Pluralistic: Petard, Part IV (03 Feb 2025)

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Petard, Part IV: Smart is at least as important as evil.
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Pluralistic: Petard, Part III (01 Feb 2025)

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Petard, Part III: The Termite Mound is revealed as the Roach Motel.
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Pluralistic: Petard (Part II) (31 Jan 2025)

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Petard (Part II): Systematizing and automating the struggle.
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Pluralistic: Petard (Part I) (30 Jan 2025)

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Petard (Part I): I fought the ISP and the ISP won.
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Pluralistic: FCC strikes a blow against prison profiteering (19 Jul 2024)

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FCC strikes a blow against prison profiteering: The cost of a prison phone-call drops from $11.35 to $0.90.
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Pluralistic: Twinkfrump Linkdump (13 Apr 2024)

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Twinkfrump Linkdump: All the miscellany that didn't make it.
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Pluralistic: How to shatter the class solidarity of the ruling class (08 Apr 2024)

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How to shatter the class solidarity of the ruling class: Maybe we can use the master's tools to dismantle the master's house?
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Pluralistic: Prison-tech is a brutal scam – and a harbinger of your future (14 Feb 2024)

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Prison-tech is a brutal scam – and a harbinger of your future: My next novel predicts the present.
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Pluralistic: Big Telco's fury over FCC plan to infuse telecoms policy with facts (10 Nov 2023)

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Big Telco's fury over FCC plan to infuse telecoms policy with facts: Dickey Amendments for everything.
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Pluralistic: In defense of bureaucratic competence (23 Oct 2023)

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In defense of bureaucratic competence: The nine most uplifting words in the English language: "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."
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