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Pluralistic: The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble (26 May 2026)

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Pluralistic: There's no such thing as "age verification" (19 May 2026)

May 19·11 min read·2156 words

Pluralistic: Making sense of Trump's unscheduled sudden midair disassembly of the American empire (16 May 2026)

May 16·13 min read·2412 words

Pluralistic: No one wants a permanent gerontocracy (15 May 2026)

May 15·10 min read·1989 words

Pluralistic: Kickstarting "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" (14 May 2026)

May 14·15 min read·2948 words

Pluralistic: Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm (13 May 2026)

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Pluralistic: A fascist paradigm (12 May 2026)

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Pluralistic: 2024 (apart from the obvious) (11 May 2026)

May 11·1 min read·9 words

Pluralistic: Trump's fruitless search for a goreable ox (09 May 2026)

May 9·1 min read·11 words

Pluralistic: Lee Lai's "Cannon" (08 May 2026)

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Pluralistic: Bubbles are REALLY evil (07 May 2026)

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Pluralistic: In praise of vultures (06 May 2026)

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Pluralistic: The three armies fighting for the post-American world (05 May 2026)

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Pluralistic: Demand destruction vs fuel-superseding infrastructure (04 May 2026)

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Pluralistic: The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus (02 May 2026)

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Pluralistic: How not to ban surveillance pricing (30 Apr 2026)

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Pluralistic: Vicky Osterweil's "The Extended Universe" (28 Apr 2026)

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Pluralistic: The enshittification multiverse (27 Apr 2026)

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Pluralistic: Ada Palmer's "Inventing the Renaissance" (25 Apr 2026)

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Pluralistic: A free, open visual identity for enshittification (24 Apr 2026)

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Pluralistic: The (other) problem with automatic conversion of free software to proprietary software (23 Apr 2026)

Apr 23·1 min read·16 words

Pluralistic: It's not a crime if we do it (to nurses) with an app (22 Apr 2026)

Apr 22·1 min read·17 words

Pluralistic: Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's "Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed" (21 Apr 2026)

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Pluralistic: Comrade Trump (20 Apr 2026)

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Pluralistic: Georgia's voting technology blunder (18 Apr 2026)

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Pluralistic: Tiktokification shall set us free (17 Apr 2026)

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Pluralistic: A Pascal's Wager for AI Doomers (16 Apr 2026)

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Pluralistic: Rights for robots (15 Apr 2026)

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Pluralistic: In praise of (some) compartmentalization (14 Apr 2026)

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Pluralistic: Austerity creates fascism (13 Apr 2026)

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Pluralistic: Don't Be Evil (11 Apr 2026)

Apr 11·1 min read·7 words

Pluralistic: Canny Valley and Creative Commons (10 Apr 2026)

Apr 10·1 min read·9 words

Pluralistic: Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" (09 Apr 2026)

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Pluralistic: Process knowledge (08 Apr 2026)

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Pluralistic: Switzerland's Goldilocks fiber (07 Apr 2026)

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Pluralistic: Your boss wants to use surveillance data to cut your wages (06 Apr 2026)

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Pluralistic: EU ready to cave to Trump on tech (04 Apr 2026)

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Pluralistic: It's extremely good that Claude's source-code leaked (02 Apr 2026)

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Pluralistic: Trumpismo vs minilateralism (01 Apr 2026)

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Pluralistic: State Dems must stop ICE from stealing the midterms (31 Mar 2026)

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Pluralistic: Market participation is exhausting (30 Mar 2026)

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Pluralistic: The cost of doing business (25 Mar 2026)

Mar 25·1 min read·9 words

Pluralistic: Goodhart's Law vs "prediction markets" (24 Mar 2026)

Mar 24·1 min read·9 words

Pluralistic: Understaffing as a form of enshittification (23 Mar 2026)

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Pluralistic: Love of corporate bullshit is correlated with bad judgment (19 Mar 2026)

Mar 19·1 min read·13 words

Pluralistic: William Gibson vs Margaret Thatcher (17 Mar 2026)

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Pluralistic: Tools vs uses (16 Mar 2026)

Mar 16·1 min read·7 words

Pluralistic: Corrupt anticorruption (14 Mar 2026)

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Pluralistic: Three more AI psychoses (12 Mar 2026)

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Pluralistic: AI "journalists" prove that media bosses don't give a shit (11 Mar 2026)

Mar 11·1 min read·14 words

Pluralistic: Ad-tech is fascist tech (10 Mar 2026)

Mar 10·1 min read·8 words

Pluralistic: Billionaires are a danger to themselves and (especially) us (09 Mar 2026)

Mar 9·1 min read·13 words

Pluralistic: The web is bearable with RSS (07 Mar 2026)

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Pluralistic: Blowtorching the frog (05 Mar 2026) executive-dysfunction

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Pluralistic: Supreme Court saves artists from AI (03 Mar 2026)

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Pluralistic: No one wants to read your AI slop (02 Mar 2026)

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Pluralistic: California can stop Larry Ellison from buying Warners (28 Feb 2026)

Feb 28·1 min read·12 words

Pluralistic: If you build it (and it works), Trump will come (and take it) (26 Feb 2026)

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Pluralistic: The whole economy pays the Amazon tax (25 Feb 2026)

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Pluralistic: Socialist excellence in New York City (24 Feb 2026)

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Pluralistic: Deplatform yourself (23 Feb 2026)

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Pluralistic: A perforated corporate veil (20 Feb 2026)

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Pluralistic: Six Years of Pluralistic (19 Feb 2026)

Feb 19·1 min read·8 words

Pluralistic: What's a "gig work minimum wage" (17 Feb 2026)

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Pluralistic: The online community trilemma (16 Feb 2026)

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Pluralistic: Trump antitrust is dead (13 Feb 2026)

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Pluralistic: Doctors' union may yet save the NHS from Palantir (12 Feb 2026)

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Pluralistic: Europe takes a big step towards a post-dollar world (11 Feb 2026)

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Pluralistic: The Nuremberg Caucus (10 Feb 2026)

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Pluralistic: The Epstein class and collapse porn (09 Feb 2026)

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Pluralistic: End of the line for video essays (07 Feb 2026)

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Pluralistic: Luxury Kafka (06 Feb 2026)

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Pluralistic: All laws are local (05 Feb 2026)

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