Pluralistic: Stock buybacks are stock swindles (06 Sep 2025)

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Stock buybacks are stock swindles: Raising the value of a stock without raising the value of the company.
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Object permanence: Marshmellow longtermism; Physicists are not epidemiologists; CO asphyxiation accounts for half of Hurricane Laura deaths.
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Pluralistic: All (antitrust) politics are local (02 Sep 2025)

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All (antitrust) politics are local: From data centers to Ticketmaster.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Object permanence: Pokerbot back-channels; Little Robot; How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism.
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Pluralistic: Machina economicus (14 Apr 2025)

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Machina economicus: Enshittification is an alien invasion.
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Pluralistic: Boss politics antitrust (12 Nov 2024)

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Boss politics antitrust: Trump will use Xi Xinping's "anti-corruption" playbook.
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This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019
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Pluralistic: Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself" (06 Feb 2024)

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Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself": The dictionary definition of malicious compliance.
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Pluralistic: Naomi Klein's "Doppelganger" (05 September 2023)

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Naomi Klein's "Doppelganger": On late capitalism's double-vision and double trouble.
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This day in history: 2013, 2018
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Pluralistic: 26 Aug 2021

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Vaccinate workers at (almost) any price: Corporate America sabotaged paid vaccination leave.
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Pluralistic: 25 Aug 2021

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Big Box stores' other shoe drops: Lowe's is a parasite that is killing its host.
Belarusian dictator pwned by "cyber-partisans": When a secretive autocrat has no more secrets.
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Pluralistic: 13 Aug 2021

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Smart cities are neither, 2021 edition: "Whose Streets? Our Streets! (Tech Edition)."
End of the line for Reaganomics: The OG antitrust is back, baby!
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Pluralistic: 12 Jul 2021

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Podcasting "Tech Monopolies and the Insufficient Necessity of Interoperability": Corporate rivalries vs public power.
The Sacklers will get to keep billions: What's a little mass-murder between friends?
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