Pluralistic: 06 Oct 2020

Today's links

Maine's drunken, thieving, bumbling, child-porning public defenders: The cruelty is the point.
America's wild hog "pig bomb": Hybrid vigor is a hell of a drug.
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Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Squeeze Me: Carl Hiaasen's Trump-as-Florida-man masterpiece.
The Internet is for End-Users: IETF on "user agents."
Ad-tech is a bubble: Subprime Attention Crisis.
Schools! Libraries! Classrooms! Get free Attack Surface hardcovers: An imperfect solution to a thorny problem.
Facebook's living will: Leaks reveal the company's idiotic plans to stave off breakup.
Part 17 of Someone Comes to Town Someone Leaves Town: This week on the podcast: a murder most foul.
Seeking home call-center workers: Propublica wants your story.
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Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Normal isn't enough: The post-pandemic economy.
Why I love the Haunted Mansion: My interview with Nelda Live.
1000 Hours of Outrage: A crowdsourced retrospective of the Trump years.
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Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Inequality and luck and risk and merit: Heads they win, tails we lose.
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Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Call center workers pay for the privilege: Propublica breaks open the massive, secretive abuser Arise, fronted by Disney, Airbnb, Intuit, Comcast, Carnival and more.
Dan Hillier's Six Women/Six Men: New "box sets" from the spooky, brilliant collagist.
Apple kills RSS readers in China: Chekhov's Law for DRM strikes again.
This day in history: 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Witch: Kill Bill meets Thomas Hardy.
Attack Surface on the MMT Podcast: Imagining the first days of a better world.
Private equity's profitable murder: Leonard Green, Prospect Medical Holdings, and the vast fortunes built on the dead.
The Years of Repair: A Message From the Future (II).
Block Google-Fitbit: A merger made in hell.
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How I write: Process notes on Attack Surface.
The Anti-Monopoly War Song: Party like it's 1882.
My other computer is…: Next-level IoT meme-generator.
Leaked EU Big Tech rules: Proposal, or trial balloon?
Self-driving cars crashing: Uber's cars can't drive half a mile without a problem.
This day in history: 2010, 2015
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Bust 'em all: Bet you can't just break up one industry!
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, part 16: This week in the podcast!
Dark money and SCOTUS: The best Supreme Court money can buy.
Machine learning hieroglyphs: Google's Fabricius.
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Belarus's online/offline uprising: The evolution of tactics, from ice cream to doxing.
Newsletters' glorious history: An Antidote for Falsehood in the Daily Press.
Zombie banks: Why everyone loves to help banks hide their losses.
The Trump financial method: A quick and informative tldr on Trump's tax-returns.
Attack Surface excerpt: Read chapter one of the third Little Brother book.
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The joys of tailoring: Thrifting and tailoring are a match made in heaven.
Ransomware for coffee makers: Predicting the present.
My Reddit Privacy AMA: Oct 2-3.
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