Pluralistic: When private equity destroys your hospital (28 Feb 2024)

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When private equity destroys your hospital: Looters literally want to kill you.
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Pluralistic: Conservatives are fringe outliers – and leftists could learn from them (16 June 2023)

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Conservatives are fringe outliers – and leftists could learn from them: Unhinged QGOP freaks may be completely unhinged, but they know how to use power.
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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.
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Pluralistic: 05 Feb 2022

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How to design an anti-monopoly interop system: On the colossal bad faith of Subaru and Kia.
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Pluralistic: 13 Nov 2020

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Big Car wants to pump the brakes on Right to Repair: Automotive makers v 76% of Massachusetts.
How to Fix the Internet: EFF has a podcast!
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Pluralistic: 03 Sep 2020

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Big Car says Right to Repair will MURDER YOU: You wouldn't download a car.
Algorithmic grading: Another weapon of math destruction.
Snowden vindicated: NSA spying was illegal.
Coronavirus is over (if we want it): All we have to do is reform our entire health-care system.
Rest in Power, David Graeber: Occupy, Debt, Utopia of Rules, Bullshit Jobs.
Hedge fund managers trouser 64%: 2-and-20 is a fiction.
Corporate spooks track you "to your door": SDKs are trojan horses.
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