Pluralistic: Revenge of the Linkdumps (13 May 2023)

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Revenge of the Linkdumps: Something for the weekend, sir?
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Pluralistic: 15 Jun 2022

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Boy, gig companies sure hire disastrously sloppy lawyers: $100m flushed down the drain in Massachusetts.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Pluralistic: 04 Feb 2022

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A covid vaccine for your airways: The promising science of nasal spray vaccines.
Rail monopolies destroyed the American supply chain: Heads they win, tails we lose.
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Pluralistic: 18 Oct 2021

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Corporatism made John Deere ripe for a strike: Optimized for failure.
Copyfraudster censors investigation of implausible covid gadget: When a US law is used to censor Indian scientific reporting.
At last, a new Econ 101 textbook: CORE's "The Economy" vs homo economicus.
Podcasting "Dead Letters": Email could be the last federated internet technology – but it isn't.
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Pluralistic: 13 Oct 2021

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Charter uses bad credit threats to corral ex-subscribers: "Resubscribe or we'll keep trashing your credit report."
Adobe uses copyfraud to preserve spyware: A free-as-in-surveillance-free Flash installer is gone thanks to a bogus copyright claim.
India funded a starving kids' app, but not food: Solutionism at its worst.
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Pluralistic: 30 Aug 2021

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India's 'toxic' ed-tech giant: How Byju's hard-sells desperate parents into taking out predatory loans for their kids' education.
Podcasting "Utilities and Empires" and "FB's War on Switching Costs": A twofer from EFF's Deeplinks blog, on this week's podcast.
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Pluralistic: 19 Aug 2021

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Machine learning's crumbling foundations: Doing 'data science' with bad data.
Hench: The madcap rage of life under vigilante rule.
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Pluralistic: 02 Apr 2021

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The zombie economy and digital arm-breakers: Debts that can't be paid won't be paid, but still…
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Pluralistic: 06 Dec 2020

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Ad-tech as a bubble overdue for a bursting: Upton Sinclair was an optimist.
The largest strike in human history: The Shock Doctrine's breaking-point.
Soviet computing graveyard: Recovering a Saratov-2 from presumed extinction.
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Pluralistic: 26 Oct 2020

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Phone surveillance, made in Canada: Octasic takes over Harris's Stingray division.
Chile restores democratic rule: Neoliberal's first gunshot has stopped echoing.
Someone Comes to Town, Part 20: "A glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read." -Gene Wolfe
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