Pluralistic: Big Tech disrupted disruption (08 Feb 2024)

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Big Tech disrupted disruption: We don't have to care, we're the phone company.
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Pluralistic: How lock-in hurts design (24 Jan 2024)

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How lock-in hurts design: Felonizing the desire path.
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This day in history: 2004, 2014, 2019, 2024
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Pluralistic: Google's chatbot panic (16 Feb 2023)

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Google's chatbot panic: On the infinite insecurities of a self-styled creative genius who really just buys other people's ideas.
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This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018, 2022
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Pluralistic: 09 Jun 2021

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Prisoners' Inventions: The unmissable new edition of a maker classic for a carceral nation.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 21 May 2020

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Walt's grandson calls for Disney execs' bonuses to be canceled: Brad Lund wants the money directed to furloughed workers.
The Lost Cause and MMT: The climate emergency and centuries of full employment.
Patent troll sues ventilator makers: Swirlate IP says anyone who uses LTE is violating its patents.
Private equity's healthcare playbook is terrifying: Biopsy reveals metastatic private equity tumors throughout US healthcare's every organ.
On Madame Leota's side-table: The evolution of a fine Haunted Mansion detail.
Black Americans' covid mortality is 2.5X white mortality: AKA, "Why Republicans no longer care about coronavirus."
Spotify's trying to kill podcasting: Another federated system facing monopolistic enclosure.
Monopolies killed corporate R&D;: And that killed productivity growth.
How spy agencies targeted Snowden journalists: Barton Gellman's Dark Mirror.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
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