https://pluralistic.net/ seems to down?
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I had not problem pulling it up?
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working now…maybe problem was on my end 
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https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/28/twiddlehazard/#outboard-brains-considered-harmful
The web is a giant cognitive prosthesis, and early web tools put a lot of emphasis on things like bookmark management and local caching, so that the knowledge and cognition you externalized to the web were under your control. But Google Search was so goddamned magic – before they cynically destroyed it – that a lot of us switched from “not remembering things because you have a bookmark that takes you to a website that remembers it for you” to “not remembering things and not remembering where to find them, and just typing queries into Google.” The collapse of Google into a giant pile of shit is like giving every web user a traumatic brain injury.
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https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/29/bondi-and-domination/#superjove
For Trump, the only point of this coalition is to help him amass wealth and power, and so he has established himself as the ultimate arbiter of its conflicts. If you’re the leader of a warring MAGA faction, your top winning move is to figure out how getting your way can personally benefit Trump.
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