Pluralistic: Petard, Part IV (03 Feb 2025)

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Petard, Part IV: Smart is at least as important as evil.
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Pluralistic: Petard, Part III (01 Feb 2025)

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Petard, Part III: The Termite Mound is revealed as the Roach Motel.
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Pluralistic: Petard (Part II) (31 Jan 2025)

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Petard (Part II): Systematizing and automating the struggle.
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Pluralistic: Petard (Part I) (30 Jan 2025)

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Petard (Part I): I fought the ISP and the ISP won.
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Pluralistic: Twinkfrump Linkdump (13 Apr 2024)

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Twinkfrump Linkdump: All the miscellany that didn't make it.
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Pluralistic: Big Telco's fury over FCC plan to infuse telecoms policy with facts (10 Nov 2023)

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Big Telco's fury over FCC plan to infuse telecoms policy with facts: Dickey Amendments for everything.
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Pluralistic: Intuit: "Our fraud fights racism" (27 Sept 2023)

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Intuit: "Our fraud fights racism": Apparently, ripping off Black people with the Freefile scam is a form of reparations.
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Pluralistic: Saving the news from Big Tech with end-to-end social media (13 June 2023)

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Saving the news from Big Tech with end-to-end social media: The final installment in my EFF series on saving the news.
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Pluralistic: End to End (07 Mar 2023)

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End to End: Willing speakers should reach willing listeners.
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Pluralistic: How cable monopolists tricked conservatives into shooting themselves in the face (15 Dec 2022)

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How cable monopolists tricked conservatives into shooting themselves in the face: Blocking Gigi Sohn's FCC confirmation is really bad for all of us, but especially Red State America.
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