Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024)

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Bluesky and enshittification: No one is the enshittifier of their own story.
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Pluralistic: Shifting $677m from the banks to the people, every year, forever (01 Nov 2024)

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Shifting $677m from the banks to the people, every year, forever: The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau is going to let you change banks with a click.
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Pluralistic: Epic Systems, a lethal health record monopolist (02 Oct 2024)

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Epic Systems, a lethal health record monopolist: Clinical needs sacrificed to profit maximization.
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Pluralistic: Cleantech has an enshittification problem (26 Jun 2024)

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Cleantech has an enshittification problem: Who's gonna make a 25-year purchase from a startup with six months' worth of runway?
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Pluralistic: How to design a tech regulation (20 Jun 2024)

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How to design a tech regulation: A modest proposal for a transatlantic self-equilibriating system.
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Pluralistic: CDA 230 bans Facebook from blocking interoperable tools (02 May 2024)

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CDA 230 bans Facebook from blocking interoperable tools: Unfollow Everything rises from the grave.
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Pluralistic: Someday, we'll all take comfort in the internet's "dark corners" (23 Mar 2024)

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Someday, we'll all take comfort in the internet's "dark corners": The Sea of Enshittification is rising and your online home will eventually be flooded.
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Pluralistic: Palantir's NHS-stealing Big Lie (08 Mar 2024)

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Palantir's NHS-stealing Big Lie: And the everyday miracle of Trusted Research Environments.
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Pluralistic: Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself" (06 Feb 2024)

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Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself": The dictionary definition of malicious compliance.
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Pluralistic: The Cult of Mac (12 Jan 2024)

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The Cult of Mac: You cannot reason a person out of a position they did not reason themself into in the first place.
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