Pluralistic: The reason you can't buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you (28 Jun 2024)

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The reason you can't buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you: When monopoly meets infosec, hilarity ensues.
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Ticketmaster jacks us for billions so it can pocket millions: Corruption is unimaginably wasteful.
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The Pizzaburger Presidency: Why the Biden administration talks so very little about the very small number of very good things it has done.
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Antitrust is a labor issue: Banning noncompetes is huge, but it's not all the FTC is doing!
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Why they're smearing Lina Khan: She wants you to have nice things and they don't (it's really that simple).
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Spirit warned investors that merging with Jetblue would be illegal: Exhibit A for the prosecution.
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Booz Allen tickemastered America's public lands: An arms dealer makes millions on junk fees from National Parks visitors.
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Monopoly so fragile: Sharpening the contradictions in the Suez Canal.
Noble Lies: "Experts" aren't experts on when to lie.
Big Salmon's aquaturf: Cheaper for fish farms to smear scientists than to clean up their act.
Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results: Podcasting my Locus column on why machine learning won't lead to artificial intelligence.
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K-shaped recovery vs wealth taxes: Evita's spectre is haunting Argentina.
Facebook vs Australia: It's not a link-tax, it's collective bargaining.
The Paltrow-Industrial Complex: How Goop is cashing in on covid.
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