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LLMs are real, AI is fake

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Pluralistic: Inefficiency is bad, actually (11 Sep 2026)

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Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney launches AI for All: Canada’s national artificial intelligence strategy., Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements

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Pluralistic: Anti-vax/anti-trust (08 Sep 2026)

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216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video], TiVo Plans to End Free Automatic Commercial Skipping in November, Tests Paid Premium Replacement Service, and more ›

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Pluralistic: How corporate America built a better Roach Motel (07 Sep 2026)

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Keep the Internet free, Gloria Steinem Helped Transform the World for Everyone

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Pluralistic: Google skates (05 Sep 2026)

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Over 170,000 Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?, US court rules Google will not have to sell ad exchange after losing antitrust case

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Pluralistic: Amazon achieves enshittification inception (04 Sep 2026)

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FTC, States Sue Amazon Over Secret Ad Surcharge Scheme, US court rules Google will not have to sell ad exchange after losing antitrust case

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Pluralistic: Preparing for a post-Trump internet (03 Sep 2026)

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US court rules Google will not have to sell ad exchange after losing antitrust case, Silicon Valley is in denial in face of widespread backlash, and more ›

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Pluralistic: Unpermissioned research (02 Sep 2026)

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New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name, Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video], and more ›

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Pluralistic: The age of disinvention (25 Aug 2026)

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The AI Hater's Manifesto, Trump tried to curb clean energy. It’s booming anyway., and more ›

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Pluralistic: How Canada can help Americans and defeat America (23 Aug 2026)

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Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney launches AI for All: Canada’s national artificial intelligence strategy., Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work, and more ›

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Pluralistic: Born on technology's third base (21 Aug 2026)

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Pluralistic: The actual epistemic crisis (20 Aug 2026)

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The $1 Trillion Black Box

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Pluralistic: The ordinariness of evil (19 Aug 2026)

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Sam Altman Says AI ‘Jobs Apocalypse’ He Once Predicted Probably Won’t Happen. What Changed?, Hook And Squeeze, and more ›

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Pluralistic: IP can't save you from AI (18 Aug 2026)

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Google wins bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents, Elon Musk made flying even worse so Palantir could profit

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Pluralistic: Jennifer Jenkins' 'Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture' (17 Aug 2026)

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davmlaw/they_live_adblocker: Replace Ads with They Live style slogans

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Pluralistic: Capital formation (14 Aug 2026)

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How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in, Adversarial Interoperability (2019), and more ›

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Pluralistic: Model collapse (12 Aug 2026)

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Goodhart's Law, Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same, and more ›

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Pluralistic: Surveillance vs guillotines (11 Aug 2026)

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Behind the Curtain: A white-collar bloodbath, Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans, and more ›

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Pluralistic: The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction (10 Aug 2026)

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Pluralistic: Digital sewer socialism (08 Aug 2026)

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Certbot, Privacy Badger, and more ›

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