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Inside: The reason you can't buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/28/dealer-management-software/

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A Depression-era photo of a used car lot with three cars for sale. It has been hand-tinted. The sky has been replaced with a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. All of the car headlights have been replaced with the hostile red eye of 'HAL 9000' in Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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    Inside: Copyright takedowns are a cautionary tale that few are heeding; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/27/nuke-first/

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    Inside: Cleantech has an enshittification problem; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/26/unplanned-obsolescence/

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    Inside: Mirion Malle's "So Long Sad Love"; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/25/missing-stair/

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    Inside: Weinersmith and Boulet's "Bea Wolf"; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/24/awesome-alliteration/

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    Inside: Neither the devil you know nor the devil you don't; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/21/off-the-menu/

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    Inside: How to design a tech regulation; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/20/scalesplaining/

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    Inside: It's been twenty years since my Microsoft DRM talk; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/18/greetings-fellow-pirates/

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    A photo of me from the summer of 2020, taken by Paula Mariel Salischiker for Rolling Stone Argentina. I'm sitting in a red leather armchair, talking with one hand held out. I'm wearing a Pirate Bay tee. The background has been replaced with the destop wallpaper that shipped with Windows XP. Over my left shoulder is a Microsoft Clippy with a yellow speech-bubble. In the bubble is EFF's DRM logo, a monstrous padlock and the letters 'DRM.'
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    Inside: Bankruptcy is very, very good; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/17/lovilee-jubilee/

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    Inside: Sphinxmumps Linkdump; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/15/disarrangement/

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    Inside: Microsoft pinky swears that THIS TIME they'll make security a priority; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/14/patch-tuesday/

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    A frame from a Peanuts animation, depicting Lucy yanking the football away from Charlie Brown, who is somersaulting through the sky. It has been altered. Lucy's head has been replaced with Microsoft's Clippy. Charlie Brown's head has been replaced with a 19th century caricature of a grinning Uncle Sam. The sky has been replaced with a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies.
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    Inside: The health industry's invisible hand is a fist; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/13/a-punch-in-the-guts/

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    Inside: An end to the climate emergency is in our grasp; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/12/s-curve/

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    “Let's take a sec here and notice something genuinely great happening in the US government: the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau's stunning, unbroken streak of major, muscular victories over the forces of corporate corruption”

    A seemingly rare optimistic post from @pluralistic deserves an appreciative read.

    https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/10/getting-things-done/

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    Inside: Robin Sloan's "Moonbound"; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/11/penumbraverse/

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    Inside: The CFPB is genuinely making America better, and they're going HARD; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/10/getting-things-done/

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    Inside: Uplinkchump Linkdump; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/08/medley/

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    Inside: The airlines were patient zero in the junk-fee plague; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/07/drip-drip-drip/

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    Inside: UK publishers suing Google for $17.4b over rigged ad markets; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/06/stealing-money-not-content/

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    A boardroom with a long table; executives are clustered around it in 1960s garb. The table's surface has been replaced with a 19th century edition of the Manchester Guardian. The back wall of the room has been redone in Google logo color stripes. One wall features a Google logo. In the middle of the table stands a cartoon mascot with white gloves and booties and the head of a grinning poop emoji. He is striped with the four colors of the Google logo.
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    Inside: Surveillance pricing; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/05/your-price-named/

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    The produce section of a grocery store, with Kroger's signage. It is animated. The image fades to a version in which all the hand-lettered price signs are replaced with code waterfalls as seen in the credit-sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. The image fades again and the huge, menacing eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' appears in the center aisle, and all the prices have doubled. The image fades again and the doubled prices are replaced with the code waterfall again. The image then loops. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

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    Inside: Joseph Cox's "Dark Wire"; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/04/anom-nom-nom/

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    Inside: Ticketmaster jacks us for billions so it can pocket millions; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/03/aoi-aoi-oh/

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    Inside: Emil Ferris's long-awaited "My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two"; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/01/the-druid/

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    Inside: Real innovation vs Silicon Valley nonsense; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/30/posiwid/

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    A suite of old, mainframe-style computers. Looming over them is a carny barker, waving a cane. Perched atop one of the mainframes is a skeleton in a robe, drinking a goblet of blood. On the right, a credulous, gap-toothed child in old-timey clothes grins in marvel at the barker's pitch. The background is an out-of-focus filing room filled with ranked filing cabinets and busy clerks.
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