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September 12, 2026
Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026)
Today's links LLMs are real, AI is fake: No, it didn't "go rogue." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Why 9/11 Means We Must Support My Politics; Blogs x 9/11; Jimmy Wales ...
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September 11, 2026
Pluralistic: Inefficiency is bad, actually (11 Sep 2026)
Today's links Inefficiency is bad, actually: Now, "resiliency" on the other hand… Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Canada's DMCA; Socialism x Pledge of Allegiance; Hate t...
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September 9, 2026
Pluralistic: Anti-vax/anti-trust (08 Sep 2026)
Today's links Anti-vax/anti-trust: Remembering saves lives. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Disneyland prisoner; HOAs v xeriscaping; Copyright Office x regulatory captur...
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September 7, 2026
Pluralistic: How corporate America built a better Roach Motel (07 Sep 2026)
Today's links How corporate America built a better Roach Motel: Hostages beat customers every day. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 3-hole punches; Warner Bros v Warner B...
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September 5, 2026
Pluralistic: Google skates (05 Sep 2026)
Today's links Google skates: Another federal judge loses a game of peek-a-boo. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Memory-hacking ads; "Dzur"; NZ Ministry of DRM; Canadians ...
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September 4, 2026
Pluralistic: Amazon achieves enshittification inception (04 Sep 2026)
Today's links Amazon achieves enshittification inception: Cheating on your fraud is a hell of a thing. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Electrolite is back; Mafia rules; ...
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September 3, 2026
Pluralistic: Preparing for a post-Trump internet (03 Sep 2026)
Today's links Preparing for a post-Trump internet: You'd better hope it's also a post-American internet. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Barnum and Bailey v journalism; ...
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September 2, 2026
Pluralistic: Unpermissioned research (02 Sep 2026)
Today's links Unpermissioned research: Fighting Trump means preserving the internet, which means scraping. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Leaked advanced PalmOS device ...
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August 26, 2026
Pluralistic: The age of disinvention (25 Aug 2026)
Today's links The age of disinvention: 🟥1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🟥1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🟥️1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🟥1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🟥1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🟥1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🟥 Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Metacrap; CmdrTac...
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August 24, 2026
Pluralistic: How Canada can help Americans and defeat America (23 Aug 2026)
Today's links How Canada can save Americans and defeat America: True Carneyism has never been tried. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Brazil v AIDS drug patents; TSA v ge...
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August 22, 2026
Pluralistic: Born on technology's third base (21 Aug 2026)
Today's links Born on technology's third base: Material forces shape life-chances. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Glue; iPods v unions; RIP Jack Layton; Gibson on citie...
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August 20, 2026
Pluralistic: The actual epistemic crisis (20 Aug 2026)
Today's links The actual epistemic crisis: AI's assault on reality is an opportunistic infection. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Disney goths; Running a con room party;...
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August 19, 2026
Pluralistic: The ordinariness of evil (19 Aug 2026)
Today's links The ordinariness of evil: Stop selling AI (bad). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Dot-crash bumwad; AP v fair use; Nym Wars; What's ctrl-F? Pentagon lost $6...
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August 18, 2026
Pluralistic: IP can't save you from AI (18 Aug 2026)
Today's links IP can't save you from AI: Property rights cannot substitute for labor rights and privacy rights. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Flying Brits v brown peop...
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August 17, 2026
Pluralistic: Jennifer Jenkins' 'Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture' (17 Aug 2026)
Today's links Jennifer Jenkins' 'Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture': The definitive textbook (with comics!). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Hair-gel bombers v br...
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August 14, 2026
Pluralistic: Capital formation (14 Aug 2026)
Today's links Capital formation: Going legit means going mainstream. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: London Copyfighters x Speaker's Corner; TSA v lipstick; Long Beach v...
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August 12, 2026
Pluralistic: Model collapse (12 Aug 2026)
Today's links Model collapse: Living in a world that's trained on itself. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Wired v Dutch hackers; NYT v DMCA; Hair gel terrorist threat do...
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August 11, 2026
Pluralistic: Surveillance vs guillotines (11 Aug 2026)
Today's links Surveillance vs guillotines: Someone's gonna fleece these rubes, why not me? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: DeCSS; Warhol Worm; Camgirls x Amazon wishlist...
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August 10, 2026
Pluralistic: The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction (10 Aug 2026)
Today's links The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction: The only way to win is not to play. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Seymour Cray's tunnels; ...
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August 8, 2026
Pluralistic: Digital sewer socialism (08 Aug 2026)
Today's links Digital sewer socialism: Mamdani's Public Interest Technologists are what DOGE should have been. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Robot garage takes hostage...
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August 6, 2026
Pluralistic: Eternal Sloptember (06 Aug 2026)
Today's links Eternal Sloptember: Mark Zuckerberg and the fantasy of social media without socializing. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Delany x The Onion; Duran Duran x ...
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August 5, 2026
Pluralistic: Google is a scammer's paradise (05 Aug 2026)
Today's links Google is a scammer's paradise: The internet's absentee landlord. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS; EZ realistic corpse; $3...
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August 4, 2026
Pluralistic: Post-American compute for a post-American Internet (04 Aug 2026)
Today's links Post-American compute for a post-American Internet: Building cooperative human rights computing infrastructure in Puerto Rico, the EU, Canada and Mexico. Hey look at this: Delights to...
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August 3, 2026
Pluralistic: Dualism (03 Aug 2026)
Today's links Dualism: Why not both? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: UK's Great Firewall falls; Mint the coins; Virtual pets v DRM; Getty copyfrauds 47,000 photos; Net M...
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August 1, 2026
Pluralistic: Why businesses lie about AI (01 Aug 2026)
Today's links Why businesses lie about AI: Humoring the boss all the way into bankruptcy. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Vinge x NYT; Syklarov x publishers; Human hair ...
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July 31, 2026
Pluralistic: Better to beg forgiveness (31 Jul 2026)
Today's links Better to beg forgiveness: Don't ring the doorbell at the house of no unless you absolutely must. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: RIP Poul Anderson; P2P at...
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July 30, 2026
Pluralistic: The stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing (30 Jul 2026)
Today's links The stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing: Since 1850, San Francisco's Chamber of Commerce has been pissing in our mouths and calling it rain. Hey look at this: Deligh...
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July 29, 2026
Pluralistic: Enshittification and Reverse Centaurs go global (29 Jul 2026)
Today's links Enshittification and Reverse Centaurs go global: The good globalism. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Fonz thumps x Linux; CBC v DRM; Aussie mall v photos; ...
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July 28, 2026
Pluralistic: Discernment (28 Jul 2026)
Today's links Discernment: How can you fact-check AI when you're asking it to teach you something you don't understand? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: How to help with ...
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July 27, 2026
Pluralistic: How the EU can punish Google (despite Trump) (27 Jul 2026)
Today's links How the EU can punish Google (despite Trump): Grant me the courage to change the things I can. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Chilling Effects; Billy Brag...
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