Pluralistic: Podcasts are hearteningly enshittification resistant; Red Team Blues excerpt (27 Jan 2023)

Today's links

Podcasts are hearteningly enshittification resistant: Walled gardens considered harmful (to performers and audiences).
Red Team Blues excerpt: The final adventure of Marty Hench.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

The public paid for "Moderna's" vaccine, and now we're going to pay again (and again and again): Herd immunity is incompatible with shareholder capitalism.
How Facebook's Real Names policy helps Cambodia's thin-skinned dictator terrorize dissenters: "Yes, our beaches are the most beautiful, but our leaders are the dirtiest in the world, aren’t they?"
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

David Graeber's "Pirate Enlightenment": The true, swashbuckling lives of matriarchs, anarchists, and pirates at the crossroads of the world.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Eggflation is just more price-gouging: Cal-Maine Foods owns every egg brand you've ever heard of and its profits are up 65%.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Tiktok's enshittification: The company manually allocates surplus to creators, and they can take it away again, too.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Why the Fed wants to crush workers: Fall of Rome speedrun.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Care Inflation: The inflation no one wants to talk about.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Eleanor Janega's "Once and Future Sex": The true, weird, horny history of medieval gender and sex.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2013, 2018
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

1,000,000 stranded Southwest passengers deserved better from Pete Buttigieg: The worst US aviation failure in history was a long time coming, and could have been averted.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018.
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Kate Beaton's "Ducks": A memoir of oil, misogyny and economic precarity.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: None
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading