Today's links
- Living through Xinjiang's genocide: So much for "never again."
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Tag: china
Pluralistic: 14 Dec 2020
Today's links
- Situation Normal: The long-overdue second Leonard Richardson novel
- China's best investigative stories of 2020: A glimpse into some very brave and dedicated reporters' work.
- Where money comes from: And what tax is for.
- Raising money for Chelsea Manning: The whistleblower and torture survivor needs our help.
- Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town part 26: My last podcast of 2020.
- This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 07 Dec 2020
Today's links
- China’s war on big data backstabbing: China's antimonopoly, grounded in price discrimination.
- Someone Comes to Town Part 25: This week on my podcast.
- This day in history: 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 12 Nov 2020
Today's links
- Constantly Wrong: "Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
- Xi on interop and lock-in: Inkjet business model as foreign policy.
- Anti-bear robo-wolves: Dr Tenma v lobo.
- This day in history: 2015
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 05 Nov 2020
Today's links
- Ant, Uber, and the true nature of money: Money vs finance.
- Scarfolk & Environs: "Road & Leisure Map for Uninvited Tourists."
- This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 31 Oct 2020
Today's links
- The Americans: Love letters from voluntary exiles.
- D2020: Roll for initiative.
- Shanghai's walking building: Five stories' worth of ambulatory primary school.
- This day in history: 2005, 2015
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 11 Oct 2020
Today's links
- Hong Kong's ghost protest posters: "I Can Still Hear You."
- Basic income works: Some thoughts on whether it should be "universal."
- Sign thief turns newspaper thief: Hiassenish caper with Iowa characteristics.
- Attack Surface in The Observer: "This will all be so great if we don't screw it up."
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 02 Oct 2020
Today's links
- Call center workers pay for the privilege: Propublica breaks open the massive, secretive abuser Arise, fronted by Disney, Airbnb, Intuit, Comcast, Carnival and more.
- Dan Hillier's Six Women/Six Men: New "box sets" from the spooky, brilliant collagist.
- Apple kills RSS readers in China: Chekhov's Law for DRM strikes again.
- This day in history: 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 24 Aug 2020
Today's links
- Concretizing "Main St vs Wall St": Zombie postcapitalism 101.
- Don't use Bridgefy at protests: Audit shows "concert app" makes a terrible "protest app."
- Nontransitive dice: A beats B, B beats C, but A doesn't beat C.
- Chinese sf guidelines: "Raise the spirit of scientists."
- New podcast episode, feat. radical bookstores: Part 14 of "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town."
- This day in history: 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 18 Aug 2020
Today's links
- The Fifth Pig: OG antifa agitprop.
- "Fuck the algorithm": English children force Tories to U-turn on algorithmic educational assessments.
- Mr Cook, Tear Down That Wall: Interop, Apple, Fortnite and the Berlin Wall.
- Deindustrialization is a market failure: Future crises are never priced into market transactions.
- Fed cops substitute dollars for warrants: Why talk to a judge when you can talk to a data-broker?
- Upbeat surveillance marketing: Hikvision's jolly medieval spy-tech.
- South Africa's copyright and human rights: Fair use, the Berne Convention, and Ramaphosa.
- This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading