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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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July 25, 2026
Pluralistic: Apple's robo-repo (25 Jul 2026)
Today's links Apple's robo-repo: Privatizing the risk premium, socializing its costs. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Printed batteries; Monopoly credit cards; Mapping a...
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July 24, 2026
Pluralistic: AI solipsists and AI cynics (24 Jul 2026)
Today's links AI solipsists and AI cynics: You don't have to believe that AI "works" to believe that it's a good investment. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Malware v st...
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July 23, 2026
Pluralistic: California's privacy obstacle course (23 Jul 2026)
Today's links California's privacy obstacle course: Malice or incompetence (why not both?). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Continuous partial attention, TSA is the wors...
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July 22, 2026
Pluralistic: Trump's America can't even win a rigged game (22 Jul 2026)
Today's links Trump's America can't even win a rigged game: America has created a post-American world. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Fagin"; Scott McCloud on comics' ...
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July 21, 2026
Pluralistic: Dealing with dickovers (21 Jul 2026) dickovers
Today's links Dealing with dickovers: The web is an open platform, and that matters. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Broadcast's bad week; Congress v wifi; EFF v DRM law...
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July 16, 2026
Pluralistic: Deranged billionaires and their syndromes (16 Jul 2026)
Today's links Deranged billionaires and their syndromes: The Mad Kings do love a syllogism. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: PoGo v binding arbitration; Trump beat some a...
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July 14, 2026
Pluralistic: Gerontocracy's failure mode (14 Jul 2026)
Today's links Gerontocracy's failure mode: Where are the designated survivors? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: MSFT v MP3; UK industry v schoolkids; Gary Larson v comics...
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