Pluralistic: Apple faces criminal sanctions for defying App Store antitrust order (01 May 2025)

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Apple faces criminal sanctions for defying App Store antitrust order: They lied to the judge, then covered it up, and now she's PISSED.
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Pluralistic: Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case (18 Apr 2025)

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Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case: A folder on his desktop called "mens rea."
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Pluralistic: Dinkscrump Linkdump (08 Feb 2025)

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Dinkscrump Linkdump: A bushel of links before I leap into the void.
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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: Precaritize bosses (19 Apr 2024)

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Precaritize bosses: When the ruling class tells you what motivates them, believe them the first time.
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Pluralistic: Linkty Dumpty (15 July 2023)

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Linkty Dumpty: Things I thought about when I was supposed to be on holidays.
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Pluralistic: The "religious liberty" angle for overturning the overturning of Dobbs (11 July 2023)

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The "religious liberty" angle for overturning the overturning of Dobbs: Paging the Satanic Temple to the white courtesy stirrups.
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Pluralistic: Spirit warned investors that merging with Jetblue would be illegal (12 Mar 2023)

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Spirit warned investors that merging with Jetblue would be illegal: Exhibit A for the prosecution.
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