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'.
This day in history: 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 19 May 2021

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Dead, broke: What it's like to inherit nothing but debt.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 18 May 2021

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A simple, incomplete ransomware defense: Attribution is hard, but whatever works.
Community Health Services sued its way through the pandemic: When health is a business, medical debt is an asset.
Apple's complicity in Chinese state oppression: Corporations don't have character, they have incentives.
What Would Open Source Look Like If It Were Healthy: Sumana Harihareswara's Github talk.
This day in history: 2206, 2011, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 14 May 2021

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A weapon of mass financial destruction: Your pension is funding the destruction of the real economy…and itself.
This day in history: 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 01 May 2021

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Political economy vs inflation: Larry Summers is a dope.
This day in history: 2020
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Pluralistic: 23 Feb 2021

Today's links

Private equity's nursing home killing spree: Pre- and post-covid.
Malcolm X's true killers: NYPD deathbed confessions confirms "conspiracy theory."
A voyage to the moon of 1776: Filippo Morghen's imaginary travelogue.
German covid coinages: Schadenfreude fur CoronaFußgruß.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
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Pluralistic: 09 Feb 2021

Today's links

Snowden's young adult memoir: The Young Readers' edition of Permanent Record.
Favicons as undeletable tracking beacons: F-cache considered harmful.
The ECB should forgive the debt it owes itself: Another round of austerity will destroy the European project.
Fleet Street calls out schtum Tories: When Paul Dacre and Katharine Viner agree…
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
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Pluralistic: 04 Dec 2020

Today's links

Student debt trap: Borrowed: $79,000. Paid: $190,000. Now Owes? $236,000.
Postmortem of the NYPD's murder of a Black man: How to write about individual stories of a structural crisis.
Section 230 is Good, Actually: It's not a "corporate giveaway," it's how you got the parts of the internet that you actually like.
This day in history: None
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 20 Nov 2020

Today's links

Little Revolutions: Bethany C Morrow and Tochi Onyebuchi on the Attack Surface Lectures.
Russian Cyberpunk Farm: Superb comedy-dystopia in a russo-futuristic vein.
We're already (badly) forgiving student debt: Debts that can't be paid won't be paid.
Facebook bullies watchdog: My Wired op-ed on the Ad Observer scandal.
Google's monopoly rigged the ad market: Dina Srinivasan is on fire.
This day in history: 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 23 Oct 2020

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Student loans are dischargeable: Billions in debt can be flushed away.
Cracking the Ghislaine Maxwell redactions: An interesting variation on an old theme.
Bring back the CCC: Towards a Job Guarantee.
Foxconn out-trumped Trump: And Wisconsin paid the price.
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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