https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/06/empiricism-washing/
Oh dear, Ireland!
“Ireland attracts these companies by allowing them to evade their taxes, but it can only keep these companies by allowing them to break any law that gets in their way, because if Meta can pretend to be Irish this week, it could pretend to be Maltese (or Cypriot, Luxembourgeois, or Dutch) next week” Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs)
John-Paul Flintoff
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2026-04-07 14:01:22 UTC
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