Pluralistic: Sphinxmumps Linkdump (15 Jun 2024)

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Sphinxmumps Linkdump: My weekly declaration of link bankruptcy.
This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2023
Upcoming appearances: Where to find me.
Recent appearances: Where I've been.
Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Colophon: All the rest.

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Pluralistic: The tax sharks are back and they're coming for your home (27 Apr 2024)

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The tax sharks are back and they're coming for your home: Like picking pennies off a dead man’s eyes.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023
Upcoming appearances: Where to find me.
Recent appearances: Where I've been.
Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Colophon: All the rest.

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Pluralistic: Incomplete vs. overshoot (26 Feb 2024)

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Incomplete vs. overshoot: The horseshoe theory is really, really wrong.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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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.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018, 2022
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: Stellantis wants to make scabbing woke; The Lost Cause prologue, Part V (11 Oct 2023)

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Stellantis wants to make scabbing woke: The real DEI was the collective bargaining unit we formed along the way.
The Lost Cause prologue, Part V: Fuck around, find out.
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: 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.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2028, 2022
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: Justin C Key's "The World Wasn't Ready For You" (19 Sep 2023)

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Justin C Key's "The World Wasn't Ready For You": Black horror that cuts with a surgical scalpel.
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: How unions won a 30% raise for every fast food worker in California (14 Sept 2023)

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How unions won a 30% raise for every fast food worker in California: Hot labor summer was just for openers.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2013, 2018
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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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.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2013, 2018
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: When the app tries to make you robo-scab (30 July 2023)

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When the app turns you into a robo-scab: The implacable, inarguable tactics of disciplinary technology.
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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