Today's links
- Inflation or price-gouging?: Big business loves inflation talk.
- This day in history: 2006, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Author: Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: 19 Nov 2021
Today's links
- Teamsters transformed: Militant labor is strong labor.
- This day in history: 2001, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 18 Nov 2021
Today's links
- This is your Congress on drugs: Corruption kills.
- Harvard is full of rich, white low-achievers: 43% of white Harvard students didn't get in on merit.
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 17 Nov 2021
Today's links
- Aspiration's comprehensively deceptive greenwashing: It's "do well" OR "do good."
- Live Nation is to blame for the Astroworld deaths: Monopoly kills fandom, literally.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 16 Nov 2021
Today's links
- What Police Get When They Get Your Phone: A new season of EFF's podcast, on cop-tech and what to do about it.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Jam To-Day
Liberating Big Tech’s hostages on day one
“The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday — but never jam to-day.”
-The Red Queen, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (Lewis Carroll)
The new, surging antitrust movement has given hope to many who yearn to throw off the yoke of Big Tech. After all, the tech giants’ dominance was attained through solidly illegal conduct, such as anti-competitive mergers and acquisitions, predatory pricing, and price-fixing. This produced conditions in which the companies were able to engage in more flagrant illegal conduct, including unambiguous, multi-billion-dollar acts of fraud.
Pluralistic: 14 Nov 2021
Today's links
- Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than it does on TVs themselves: Even if you're paying for the product, you're still the product.
- This day in history: 2011, 2016
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 13 Nov 2021
Today's links
- How to be safe(r) online: Ars Technica's excellent guide, by Sean Gallagher.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 12 Nov 2021
Today's links
- American corporate criminals in the crosshairs (finally): Lisa Monaco says she's gonna enforce those bullshit deferred prosecution agreements.
- This day in history: 2001, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 10 Nov 2021
Today's links
- Risk compensation considered harmful: HPV vaccines, N95s, seatbelts, helmets and the Chicago Boys.
- This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading