Pluralistic: Your Meta AI prompts are in a live, public feed (19 Jun 2025)

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Your Meta AI prompts are in a live, public feed: Zuck thinks we've all forgotten about Beacon.
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Pluralistic: Mark Zuckerberg announces mind-control ray (again) (07 May 2025)

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Mark Zuckerberg announces mind-control ray (again): The business model for AI is the same as the business model for Big Data – bilking credulous advertisers.
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Pluralistic: Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People' (23 Apr 2025)

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Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People': "Too big to care."
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Pluralistic: Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case (18 Apr 2025)

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Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case: A folder on his desktop called "mens rea."
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Pluralistic: Zuckerberg in the dock (11 Apr 2025)

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Zuckerberg in the dock: Facebook is finally going on trial.
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Pluralistic: CDA 230 bans Facebook from blocking interoperable tools (02 May 2024)

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CDA 230 bans Facebook from blocking interoperable tools: Unfollow Everything rises from the grave.
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Pluralistic: Zuck's gravity-defying metaverse money-pit (30 Oct 2023)

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Zuck's gravity-defying metaverse money-pit: $46.5 billion incinerated and he's richer than ever.
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Pluralistic: Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher (15 May 2023)

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Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher: Dublin is a made town.
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Pluralistic: We should ban TikTok('s surveillance) (30 Mar 2023)

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We should ban TikTok('s surveillance): And Google's, Apple's, and Facebook's surveillance, too.
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Pluralistic: Podcasting "Twiddler" (27 Feb 2023)

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Podcasting "Twiddler": What makes digital platforms so enshittification prone?
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