Pluralistic: Conspiratorialism and the epistemological crisis (25 Mar 2024)

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Conspiratorialism and the epistemological crisis: We may not know what's in the box, but we can tell if it's been damaged in transit.
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Pluralistic: Someday, we'll all take comfort in the internet's "dark corners" (23 Mar 2024)

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Someday, we'll all take comfort in the internet's "dark corners": The Sea of Enshittification is rising and your online home will eventually be flooded.
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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: The Cult of Mac (12 Jan 2024)

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The Cult of Mac: You cannot reason a person out of a position they did not reason themself into in the first place.
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Pluralistic: How Amazon transformed the EU into a planned economy (14 June 2023)

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How Amazon transformed the EU into a planned economy: Monopsony, junk fees and market power.
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Pluralistic: To save the news, repeal the app tax (07 June 2023)

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To save the news, repeal the app tax: The latest in "saving the news from Big Tech."
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Pluralistic: How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store (21 Dec 2022)

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How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store: …and what we should do about it.
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Pluralistic: EU to Facebook, 'Drop Dead' (07 Dec 2022)

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EU to Facebook, 'Drop Dead': Ringing down the curtain on the consent theater.
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Unspeakable

Big-Tech-as-cop vs. abolishing Big Tech

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Since late 2000, EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) has made steady progress, and now, despite US Big Tech companies’ illegal lobbying, it has become a law.

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Pluralistic: 19 Sep 2022 How to ditch Facebook without ditching your friends

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How to ditch Facebook without ditching your friends: A new interop design fiction from EFF.
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