Today's links
- Podcasting "Inside the Clock Tower": Reading my Consumer Reports story about an interoperable future.
- This day in history: 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Tag: design fiction
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
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: 01 Oct 2020
Today's links
- Witch: Kill Bill meets Thomas Hardy.
- Attack Surface on the MMT Podcast: Imagining the first days of a better world.
- Private equity's profitable murder: Leonard Green, Prospect Medical Holdings, and the vast fortunes built on the dead.
- The Years of Repair: A Message From the Future (II).
- Block Google-Fitbit: A merger made in hell.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 11 Jul 2020
Today's links
- US passports basically worthless: Trump built a wall.
- DNA Lounge deletes Postmates: Your pizza dollars, murdering future Jamal Khashoggis.
- Mississippi's GOP lawmakers sicken: Dozens of mask-shunners test positive.
- Wirecard's vanished COO wanted 15,000 Libyan militiamen: German finance scandal hides geopolitical private army scandal.
- Near Future Labs' Covid Zine: Design fiction meets the unfathomable future.
- This day in history: 2010, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 24 May 2020
Today's links
- Bloomberg editorial calls for a supersized New Deal: Noah Smith says FDR didn't go far enough.
- A Database of Ruin: Another excerpt from Barton Gellman's Snowden book.
- Coronagrifting and other bad design fictions: Photoshop will not win the war on the virus.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading