Pluralistic: The surveillance advertising to financial fraud pipeline (29 Sept 2023)

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The surveillance advertising to financial fraud pipeline: Finding suckers is the one thing ad-targeting is good at.
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Pluralistic: Why they're smearing Lina Khan (14 July 2023)

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Why they're smearing Lina Khan: She wants you to have nice things and they don't (it's really that simple).
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Pluralistic: How workers get trapped by "bondage fees"; Red Team Blues Chapter One, part five (21 Apr 2023)

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How workers get trapped by "bondage fees": Two-sided markets always lead to enshittification.
Red Team Blues Chapter One, part five: The final installment – now get the book!
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Pluralistic: Obama's turncoat antitrust enforcer is angry about the Google breakup (13 Feb 2023)

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Obama's turncoat antitrust enforcer is angry about the Google breakup: You know you're doing something right when…
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This day in history: 2013
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Pluralistic: The learned helplessness of Pete Buttigieg (10 Jan 2023)

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The learned helplessness of Pete Buttigieg: Section 41712(a) or bust.
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Pluralistic: The antitrust Twilight Zone (16 Dec 2022)

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The antitrust Twilight Zone: How rollups are destroying the productive economy and making the ultra-rich even richer.
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Pluralistic: 18 Oct 2022 Being good at your job is praxis

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Being good at your job is praxis: The FTC can mandate Right to Repair without (further) Congressional authorization.
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Pluralistic: 10 Oct 2022 Antitrust is – and always has been – about fairness

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Antitrust is – and always has been – about fairness: SCOTUS is entitled to its own (judicial) opinions, but not its own facts.
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Pluralistic: 09 Sep 2022 How to die without getting rooked

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Guide to a ripoff-free funeral: Terminal-stage capitalism.
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Pluralistic: 12 Aug 2022

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The FTC takes aim at commercial surveillance: Oh, the sheer poetry of "Commercial Surveillance and Data Security Rulemaking."
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