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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Trump loves Big Tech; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/24/whats-good-for-big-tech/

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215d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Announcing the Picks and Shovels book tour; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/06/picks-and-shovels-tour/

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A modified version of the cover art for my novel 'Picks and Shovels,' featuring a vector-art drawing of a vintage PC, as well as my name and the book title. I appear on the screen, standing before a mic and laughing.

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183d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Eggflation is excuseflation; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/10/demand-and-supply/

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A 'stonks' meme, featuring a 3d modeled head atop the body of a man in a business suit, arms folded, standing before a stylized stock-chart with an orange arrow pointing up and to the right. The word 'stonks' has been replaced with 'eggs.' A cartoon drawing of a shattered, crying Humpty Dumpty is in the bottom left corner.

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113d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Who Broke the Internet? Part III; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/19/khan-thought/

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177d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: David Enrich's "Murder the Truth"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/17/actual-malice/

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The cover for the Harpercollins edition of David Enrich's 'Murder the Truth.'

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138d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Every complex ecosystem has parasites; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/24/hermit-kingdom/

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A rainforest in Chiapas, green and intergrown.

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135d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The enshittification of tech jobs; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/some-animals/

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127d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Bridget Read's 'Little Bosses Everywhere'; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/05/free-enterprise-system/

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The Penguin Random House cover for Bridget Read's 'Little Bosses Everywhere.'

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148d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Machina economicus; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/14/timmy-share/

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An engraved illustration from a 1903 French edition of HG Wells's 'War of the Worlds.' It shows a shadow street scene in which revelers are spilling out of a nightclub, oblivious to the looming 'tripod' Martian at the end of the block. It has been modified. The Martian's eyes now emit two beams of brown light that strike the revelers, who have been tinted red, making it appear as though they are being cooked by lasers. Behind the skyline looms a giant poop emoji.

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147d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Tesla accused of hacking odometers to weasel out of warranty repairs; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/15/musklemons/

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A scene out of an 11th century tome on demon-summoning called 'Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros. Anno 1057. Noli me tangere.' It depicts a demon tormenting two unlucky would-be demon-summoners who have dug up a grave in a graveyard. One summoner is held aloft by his hair, screaming; the other screams from inside the grave he is digging up. The scene has been altered to remove the demon's prominent, urinating penis, to add in a Tesla supercharger, and a red Tesla Model S nosing into the scene.

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141d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Trump's FTC opens the floodgates for tariff profiteering; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/21/trumpflation/

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143d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Against transparency; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/19/gotcha/

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A three-headed jack-in-the-box, sproinging out of a box bearing a Facebook terms of service update notice. Each of Jack's heads has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Each head wears a top hat. Two of Jack's six hands have been replaced with Facebook 'thumbs up' icons. Each of the three aspects of Jack brandishes a cruel whip.

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102d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Farewell (for the moment); and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/30/gone-fission/

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A vintage photo of a fisherman in an old-fashioned, one-piece bathing suit holding aloft a long fishing rod from which dangles a fish. The image has been tinted. The fisherman's head has been replaced with a poop emoji. The fish is surrounded by a green nuclear glow. The background is a stylized magnified view of blood cells rushing through a vein.

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106d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Who Broke the Internet, Part IV; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/26/babyish-radical-extremists/

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69d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Trump's not gonna protect workers from forced labor; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/03/states-rights-trumps-wrongs/

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A kneeling figure, shackled hand-and-foot with ball-and-chains at his ankles. His face is that of a turn-of-the-century newsie, grinning broadly under a torn cloth cap. Behind him is a heavily halftoned neon HELP WANTED sign, askew over a indistinct black hellscape ganked from the third panel of Boschs's 'Garden of Earthly Delights.'

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57d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Semantic drift versus ethical drift; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/14/pole-star/

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A turn-of-the-century lady librarian standing athwart a wall of books, shouting into a megaphone. Behind the books rises a guillotine against an eerie blue sky with two palms. Tux the Penguin's head sticks up out from behind the books. Before the wall of books grazes a stately gnu.

Image:
Muhammad Mahdi Karim
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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Daniel de Visé's 'The Blues Brothers'; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/21/1060-west-addison

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The Grove Atlantic cover for Daniel de Visé's 'The Blues Brothers.'

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78d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The case for a Canadian wealth tax; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/23/billionaires-eh/

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A gilt-roofed, gabled mansion with a hole chopped in its side. From within glitters a weath of gold coins. In the foreground stands a lumberjack, swinging an axe at the mansion. The background is a blown-up, half-toned late 20th century Canadian $50 bill.

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31d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Millionaire on billionaire violence; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/10/elite-disunity/

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A Roman ruin. In the foreground are two figures: a guerrilla fighter with a rifle and crossed bandoliers and a boxer in trunks and sash, fists raised. Both figures' heads have been replaced with tophatted caricatures of millionaires from Gilded Age editorial cartoons.

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: How my DRM-free principles left me owning the rights to a German audiobook; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/21/martin-mensch/

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The German edition of Red Team Blues as an ebook, an audiobook and a paperback.

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76d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: What's a "public internet?"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/25/eurostack/

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The EU flag, with a cluster of blue-tinted fiber optics in its background.

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75d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Surveillance is inequality's stabilizer; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/26/autostabilizer/

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73d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Antitrust defies politics' law of gravity; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/28/mamdani/

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74d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Bill Griffith's 'Three Rocks'; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/27/the-snapper

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The Abrams' Books cover for Bill Griffith's 'Three Rocks.'

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38d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: AI's pogo-stick grift; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/02/inventing-the-pedestrian/

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A kid bouncing on a pogo-stick in front of a giant, onrushing vintage black sedan, with the glaring red eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' behind the wheel. The background is a fiery, smoky hellscape.

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Cryteria (modified)
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