Pluralistic: 22 Mar 2021

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Patent troll IP is more powerful than Apple's: Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Podcasting "Free Markets": Taxation without representation.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 19 Mar 2021

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Chevron bought the US justice system: It was cheaper than paying its $9.8b fine for ecocide.
Chickenized reverse-centaurs: Can Amazon drivers get justice?
Announcing "The Shakedown": Rebecca Giblin and I wrote a book about creative worker exploitation!
This day in history: 2020
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Pluralistic: 10 Feb 2021

Today's links

Crooked cops play music to kill livestreams: Beverly Hills Police Department Sergeant Billy Fair blasting Sublime's Santeria.
Duke is academia's meanest trademark bully: Empirically speaking, that is.
Tory donors reap 100X return on campaign contributions: Stochastic corruption.
A criminal enterprise with a country attached: Ladies and Gentlebeings, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
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Pluralistic: 31 Jan 2021

Today's links

Mashing the Bernie meme: What if every video game, except Bernie with mittens?
Know Nothings, conspiratorialism and Pastel Q: What if it's all a big fat lie?
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
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Pluralistic: 16 Dec 2020

Today's links

Email sabbaticals: I'm going offline until next year.
Chaos Communications Congress: Finally a way to do CCC without making your family furious.
Landmark US financial transparency law: Beginning of the end for the US onshore-offshore industry.
Rogues' Galleries and facial recognition: Self-fulfilling prophecies at the core of white supremacist policing.
Jan 1 is Public Domain Day for 1925: Gatsby, Dalloway, Buster Keaton, Ma Rainey, et al.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
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Pluralistic: 13 Dec 2020

Today's links

Share Festival 2020: All online, all month.
Well-Armed Peasants: "Bring a pitchfork and a torch, with some well-armed peasants."
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
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Pluralistic: 12 Dec 2020

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Youtube, fair use, competition, and the death of the artist: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Carbon offsets are bullshit: And the "Nature" "Conservancy" is neither.
Outgoing Facebookers blast the company: "Embarrassing to work here."
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
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Pluralistic: 19 Nov 2020

Today's links

Cyberpunk and Post-Cyberpunk: Bruce Sterling and Christopher Brown on the Attack Surface Lectures.
Disney stiffs writer: Sure, what's new, but this is next-level fuckery #DisneyMustPay.
Tyson execs bet on covid spread in unsafe plant: Upton Sinclair was an optimist.
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Pluralistic: 30 Oct 2020

Today's links

Facebook loses users, makes more money: It's good to be king.
DRM horror-stories needed: Your chance to change the law.
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
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Pluralistic: 24 Oct 2020

Today's links

Davis Haunters rise from the grave: Oregon's Hallowe'en is saved.
RIAA kills youtube-dl: Everything not forbidden is mandatory.
This day in history: 2015, 2019
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