Today's links

Amazon's Monopoly Tollbooth: Quantifying the market-power abuses of Amazon's platform.
Thomas Hawk's Talking Heads: Judy's in the bedroom inventing situations.
Orwell prize winner trapped in orwellian nightmare: Jessica Johnson's predicament puts the "kafkaesque" in "orwellian."
Spikey: Infering key geometry from the sound of lock-entry.
Hedge fund won't return Citi's accidental $175m deposit: No backsies.
Yale admin: "Prepare for death": It's not quite "boola boola."
Austerity breeds Nazis: Analyzing Weimar election data.
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Today's links

The Fifth Pig: OG antifa agitprop.
"Fuck the algorithm": English children force Tories to U-turn on algorithmic educational assessments.
Mr Cook, Tear Down That Wall: Interop, Apple, Fortnite and the Berlin Wall.
Deindustrialization is a market failure: Future crises are never priced into market transactions.
Fed cops substitute dollars for warrants: Why talk to a judge when you can talk to a data-broker?
Upbeat surveillance marketing: Hikvision's jolly medieval spy-tech.
South Africa's copyright and human rights: Fair use, the Berne Convention, and Ramaphosa.
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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