Pluralistic: Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app (17 Dec 2024)

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Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app: "Uber for nurses" is even worse than it sounds.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2014, 2019, 2023
Upcoming appearances: Where to find me.
Recent appearances: Where I've been.
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Pluralistic: Predicting the present (09 Dec 2024)

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Predicting the present: Thinking about "Radicalized" after Brian Thompson's assassination.
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: We should ban TikTok('s surveillance) (30 Mar 2023)

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We should ban TikTok('s surveillance): And Google's, Apple's, and Facebook's surveillance, too.
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: 27 Jul 2022

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"War Against All Puerto Ricans": Required reading for the eve of a new independence referendum.
Dashcam repo: Cruising the streets with a license plate camera to win debt-collector bounties.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2017
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 04 May 2022

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The eye-glazing scam of Medicare drug plans: Six tiers and none of them mean a fucking thing.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2012, 2017, 2021
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 14 Mar 2022

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Surprise billing's death-spiral may suck in untold patients: The best time to kill Envision Healthcare was before it started (the second best time is now).
Podcasting "Vertically Challenged": We need to investigate the companies Big Tech DOESN'T buy.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 27 Oct 2021

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Hospital rings up $2755 upcharge by sending pregnant woman to ER: Poudre Valley Hospital is a clip-joint.
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: 16 Jul 2020

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Straightened Trees: Changing the buildings to straighten the trees.
AI Dungeon with GPT-3: An AI invents a grimoire in an instant.
EU court kills data-sharing deal with USA: Schrems' Revenge.
Librarians' virtual escape rooms: Trapped in a Google Forms MUD.
What's in Blueleaks: The boondoggle of Fusion Centers.
A new contract for land: Real estate is the literal basis for feudalism.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 11 Jul 2020

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US passports basically worthless: Trump built a wall.
DNA Lounge deletes Postmates: Your pizza dollars, murdering future Jamal Khashoggis.
Mississippi's GOP lawmakers sicken: Dozens of mask-shunners test positive.
Wirecard's vanished COO wanted 15,000 Libyan militiamen: German finance scandal hides geopolitical private army scandal.
Near Future Labs' Covid Zine: Design fiction meets the unfathomable future.
This day in history: 2010, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 04 Jul 2020

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What to the Slave Is the 4th of July: Scan of the original 1852 pamphlet.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
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