#5yrsago Dystopia as clickbait https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/15/expect-the-unexpected/#dystopia-is-over
#1yrago Of course we can tax billionaires https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/15/piketty-pilled/#tax-justice
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#10yrsago Information leakage shows DEA blew millions on the secret phone trackers it won’t admit it bought https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/oct/14/dea-cell-phone-trackers/
#10yrsago No, poor kids don’t struggle in school because their parents have small vocabularies https://newrepublic.com/article/123093/rich-kids-better-poor-kids-school-its-not-word-gap
#5yrsago How to spreadsheet https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/14/final_ver2/#csv
#5yrsago Prop 22 is a scam https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/14/final_ver2/#prop-22
#5yrsago What happened in Florida https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/14/final_ver2/#bush-v-gore
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#5yrsago Pandemic shock doctrine vs internet freedom https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/14/final_ver2/#freedom-house
#5yrsago Beyond Cyberpunk https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/13/hopeful-disasters/#technologist-wizards
#5yrsago SF as intuition pump https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/13/hopeful-disasters/#narratives
#1yrago Dirty words are politically potent https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/14/pearl-clutching/#this-toilet-has-no-central-nervous-system
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#10yrsago Facebook UK made £105M in 2014, paid £35M in bonuses, and will pay £4,327 in tax https://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/oct/11/facebook-paid-4327-corporation-tax-despite-35-million-staff-bonuses
#10yrsago Economics research considered unreplicable https://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/feds/2015/files/2015083pap.pdf
#10yrsago The hockey-stick from hell: US incarceration per 100,000 people, 1890-today https://www.vox.com/2015/10/11/9497161/incarceration-history
#10yrsago Read: Austin Grossman’s moving text-adventure story “The Fresh Prince of Gamma World” https://www.wired.com/2015/10/excerpt-fresh-prince-of-gamma-world/
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#5yrsago The herd immunity conspiracy https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/12/redeeming-hackers/#herd-immunity
#5yrsago Attack Surface in Wired https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/12/redeeming-hackers/#origin-stories
#5yrsago Basic income works https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/11/means-testing-conundrum/#ubi-v-bi
#5yrsago Hong Kong's ghost protest posters https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/11/means-testing-conundrum/#seeing-ghosts
#1yrago Lina Khan's future is the future of the Democratic Party – and America https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/11/democracys-antitrust-paradox/#there-will-be-an-out-and-out-brawl
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