Pluralistic: 26 Jan 2021

Today's links

Twitter's Project Blue Sky: Fix the internet, not the platforms.
Brazil's world-beating data breach: More than 100% of the population doxed.
Evictions and utility cutoffs are covid comorbidities: 143,000 covid deaths due to economic precarity.
"North Korea" targets infosec researchers: Third party collection, taken to the logic endpoint.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 18 Jan 2021

Today's links

How to leak a Zoom meeting: Watermarks, tile randomization, and more.
Pandemics and peak indifference: Squandering history's most expensive lessons.
Planet Money's free Great Gatsby audiobook: The public domain in action.
Honor MLK day with the Internet Archive: A fabulous, open access trove.
Someone Comes to Town, Part 28: This week's podcast installment carries on my friendly dispute with Manuel Castells.
Facebook's community standards: JWZ's 0-follower, 0-post FB account was suspended.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2015, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 14 Dec 2020

Today's links

Situation Normal: The long-overdue second Leonard Richardson novel
China's best investigative stories of 2020: A glimpse into some very brave and dedicated reporters' work.
Where money comes from: And what tax is for.
Raising money for Chelsea Manning: The whistleblower and torture survivor needs our help.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town part 26: My last podcast of 2020.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 08 Dec 2020

Today's links

Ford patents plutocratic lane-changes: That part of Walkaway wasn't a suggestion, seriously.
All the books I reviewed in 2020: A year in books.
Armed cops terrorize Florida covid whistleblower: They pointed a gun at a two-year-old.
Uber pays to get rid of its self-driving cars: Every Big Store has to close eventually.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 23 Nov 2020

Today's links

Opsec and personal security: Runa Sandvik and Window Snyder on the Attack Surface Lectures.
Australian predictive policing tool for kids: Digital phrenology vs racialized kids.
A textbook grift: Economics, Final Edition.
Labor and large firms: Lessons from Caterpillar and Hollywood.
The power of procurements: A streamlined way to regulate IoT.
Guatemala's guillotines: Protesters torch the parliament.
Someone Comes to Town part 24: This week on my podcast.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 07 Nov 2020

Today's links

QE, inflation, slave labor and a People's Bailout: Uber is a (terrible) job guarantee program.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 21 Oct 2020

Today's links

Comedic obituary poetry: Out of the Hurly-Burly.
Tom Lehrer in the public domain: 96 songs' lyrics, up for grabs.
Trustbusting is stimulus: Piss on trickle-down.
Falsehoods programmers believe about time: All discrete phenomena are continuous.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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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

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Pluralistic: 22 Aug 2020

Today's links

This USPS Machine Kills Fascists: If Woody was a postie.
Zombie postcapitalism: What it means for the finance economy to decouple from the productive economy.
This day in history: 2005, 2015
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 24 Jul 2020

Today's links

Facebook's morale problem: Facebookers worry that they're destroying civilization.
My HOPE keynote this Sat: We Used to Have Cake, Now We've Barely Got Icing.
Changes coming to UK's feudal "leaseholds": Britain's rentier class loses, a little.
Konstantine Anthony for Burbank City Council: All politics are local.
Private equity doesn't create value, it destroys it: Wealth accumulation doesn't signify value-creation.
Mass market book sales surge: But it's just trading one monopolist for another.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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