Today's links
- Proctorio's awful reviews disappear down the memory hole: Ian Linkletter saved the receipts.
- This day in history: 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 03 Sep 2021
Today's links
- Gun-maker demands Sandy Hook children's disciplinary records: Remington finds new depths of depravity to plumb.
- ALEC pushed voter suppression bills: And then lied about it.
- This day in history: 2006, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 01 Sep 2021
Today's links
- Eviction is over (if we want it): The Big Bag of Money Method.
- This day in history: 2001, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 31 Aug 2021
Today's links
- Inequality, not gerontocracy: Who killed interest rates?
- Monopoly power and political corruption: Starve the (corporate) beast, shrink it until it fits in a bathtub.
- This day in history: 2006, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 30 Aug 2021
Today's links
- India's 'toxic' ed-tech giant: How Byju's hard-sells desperate parents into taking out predatory loans for their kids' education.
- Podcasting "Utilities and Empires" and "FB's War on Switching Costs": A twofer from EFF's Deeplinks blog, on this week's podcast.
- This day in history: 2001, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Twitter Arguments
A theory of change
The kind of activism I do has a serious structural barrier: it’s esoteric. Even today, tech-policy issues are extremely niche. Indeed, tech-policy is a niche within a niche —most people have little technical knowledge and most people have little policy expertise, and the stuff I do requires that you have some of both.
Pluralistic: 28 Aug 2021
Today's links
- The "work ethic" is a dirty trick we play on ourselves: Rationalizing away the pointlessness and indignity of low-waged work.
- Facebook's war on switching costs: Network effects attract users, switching costs take them hostage.
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2020.
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 26 Aug 2021
Today's links
- Vaccinate workers at (almost) any price: Corporate America sabotaged paid vaccination leave.
- This day in history: 2001, 2011, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 25 Aug 2021
Today's links
- Big Box stores' other shoe drops: Lowe's is a parasite that is killing its host.
- Belarusian dictator pwned by "cyber-partisans": When a secretive autocrat has no more secrets.
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 24 Aug 2021
Today's links
- Are privacy and antitrust on a collision course?: Harmful dominance, democratic privacy controls, interop and illegitimate greatness.
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading