‘We buy ugly houses’ is code for ‘we steal vulnerable peoples’ homes’(pluralistic.net)

59 points by deegles 3 years ago | 42 comments

Solar is a market for (financial) lemons(pluralistic.net)

79 points by Timothee 2 years ago | 49 comments

Apple fucked us on right to repair (again)(pluralistic.net)

80 points by jrepinc 3 years ago | 17 comments

Cory Doctorow: The real AI fight(pluralistic.net)

12 points by ohjeez 2 years ago | 3 comments

Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components(pluralistic.net)

120 points by samizdis 3 years ago | 27 comments

I Got Scammed(pluralistic.net)

25 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 3 comments

Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers(pluralistic.net)

638 points by HotGarbage 4 months ago | 232 comments

A Pluralistic blog post by Cory Doctorow about Mark Zuckerberg's and Meta's increasingly bizarre efforts against whistleblowers.

Nobody cares(grantslatton.com)

833 points by fzliu 1 year ago | 778 comments

A personal blog rant by Grant Slatton arguing that most people don't care about doing excellent work, citing examples like the DMV and buggy software.

Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come(blog.muni.town)

341 points by erlend_sh 1 year ago | 234 comments

A 2007 Coding Horror post by Jeff Atwood explaining why he avoids private social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn and prefers the public web.

Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over(newyorker.com)

468 points by FinnLobsien 1 year ago | 801 comments

New Yorker column by Kyle Chayka on Mark Zuckerberg's testimony at Meta's antitrust trial arguing that social media platforms are no longer what they used to be.

Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege(reuters.com)

562 points by pseudolus 11 months ago | 224 comments

Reuters article on US court filings alleging Meta buried internal causal evidence that its social media platforms harm users; page showed a captcha verification.

Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case(cbsnews.com)

348 points by pseudolus 1 month ago | 94 comments

CBS News report that a New Mexico jury found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy protections related to the Cambridge Analytica data breach.