Pluralistic: 31 May 2020

Today's links

Parts Found in Sea: A limited-access listen to some of the musical unobtanium of my boyhood.
2019 Nebula Award winners: Sara Pinkser's "Song for a New Day."
Why Minneapolis can't fire violent cops: Police union chief Bob Kroll wore a "white power" badge on his uniform jacket.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Australia caves on "robodebt": Dialing down the automated performative cruelty by a single notch.
Locus Award shortlist: Some of my 2019 favorites made the cut.
Why I haven't written about CDA 230: Life is too short.
Bus drivers refuse to take arrested protesters to jail: And they're unionized, so they don't have to.
AI has been stagnating for a decade: "The high-water mark was set in 2009."
This day in history: 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Big Tech distorts our discourse: No mind-control required.
How the IoT reinforces gentrification: Smart doorbells and predictive policing are fully automated karens.
Private equity goes mainstream: If you're gonna loot, you MUST also asset-strip.
What to do about the police: 15 concrete things that should be done to reform American policing, right now.
Masks work: Source control is a thing.
Walmart's crummy anti-theft AI: Employees blow the whistle on their employers' credulous machine learning procurements.
GOP lawmaker hid his diagnosis from Democrats: Andrew Lewis wandered around Pennsylvania's statehouse, shedding virus particles.
Canadians newsrooms restructure as co-ops: And readers can join!
Get a peronalized, signed Poesy the Monster Slayer: Dark Delicacies will ship you copies signed by me and the original Poesy.
This day in history: 2005, 2019
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Cuomo legalizes nursing-home murders: Immunity for execs who cut corners, even when it kills someone.
"News" broadcasts air scripted Amazon commercial: Media concentration is a hell of a drug.
Why ammosexuals are REALLY pointing guns at their own dicks: Bottom line: they're pointing guns at their own dicks.
California is setting itself up for a brutal second wave: Months of lockdown, squandered at the barber-shop.
Teardown of an "anti-5g" USB stick: When the conspiracy has a business-model.
Wisconsin cases surge after voting day: Murder at the ballot box.
World video premiere of the Little Brother stage play: A benefit for the Custom Made Theater Co.
Cumgate on blast: Marina Hyde's got Dom's number.
Corporate Dems include military contractors in bailout: Billions for Beltway Bandits.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
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Scarfolk on Cumgate: Government Employee Eye-Test Slide (1970s).
Texas profiteers make bank from NYC's homeless: Crewfacilities.com LLC is gouging the city while finding hotel beds for homeless people.
FCC's willful broadband blindness in a pandemic: You can't fix broadband if you don't know what's wrong with it.
Uber is scrapping thousands of Jump bikes: Bikes are essential during lockdowns.
White Americans are increasingly opposed to democracy: Turkeys, Christmas, etc.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
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Crowdfunding an open access jewelry course: Elise Matheson wants to preserve her "wandering wire" methodology.
Bahamas Company Registry leaked: Another service of the Distributed Denial of Secrets project.
Mafia logic and conservative ideology: There is a difference.
Podcast: Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Part 4: Enter Kurt.
Google's free/open multilingual font: Banishing tofu with Noto.
Soviet Signs and Relics: A book of sovkitsch sourced from Google Street View.
Rogue UK civil service tweet damns "truth-twisters": Impunity rage.
A jailbreak for every version of Ios: Attacking is easier than defending.
Texas Instruments locks down its hackable calculators: Designed to control the user.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
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Bloomberg editorial calls for a supersized New Deal: Noah Smith says FDR didn't go far enough.
A Database of Ruin: Another excerpt from Barton Gellman's Snowden book.
Coronagrifting and other bad design fictions: Photoshop will not win the war on the virus.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Covid apps and false positives: The real killer app is public confidence.
Casio censors calculator modder's Github project: The modder says it's copyfraud.
Penguin poop turns into laughing gas: Researchers figured it out when they started getting buzzed.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
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Oh Joy Sex Toy's new teen sex-ed book: Our Bodies and Health.
Torcon: Gaiman, Okorafor, Kowal, Schwab: …and me!
Copyright bots are slaughtering classical musicians' performances: Filternet, working as intended.
Coronavirus has made the super-rich MUCH richer: The crisis is here, it's just not evenly distributed.
How to start a platform co-op: A MOOC from NYU and Mondragon.
Mum uses GDPR to force Gran to take down pics: That's one way to settle the dispute.
Physical BLINK tag: Lenticular dominance.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading