Today's links
- California's chance for universal health care: It would save taxpayers trillions.
- This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Tag: california
Pluralistic: 15 May 2021
Today's links
- Newsom's California fiber dream: 100gbs symmetrical to every home in the state or bust!
- The S&L crisis perfected finance crime: The best way to rob a bank is to own one.
- Big Pharma's vicious battle against universal covid vaccination: Ghost-writing memos for GOP "public servants."
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 05 Jan 2021
Today's links
- My Fellow Americans: Audio, text and commentary for every president's inaugural address.
- Digital manorialism vs neofeudalism: Tech companies as warlords with walled gardens.
- South Carolina GOP moots modest improvements to "magistrate judges": Lewis Carroll was an optimist.
- Pavilions replacing union workers with "gig workers": Prop 22's other shoe drops.
- This day in history: 2006, 2016
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: Ad-tech is a bezzle; Google's unionizing; The Data Detective; Damon Knight's Why Do Birds is back; Endorsing the Forward 43 slate (04 Jan 2021)
Today's links
- Ad-tech is a bezzle: The subprime attention crisis is upon us.
- Google's unionizing: Solidarity vs worker misclassification.
- The Data Detective: How to truth with statistics.
- Damon Knight's Why Do Birds is back: Reviving a grand master's comic masterpiece.
- Endorsing the Forward 43 slate: For my California comrades.
- This day in history: 2016
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 14 Oct 2020
Today's links
- Pandemic shock doctrine vs internet freedom: Freedom House's 2020 report is grim reading.
- What happened in Florida: Surrender, Bush v Gore style.
- Prop 22 is a scam: Propping up a Ponzi with a Proposition.
- How to spreadsheet: All the hard-won lessons in one convenient ruleset.
- The Ministry of the Future: Eliot Peper interviews Kim Stanley Robinson.
- This day in history: 2010, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 21 Sep 2020
Today's links
- Fincen (they fucking knew all along): $2t in unpunished money laundering, leaked from the US Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
- California's fire-debt: A century of mismanagement and PG&E;'s criminal neglect meets the climate emergency.
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 29 Aug 2020
Today's links
- California's preventable fires: 1,000,000 acres of fire-debt.
- Zuck calls Apple a monopolist: I know you are but what am I?
- This day in history: 2005, 2010
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 07 Aug 2020
Today's links
- Satanic Abortions cut through unconstitutional abortion laws: Go ahead, sue to overturn the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
- Restore the Office of Technology Assessment: In the 21st Century, it's no longer OK to not understand technology.
- US plummets below Russia and Mexico in global misery index: Tired of Winning.
- Novartis's $678m bribery scandal: Epistemological crisis actors.
- California DMV's $50m/year data selloff: California lawmakers want to know who's buying.
- This day in history: 2010, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 14 Jul 2020
Today's links
- Poesy the Monster Slayer: My first picture book is out today!
- Atlas of Surveillance: How are your local cops spying on you?
- Catalan politician hacked with NSO Group malware: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
- Artists vs tax havens: A report from Tax Havens: Normalized Grand Theft.
- Free "extended preview" of my next book: "Attack Surface" AKA "Little Brother III."
- Target workers strike over chickenization: Working for a chickenshipt outfit.
- Big Oil can have you locked up: Chevron's old legal firm have the oil company's most effective critic under house arrest.
- California goes antitrust on Google: Xavier Becerra rides again!
- 2019's highest-paid execs: I'm sure they earned every dime.
- This day in history: None
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 26 Jun 2020
Today's links
- Copyright keeps police use-of-force training a secret: How cops are circumventing the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training.
- Splash Mountain to purge Song of the South: Princess and the Frog ahoy!
- Let's get rid of nursing homes: An end-of-life plan.
- Sympathy for the mask-shy: Abstinence-only covid prevention is a failure.
- "Violent protests" vs "violent police": How to report on protests.
- Microcontent guidelines for 2020: A successor to the 1998 classic.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading