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
Tag: administrative incompetence
Pluralistic: 28 Oct 2020
Today's links
- RIAA's war on youtube-dl: The rise of the resistance.
- Trump abandons supporters to freeze: More death cult shit.
- This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 12 Aug 2020
Today's links
- Grace is cleared: The homeschool-to-prison pipeline is closed…for now.
- Mexico's terrible copyright is in trouble: Hasta la victoria siempre.
- Failed State: Chris Brown's outstanding new ecopocalyptic cyberpunk legal thriller.
- Marvel's $0.10 mini-comics: Gashapon funnies from 1966.
- Sorting machines snatched from post offices: Administrative incompetence vs textualism?
- Payday lenders are CFPB's pandemic aid: When the watchdogs switch sides.
- Trump's Solicitor General says bribery is legal: Rule 48a applies even if the judge sees the prosecutor accept a bribe in the courtroom.
- RSS WTF: An explainer for the newly awakened.
- This day in history: 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 22 Jul 2020
Today's links
- Ukrainian steampunk masks: The gorgeous work of Dmitriy and Aleksandra Bragin.
- OTF spared (for now): Trump's administrative incompetence saves the US Agency for Global Media from becoming Global Breitbart.
- Insurers are secret, powerful police reformers: Money talks, bullshit walks.
- Ohio GOP leadership arrested for racketeering: Largest corruption scandal in Ohio history.
- Little Brother as a role-playing game: Notes from the Fiction & RPG Podcast.
- Anti-facial recognition tool: Fawkes will alter your images in ways that are invisible to humans but confounding for algorithms.
- Kentucky AG sues top GOP donors: Kentucky's Republican lawmaker is the best kind of class-traitor.
- This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 02 Jun 2020
Today's links
- Image Scrubber: An in-browser image sanitizer that doesn't require you to trust a random website.
- Trump's bailout guy is making millions for his family: Justin Muzinich isn't a flamboyant villain like Mnuchin. He's a quiet villain.
- Fix the police: What evidence says about police reform.
- After Jim Crow, broken windows: Kelling and Zimbardo have a lot to answer for.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 24 Apr 2020
Today's links
- Save Forbidden Planet NYC: Keep NYC weird.
- Which guillotine is right for you: Current Affairs's guide for the perplexed.
- A labradoodle breeder is in charge of America's vaccines: An actual labradoodle could do a better job.
- "Inject disinfectant" vs both sides-ism: We report, you decide.
- US healthcare fails insured people too: A laundry list of gaps and errors.
- Masks work: Lasers reveal your revolting, spittle-flecked utterances.
- US telcoms sector isn't doing better than Europe's: Net Neutrality's murderers want you to believe they saved the American internet.
- Amazon uses its sellers' data to figure out which products to clone: And they lied to Congress about it.
- Facebook let advertisers target "pseudoscience" and "conspiracy": Son of "jew-haters."
- Security expert conned out of $10,000: If you think you're too smart to get phished…
- California Adventure, Minecraft edition: New maps for the Imagineering Fun server.
- This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading