Pluralistic: 20 Feb 2021

Today's links

Tech trustbusting's moment has arrived: The end of the beginning is at hand.
Signed copies of HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM: Relief for your screen-burned eyes.
This day in history: 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Privacy Without Monopoly: A new EFF white paper, co-authored with Bennett Cyphers.
Broad Band: Claire L Evans's magesterial history of women in computing.
$50T moved from America's 90% to the 1%: The hereditary meritocracy is in crisis.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

New podcast: Part nine of my reading of Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town.
Europe's interop coalition: DSA + Interop = Competition.
Scarfolk beermats: Ministers' Stout Hubris and more.
Miami cop owns illegal mansion nightclub: For some reason, the cops didn't prevent the nightly Lamborghini races.
Video and transcript of my OII talk: If you missed last week's "What Big Tech does to discourse, and the forgotten tech tool that can make tech less big."
Shower temperature vs handle position: You're not imagining it.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

EFF on EU interoperability policy: Securing Europeans' technological self-determination.
BAHA Blues: Patrick Costello's harrowing hearing aid implant experience.
Bossware: The remote work dystopia is here.
Big Cop's corporate armorers: Corporate "charity" funds police military and surveillance black budgets.
Invigilation CEO doxes student: Proctorio's CEO "takes privacy very seriously."
Sun Ra's syllabus: Lecture and reading list from "The Black Man in the Cosmos" (UC Berkeley 1971).
Snowden on Little Brother: The new Little Brother/Homeland omnibus is almost upon us!
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Sterilizer company vs Right to Repair: Steris wants Ifixit to stop distributing repair manuals.
Intro to cybersecurity: The Open University's MOOC.
This is the EU's interoperability moment: The Digital Services Act could challenge Big Tech — but will it?
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

The technology of Uyghur oppression: COIN and CVE with Chinese characteristics.
Transparency without recourse: Keynote for tomorrow's Transparency By Design conference.
How covid spreads: A tale in four charts.
Why SCOTUS upheld LGBTQ rights: Time for some game theory.
Hackers on Planet Earth: HOPE 2020 is happening, and I'm keynoting.
Talking Radicalized with Podside Picnic: Science fiction, economics, politics, writing craft and beyond.
Giant worry-stone: Machinist Chris Bathgate upscales his worry stone.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

The TSA is hoarding N95s: It doesn't even use 'em.
Look at this banana gondola.: Just look at it.
America is united: Turkeys skeptical about Christmas.
$3 router rebooter: If no_google then reboot.
EFF's Guide to Digital Rights During the Pandemic: Digital rights are human rights.
Wink will brick your smart home if you don't pay a monthly fee: How you act in bad times reveals your true character.
Helicopter flyover of deserted Disneyland: We find it delightfully unlivable here in this ghostly retreat.
EU: "Cookie walls violate the GDPR": Another blow to cookie consent theatre.
Unix and Adversarial Interoperability: The "one weird antitrust trick" that defined modern computing.
Sidewalk Labs pulls out of Toronto: Sic Semper Boondoggle.
Wechat spies on non-Chinese users for in-China censorship: Your dank memes, banned in realtime.
Hidden doors disguised as bookcases: No books harmed.
Vent dragons: Alas, you can't use them as working vent covers.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Lovecraft Country: Jordan Peele's official trailer for his adaptation of Matt Ruff's book.
$150,000 "Magic" grants: For people to pursue their passions.
Pandemic could make Big Tech our permanent overlords: Kara Swisher on pandemic profiteering.
Hospital CEOs making millions amid cuts: Nurses and docs vs execs.
Wired workers have unionized: Just in time for rumored Conde Nast cuts.
The failure of software licensing: The right to hire a lawyer is not software freedom.
XML inventor quits Amazon over whistleblower firings: Tim Bray is no longer an Amazon VP and Distinguished Engineer.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Problems with Pepp-Pt: Privacy-preserving contact tracing is really hard.
Disney publishes an official Dole Whip recipe: Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips.
Reset Everything: Crisis means crossroads.
Usage stats from the National Emergency Library: Most of the checkouts are of books more than a decade old and last less than 30 minutes.
RPG hagaddah: The Role-Player, what does he say?
Managing UI claim surges: Hundreds of phone calls, day after day, without ever reaching a person.
Realtime wildcat strike map: Coronavirus is leverage for low-waged workers.
501 Developer Manifesto: Free time over free snacks.
Privacy Redirect: Nitter > Twitter.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

The worst Democrat in Congress just lost his job: Dan Lipinski primaried by the amazing Marie Newman.
Canada Reads documentary on Radicalized: The Great Canadian Book debate is indefinitely postponed, but here's an hour on my book!
Africa's Facebook modders are world leaders: Technological self-determination through adversarial interoperability.
Imagineering in a Box: Interdisciplinary theme park design lessons from Khan Academy and Disney.
Data is the New Toxic Waste: It was never "the new oil."
How to structure a fair covid bailout: Stimulus, not private jets.
Fox News is a suicide cult: Telling your elderly viewers to perform tribal loyalty by engaging in high-risk behaviors is a career-limiting move.
Grocery supply chains are resilient: One less thing to worry about.
Magic in the time of coronavirus: Never let a good crisis go to waste, card-trick edition.
This day in history: 2010, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading