Pluralistic: Poor people pay higher time tax (10 Feb 2023)

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Poor people pay higher time tax: The rich truly do get more hours in the day.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Pluralistic: 10 Apr 2021

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Youtube blocks advertisers from targeting "Black Lives Matter": On the impossibility of "brand safety."
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Pluralistic: 18 Jan 2021

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How to leak a Zoom meeting: Watermarks, tile randomization, and more.
Pandemics and peak indifference: Squandering history's most expensive lessons.
Planet Money's free Great Gatsby audiobook: The public domain in action.
Honor MLK day with the Internet Archive: A fabulous, open access trove.
Someone Comes to Town, Part 28: This week's podcast installment carries on my friendly dispute with Manuel Castells.
Facebook's community standards: JWZ's 0-follower, 0-post FB account was suspended.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2015, 2020
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Pluralistic: 14 Jan 2021

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The Black Panther self-care method: A revolutionary idea.
Facebook shows mall ninja gear ads on insurrection articles: "Storm the Capitol!" "Buy body armor!"
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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.
This day in history: None
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Pluralistic: 20 Nov 2020

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Little Revolutions: Bethany C Morrow and Tochi Onyebuchi on the Attack Surface Lectures.
Russian Cyberpunk Farm: Superb comedy-dystopia in a russo-futuristic vein.
We're already (badly) forgiving student debt: Debts that can't be paid won't be paid.
Facebook bullies watchdog: My Wired op-ed on the Ad Observer scandal.
Google's monopoly rigged the ad market: Dina Srinivasan is on fire.
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Pluralistic: 18 Nov 2020

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Race, surveillance and tech: The third Attack Surface lecture.
The Mounties lied about social surveillance: They always get their self-serving rationalisations.
Telehealth chickenizes docs: And hurts patients (but it's great for investors!).
Canada's GDPR: Down with fictional consent!
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Pluralistic: 16 Aug 2020

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Self-driving cars are bullshit: Ford CEO: I "overestimated."
How to Argue With a Racist: Adam Rutherford on "race science."
Combat Wheelchairs: Homebrew rules for a new kind of D&D; mount.
Amazon bans podcasts that criticize Amazon: The purpose of "IP" is controlling competitors, critics and customers.
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Pluralistic: 09 Aug 2020

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Commercial real-estate's looming collapse: Highly leveraged REITs and extinction-level events don't mix.
Test-proctoring software worsens systemic bias: Also pedagogically bankrupt and run by corrupt, petty shitheads.
This day in history: 2019
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Pluralistic: 05 Jul 2020

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Bojo's "New Deal" is neither: tldr 0.2% of GDP is not 40% of GDP.
The real racial wealth gap: The 1% distort our statistics.
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