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Pluralistic: Vicky Osterweil's "The Extended Universe" (28 Apr 2026)

Pluralistic: The enshittification multiverse (27 Apr 2026)

Pluralistic: Ada Palmer's "Inventing the Renaissance" (25 Apr 2026)

Pluralistic: A free, open visual identity for enshittification (24 Apr 2026)

Pluralistic: The (other) problem with automatic conversion of free software to proprietary software (23 Apr 2026)

Pluralistic: It's not a crime if we do it (to nurses) with an app (22 Apr 2026)

Pluralistic: Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's "Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed" (21 Apr 2025)

Pluralistic: Comrade Trump (20 Apr 2026)

Pluralistic: Georgia's voting technology blunder (18 Apr 2026)

Pluralistic: Tiktokification shall set us free (17 Apr 2026)

Pluralistic: A Pascal's Wager for AI Doomers (16 Apr 2026)

Pluralistic: Rights for robots (15 Apr 2026)

Pluralistic: In praise of (some) compartmentalization (14 Apr 2026)

Pluralistic: Austerity creates fascism (13 Apr 2026)

Pluralistic: Don't Be Evil (11 Apr 2026)

Pluralistic: Canny Valley and Creative Commons (10 Apr 2026)

Pluralistic: Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" (09 Apr 2026)

Pluralistic: Process knowledge (08 Apr 2026)

Pluralistic: Switzerland's Goldilocks fiber (07 Apr 2026)

Pluralistic: Your boss wants to use surveillance data to cut your wages (06 Apr 2026)

Pluralistic: EU ready to cave to Trump on tech (04 Apr 2026)

Pluralistic: It's extremely good that Claude's source-code leaked (02 Apr 2026)

Pluralistic: Trumpismo vs minilateralism (01 Apr 2026)

Pluralistic: State Dems must stop ICE from stealing the midterms (31 Mar 2026)

Pluralistic: Market participation is exhausting (30 Mar 2026)

Pluralistic: The cost of doing business (25 Mar 2026)

Pluralistic: Goodhart's Law vs "prediction markets" (24 Mar 2026)

Pluralistic: Understaffing as a form of enshittification (23 Mar 2026)

Pluralistic: Love of corporate bullshit is correlated with bad judgment (19 Mar 2026)

Pluralistic: William Gibson vs Margaret Thatcher (17 Mar 2026)

Pluralistic: Tools vs uses (16 Mar 2026)

Pluralistic: Corrupt anticorruption (14 Mar 2026)

Pluralistic: Three more AI psychoses (12 Mar 2026)

Pluralistic: AI "journalists" prove that media bosses don't give a shit (11 Mar 2026)

Pluralistic: Ad-tech is fascist tech (10 Mar 2026)

Pluralistic: Billionaires are a danger to themselves and (especially) us (09 Mar 2026)

Pluralistic: The web is bearable with RSS (07 Mar 2026)

Pluralistic: Blowtorching the frog (05 Mar 2026) executive-dysfunction

Pluralistic: Supreme Court saves artists from AI (03 Mar 2026)

Pluralistic: No one wants to read your AI slop (02 Mar 2026)

Pluralistic: California can stop Larry Ellison from buying Warners (28 Feb 2026)

Pluralistic: If you build it (and it works), Trump will come (and take it) (26 Feb 2026)

Pluralistic: The whole economy pays the Amazon tax (25 Feb 2026)

Pluralistic: Socialist excellence in New York City (24 Feb 2026)

Pluralistic: Deplatform yourself (23 Feb 2026)

Pluralistic: A perforated corporate veil (20 Feb 2026)

Pluralistic: Six Years of Pluralistic (19 Feb 2026)

Pluralistic: What's a "gig work minimum wage" (17 Feb 2026)

Pluralistic: The online community trilemma (16 Feb 2026)

Pluralistic: Trump antitrust is dead (13 Feb 2026)

Pluralistic: Doctors' union may yet save the NHS from Palantir (12 Feb 2026)

Pluralistic: Europe takes a big step towards a post-dollar world (11 Feb 2026)

Pluralistic: The Nuremberg Caucus (10 Feb 2026)

Pluralistic: The Epstein class and collapse porn (09 Feb 2026)

Pluralistic: End of the line for video essays (07 Feb 2026)

Pluralistic: Luxury Kafka (06 Feb 2026)

Pluralistic: All laws are local (05 Feb 2026)

Pluralistic: Justin Key's "The Hospital at the End Of the World" (04 Feb 2026)

Pluralistic: Michael Swanwick's "The Universe Box" (03 Feb 2026)

Pluralistic: Stock swindles (02 Feb 2026)

Pluralistic: Threads' margin is the Eurostack's opportunity (30 Jan 2026)

Pluralistic: Disenshittification Nation (29 Jan 2026)

Pluralistic: Carney isn't a hero (and that's OK) (27 Jan 2026)

Pluralistic: Trump and the unmighty dollar (26 Jan 2026)

Pluralistic: The petty (but undeniable) delights of cultivating unoptimizability as a habit (22 Jan 2026)

Pluralistic: Google's AI pricing plan (21 Jan 2026)

