Today's links
- Green investing is a fraud: ESGs and other delusions.
- This day in history: 2001, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Tag: climate
Pluralistic: 11 Feb 2021
Today's links
- Dependency Confusion: A completely wild supply-chain hack.
- Adam Curtis on criti-hype: Big Tech as an epiphenomenon of sociopathic mediocrity, not supergenius.
- Catalytic converter theft: Rhodium at $21,900/oz.
- Apple puts North Dakota on blast: Stop thinking different!
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 21 Jan 2021
Today's links
- NYPD can't stop choking Black men: A postmortem on many postmortems.
- Rolling back the Trump rollback: Administrative competence has its uses.
- YMCA, Trump edition: "I said old man, get your Ass. Out. Of. Town."
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 06 Jan 2021
Today's links
- The WELL State of the World: With special guest Malka Older.
- Food and Climate Change Without the Hot Air: How to sustainably eat the planet.
- Mass court: "I agree" means something: Finally, we find the bottom.
- Congress bans "little green men": No more anonymous federal snatch-squads.
- This day in history: 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 20 Oct 2020
Today's links
- Feds gouge states, subsidize corporations: The Federal Reserve is overcharging local governments and showering money on zombie corporations.
- Cadillac perfects the murdermobile: "It took 13 children seated in a line in front of the Escalade before the driver could see the tops of their heads."
- Solar's "miracle material": A perovskite breakthrough.
- This day in history: None
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 23 Sep 2020
Today's links
- Blacklight: A realtime web privacy inspector.
- Avoiding climate lockdowns: The climate crisis is inseparable from the health and economic crises.
- Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy Day in Trump's America: Ruben Bolling at his finest.
- This day in history: 2010, 2015, 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: 05 Aug 2020
Today's links
- Contextual ads can save media: Behavioral ads aren't just creepy, they're a scam
- GE's billion dollar tax-fraud: "Financial engineering" is a euphemism for doing crimes.
- Qanon is an ARG: "I'm a researcher."
- Cori Bush triumphs in Missouri: Ferguson uprising continues by another means.
- Trump wants to force you to invest in failing fossil fuel companies: Big Oil sure loves Big Gubmint.
- Qanon is magical thinking: Satanic Panic 2.0.
- This day in history: 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 23 Jul 2020
Today's links
- Canadian judge invalidates Safe Third Country Agreement: Asylum seekers are not safe in America.
- Supreme Court poised to destroy machine learning security research: Why the CFAA should be narrowly interpreted.
- Where Will Everyone Go: Modelling the climate emergency's migration emergency.
- BLM footage censored by copyright bots: Background music makes it impossible to post human rights violations to social media.
- This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading