Pluralistic: 2600's amazing Hackers on Planet Earth con may go down to enshittification (19 Jan 2024)

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2600's amazing Hackers on Planet Earth con may go down to enshittification: Remember, hacking is more than just a crime: it's a survival trait.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2014
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Pluralistic: The Tamakis' "Roaming" (11 Sep 2023)

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The Tamakis' "Roaming": Ah, to be young and Canadian in New York City.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Pluralistic: 14 Sep 2022 The Chokepoint Capitalism tour!

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The Chokepoint Capitalism tour: Ottawa, Toronto, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles (and beyond!)
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This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017
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Pluralistic: 17 Jun 2021

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Tali Farhadian Weinstein paid virtually no tax on millions and millions: And she wants to be the Manhattan DA and go after Trump's tax-dodging.
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Pluralistic: 02 Jun 2021

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NYC's driver-owned Uber alternative: Platform cooperativism needs interoperability, though.
Amazon running scared from arbitration at scale: The right kind of automation.
How the Dutch helped CBS cheat on its taxes: Onshore-offshore and the IP shell-game.
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Pluralistic: 16 Apr 2021

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Mass-action lawsuit against Facebook: Digital Rights Ireland wants to make the other GDPR shoe drop.
$100m deli made $35k in 2019/20: What the fuck is going on with Your Hometown Deli?
"Anti-voter-suppression" companies are lobbying to kill HR1: Keep your eyes on the prize.
People's Choice Communications: An ISP owned by striking Charter workers that diverts profits to its customers.
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Pluralistic: 07 Apr 2021

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Leaked NYPD "goon squad" manual: The NYPD isn't "undertrained" – the cruelty is the point.
Door Dashers organize app-defeating solidarity: The #DeclineNow movement vs Tony's Casino.
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Pluralistic: 26 Mar 2021

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Dreaming and overfitting: The Overfitted Brain Hypothesis has a lot of explanatory power.
Dirty NYPD cops can't lose: The secret legal defense fund for the indefensible.
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Pluralistic: 18 Mar 2021

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Help news, not news-barons: EFF on the proposed antitrust exemption for news.
Impunity for NYPD cops who brutalized BLM protesters: Only two officers face serious discipline.
Aviation bailout cost $666k/job: Socialism for capitalists.
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Pluralistic: 04 Dec 2020

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Student debt trap: Borrowed: $79,000. Paid: $190,000. Now Owes? $236,000.
Postmortem of the NYPD's murder of a Black man: How to write about individual stories of a structural crisis.
Section 230 is Good, Actually: It's not a "corporate giveaway," it's how you got the parts of the internet that you actually like.
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