Pluralistic: AI is how bosses wage war on "professions" (20 Jan 2026)

Pluralistic: Social media without socializing (19 Jan 2026)

Pluralistic: The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification (17 Jan 2026)

Pluralistic: Catch this! (16 Jan 2026)

Pluralistic: How the Light Gets In (15 Jan 2026)

Pluralistic: It's not normal (14 Jan 2026)

Pluralistic: Sorry, eh (13 Jan 2026)

Pluralistic: A winning trade war strategy for Canada (11 Jan 2026)

Pluralistic: Predistribution vs redistribution (Big Tech edition) (10 Jan 2026)

Pluralistic: bunnie's piggyback hack (09 Jan 2026)

Pluralistic: Where did the money go? (08 Jan 2026)

Pluralistic: Writing vs AI (07 Jan 2026)

Pluralistic: Code is a liability (not an asset) (06 Jan 2026)

Pluralistic: A world without people (05 Jan 2026)

Pluralistic: The Post-American Internet (01 Jan 2026)

Pluralistic: A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance (18 Dec 2025)

Pluralistic: Happy Public Domain Day 2026! (17 Dec 2025)

Pluralistic: America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity (16 Dec 2025)

Pluralistic: Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses (15 Dec 2025)

Pluralistic: Federal Wallet Inspectors (13 Dec 2025)

Pluralistic: Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars (11 Dec 2025)

Pluralistic: Big Tech joins the race to build the world's heaviest airplane (09 Dec 2025)

Pluralistic: Elon Musk's Blue Tick scam (08 Dec 2025)

Pluralistic: Metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism" (06 Dec 2025)

Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025)

Pluralistic: A year in illustration (2025 edition) (03 Dec 2025)

Pluralistic: All the books I reviewed in 2025 (02 Dec 2025)

Pluralistic: Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from hurting Meta's feelings (01 Dec 2025)

Pluralistic: (Digital) Elbows Up (28 Nov 2025)

Pluralistic: Normie diffusion and technophilia (27 Nov 2025)

Pluralistic: O(N^2) nationalism (26 Nov 2025)

Pluralistic: Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance" (25 Nov 2025)

Pluralistic: Cooking in Maximum Security (24 Nov 2025)

Pluralistic: Boss preppers (22 Nov 2025)

Pluralistic: The long game (20 Nov 2025)

Pluralistic: Disney lost Roger Rabbit (18 Nov 2025)

Pluralistic: The games industry's self-induced traumatic brain injury (17 Nov 2025)

Pluralistic: Zorhan Mamdani's world-class photocopier-kicker (15 Nov 2025)

Pluralistic: For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity (13 Nov 2025)

Pluralistic: A tale of three customer service chatbots (12 Nov 2025)

Pluralistic: Theodora Goss's 'Letters From an Imaginary Country' (11 Nov 2025)

Pluralistic: "Flexible labor" is a euphemism for "derisking capital" (10 Nov 2025)

Pluralistic: Facebook's fraud files (08 Nov 2025)

Pluralistic: The enshittification of labor (07 Nov 2025)

Pluralistic: The 40-year economic mistake that let Google conquer (and enshittify) the world (06 Nov 2025)

Pluralistic: "Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware Works" (05 Nov 2025)

Pluralistic: There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech (01 Nov 2025)

Pluralistic: The internet was made for privacy (31 Oct 2025)

Pluralistic: When AI prophecy fails (29 Oct 2025)

Pluralistic: Raymond Beisinger's "9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off" (28 Oct 2025)

Pluralistic: Shake Shack wants you to shit yourself to death (27 Oct 2025)

Pluralistic: Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs (23 Oct 2025)

Pluralistic: Carl Hiaasen's 'Fever Beach' (21 Oct 2025)

Pluralistic: The mad king's digital killswitch (20 Oct 2025)

Pluralistic: The AI that we'll have after AI (16 Oct 2025)

Pluralistic: Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall! (15 Oct 2025)

Pluralistic: How to fix the UK housing crisis (13 Oct 2025)

Pluralistic: The curious, intertwined history of climate and digital rights activism (11 Oct 2025)

Pluralistic: A disenshittification moment from the land of mass storage (10 Oct 2025)

Pluralistic: California bans algorithmic price-fixing (09 Oct 2025)

Pluralistic: They're just trying to earn a buck (07 Oct 2025)

Pluralistic: Apple's unlawful evil (06 Oct 2025)

Pluralistic: Blue Bonds (04 Oct 2025)

Pluralistic: When your ISP pays you (03 Oct 2025)

Pluralistic: Decarbonization at a distance (02 Oct 2025)

Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025)

Pluralistic: Plenty of room at the bottom (of the tech stack) (29 Sep 2025)

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025)

Pluralistic: Apple threatens to stop selling iPhones in the EU (26 Sep 2025)

Pluralistic: Rage Against the (Algorithmic Management) Machine (25 Sep 2025)

Pluralistic: The billionaires aren't OK (24 Sep 2025)

Pluralistic: The enshittification of solar (and how to stop it) (23 Sep 2025)