Today's links
- 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
Pluralistic: 11 Sep 2020
Today's links
- 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
Pluralistic: 10 Sep 2020
Today's links
- 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
Pluralistic: 09 Sep 2020
Today's links
- 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
Pluralistic: 08 Sep 2020
Today's links
- 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
Pluralistic: 07 Sep 2020
Today's links
- 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
Pluralistic: 06 Sep 2020
Today's links
- 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
Pluralistic: 04 Sep 2020
Today's links
- 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
Pluralistic: 03 Sep 2020
Today's links
- 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
Pluralistic: 02 Sep 2020
Today's links
- Amazon drivers hide phones in trees: Chickenizing the workforce.
- Russia didn't hack Michigan: The voter data is just public records.
- Chevron's dirty tricks against environmental lawyer: Steven Donziger caught them doing genocide, now HE'S under arrest.
- Amazon's weird, terrible Flex: Spying on their chickenized workforce.
- How to report on vote-by-mail: A recipe from Propublica.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading