Pluralistic: Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People' (23 Apr 2025)


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Pluralistic: Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case (18 Apr 2025)


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Pluralistic: Zuckerberg in the dock (11 Apr 2025)


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Pluralistic: CDA 230 bans Facebook from blocking interoperable tools (02 May 2024)


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Pluralistic: Zuck's gravity-defying metaverse money-pit (30 Oct 2023)


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Pluralistic: Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher (15 May 2023)


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Pluralistic: We should ban TikTok('s surveillance) (30 Mar 2023)


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Pluralistic: Podcasting "Twiddler" (27 Feb 2023)


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Pluralistic: The public paid for "Moderna's" vaccine, and now we're going to pay again (and again and again); How Facebook's Real Names policy helps Cambodia's thin-skinned dictator terrorize dissenters (25 Jan 2023)


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“Metaverse” means “pivot to video”

Fool me twice, we don’t get fooled again.

“Oh come, now, you don’t mean to let on that you like it?”

The brush continued to move.

“Like it? Well, I don’t see why I oughtn’t to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?”

That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom swept his brush daintily back and forth — stepped back to note the effect — added a touch here and there — criticised the effect again — Ben watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more absorbed. Presently he said:

“Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little.”

– Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

In 2003, a 19-year-old Harvard undergrad named Mark Zuckerberg had an idea: he’d create a website for Harvard students to nonconsensually rate the fuckability of their classmates. He called it Facemash.

Later that year, Zuckerberg changed the name of the site to The Facebook, and, in 2005, the site was renamed, simply, “Facebook.”

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