Pluralistic: Love of corporate bullshit is correlated with bad judgment (19 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: Understaffing as a form of enshittification (23 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Agnes Pockels’ pioneering work was unfairly dismissed by tropes about women’s domestic roles
Agnes Pockels achievements in surface science have long been overshadowed by a popular and likely untrue story that she became interested in the subject while doing the dishes
Age Verification Lobbying: Dark Money, Model Legislation & Institutional Capture
Investigative research into age verification lobbying, dark money, and model legislation
How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account
Our national project of elite impunity
Syndicates of Capital
States are no longer the highest form of power globally. Power has shifted to wealthy individuals who work in groups and operate across borders.
Syndicates of Capital
Jessica Burbank:
A new world order is here. States (countries) are no longer the highest form of power globally. Power has shifted to wealthy individuals who
The Scale of Billionaires’ Campaign Donations is Overwhelming U.S. Politics
Billionaires made 19 percent of all reported federal campaign contributions in 2024, a Times analysis shows, and even more in some local elections. Wealthy donors are reaping the rewards.
Actuarial Warfare: How Seven Insurance Letters Closed the World’s Most Critical Chokepoint and Why Markets Are Mispricing Duration by 300%
Private Reinsurance, IRGC Fragmentation, Interceptor Depletion, and a Dead Nuclear Fatwa Have Produced a Crisis No Military Victory Can Resolve
A Fraudster's Paradise
Online fraud and fraud fighting in a GenAI world
Pluralistic: Ad-tech is fascist tech (10 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: AI “journalists” prove that media bosses don’t give a shit (11 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: Three more AI psychoses (12 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: Corrupt anticorruption (14 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: Tools vs uses (16 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: William Gibson vs Margaret Thatcher (17 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Anti-Private Equity Is Good Business - Bloomberg
archived 18 Mar 2026 04:44:56 UTC
Nasdaq's Shame
How to rig an index to appease a billionaire
The 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause does not codify English principles of subjectship
Critics and supporters of President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship often focus on the order’s barring of automatic citizenship to children born to individuals unlawfully present in the […]
System76 on Age Verification Laws
Liberty has costs, but it's worth it.
Pluralistic: Billionaires are a danger to themselves and (especially) us (09 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: The web is bearable with RSS (07 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
AI Arms Race Has Real Numbers: Pentagon vs China 2026
AI targeting systems executed 900 strikes in 12 hours, a pace that previously took weeks. Maven, Palantir, and frontier models are operational in active conflict. The Pentagon just banned Anthropic and switched to OpenAI while strikes continue. The arms race has numbers now.
The 10-Year Chess Game Nobody Saw: How Tesla, Twitter, xAI, and SpaceX Were Always the Same Company
The filing didn’t look like a revolution. It looked like a standard corporate shuffle. On January 21, 2026, two new entities appeared in…
SitDeck — Open-Source Intelligence Dashboard
The world's largest open-source intelligence dashboard. Monitor conflicts, earthquakes, markets, and threats in real-time. 55+ widgets, 180+ live data feeds, 100% free.
AI And The Ship of Theseus
Slopforks: what happens when a library gets rewritten with AI?
On Israel
I want to say something carefully, because I know it will be misread by people who are looking for a reason to misread it.
On this Illegal War
A statement of protest
This is a Coup
Do not panic. Do not look away. Your calm attention is required, America.
Pluralistic: California can stop Larry Ellison from buying Warners (28 Feb 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow