Today's links
- Google's short-lived data-advantage: Don't believe the criti-hype.
- This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 10 Apr 2021
Today's links
- Youtube blocks advertisers from targeting "Black Lives Matter": On the impossibility of "brand safety."
- This day in history: 2001, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 8 Apr 2021
Today's links
- We CAN have nice things: Why – and how – America's New New Deal should go VERY VERY big.
- Howard Dean's racist, genocidal pharma sellout: Once a progressive lion, now a shill for the worst companies on Earth. Fuck that guy sideways with a brick.
- 60 seconds of giddy, terrifying, delightful surrealism: The magic realism of Fernando Livschitz.
- This day in history: 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 07 Apr 2021
Today's links
- Leaked NYPD "goon squad" manual: The NYPD isn't "undertrained" – the cruelty is the point.
- Door Dashers organize app-defeating solidarity: The #DeclineNow movement vs Tony's Casino.
- This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 06 Apr 2021
Today's links
- Podcasting How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: Part one of five(ish).
- The real cancel culture: Multiple-choice union-busting.
- Ad-tech's algorithmic cruelty: What technology does isn't as important as who it does it TO.
- Folio Society publishes Philip K Dick's short fiction: Books as artifacts.
- This day in history: 2011, 2016
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 05 Apr 2021
Today's links
- How Facebook will benefit from its massive breach: Creating a problem does not qualify you to solve the problem.
- This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 03 Apr 2021
Today's links
- Consumerism won't defeat Georgia's Jim Crow: You're not an ambulatory wallet.
- China's antitrust surge: "Consumer welfare" means corporate rule.
- This day in history: None
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 02 Apr 2021
Today's links
- The zombie economy and digital arm-breakers: Debts that can't be paid won't be paid, but still…
- This day in history: 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 01 Apr 2021
Today's links
- Ontario's drug-dealer premier is shockingly bad at distributing vaccines: How is it that Doug Ford was so good at slinging hash, and is so bad at vaccinating?
- This day in history: 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 31 Mar 2021
Today's links
- AT&T will lay off thousands more: After promising that Trump's $20B tax-break would create jobs.
- Cuba is a vaccine powerhouse: A vaccine for the Global South.
- Sacklers to use Purdue bankruptcy to escape justice: Crime pays.
- AI has a GIGO problem: Bias-laundering at mass scale.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading