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October 2026

  1. Pluralistic: Agents vs ecommerce (28 Oct 2026)
  2. Pluralistic: History is something you do (27 Oct 2026)
  3. Pluralistic: Sovereign citizens, but for news (26 Oct 2026)
  4. Pluralistic: Critique and writing (23 Oct 2026)
  5. Pluralistic: Adversarial interoperability is a team sport (21 Oct 2026)
  6. Pluralistic: The death of history's most successful publisher (20 Oct 2026)
  7. Pluralistic: The technopolitics of ad-tech (19 Oct 2026)
  8. Pluralistic: Israeli ad-tech company was a delivery system for "mercenary spyware" (17 Oct 2026)
  9. Pluralistic: Load-bearing (16 Oct 2026)
  10. Pluralistic: Expedia amazoned hotel rooms (15 Oct 2026)
  11. Pluralistic: Bundestrojaner (13 Oct 2026)
  12. Pluralistic: How labor rights rescued Ultima from a monopolist (12 Oct 2026)
  13. Pluralistic: Thwarted (09 Oct 2026)
  14. Pluralistic: Disloyalty (07 Oct 2026)
  15. Pluralistic: Swapping money for expertise (06 Oct 2026)
  16. Pluralistic: Scrutinized (05 Oct 2026)
  17. Pluralistic: Economic probabilities for our grandchildren (03 Oct 2026)
  18. Pluralistic: Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts (01 Oct 2026)

September 2026

  1. Pluralistic: Lindsay Owens's "Gouged" (29 Sep 2026)
  2. Pluralistic: Priceful (28 Sep 2026)
  3. Pluralistic: Itch scratching (25 Sep 2026)
  4. Pluralistic: Bonta sold us out to Trump's oligarchs (22 Sep 2026)
  5. Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026)
  6. Pluralistic: Textured (18 Sep 2026)
  7. Pluralistic: On the sincerity of AI bosses (17 Sep 2026)
  8. Pluralistic: How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses (16 Sep 2026)
  9. Pluralistic: Everybody pees (15 Sep 2026)
  10. Pluralistic: But do you use keyboard shortcuts? (14 Sep 2026)
  11. Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026)
  12. Pluralistic: Inefficiency is bad, actually (11 Sep 2026)
  13. Pluralistic: Anti-vax/anti-trust (09 Sep 2026)
  14. Pluralistic: How corporate America built a better Roach Motel (07 Sep 2026)
  15. Pluralistic: Google skates (05 Sep 2026)
  16. Pluralistic: Amazon achieves enshittification inception (04 Sep 2026)
  17. Pluralistic: Preparing for a post-Trump internet (03 Sep 2026)
  18. Pluralistic: Unpermissioned research (02 Sep 2026)

August 2026

  1. Pluralistic: The age of disinvention (25 Aug 2026)
  2. Pluralistic: How Canada can help Americans and defeat America (23 Aug 2026)
  3. Pluralistic: Born on technology's third base (21 Aug 2026)
  4. Pluralistic: The actual epistemic crisis (20 Aug 2026)
  5. Pluralistic: The ordinariness of evil (19 Aug 2026)
  6. Pluralistic: IP can't save you from AI (18 Aug 2026)
  7. Pluralistic: Jennifer Jenkins' 'Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture' (17 Aug 2026)
  8. Pluralistic: Capital formation (14 Aug 2026)
  9. Pluralistic: Model collapse (12 Aug 2026)
  10. Pluralistic: Surveillance vs guillotines (11 Aug 2026)
  11. Pluralistic: The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction (10 Aug 2026)
  12. Pluralistic: Digital sewer socialism (08 Aug 2026)
  13. Pluralistic: Eternal Sloptember (06 Aug 2026)
  14. Pluralistic: Google is a scammer's paradise (05 Aug 2026)
  15. Pluralistic: Post-American compute for a post-American Internet (04 Aug 2026)
  16. Pluralistic: Dualism (03 Aug 2026)
  17. Pluralistic: Why businesses lie about AI (01 Aug 2026)

