Pluralistic: 19 May 2020

Today's links

Lego's new Haunted House is wheelchair accessible: Hot and cold running chills.
Marcus Yallow has coronavirus: Fanfic from liquidCitrus.
Home Computers: Arty pix of paleosystems.
"Shoe-leather" contact tracing works: Apps are – at best – a "workforce multiplier."
Softbank's "pegasus" grift: Pay no attention to the unicorn in the ditch.
HP Lovecraft warns against pulp contamination: A deplorable style which is hard to unlearn.
Highspeed rail for America: LA to SF in under 3 hours, without the cursed departure hall.
$10T to avert another Great Depression: Save America for the cost of two Iraq wars.
Toothsome masks: Pleats are magic.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Ada Palmer, being brilliant for 2.5h: On the Singularity Podcast.
Restaurateur wreaks algorithmic vengeance upon Doordash: Nonconsensual delivery services vs arbitrage.
England's storks are back: A 600 year old deep cut.
See through walls with free software: TEMPEST, GNU Radio style.
Universal broadband now: Broadband is a human right.
Airgap-busting malware: Probabilistic sneakernet injections.
Deliveroo, without Deliveroo: The problem isn't the service, it's the social arrangements.
Podcast: Part 3 of Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town: Have your read all those books?
US insurers say paying for pandemic treatment is "selfless": Blind boxes r us.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Instagram's slow-mo appeals court: A nanosecond to block, 28 months to review.
DOD lie-detector manual leaked: How credible is the National Center for Credibility Assessment?
Farewell to Beyond the Beyond: Wired retires Bruce Sterling's blog, and he has thoughts.
Neoliberals won't waste this crisis: When the left abandoned leninism, the right swiped it.
This day in history: None
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Rep Steve Cohen wants to clawback billionaires' bailout: Sending bailout pork to the slaughterhouse.
Democratize workplaces now: Labor investors demand a seat at the table.
NYC teens fight period poverty: Period products bundled with school meals.
No sides: We have a shared destiny.
Google faces antitrust blitz: I'm feeling lucky.
Zuck wants Giphy: Pronounced "J-I-F," spelled "S-P-Y."
This day in history: 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Understanding Qanon: Big Tech hasn't invented a mind-control ray.
Devo Emergency Dome: Are we not men?
Covid Seuss parodies: Sosumi.
Self-cooling sweaty solar panels: Material science ftw.
Google's GDPR reckoning: Max Schrems to the max.
A people's vaccine: Can't pay won't pay.
Whistleblower warns of massive mortgage fraud: 2008, again.
Tear gas ice-cream: It feels difficult to breathe at first, and it’s really pungent and irritating.
Lockdown Haunted Mansion theme: Dapperdans@home.
A Furiosa movie: No Max in the next Mad Max.
This day in history: 2019, 2015, 2010, 2005
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Restaurants won't let gig drivers pee: Biological imperatives.
Facebook's "backfire effect" junk science: Weaponized replication crisis.
Learn magic: Friends & Astronauts, endorsed by The Jerx.
Pythonesque small claims: Pushin' up the daisies.
Modern monetary theory's moment has arrived: Stephanie Kelton on NPR's Marketplace.
Pandemics shatter AI's intrinsic conservativism: Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019.
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

The right's theories about human behavior are bankrupt: Immortan Joe is a shitty behavioral economist.
Adjacent, similar NYC neighborhoods with wildly different outcomes: Early warning saved Flushing, Queens.
Honey in a glue dispenser: Easy spreading ahoy.
Iceland's world-beating coronavirus app didn't help much: Shoe-leather contact tracing beats automated exposure notification.
Thunderspy: a devastating attack on Thunderbolt: Evil Maid, 2020 edition.
Talking Canada Reads and Radicalized: My chat with Canada Reads American Style.
Plane ticket refunds (without airline cooperation): Call your credit card issuer.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

80% of Britons want happiness, not growth: Defeating Goodhart's Law.
Shanghai Disneyland re-opens: Social cohesion and pandemic countermeasures.
The bailout is working (for Wall Street): How's that trickle-down treating you?
NLRB nukes Hearst's union-busting: "Company unions" are a fiction.
Podcast of "Rules for Writers": More what you call guidelines.
Facebook's "supreme court": You can't fix something from the inside if it shouldn't exist in the first place.
This day in history: None
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Probability and pandemics: Billions of people generate one-in-a-billion outcomes.
Striking New Orleans garbage collectors replaced with prison labor: New Jim Crow, pandemic edition.
Factchecking virologist/conspiracist Judy Mikovits: Demonstrably false claims.
Pandemic countermeasures from the porn industry: How to control contagion in intimate circumstances.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading