Pluralistic: SVB's investors will get $2b in public bailout money (18 Mar 2023)

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SVB's investors will get $2b in public bailout money: Also, Silicon Valley is apparently a neighborhood in Manhattan?
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
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Money is power: A political economy parable (with a side of environmental racism).
When crypto-exchanges go broke, you'll lose it all: The fatal flaw in the "neither fish nor fowl" gambit (there is such a thing as society).
This day in history: 2017
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The Sacklers threaten us all with a good time: "Give us total impunity or we won't accede to the total impunity deal" is a hell of an ultimatum.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Doordash privacywashes its war on workers: Tech rights are workers' rights.
End bankruptcy shopping: No more Sacklers, ever.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2016, 2020
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Bankruptcy and elite impunity: The Sacklers offer billions of reasons to overthrow the system.
Stories from Black women's customer service hell: The women who answer the phone when you call Disney, Airbnb, Carnival and others.
Tracking you with accelerometer signatures: Yet another latent unique identifier with horrifying consequences.
Unauthorized cups: RFID-equipped disposable cups deny water to homeless people.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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How the Sacklers rigged the game: Kickstarting the opioid epidemic and escaping with a fortune bigger than the Rockefellers'.
This day in history: 2016, 2020
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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
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Opsec and personal security: Runa Sandvik and Window Snyder on the Attack Surface Lectures.
Australian predictive policing tool for kids: Digital phrenology vs racialized kids.
A textbook grift: Economics, Final Edition.
Labor and large firms: Lessons from Caterpillar and Hollywood.
The power of procurements: A streamlined way to regulate IoT.
Guatemala's guillotines: Protesters torch the parliament.
Someone Comes to Town part 24: This week on my podcast.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
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Student loans are dischargeable: Billions in debt can be flushed away.
Cracking the Ghislaine Maxwell redactions: An interesting variation on an old theme.
Bring back the CCC: Towards a Job Guarantee.
Foxconn out-trumped Trump: And Wisconsin paid the price.
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
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Rewarding CEOs for failure: Heads they win, tails we lose.
DIY giant chalk: Tempura paint, plaster of paris, and water.
Fairness and machine learning: Open access computer science textbook.
Facebook overrules its own fact-checkers: The far right works the refs.
This day in history: 2015, 2019
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