July 2026

  1. Pluralistic: Better to beg forgiveness (31 Jul 2026)
  2. Pluralistic: The stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing (30 Jul 2026)
  3. Pluralistic: Enshittification and Reverse Centaurs go global (29 Jul 2026)
  4. Pluralistic: Discernment (28 Jul 2026)
  5. Pluralistic: How the EU can punish Google (despite Trump) (27 Jul 2026)
  6. Pluralistic: Apple's robo-repo (25 Jul 2026)
  7. Pluralistic: AI solipsists and AI cynics (24 Jul 2026)
  8. Pluralistic: California's privacy obstacle course (23 Jul 2026)
  9. Pluralistic: Trump's America can't even win a rigged game (22 Jul 2026)
  10. Pluralistic: Dealing with dickovers (21 Jul 2026) dickovers
  11. Pluralistic: Deranged billionaires and their syndromes (16 Jul 2026)
  12. Pluralistic: Gerontocracy's failure mode (14 Jul 2026)
  13. Pluralistic: Why aren't AI companies competing directly with their customers? (13 Jul 2026)
  14. Pluralistic: Workplace "flexibility" isn't (11 Jul 2026)
  15. Pluralistic: "Rights for robots" and the AI slavery fantasy (10 Jul 2026)
  16. Pluralistic: Post-political (09 Jul 2026)
  17. Pluralistic: How US states and international trustbusters can beat Big Tech (07 Jul 2026)
  18. Pluralistic: CARDiac, syntax coloring, view source and vibe code (03 Jul 2026)
  19. Pluralistic: The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work" (02 Jul 2026)
  20. Pluralistic: Technocarcinization (01 Jul 2026)

June 2026

  1. Pluralistic: Jo Walton's "Everybody's Perfect" (30 Jun 2026)
  2. Pluralistic: Gemini is better than search because Google enshittified search (29 Jun 2026)
  3. Pluralistic: Zuckerberg's increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers (27 Jun 2026)
  4. Pluralistic: Jailbreaking isn't theft (25 Jun 2026)
  5. Pluralistic: Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid (23 Jun 2026)
  6. Pluralistic: Good politics (22 Jun 2026)
  7. Pluralistic: How the Epstein Class recruits (20 Jun 2026)
  8. Pluralistic: The Big Con (19 Jun 2026)
  9. Pluralistic: AI digital sovereignty risk doesn't exist (18 Jun 2026)
  10. Pluralistic: The (real) dead economy theory (17 Jun 2026)
  11. Pluralistic: AI and amateurism (15 Jun 2026)
  12. Pluralistic: Shareholder supremacy and the precog CEO (13 Jun 2026)
  13. Pluralistic: Google's new remote attestation scheme is every bit as terrible as its old remote attestation scheme (12 Jun 2026)
  14. Pluralistic: The world has moved on (11 Jun 2026)
  15. Pluralistic: Naomi Kritzer's "Obstetrix" (09 Jun 2026)
  16. Pluralistic: Criticizing the everything machine (06 Jun 2026)
  17. Pluralistic: Refining humanity (05 Jun 2026)
  18. Pluralistic: Delusion as a service (04 Jun 2026)
  19. Pluralistic: The tedious power of storytelling (02 Jun 2026)
  20. Pluralistic: Molly Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country' (01 Jun 2026)

May 2026

  1. Pluralistic: Carneyism without Carney (30 May 2026)
  2. Pluralistic: Hold on for dear life (28 May 2026)
  3. Pluralistic: AI and a world without migrants (27 May 2026)
  4. Pluralistic: The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble (26 May 2026)
  5. Pluralistic: No honor among (ad-tech) thieves (25 May 2026)
  6. Pluralistic: Shopping isn't politics (21 May 2026)
  7. Pluralistic: There's no such thing as "age verification" (19 May 2026)
  8. Pluralistic: Making sense of Trump's unscheduled sudden midair disassembly of the American empire (16 May 2026)
  9. Pluralistic: No one wants a permanent gerontocracy (15 May 2026)
  10. Pluralistic: Kickstarting "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" (14 May 2026)
  11. Pluralistic: Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm (13 May 2026)
  12. Pluralistic: A fascist paradigm (12 May 2026)
  13. Pluralistic: 2024 (apart from the obvious) (11 May 2026)
  14. Pluralistic: Trump's fruitless search for a goreable ox (09 May 2026)
  15. Pluralistic: Lee Lai's "Cannon" (08 May 2026)
  16. Pluralistic: Bubbles are REALLY evil (07 May 2026)
  17. Pluralistic: In praise of vultures (06 May 2026)
  18. Pluralistic: The three armies fighting for the post-American world (05 May 2026)
  19. Pluralistic: Demand destruction vs fuel-superseding infrastructure (04 May 2026)
  20. Pluralistic: The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus (02 May 2026)

April 2026

  1. Pluralistic: How not to ban surveillance pricing (30 Apr 2026)
  2. Pluralistic: Vicky Osterweil's "The Extended Universe" (28 Apr 2026)
  3. Pluralistic: The enshittification multiverse (27 Apr 2026)
  4. Pluralistic: Ada Palmer's "Inventing the Renaissance" (25 Apr 2026)
  5. Pluralistic: A free, open visual identity for enshittification (24 Apr 2026)
  6. Pluralistic: The (other) problem with automatic conversion of free software to proprietary software (23 Apr 2026)
  7. Pluralistic: It's not a crime if we do it (to nurses) with an app (22 Apr 2026)
  8. Pluralistic: Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's "Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed" (21 Apr 2026)
  9. Pluralistic: Comrade Trump (20 Apr 2026)
  10. Pluralistic: Georgia's voting technology blunder (18 Apr 2026)
  11. Pluralistic: Tiktokification shall set us free (17 Apr 2026)
  12. Pluralistic: A Pascal's Wager for AI Doomers (16 Apr 2026)
  13. Pluralistic: Rights for robots (15 Apr 2026)
  14. Pluralistic: In praise of (some) compartmentalization (14 Apr 2026)
  15. Pluralistic: Austerity creates fascism (13 Apr 2026)
  16. Pluralistic: Don't Be Evil (11 Apr 2026)
  17. Pluralistic: Canny Valley and Creative Commons (10 Apr 2026)
  18. Pluralistic: Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" (09 Apr 2026)
  19. Pluralistic: Process knowledge (08 Apr 2026)
  20. Pluralistic: Switzerland's Goldilocks fiber (07 Apr 2026)
  21. Pluralistic: Your boss wants to use surveillance data to cut your wages (06 Apr 2026)
  22. Pluralistic: EU ready to cave to Trump on tech (04 Apr 2026)
  23. Pluralistic: It's extremely good that Claude's source-code leaked (02 Apr 2026)
  24. Pluralistic: Trumpismo vs minilateralism (01 Apr 2026)

March 2026

  1. Pluralistic: State Dems must stop ICE from stealing the midterms (31 Mar 2026)
  2. Pluralistic: Market participation is exhausting (30 Mar 2026)
  3. Pluralistic: The cost of doing business (25 Mar 2026)
  4. Pluralistic: Goodhart's Law vs "prediction markets" (24 Mar 2026)
  5. Pluralistic: Understaffing as a form of enshittification (23 Mar 2026)
  6. Pluralistic: Love of corporate bullshit is correlated with bad judgment (19 Mar 2026)
  7. Pluralistic: William Gibson vs Margaret Thatcher (17 Mar 2026)
  8. Pluralistic: Tools vs uses (16 Mar 2026)
  9. Pluralistic: Corrupt anticorruption (14 Mar 2026)
  10. Pluralistic: Three more AI psychoses (12 Mar 2026)
  11. Pluralistic: AI "journalists" prove that media bosses don't give a shit (11 Mar 2026)
  12. Pluralistic: Ad-tech is fascist tech (10 Mar 2026)
  13. Pluralistic: Billionaires are a danger to themselves and (especially) us (09 Mar 2026)

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