Pluralistic: Cleantech has an enshittification problem (26 Jun 2024)

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Cleantech has an enshittification problem: Who's gonna make a 25-year purchase from a startup with six months' worth of runway?
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Pluralistic: Microsoft pinky swears that THIS TIME they'll make security a priority (14 Jun 2024)

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Microsoft pinky swears that THIS TIME they'll make security a priority: The monopolist's bargain was made to be broken.
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Pluralistic: Palantir's NHS-stealing Big Lie (08 Mar 2024)

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Palantir's NHS-stealing Big Lie: And the everyday miracle of Trusted Research Environments.
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Pluralistic: "Open" "AI" isn't (18 August 2023)

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"Open" "AI" isn't: Not "open," nor "artificial," and certainly not "intelligent."
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This day in history: 2008, 2018
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Pluralistic: Orphaned neurological implants (12 Dec 2022)

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Orphaned neurological implants: When the company that powers your nervous system decides to 'pivot.'
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This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017
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Pluralistic: Monopoly's event-horizon (05 Dec 2022)

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Monopoly's event-horizon: The true capitalist singularity.
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This day in history: 2012
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Pluralistic: 09 Nov 2021

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Stockholm's war on interoperability: An object lesson in how (not) to resolve the tension between comcom and privacy.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 18 May 2021

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A simple, incomplete ransomware defense: Attribution is hard, but whatever works.
Community Health Services sued its way through the pandemic: When health is a business, medical debt is an asset.
Apple's complicity in Chinese state oppression: Corporations don't have character, they have incentives.
What Would Open Source Look Like If It Were Healthy: Sumana Harihareswara's Github talk.
This day in history: 2206, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 14 Sep 2020

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How Big Oil lied about "recyclable" plastics: Who killed the world?
Levels of Interoperability: More clarity from Ian Brown.
Podcasting "IP": My latest and most substantial Locus column.
This day in history: 2015, 2019
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Pluralistic: 02 Aug 2020

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Galaksija: Yugoslavia's open source hardware, free software socialist computing platform.
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