Today's links
- Experian doxes the world (again): And the breach is still ongoing.
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Month: April 2021
Pluralistic: 29 Apr 2021
Today's links
- What the hell is "carried interest": A scam, obviously, but the real ripoff is preferential tax-treatment of capital gains.
- Korea set to break the Samsung dynasty: Intergenerational wealth transfers, dynastic fortunes, and eugenic meritocracy.
- Disney's writer wage-theft is far worse than reported: Allan Dean Foster was just the first to go public.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 28 Apr 2021
Today's links
- Dems want to give $600b to the one percent: Repealing the SALT cap is not a middle-class issue.
- This day in history: 2006, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 27 Apr 2021
Today's links
- Robot Artists & Black Swans: The fantascienza of "Bruno Argento" (AKA Bruce Sterling).
- Klobuchar on trustbusting: She's just published "Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age."
- Pharma's anti-generic-vaccine lobbying blitz: A civilization-ending delusion about pools with "no-pissing" ends.
- Unpack the court with judicial overrides: Consumer Protection and Recovery Act and beyond.
- Lexmark's toxic printer-ink: Every pirate wants to be an admiral.
- This day in history: 2011, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 26 Apr 2021
Today's links
- The Big U: America's elite educational institutions are as rich as countries.
- How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism Part 4: The latest installment of my podcast.
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 24 Apr 2021
Today's links
- Guess who's doing a usury in Iowa: When your exercise bike is actually a predatory lender.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 23 Apr 2021
Today's links
- Laundering torturers' reputations with copyfraud: Eliminalia, where "we erase your past and help you build your future."
- Foxconn's Wisconsin death-rattle: Imagine losing your family home for a GOP media op.
- John Deere's dismal infosec: Paternalistic security works well, fails badly.
- This day in history: 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 22 Apr 2021
Today's links
- The awesome destructive power of a billionaire: Ihor Kolomoisky destroyed lives in the midwest, Ukraine, and elsewhere.
- Banks made bank on covid overdraft charges: Charing the poorest people in America a 3,500% APR.
- Moxie hacks Cellebrite: Aesthetically pleasing files versus strict input-checking.
- Fighting FLoC is compatible with fighting monopoly: Not all competition is good competition.
- EFF sues Proctorio over copyfraud: The sleaze never stops.
- This day in history: 2006, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 21 Apr 2021
Today's links
- The Observatory of Anonymity: You are far less of a haystack-needle than you think.
- Hawley and Taylor Greene faked their donor-surge: Juking stats for fun, fortune, and fame.
- What's wrong with EU's trustbusters: And how to fix it.
- Some thoughts on GWB's call for truth in politics: Mission accomplished.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 20 Apr 2021
Today's links
- Real penalties for covid evicters: The CFPB is set to euthanize some rentiers – and their lawyers.
- McDonald's corporate wages war on ice-cream hackers: All the pasteurization in the world won't detoxify the mix of franchise agreements and rent-extraction.
- This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading