Pluralistic: How to screw up a whistleblower law (15 Apr 2024)

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How to screw up a whistleblower law: We want kingpins, not powerless underlings.
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Pluralistic: Kashmir Hill's "Your Face Belongs to Us" (20 Sept 2023)

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Kashmir Hill's "Your Face Belongs to Us": A candid, whistleblower-informed history of Clearview AI.
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Pluralistic: A "secure" system can be the most dangerous of all (13 July 2023)

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A "secure" system can be the most dangerous of all: Who we secure FOR – and AGAINST – reveals our true priorities and values.
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This day in history: 2013
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Pluralistic: Booklist on "Red Team Blues" (13 Jan 2023)

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Booklist on "Red Team Blues": "Another winner from an sf wizard who
has always proved himself adept at blending genres for both adults and teens."
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Pluralistic: 15 Nov 2022 Tracers In the Dark

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Tracers in the Dark: Andy Greenberg's gripping true crime tale of cryptocurrency forensics.
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Pluralistic: 07 Dec 2021

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Podcasting "Give Me Slack": On the parenting challenges of an era without second chances.
A lexicon of euphemisms for "corporate crime": Compliance, risk, white collar crime…
IP lawyers weaponize trade secrecy to stall vaccine waivers: But Karan Menon has their number.
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Pluralistic: 12 Nov 2021

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American corporate criminals in the crosshairs (finally): Lisa Monaco says she's gonna enforce those bullshit deferred prosecution agreements.
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Pluralistic: 04 Oct 2021

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Podcasting "Take It Back": My Medium column on copyright termination and rights reversion.
Savage Love A-Z: A bestiary of good sex.
The Pandora Papers: Tax avoidance is tax evasion.
USPS pilots postal banking: Slashing taxes (on the poor).
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Pluralistic: 29 Sep 2021

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Debts that can't be paid, won't be paid: The first David Graeber Foundation meetup, between Thomas Piketty and Michael Hudson.
"Are you calling me a racist?": The libertarian case for racism.
Wells Fargo can't stop criming: The nation's third-biggest bank is a criminal enterprise.
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Pluralistic: 23 May 2021

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How the Sacklers rigged the game: Kickstarting the opioid epidemic and escaping with a fortune bigger than the Rockefellers'.
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