Pluralistic: Podcasting "How To Think About Scraping" (25 Sept 2023)

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Podcasting "How To Think About Scraping": How to preserve the benefits of web-scraping while targeting the real harms.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
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Pluralistic: Podcasting "Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk" (20 Mar 2023)

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Podcasting "Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk": Why today's Luddites should be smashing apps.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 13 Feb 2022

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Podcasting Part II of "The Internet Heist": Big Content wants to plug your A-Hole!
Comprehensive synthesis of the technological, ecological and political critique of blockchainism: It's all about the externalities.
Eating invasive species: How to structure an invasivorism that doesn't hunger for more invaders.
This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 19 Apr 2021

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The G(AN)-8: Shardcore's questing AI tries to locate world leaders in a sprawling data-set.
Facebook's tonsils: The traumatic lives of Facebook's moderators.
Podcasting How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: Part three.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 08 Feb 2021

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The grand conclusion of Someone Comes to Town: Part 31, the final installment of my serialized novel podcast.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 03 Feb 2021

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Living through Xinjiang's genocide: So much for "never again."
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
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Pluralistic: 01 Feb 2021

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Someone Comes to Town Part 30: Nearly finished podcasting my 2006 novel!
Unidirectional entryism: Why aren't there more RINOs?
The good news about vaccination bad news: Attributing to malice AND incompetence (not intractability).
This day in history: 2011, 2016
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 29 Sep 2020

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Bust 'em all: Bet you can't just break up one industry!
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, part 16: This week in the podcast!
Dark money and SCOTUS: The best Supreme Court money can buy.
Machine learning hieroglyphs: Google's Fabricius.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 06 Jul 2020

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New podcast: Part nine of my reading of Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town.
Europe's interop coalition: DSA + Interop = Competition.
Scarfolk beermats: Ministers' Stout Hubris and more.
Miami cop owns illegal mansion nightclub: For some reason, the cops didn't prevent the nightly Lamborghini races.
Video and transcript of my OII talk: If you missed last week's "What Big Tech does to discourse, and the forgotten tech tool that can make tech less big."
Shower temperature vs handle position: You're not imagining it.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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