Pluralistic: 04 Oct 2021

Today's links

Podcasting "Take It Back": My Medium column on copyright termination and rights reversion.
Savage Love A-Z: A bestiary of good sex.
The Pandora Papers: Tax avoidance is tax evasion.
USPS pilots postal banking: Slashing taxes (on the poor).
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Pluralistic: 02 Oct 2021

Today's links

How the IMF loan-sharks the global south: With surcharges, the cruelty is the point.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 30 Sep 2021

Today's links

Facebook thrives on criticism of "disinformation": They'd rather be evil than incompetent.
This day in history: 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 29 Sep 2021

Today's links

Debts that can't be paid, won't be paid: The first David Graeber Foundation meetup, between Thomas Piketty and Michael Hudson.
"Are you calling me a racist?": The libertarian case for racism.
Wells Fargo can't stop criming: The nation's third-biggest bank is a criminal enterprise.
This day in history: 2001, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 28 Sep 2021

Today's links

Democrats can pass the reconciliation today (sorta): A bet on the 'endowment effect.'
This day in history: 2001, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 27 Sep 2021

Today's links

Podcasting "Breaking In": Why you shouldn't take career advice from successful writers.
Democrats, health care monopolies, and market failures: Market health care is a fatal disease.
Shelter is a toxic asset: NIMBYism is a fatal disease.
This day in history: 2001, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 26 Sep 2021

Today's links

The Scholars of Night: John M Ford was a goddamned WIZARD.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 24 Sep 2021

Today's links

Demonopolizing the internet with interoperability: My op-ed in the Communications of the ACM
This day in history: 2001, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 23 Sep 2021

Today's links

The Halloween Moon: A YA novel from Nightvale creator Joseph Fink.
The music monopolists: Thinking outside the antitrust box.
This day in history: 2011, 2016
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Pluralistic: 22 Sep 2021

Today's links

Gig workers around the globe: One disease, many pathologies.
Mutual Aid and David Graeber: A new, illustrated edition of Kropotkin's masterpiece, with an introduction from the great, much-missed hero of Occupy.
Facebook algorithm boosts pro-Facebook news: Orwell was an optimist.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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