Pluralistic: Uber's labor crash (12 Nov 2026)

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Uber's labor crash: Replacing serfs with robots just doesn't pencil out.
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Pluralistic: The AI fatfinger economy has come for my receipts app (04 Nov 2026)

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The AI fatfinger economy has come for my receipts app: Every heretofore useful button now summons a useless AI genie.
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Object permanence: Army Times v Rumsfeld; RIAA v soccer mom; Skateboard truck table; Internet scare-story prof won't show her workings; IoT botnet v Liberia; BLM v TPP.
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Pluralistic: Expedia amazoned hotel rooms (15 Oct 2026)

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Expedia amazoned hotel rooms: Everything more expensive for everyone, monopolies everywhere, and we're all screwed.
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Object permanence: Delta v dovening; "Play Money"; Alabama's ethnic cleansing; We trust neuroscience over psychology; Billionaires' anti-homeless pogrom; Game devs v DRM; What security means; Microsoft, tear down that wall! Publisher won't revert rights; SNL's Trump/Clinton debate; Chicago Tribune's murder; AI after AI.
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Pluralistic: Anti-vax/anti-trust (09 Sep 2026)

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Anti-vax/anti-trust: Remembering saves lives.
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Object permanence: Disneyland prisoner; HOAs v xeriscaping; Copyright Office x regulatory capture; The women held a vote; Open licenses v uncopyrightable subjects; Largest prison strike in history; Largest strike in history; Fingerspitzengefühl; CDT v DRM; BNL v DRM; Sugar v logos; Knit a Princess Leia wig; RIP Gutenberg founder Michael Hart; Best bitters; HK refugees x Snowden; Wells Fargo's massive fraud; EU v links; Trump x noncompetes.
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Pluralistic: How corporate America built a better Roach Motel (07 Sep 2026)

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How corporate America built a better Roach Motel: Hostages beat customers every day.
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Object permanence: 3-hole punches; Warner Bros v Warner Bros; Privacy wars get worse; "Weapons of Math Destruction"; HK elections go to pro-democracy reformers; Stock buybacks are swindles; NZ v Open source; MSFT patches DRM faster than other bugs; Wikipedia's worst arguments; Pirates x Iceland.
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Pluralistic: Google skates (05 Sep 2026)

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Google skates: Another federal judge loses a game of peek-a-boo.
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Object permanence: Memory-hacking ads; "Dzur"; NZ Ministry of DRM; Canadians v looking at the internet; Advice for self-publishers; Advice for writers; Why Wikipedia works.
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Pluralistic: Amazon achieves enshittification inception (04 Sep 2026)

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Amazon achieves enshittification inception: Cheating on your fraud is a hell of a thing.
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Pluralistic: The age of disinvention (25 Aug 2026)

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The age of disinvention: 🟥1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🟥1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🟥️1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🟥1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🟥1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🟥1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🟥
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Object permanence: Metacrap; CmdrTaco retires; Chalk memorial for Jack Layton; By all means tread on these people.
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Pluralistic: Capital formation (14 Aug 2026)

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Capital formation: Going legit means going mainstream.
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Object permanence: London Copyfighters x Speaker's Corner; TSA v lipstick; Long Beach v photographers; China x David Cameron's internet censorship; McMansion Hell; Copyrighting an MTG deck; "Privacy preserving age verification" delenda est.
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Pluralistic: The stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing (30 Jul 2026)

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The stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing: Since 1850, San Francisco's Chamber of Commerce has been pissing in our mouths and calling it rain.
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Object permanence: RIP Wau Holland; Diebold voting machines suck; How to steal an RFID-locked car; Pirates are big spenders; You can't fight enshittification.
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