Today's links
- We paid to develop Merck's covid pill: And now they're charging us a 4,000% markup on it.
- This day in history: 2016, 2020.
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Tag: coronavirus
Pluralistic: 28 Jul 2020
Today's links
- Afterland: Lauren Beukes's regrettably brilliantly timed plague novel.
- Mexican copyright crushes free speech: Trump's trade deal takes away Mexicans' fundamental rights.
- Audible Exclusives: Monopolists gonna monopolize.
- Snowden's Little Brother intro: The Age of Mass Surveillance Will Not Last Forever.
- Police "unions" are not unions: They're protection rackets.
- Quick, inaccurate, cheap covid tests: Frequency vs accuracy.
- Swarov.se: Once you see it…
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 05 Jun 2020
Today's links
- EFF offering legal referrals to protesters: If your phone was seized or you were targeted with electronic surveillance, they've got a list of lawyers.
- The unsatisfying history of obscenity: "I know it when I see it" was always a cop-out.
- A ride through of Elitch Gardens' Kaleidoscope: Meow Wolf's ride for Denver's centuries-old theme park.
- Big Tech is good at being big: But that shouldn't get them a pass on anti-monopoly law.
- Personalized, signed copies of Little Brother/Homeland: With an intro by Ed Snowden!
- No fix for Chrome's Incognito Mode: What matters more: user privacy or paywalls?
- DoJ seizes pro-BLM coronavirus masks: The Flu Klux Klan wants protests to be death sentences.
- Science Fiction Writers of America on Black Lives Matter: Free dues, travel and memberships for the Nebulas, and a reading list.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 14 Apr 2020
Today's links
- Podcast swap with Wil Wheaton: Wil and I read each others' work in our podcasts this week.
- Corona-denying pastor dies of coronavirus: Governments who depend on the religious right have a conflict of interest.
- Ticketmaster ends refunds for canceled events: Ever wonder what "terms subject to change without notice" really means?
- Amazon fires tech workers for their warehouse worker solidarity: Threatened for speaking out on climate, fired for speaking out on warehouse conditions.
- Southern states in for worst of coronavirus impact: The white gerontocracy has engineered a perfect pandemic storm.
- Abolish Silicon Valley: Wendy Liu's new memoir is a case-study from the tech worker uprising.
- I'm doing Podapalooza! It's a pay-what-you-can onlin podcast festival with proceeds to Give Directly.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 12 Apr 2020
Today's links
- LA begins randomized covid testing: Is distancing working?
- Trump and the Rapture Right: The end of the world is a feature, not a bug.
- Foxconn's potemkin "Innovation Centers": Empty promises and empty buildings.
- The power of collaborative note-taking: From WIPO meetings to videoconferences.
- AMC is going bankrupt: Maybe allowing them to buy all their competitors was a bad idea?
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 09 Apr 2020
Today's links
- Neighbors treated to socially isolated buildingside screening: Scott Duggan treated his terrace to "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes."
- Philips quadruples ventilator costs: They reneged on their HHS deal and will get $646.7m for their trouble.
- Kansas GOP nukes ban on large Easter gatherings: What's wrong with Kansas?
- Kickpunch's Disney comics/horror movie mashups: Daniel Björk's terrifying poster children for fair use.
- Plastic-eating enzyme: Leaf-branch compost cutinase to the rescue.
- Cold brew coffee chemistry: Making the black stuff reproducible.
- Tails adds Secureboot support: Evil chambermaids, beware!
- Crisis makes heroes of IT workers: When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth.
- Automating fake PDF signatures: Make it look like you printed, signed and scanned.
- Pocket Art Director: Your high-handed boss in D20 form.
- This day in history: 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 03 Apr 2020
Today's links
- The Public Domain Review Coloring Book: Hokusai, Albrecht Dürer, Harry Clarke, Virginia Frances Sterrett, etc.
- Amazon's leaked anti-worker smear plan: They put it in writing.
- Wikipedia vs patent troll: No, you didn't invent autocomplete.
- Bug bounty programs as catch-and-kills: Companies are not good stewards of their own bad news.
- The Tea Party killed pandemic preparedness: "No one warned us" -Congressman who was warned repeatedly.
- This day in history: 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 27 Mar 2020
Today's links
- The US is now the epicenter of the pandemic: Trump has murdered millions.
- Plutes cash in on stimulus: $170B for real-estate tycoons.
- States prep for postal voting: But the GOP has all but murdered the USPS.
- "Civility" and the Confederate playbook: The right's call for "civility" has a long, dishonorable history.
- Boris Johnson has coronavirus: He greenlit national pox-parties, now he has it.
- Reasonable covid food-safety advice: Sanitize your hands and your cart, practice social distancing, and…you're done.
- San Francisco cocktail delivery: Courtesy of the DNA Lounge.
- Flu pandemic photos: Mask-slackers beware!
- Free hi-rez covid stock art: Make your pandemic more visually varied.
- Warren campaign frees its software: Free, open and universal campaigning tools.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 18 Mar 2020
Today's links
- Ethiopian factory sports Jack Ma quotes: Global trade currents are shifting fast.
- Charter orders all workers to keep showing up: Even the 15% of its workforce who could work from home.
- MAGA firefighters dismiss coronavirus as Democrat hoax: And/or a Chinese bioweapon.
- Flatter Me, a compliments card game: Kickstarting now.
- American Airlines blew billions, now it wants a bailout: Socializing losses, privatizing gains.
- John Green's mutual aid manifesto: The only way through is together.
- How to split a single ventilator for four patients: Peer-reviewed simulations.
- Bigoted Republican Congressjerk votes against coronavirus relief because it might cover same-sex partnerships: Rep Andy Biggs wants to send us all to meet Jesus.
- Epidemiology and public health in 14 minutes: An epidemiologist and an sf writer make an outstanding science communications team.
- 3D printed ventilator hero got a patent threat: Human rights vs property rights.
- If nothing is for sale, how will covid stimulus work? Can you fix a supply shock with stimulus?
- How to make your own toilet paper: A craft for your isolated kiddos.
- Plague precautions from 1665: No feasting, but you can tipple in a bar until 9PM.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading
Pluralistic: 07 Mar 2020
Today's links
- Audio from last night's Canada Reads event in Kelowna: Thanks to Sarah Penton for being such a great interviewer!
- Gig economy drivers won't get sick-pay if they have covid-19 symptoms: Your Instacart driver is being incentivized to handle your food through his fever-sweats.
- Compromise threatens Intel's chip-within-a-chip: A bug in the Management Engine threatens five years' worth of Intel systems.
- The savior of Waterstones will turn every B&N into an indie: James Daunt has opened 60 profitable stores in his career.
- This day in history: 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading