Pluralistic: Trump loves Big Tech (24 Mar 2025)

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Trump loves Big Tech: So much for the "Khanservatives."
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Pluralistic: Twinkump Linkdump (22 Mar 2025)

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Twinkump Linkdump: Loose ends for the weekend.
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Pluralistic: America and "national capitalism" (18 Feb 2025)

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America and "national capitalism": How the EU should respond to Trumpism.
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Pluralistic: Reverse engineers bust sleazy gig work platform (23 Nov 2024)

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Reverse engineers bust sleazy gig work platform: Mistrust, but verify.
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Pluralistic: Antiusurpation and the road to disenshittification (07 Nov 2024)

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Antiusurpation and the road to disenshittification: We've got the wrong kind of middlemen.
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Pluralistic: The paradox of choice screens (12 Aug 2024)

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The paradox of choice screens: What does a post-Google world look like?
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Pluralistic: A profoundly stupid case about video game cheating could transform adblocking into a copyright infringement (29 Jul 2024)

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A profoundly stupid case about video game cheating could transform adblocking into a copyright infringement: Actual property rights are less important than the metaphorical property rights of "IP."
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Pluralistic: How to design a tech regulation (20 Jun 2024)

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How to design a tech regulation: A modest proposal for a transatlantic self-equilibriating system.
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Pluralistic: The new globalism is global labor (20 May 2024)

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The new globalism is global labor: The Battle of Seattle's other shoe drops.
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Pluralistic: End of the line for corporate sovereignty (27 Mar 2024)

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End of the line for corporate sovereignty: ISDSes are on the ropes, and not a moment too soon.
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