Pluralistic: 02 Sep 2020

Today's links

Amazon drivers hide phones in trees: Chickenizing the workforce.
Russia didn't hack Michigan: The voter data is just public records.
Chevron's dirty tricks against environmental lawyer: Steven Donziger caught them doing genocide, now HE'S under arrest.
Amazon's weird, terrible Flex: Spying on their chickenized workforce.
How to report on vote-by-mail: A recipe from Propublica.
This day in history: 2005, 2010
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 01 Sep 2020

Today's links

Podcasting "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism": Monopolies are more probable than mind-control.
Set My Heart to Five: Sf satire in a Vonnegut mold.
Mediactive: Three week masterclass in digital media literacy from Dan Gillmor and ASU's News Co/Lab.
America's economy is cooked: Debts that can't be paid won't be paid.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 31 Aug 2020

Today's links

Hard Wired: Robot rights are human rights.
Calavera masks: John Picacio wants to help you ride out the plague as a sugar-skull.
Classic, hand-lettered electronics textbook: The story of Forrest M Mims, III's "Getting Started in Electronics."
Bayer-Monsanto is in deep trouble: Destructive, reckless mergers are part of the Curse of Bigness.
Recapping Little Brother and Homeland: Nudging a generation of early-stage Oppenheimers.
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 30 Aug 2020

Today's links

We don't know why you don't want to have public sex: But it's probably not because of Arabian babblers.
Big Tech welcomes (some) regulation: Monkey's paw ju-jitsu.
This day in history: 2005, 2010
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 29 Aug 2020

Today's links

California's preventable fires: 1,000,000 acres of fire-debt.
Zuck calls Apple a monopolist: I know you are but what am I?
This day in history: 2005, 2010
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 27 Aug 2020

Today's links

Principles for platform regulation: User control, algorithmic transparency, accountable governance and anonymity.
Hagoromo, mathematicians' cult chalk: The Blackwing pencil of chalkboards.
Gender and the Hugo Awards: It's still wildly skewed.
Outdoor education beat TB in 1907: A brisk precedent for in-person schooling.
This day in history: 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 26 Aug 2020

Today's links

Surveillance Capitalism is just capitalism, plus surveillance: Mind-control rays remain implausible.
It's blursday: Today is Weds, Mar 179, 2020.
Optimizing banana-geometry with machine learning: Just look at it.
This day in history: 2005, 2015
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 25 Aug 2020

Today's links

Ballistic Kiss: Supernatural, with wheels on it..
Telepresence Nazi punching: Play Cardboard Wolfenstein, stay in training.
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 24 Aug 2020

Today's links

Concretizing "Main St vs Wall St": Zombie postcapitalism 101.
Don't use Bridgefy at protests: Audit shows "concert app" makes a terrible "protest app."
Nontransitive dice: A beats B, B beats C, but A doesn't beat C.
Chinese sf guidelines: "Raise the spirit of scientists."
New podcast episode, feat. radical bookstores: Part 14 of "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town."
This day in history: 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 23 Aug 2020

Today's links

Quantifying the meritocratic delusion: "Talent vs Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure."
AOC's WPA-style GND posters: A vivid, affirmative vision.
This day in history: 2005, 2015
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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