Pluralistic: Dumping links like Galileo dumped the orange (20 May 2023)

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Dumping links like Galileo dumped the orange: Creatively destroying your weekend like Joseph Dumpeter.
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Pluralistic: Kickstarting the Red Team Blues audiobook, which Amazon won't sell (21 Mar 2023)

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Kickstarting the Red Team Blues audiobook, which Amazon won't sell: Narrated by Wil Wheaton!
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
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Pluralistic: 20 May 2022

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Podcasting "About Those Killswitched Ukrainian Tractors": Good spaceships don't have self-destruct buttons.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2002, 2017
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Pluralistic: 22 Feb 2022

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Podcasting Part III of "The Internet Heist": In which the cartel gives itself a veto over your family life.
China hamstrings its Big Tech: "National champions" are neither.
This day in history: 2007, 2017, 2021
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Pluralistic: 21 Feb 2022

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A(nother) massive Swiss banking leak: Sunshine won't disinfect anything on its own.
The people's disruption: Tech rights are workers' rights.
This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
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Pluralistic: 30 Jan 2022

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The battle for Ring Zero: The esoteric argument I have been having with myself since 2002.
This day in history: 2002, 2017, 2021
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Pluralistic: 28 Oct 2021

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The new DRM-breaking exemptions just dropped: But here's the bad news…
All of science gets a general index: For your text-mining pleasure, courtesy of Carl Malamud and Public Resource.
Europe's trustbusters lose the plot: Filternet, made in Europe.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020.
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Pluralistic: 30 Aug 2021

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India's 'toxic' ed-tech giant: How Byju's hard-sells desperate parents into taking out predatory loans for their kids' education.
Podcasting "Utilities and Empires" and "FB's War on Switching Costs": A twofer from EFF's Deeplinks blog, on this week's podcast.
This day in history: 2001, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 04 Aug 2021

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Vaccine refusal and health insurance: Insurers to unvaccinated: "Drop dead."
Congress has allocated enough money to end the eviction crisis: But they asked the states to hand it out.
Utilities governed like empires: One bad account disconnection can cost you everything.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 03 May 2021

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Dishwashers have become Iphones: Meet the Bob Cassette Rewinder.
Part 5 of How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: This week on my podcast!
This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020
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