Pluralistic: The IRS will do your taxes for you (if that's what you prefer) (17 May 2023)

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The IRS will do your taxes for you (if that's what you prefer): After years of expensively purchased delay, Turbotax and its fellow tax-profiteers are losing the fight to make you pay them to tell the government what it already knows.
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Pluralistic: Learning from Silicon Valley Bank's apologists (15 Mar 2023)

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Learning from Silicon Valley Bank's apologists: What they think we think.
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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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The public paid for "Moderna's" vaccine, and now we're going to pay again (and again and again): Herd immunity is incompatible with shareholder capitalism.
How Facebook's Real Names policy helps Cambodia's thin-skinned dictator terrorize dissenters: "Yes, our beaches are the most beautiful, but our leaders are the dirtiest in the world, aren’t they?"
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Pluralistic: How tech changed global labor struggles for better and worse (02 Dec 2022)

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How tech changed global labor struggles for better and worse: Seize the means of computation!
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Pluralistic: 21 Nov 2022 Universities secretly sold their students to online casinos

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Universities secretly sold their students to online casinos: It's varsity-level corruption.
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Pluralistic: 17 Nov 2022 Private equity health-care monopolies are on a profitable killing spree

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Private equity health-care monopolies are on a profitable killing spree: And you thought it was bad before.
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Pluralistic: 27 May 2022

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Wework founder raises $70m for blockchain-based, "voluntary" carbon credits: It's a scam matrioshka.
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Pluralistic: 11 May 2022

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The (billionaires') case against billionaires: Turns out, we live in a society.
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Pluralistic: 13 Apr 2022

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America's 400 top earners pay less tax than you: Propublica continues to mine the IRS Files.
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Pluralistic: 07 Apr 2022

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The antitrust case against gig companies: Either they're violating employment law, or they're violating antitrust.
Cops prove how stupid the SMART Act is: Blasting Disney tunes as a way to foil accountability.
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