Pluralistic: 03 Mar 2020

Today's links

EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense guide for students: Privacy is a team sport.
Oregon's Dems have a supermajority, but the GOP won't show up for work: White nationalism is how plutes get turkeys to vote for Christmas.
A Lever Without a Fulcrum Is Just a Stick: How to design a copyright to protect artists, not corporations.
Facebook neutered "Download Your Data": "Your data" doesn't include a list of ad-tech companies that also hold your data.
The EU's new copyright filters violate the GDPR: We told you so.
Recycling spy agencies' malware for fun and profit: NOBUS is, and always has been, an idiotic idea.
Japanese condiment company releases "sliced mayo": Comes in four flavors!
Department of the Interior climate docs include junk science: Trump's man on the inside, sabotaging our future.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading

EFF is hiring a new tech projects director: It's a once-in-a-lifetime dream job.
Bond villain monologue, Medicare for All edition: "No, Mr Bond, I expect you to sign a binding arbitration waiver."
FUCK TRUMP AND HIS STUPID FUCKING WALL: A 26% alcohol habanero spirit from Empirical Spirits.
Mike Bloomberg helped the Sacklers launder their reputations: Just helping out the "Friends of Mike."
Bernie Sanders is the only candidate with a climate plan as big as the climate crisis: No one ever asked how we'd pay for WWII.
Cutting the UK housing subsidy led to massive homelessness payouts: Tories are always swallowing spiders to catch their flies.
This day in history: 2012, 2016 (leap years!)
Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading

Clearview AI's customer database leaks: Sic semper grifter.
The Internet of Anal Things: Recreating Stelarc's "Amplified Body" with an IoT butt-plug.
Oakland's vintage Space Burger/Giant Burger building needs a home! Adopt a googie today.
Fan-made reproduction of the Tower of Terror: Even has a deepfaked Serling.
Drawing the Simpsons with pure CSS: Impractical, but so impressive.
Let's Encrypt issues its billionth cert: 89% of the web is now encrypted.
AI Dungeon Master: A work in progress, for sure.
How to lie with (coronavirus) maps: Lies, damned lies, and epidemiological data-visualizations.
This day in history: 2019, 2015
Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading

Ripping the window-dressing off the .ORG selloff: It's not even an ethos.
CDC guide to filter-mask-friendly facial hair: You're good to go with a Zappa, Villain or Hitler, but stay away from the Dali, Hulahee and the dread F(l)u Manchu.
Don't trust Google to build Toronto's Smart City: Sidewalk Labs's sleaze has disqualified it.
A "girls-only" social service wants to analyze your facial bone structure: "It's science!"
Norman Rockwell turned into a radical civil rights activist: His last painting was of Nixon, too.
Gmail's filters are blocking opt-in election emails: Mayo Pete and Andrew Yang are winning the spam-filter primary.
Talking Radicalized with The Next Chapter: Shelagh Rogers is a national treasure.
Neoliberalism kills, the coronavirus edition: And you thought capitalism would kill us all with climate change!
Bernie Sanders and Public Enemy LA rally this Sunday: With Sarah Silverman and Dick van Dyke!
Venezuelan women's "army" break into dead factories to reboot them: "Only the people can save the people."
Meet Akil Augustine, voice of the Raptors…and Radicalized: A fighter in my corner.
This day in history: 2019, 2015, 2005
Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading