Pluralistic: Google skates (05 Sep 2026)

Today's links

Google skates: Another federal judge loses a game of peek-a-boo.
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How the Epstein Class recruits: Oh wait, THAT'S what this was?!
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Object permanence: MPAA blasted in WSJ; RFID skimmers; Post-Soviet inventions; "Farthing"; "Dirty, Drunk and Punk"; Dweb v founders' frailty; Tax cheating made simple; Oregon v corporate medicine.
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Boss preppers: What does a captain of industry have to offer after the shit hits the fan?
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Object permanence: Yahoo blocks webmail for adblockers; Badly forgiving student debt.
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The long game: Breaking up Big Tech is a long-run project.
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Object permanence: ARRRRR!; Watching paint dry; CEOs are tall, lucky, men; Harpercollins demands authors' AI rights; Victorian bumwipe; Ted Koppel's stupid book; Alan Moore to unpublished authors; Anne Frank's US visa application was rejected; Google breakup.
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Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs: When your shitty boss is a shitty app and you're not even allowed to call yourself an employee.
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Object permanence: Correcting the Disneyland Railroad's Morse code; Breathalyzer source-code; Teaching Little Brother to math students; Arson attacks on Ferguson's Black churches; Tom Lehrer in the public domain.
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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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Object permanence: 2015, 2020
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