Pluralistic: Disenshittification Nation (29 Jan 2026)

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Disenshittification Nation: How Canada can defend itself from Trump, make billions of dollars, and build a new, global, good internet.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Object permanence: "Project Blue Sky"; O'Reilly v Graham on inequality; Big Pharma's worst nightmare; Dissipation of rents; Shoelace v Ming vases; "Diviner's Tale": Great Humungous Snow Pile; Trudeau signs Harper's trade deal; On Comity (pts 1 & 2); What's that dingus called?
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Carney isn't a hero (and that's OK): There is nothing harder to stop than an idea whose time has come to pass.
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Object permanence: Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About; AnarchistU; "Monopolized"; All bets are off.
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Trump and the unmighty dollar: "Flipping the table over in a poker game rigged in your favor because you resent having to pretend to play the game at all."
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Object permanence: H2G2 v BBC; Anti-capitalist bank rave; Narrative and magic; It's still censorship; Boss politics antitrust; Game library; Gamers 6-65; Google Cache; "Probiotics" aren't; "Starve"; Uptown Funk mashup; Not a crime if we do it with an app; Gibson on Stuxnet; Gates sells Tank Man pic to China; Paul Allen's yacht destroys a reef; Mass surveillance in Anaheim.
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Colophon: All the rest.

The petty (but undeniable) delights of cultivating ungovernability as a habit: Get good at being on hold.
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Object permanence: "Ventus"; Woody Guthrie v Trump's dad; Tory MP v poppers.
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Google's AI pricing plan: From each according to their ability (to pay).
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Object permanence: Disney buys Pixar; Bruces on "vernacular video"; Hickey paralysis; RIP David Hartwell; Personalized pricing; They were warned.
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AI is how bosses wage war on "professions": The only people *required* to tell their bosses to fuck off.
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Object permanence: Enshittification v VC; Byrne v DRM; Forger does it for the exposure; Beach trash hotel; Mafia nicknames; Longbow puzzle; NIMBYs; No one should be on the No-Fly list.
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Social media without socializing: For Zuck, your friends are a problem to be solved.
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Object permanence: "Among Others"; Vagina tea-balls; MLK was a socialist; Planet Money's free Gatsby audiobook; Bounty for wiretapping lefty profs; Poe's graveside ritual; Sleep Mafia; Whence came tarps; GM's Dieslgate; NRO's octopus; Amazon solidarity; Billionaire-proofing the internet.
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Colophon: All the rest.

The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification: Regulatory arbitrage isn't just for tax cheats.
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Object permanence: "Fledgling"; Magnetic forest rings; Electable Mr Sanders; "Terrorists" were just blind guys.
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Catch this! Email is good, actually.
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Object permanence: LDS excommunication; King Foundation v "I Have a Dream"; "Lat-stage capitalism" v "Christ, what an asshole"; Pelosi v Porter.
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How the Light Gets In: The door is open a crack!
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Object permanence: Poitras v First Look; Aaronsw's "Against School"; I was investigated by the FBI.
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Colophon: All the rest.