Pluralistic: Google skates (05 Sep 2026)

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Google skates: Another federal judge loses a game of peek-a-boo.
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Which jobs can be replaced with AI?: Jobs that have already be degraded to the point of uselessness.
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Object permanence: Circular batteries; Prison for file-sharing, Satanic abortions.
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Recent appearances: Where I've been.
Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Colophon: All the rest.

How America's oligarchs lull us with the be-your-own-boss fairy tale: Temporarily embarrassed millionaires aren't born, they're made.
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This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019
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Sympathy for the spammer: The desperate and credulous are superspreaders in the botshit pandemic.
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This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Intuit: "Our fraud fights racism": Apparently, ripping off Black people with the Freefile scam is a form of reparations.
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This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2028, 2022
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Greenwashing set Canada on fire: A generation of idealistic Canadian kids broke their backs every summer "planting thousands of blowtorches a day."
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This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

No, Uber's (still) not profitable: A relentless, world-leading innovator in ever-sweatier balance sheet tricks, accounting gimmicks and hopium.
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This day in history: 2013, 2018
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Universities secretly sold their students to online casinos: It's varsity-level corruption.
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This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading