Pluralistic: Mike Lee and Jim Jordan want to kill the law that bans companies from cheating you (29 Apr 2025)

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Mike Lee and Jim Jordan want to kill the law that bans companies from cheating you: Section 5 of the FTC Act is a century-old Swiss Army Knife for fighting corruption.
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Pluralistic: Tariffs and monopolies (07 Apr 2025)

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Tariffs and monopolies: As American as eating all the apple pie.
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Pluralistic: How an obscure advisory board lets utilities steal $50b/year from ratepayers (24 Feb 2025)

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How an obscure advisory board lets utilities steal $50b/year from ratepayers: The Society of Utility and Regulatory Financial Analysts is a hell of a henhouse fox.
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Pluralistic: The Google antitrust remedy should extinguish surveillance, not democratize it (07 Aug 2024)

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The Google antitrust remedy should extinguish surveillance, not democratize it: "People like relevant ads" is a lie, and "attribution" is an abomination.
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Pluralistic: Naomi Klein's "Doppelganger" (05 September 2023)

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Naomi Klein's "Doppelganger": On late capitalism's double-vision and double trouble.
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Pluralistic: Bruce Schneier's "A Hacker's Mind" (06 Feb 2023)

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Bruce Schneier's "A Hacker's Mind": Thinking about tactics AND power.
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Pluralistic: Higher interest rates increase both the monetary supply and inflation (04 Feb 2023)

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Higher interest rates increase both the monetary supply and inflation: It takes a lot of motivated reasoning to believe otherwise.
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Yes, It’s Censorship

Stop picking that nit, it’ll never heal.

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American political discourse is sticky. It gets all over the place and it’s damned hard to dislodge. People in handcuffs all over the world demand their Miranda rights, and people arguing about social media all over the world are prone to saying “it’s only censorship when the government does it.”

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Pluralistic: 07 Jul 2022

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Countervailing power: Finding the hairball's loose ends.
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Pluralistic: 17 Feb 2021

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Reverse centaurs and the failure of AI: Turkers all the way down.
Gorgeous, slipcased editions of public domain classics: Dave McKean's Crime and Punishment.
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