Today's links
- Big Pharma will claim opioid fines as tax-deductions: A fine is a price…the price of doing business.
- This day in history: 2006
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Tag: business
Pluralistic: 28 Jan 2021
Today's links
- Mexican indigenous telco wins spectrum fight: First Nations treaties do not sign away electromagnetic franchises.
- How apps steal your location: A deep dive into the murky depths of surveillance markets.
- Understanding /r/wallstreetbets: More than a bull run, a symbiosis of a market maker and market destroyers.
- Knowledge is why you build your own apps: Outsourcing software development squanders vital understanding.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 15 Jan 2021
Today's links
- Laura Poitras fired from First Look: She says it's because she spoke out on Reality Winner.
- Kickstarting a pad of "Tiny Paper Dungeons": Procedural paper adventures for your pocket.
- Facebook says it's the best henhouse fox: Only we can stop Qanon.
- I was investigated by the FBI: It took 20 years!
- Yugoslavia's Cold War obsession with Mexican music: Nonaligned Yumex gave us Celovečernji the Kid.
- Machine learning is a honeypot for phrenologists: "AI" researchers just can't put away the fucking calipers.
- Disneyland kills annual passes: No more Disney at a stroll.
- Tesla's valuation is 1600x its profitability: Finacialization, in green and white.
- This day in history: 2006, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 10 Dec 2020
Today's links
- Facebook vs Robert Bork: The FTC finally found a casus belli for killing off borkism.
- Why we can't have nice things: "Lobbying Expenditures and Campaign Contributions by the Pharmaceutical and Health Product Industry in the United States, 1999-2018."
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2109
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 08 Dec 2020
Today's links
- Ford patents plutocratic lane-changes: That part of Walkaway wasn't a suggestion, seriously.
- All the books I reviewed in 2020: A year in books.
- Armed cops terrorize Florida covid whistleblower: They pointed a gun at a two-year-old.
- Uber pays to get rid of its self-driving cars: Every Big Store has to close eventually.
- This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 23 Oct 2020
Today's links
- 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
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 22 Oct 2020
Today's links
- IDing anonymized cops with facial recognition: Privacy for the powerless, transparency for the powerful.
- ENDSARS: Global protests over Nigeria's murdering special police.
- Companies target robots in disclosures: Sentiment analysis is finally useful for something.
- US border cruelty, powered by Google cloud: IBM at Auschwitz.
- Free the law of Wisconsin: Carl Malamud wants you to read Wisconsin's jury instructions.
- This day in history: 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 19 Sep 2020
Today's links
- Attack Surface vs Audible: My Publishers Weekly op-ed.
- Foodcrime: The tech predators destroying America's restaurants.
- We Are Beautiful: 3D printable anatomical models of real bodies.
- Precursor: Andrew "bunnie" Huang's new open source hardware mobile platform.
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 17 Sep 2020
Today's links
- Attack Surface a la carte: Kickstarter is not a shopping cart.
- Kapital! The board game: France's new national obsession.
- Private equity's new debt-and-loot bonanza: "Divi recaps" is plute for "stealing."
- This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 16 Aug 2020
Today's links
- Self-driving cars are bullshit: Ford CEO: I "overestimated."
- How to Argue With a Racist: Adam Rutherford on "race science."
- Combat Wheelchairs: Homebrew rules for a new kind of D&D; mount.
- Amazon bans podcasts that criticize Amazon: The purpose of "IP" is controlling competitors, critics and customers.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading