Pluralistic: MIT libraries are thriving without Elsevier (16 Aug 2024)


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Pluralistic: "Carbon neutral" Bitcoin operation founded by coal plant operator wasn't actually carbon neutral (09 Aug 2024)


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Pluralistic: Real innovation vs Silicon Valley nonsense (30 May 2024)


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Pluralistic: Prison-tech is a brutal scam – and a harbinger of your future (14 Feb 2024)


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Pluralistic: I assure you, an AI didn't write a terrible "George Carlin" routine (29 Jan 2024)


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Pluralistic: The surveillance advertising to financial fraud pipeline (29 Sept 2023)


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Pluralistic: 'We buy ugly houses' is code for 'we steal vulnerable peoples' homes' (11 May 2023)


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“Metaverse” means “pivot to video”

Fool me twice, we don’t get fooled again.

“Oh come, now, you don’t mean to let on that you like it?”

The brush continued to move.

“Like it? Well, I don’t see why I oughtn’t to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?”

That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom swept his brush daintily back and forth — stepped back to note the effect — added a touch here and there — criticised the effect again — Ben watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more absorbed. Presently he said:

“Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little.”

– Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

In 2003, a 19-year-old Harvard undergrad named Mark Zuckerberg had an idea: he’d create a website for Harvard students to nonconsensually rate the fuckability of their classmates. He called it Facemash.

Later that year, Zuckerberg changed the name of the site to The Facebook, and, in 2005, the site was renamed, simply, “Facebook.”

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Pluralistic: 23 Nov 2022 Citizens United and the FTX meltdown


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Pluralistic: 07 Jun 2022


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