Pluralistic: 13 Sep 2020

Today's links

How the Attack Surface audiobook can reform Audible: Pebbles R Us.
How to buy doubt: The Koch brothers vs reality's left-wing bias.
Mr Gotcha v covid: We should improve public health somewhat.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Bill Gates's monopolistic mask-off moment: "What's a murder?"
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Save video game history: The MADE needs help to mothball for two years.
Life as a precriminal: 1,000 people in Pasco County, Florida are harassed day and night as part of a predictive policing tool.
Qanon is basically the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: It's a recycling program for nutjob racists.
EFF vs filternet: Comments to the EU on Article 17.
America's pandemic spiral: 9 awful things. How many do you recognize?
Security Engineering, 3d edition: Anderson's revenge!
Alexa for landlords: Unauthorized Bread was not a pitch-deck.
This day in history: 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Inaudible: Let's make "Audible exclusive" mean "for sale everywhere EXCEPT Audible."
The rise and rise of one of NYPD's dirtiest cops: Violent, racist repeat-offender Christopher McCormack, promoted to the top brass.
Georgia voter suppression, quantified: Greg Palast counted all 313,242 receipts.
Kids' smart-watches unsafe at any speed: Still a garbage-fire.
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Podcasting chapter one of Attack Surface: A three hour preview of the audio, currently up on Kickstarter!
Crad Kilodney documentary: Kickstarting "Putrid Scum."
DRM versus human rights: Helping Mexico learn from 22 years of bitter US experience.
Germany's amazing new competition proposal: Putting interop front and center.
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

My first-ever Kickstarter: Help me change publishing with the audiobook for Attack Surface, the third Little Brother book.
IP: The longest, most significant Locus column I have written in my 14-year run.
FTC about to hammer Intuit: Billions in fraudulent tax-prep earnings under scrutiny.
Antitrust trouble for cloud services: Italy's competition regulator says Terms of Service are bullshit.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Facebook's foreseeable election consequences: Incompetence AND malice?
David Graeber on Spectre TV: Rest in power, David.
This day in history: 2005, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Doc resigns after his employer charges $11k for a $8 covid test: But he still opposes medicare for all.
This day in history: 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Fight the Power: Another summer.
Physicists overestimate their epidemiology game: Dunning-Kruger, meet the vaporisation of qualitative factors.
Trump is a salesman: He lacks the attention-span for fascism.
CO asphyxiation accounts for half of Hurricane Laura deaths: Generators are as deadly as 40mph winds.
Political ads have very small effect-sizes: Mind-control rays remain elusive.
Incredible Proof Machine: Lineal descendant of Sierra's Incredible Machine.
Kickstarting a Girl Genius game: Adventures in Castle Heterodyne.
This day in history: 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Big Car says Right to Repair will MURDER YOU: You wouldn't download a car.
Algorithmic grading: Another weapon of math destruction.
Snowden vindicated: NSA spying was illegal.
Coronavirus is over (if we want it): All we have to do is reform our entire health-care system.
Rest in Power, David Graeber: Occupy, Debt, Utopia of Rules, Bullshit Jobs.
Hedge fund managers trouser 64%: 2-and-20 is a fiction.
Corporate spooks track you "to your door": SDKs are trojan horses.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading