Pluralistic: 21 Nov 2022 Universities secretly sold their students to online casinos

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Universities secretly sold their students to online casinos: It's varsity-level corruption.
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Pluralistic: 07 Oct 2022 "Don't spy on a privacy lab," and other career advice for university provosts

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"Don't spy on a privacy lab" (and other career advice for university provosts): Northeastern grad student vs surveillance-driven austerity.
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Pluralistic: 15 Feb 2022

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McKinsey For Kids (no, really): Give us a child when they are seven and they are ours for life.
Outing German spy agencies by mailing them Airtags: A threat-model parable.
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Pluralistic: 07 Dec 2021

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Podcasting "Give Me Slack": On the parenting challenges of an era without second chances.
A lexicon of euphemisms for "corporate crime": Compliance, risk, white collar crime…
IP lawyers weaponize trade secrecy to stall vaccine waivers: But Karan Menon has their number.
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Pluralistic: 18 Nov 2021

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This is your Congress on drugs: Corruption kills.
Harvard is full of rich, white low-achievers: 43% of white Harvard students didn't get in on merit.
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Pluralistic: 09 Nov 2021

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Stockholm's war on interoperability: An object lesson in how (not) to resolve the tension between comcom and privacy.
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Pluralistic: 07 Oct 2021

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DoS a federal agency, then charge for access: Enq carries on a tradition of genuinely terrible startup ideas.
"Inclusive Access" allows textbook monopolists to permanently consolidate their gains: Universities are auto-billing students for high-priced, self-destructing textbooks they can't loan or sell.
Scottish Limited Partnerships are still laundering criminal millions: Offshore is actually onshore.
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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.
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Pluralistic: 05 Aug 2021

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Meet the new generation of pro-abortion activists: No more Mx Nice Intersectionalist.
Anti-vaxers cool the mark: Using sociology to understand the con.
Drone delivery crashes: What do AI, self-driving cars and Amazon drones have in common?
Facebook escalates war on accountability: Privacywashing vs Ad Observer.
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Pluralistic: 26 Jul 2021

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Charter schools are money laundries: "The hidden world of charter schools operated for financial gain."
Disney parks and aggregate demand management: My ongoing series on Medium, for an age of supply shocks.
Oregon's carbon offsets go up in smoke: The Bootleg Fire is more evidence that markets can't solve the climate emergency.
Surge pricing violates antitrust law: Even the weaksauce version pushed by the econ establishment.
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