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Inside: Pluralistic is three; and more!

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Pluralistic is three: Time flies when you're writing blogs.

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Hey look at this

* 'Landlords Are a Scum Class': Everything I've Learnt About London Renting vice.com/en/article/n7z…

* The Lie That's Destroying the Economy

* What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-i… (h/t Tom Jennings) 3/

#20yrsago 1974 D&D review www-personal.umich.edu/~beattie/timel…

#20yrsago @Ev on the Blogger buyout web.archive.org/web/2003032421…

#15yrsago Tor Books confirms sf supersite plans web.archive.org/web/2008022517… 4/

#15yrsago #Gitmo’s torturers decry negative portrayal of gulag in new #HaroldAndKumar comedy nytimes.com/2008/02/18/us/…

#15yrsago @StevenBrust’s unauthorized #Firefly #fanfic novel memex.craphound.com/2008/02/18/ste… 5/

#10yrsago Understanding the #ComputerFraudAndAbuseAct: can you go to jail for violating a clickthrough agreement? web.archive.org/web/2013030318…

#10yrsago Students get class-wide As by boycotting test, solving #PrisonersDilemma insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/1… 6/

#5yrsago China’s Internet Czar has been purged qz.com/1206816/chinas…

#5yrsago #Wikipedia discontinues its “#ZeroRating,” will focus on research-driven outreach diff.wikimedia.org/2018/02/16/par… 7/

#5yrsago @alooghobi’s “The Prince and the Dressmaker”: a #genderqueer graphic novel that will move and dazzle you memex.craphound.com/2018/02/18/jen… 8/

#5yrsago Incentives matter: after back surgery, a routine urine test resulted in a $17,800 bill the patient was expected to pay mprnews.org/story/2018/02/…

#1yrago The #ChildLabor story hidden by the #GreatResignation pluralistic.net/2022/02/17/liv… 9/

#1yrago The last days of Myspace: Facebook is following the steep decline playbook pluralistic.net/2022/02/17/liv…

#1yrago Tech platforms' playbook inevitably produces dumpster-fires pluralistic.net/2022/02/18/bro…

#1yrago #Pluralistic is two pluralistic.net/2022/02/19/now… 10/

Friday's threads: Google's chatbot panic; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1626317676229402627

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