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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.

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144d

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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142d

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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95d

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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114d

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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140d

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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139d

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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137d

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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138d

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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102d

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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100d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: AI software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/04/bad-vibe-coding/

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A giant junkbot made of, variously, a ladder, a bathtub, a set of rickety stairs, a slippery rug, a pair of scissors. It brandishes a double-barreled shotgun. Its head is the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' It is bearing down on a male suited figure who is in the process of slipping and falling on his ass. His head has been replaced by a hoodie, which casts his face into shadow. He has lost control of a laptop that is about to fall to the ground. It displays a Windows Blue Screen of Death.

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112d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Installing Android phones in Blackberry chassis; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/23/resto-modding/

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A disassembled RIM Q20 chassis with a breakout board; the screen is showing an Android UI.

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111d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Trump's FCC abandons fiber; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/24/geometry-hates-cars/

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The Earth, suspended in space. It is topped with Trump's hair. A poop emoji with Elon Musk's face orbits it, beaming a cone of shit-colored radio waves over its surface.

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109d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Iranian brickwork, arbitrated pillows, smothered comics, and aerogel desalination; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/26/manifolds/

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A framegrab of Tommy and Dicky Smothers mid-act, with Tommy looked baffled and Dicky looking irritated; the image has been roughed up with static and CRT scanlines, and slightly desaturated. It is set in a wooden frame that is elaborately illustrated with scenes of antiquity - marble angels at the corners, magi and sojourners acting out scenes around all four sides.

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93d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Goodhart's Law (of AI); and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/11/five-paragraph-essay/

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A black and white photo of an old one-room schoolhouse, seen from the back of the classroom. A teacher sits behind a desk and a US flag at the front of the class. Beside her, a small girl stands, reading aloud from a book. The image has been altered. In the foreground is a Robin Hood figure, seen from behind, holding a bow, a quiver of arrows on his back. Behind the little girl is the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' An arrow vibrates dead-center in the eye.

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