Pluralistic: 26 Jun 2021

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The Overlapping Infrastructure of Urban Surveillance: A long, tall graphic depicting the invisible, ubiquitous city spy-grid.
How Peter Thiel gamed the Roth IRA for tax-free billions: More from Propublica's Secret IRS Files.
New York City's 100 worst landlords: Gotta catch 'em all.
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Pluralistic: 24 Jun 2021

Today's links

The pandemic showed remote proctoring to be worse than useless: Kill it with fire.
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Pluralistic: 22 Jun 2021

Today's links

Improving the ACCESS Act: Six ways to make the most important tech law of the legislative season even better.
Juul's junk science: Reporting bias makes vaping's safety is a hazy mess.
Peloton bricks its treadmills: Your kids are dead because you didn't buy the subscription.
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Pluralistic: 21 Jun 2021

Today's links

Podcasting "Inside the Clock Tower": Reading my Consumer Reports story about an interoperable future.
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Pluralistic: 20 Jun 2021

Today's links

How to cheat on your taxes: The rich are different from you and me.
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Pluralistic: 19 Jun 2021

Today's links

The gig economy's dark-money, astroturf "community groups": Uber and Lyft spent their way into a rep for racial justice.
The doctrine of dynastic wealth: Abigail Disney on tax evasion and the American caste system.
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Pluralistic: 17 Jun 2021

Today's links

Tali Farhadian Weinstein paid virtually no tax on millions and millions: And she wants to be the Manhattan DA and go after Trump's tax-dodging.
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Pluralistic: 16 Jun 2021

Today's links

Suing all of ad-tech: Will an EU country finally enforce the GDPR?
Interop Sci-Fi: Inside the Clock Tower, my interoperability sf for Consumer Reports.
This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 15 Jun 2021

Today's links

Taxes are for the little people: If your eyes glaze over at "carried interest loophole," wait'll you hear about "fee waivers."
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Pluralistic: 14 Jun 2021

Today's links

The Rent's Too Damned High: A podcast of my Medium column on the long con of asset appreciation.
Highway to Hell: The infrastructure "compromise" is just funny accounting.
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