexing in lycra on a Peleton.
This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017
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Pluralistic: 26 Oct 2021

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Maxing out our global credit-card with authoritarian debt: Or, why countries are spending more on "border security" than the climate emergency.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 23 Aug 2021

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Podcasting "Disneyland at a stroll": Winding up my series on "amusement parks, crowd control, and load-balancing" (for now).
The Unraveling: Ben Rosenbaum's stunning debut novel.
What kind of emergency is our emergency?: Kim Stanley Robinson on the structure of feeling of this perilous moment.
The secrets of hospital bills: What do you call a "market" where no one chooses the services or knows the prices?
This day in history: None
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Pluralistic: 17 Aug 2021

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Sandman Slim's final adventure: King Bullet brings in Richard Kadrey's masterpiece for a hell of a landing.
Big Oil caught lying about methane: 84 times worse than CO2.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 30 Jun 2021

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Corruption: Concentrated gains, diffused losses.
This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 10 Jun 2021

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A denialism taxonomy: FLICC (fake experts, logical fallacies, impossible expectations, cherry picking, conspiracy theories).
Urban broadband deserts: Digital redlining is a policy, not an accident.
This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020
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