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Sympathy for the spammer: The desperate and credulous are superspreaders in the botshit pandemic.

Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.

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The extremely shady "educational integrity" industry: From Proctorio to Honorlock.
Oh great, there's DRM in printer PAPER now: Dymo was so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
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The Rent's Too Damned High: A podcast of my Medium column on the long con of asset appreciation.

Highway to Hell: The infrastructure "compromise" is just funny accounting.

This day in history: 2001, 2011, 2016, 2020

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