Pluralistic: 06 Dec 2020

Today's links

Ad-tech as a bubble overdue for a bursting: Upton Sinclair was an optimist.
The largest strike in human history: The Shock Doctrine's breaking-point.
Soviet computing graveyard: Recovering a Saratov-2 from presumed extinction.
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Descartes' God has failed and Thompson's Satan rules our computers: Computers, trust, and the knowability of the universe.
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Student debt trap: Borrowed: $79,000. Paid: $190,000. Now Owes? $236,000.
Postmortem of the NYPD's murder of a Black man: How to write about individual stories of a structural crisis.
Section 230 is Good, Actually: It's not a "corporate giveaway," it's how you got the parts of the internet that you actually like.
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Monopolies made America vulnerable to covid: Pharma, hospitals and other health industries were weak before the pandemic.
The Ministry For the Future: Kim Stanley Robinson's final (?) novel.
Graffitists hit dozens of NYC subway cars: Party like it's 1984.
Breathtaking Iphone hack: Zero-click wireless worms.
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Nalo Hopkinson, Science Fiction Grand Master: Writer, teacher, mentor.
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Ohio spends tax dollars to destroy Ohio: Kroger's state subsidies funnelled to "ghost kitchens."
Diving bell drawings: Pictures of the deep, drawn in a mid-19th C submersible.
Distanced stage plays: The first online arts centre in the English-speaking world.
Double your EFF donation: Up to $319,000 in donations matching.
Emotional deck: Crowdfunding the Becoming Dragon deck.
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Twitter is more redeemable than Facebook: Guidelines for constructing a productive anti-bubble.
Open law and the rule of law: A copyrighted law can't be law.
RÄT: An extraordinary musical interlude.
Attack Surface in the New York Times: And Macleans!
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Tech in SF: Annalee Newitz and Ken Liu in the final Attack Surface Lecture.
Office 365 spies on employees for bosses: It looks like you're creating a technological dystopia. Would you like some help with that?
A state-owned Amazon: Notes on Argentina's Correo Compras.
Random Penguin to buy Simon & Schuster: And then there were four.
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Sci-Fi Genre: Sarah Gailey and Chuck Wendig on the Attack Surface Lectures.
Saudi Aramco is gushing debt: Vision 2030 strikes again.
Emailifaction is digital carcinization: Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail.
Cheap Chinese routers riddled with backdoors: Actively exploited by Mirai.
Talking interop on EFF's podcast: We call it competitive compatibility.
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Opsec and personal security: Runa Sandvik and Window Snyder on the Attack Surface Lectures.
Australian predictive policing tool for kids: Digital phrenology vs racialized kids.
A textbook grift: Economics, Final Edition.
Labor and large firms: Lessons from Caterpillar and Hollywood.
The power of procurements: A streamlined way to regulate IoT.
Guatemala's guillotines: Protesters torch the parliament.
Someone Comes to Town part 24: This week on my podcast.
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