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.
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Full Employment, the podcast edition: There's no AI employment crisis, but there IS a climate emergency.
Life as a fake Amazon reviewer: A security economics case-study.
Don't talk about cancer on FB: Facebook greets cancer diagnoses with a torrent of quack remedy ads.
Privacy as a right, not a product: Putting a pricetag on your data makes you less private.
Primary Richie Neal [D-MA]: Meet the powerful "Democrat" who defends surprise billing and zero taxes for private equity.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
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Female Furies: Cecil Castellucci finds the story that Jack Kirby missed.
How to break up Google: A making things company, not a buying things company.
Facebook and Trump collaborate on rule-rigging: You can't break the rules if you make the rules.
NYC housing lottery favors the least-needy: The private sector cannot and will not solve the housing crisis.
Podcast: Part 8 of Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town: Families are weird.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015
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EU v FB (vg!): Facebook must stop tracking users around the web.
AOC wins: Her opponent was a villain out of central casting.
Vegas casino workers beg for their lives: "The market has decided."
You are wrong about CDA 230: A comprehensive and complete FAQ about the internet's worst-understood, most-maligned law.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
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Hank Green and me in conversation: July 10 for Minneapolis's Magers and Quinn books.
Facebook Workplace can block employees from discussing unionization: Oops, they said the quiet part out loud.
Secrets of a seventeen year old scraper: How 17 year old Avi Schiffmann built the web's leading covid case-tracker and Black Lives Matter protest-tracker.
Facebook endorses Terra Nullius: Facebook's nudity filter blocks images of Aboriginal slavery.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
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Oh Joy Sex Toy's new teen sex-ed book: Our Bodies and Health.
Torcon: Gaiman, Okorafor, Kowal, Schwab: …and me!
Copyright bots are slaughtering classical musicians' performances: Filternet, working as intended.
Coronavirus has made the super-rich MUCH richer: The crisis is here, it's just not evenly distributed.
How to start a platform co-op: A MOOC from NYU and Mondragon.
Mum uses GDPR to force Gran to take down pics: That's one way to settle the dispute.
Physical BLINK tag: Lenticular dominance.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
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Instagram's slow-mo appeals court: A nanosecond to block, 28 months to review.
DOD lie-detector manual leaked: How credible is the National Center for Credibility Assessment?
Farewell to Beyond the Beyond: Wired retires Bruce Sterling's blog, and he has thoughts.
Neoliberals won't waste this crisis: When the left abandoned leninism, the right swiped it.
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Rep Steve Cohen wants to clawback billionaires' bailout: Sending bailout pork to the slaughterhouse.
Democratize workplaces now: Labor investors demand a seat at the table.
NYC teens fight period poverty: Period products bundled with school meals.
No sides: We have a shared destiny.
Google faces antitrust blitz: I'm feeling lucky.
Zuck wants Giphy: Pronounced "J-I-F," spelled "S-P-Y."
This day in history: 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Plutocrats firehose money on primary challenger to AOC: Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, a former Reagan Republican who wants to dismantle Social Security and Medicare
FCC will spend $9B to improve broadband…without an accurate broadband map: Reality's left-wing bias makes accurate data the enemy of conservativism.
Buddhist monk covers western pop songs: He's like a male, solo version of Shonen Knife.
Apple hunters recover ten "lost" varieties from forgotten farms: The Lost Apple Society needs help.
Finding the Money: A fabulous new documentary on Modern Monetary Theory
Evangelical pastor denied quarantine, now he wants your stimulus check: Tony Spell's death-cult has a business-model.
Zombie movies teach us all the wrong lessons for pandemic: Not only would a zombie plague be easy to contain, but people don't turn into monsters during crises.
Building a "web of books": What would a federated alternative to Goodreads look like?
The Facebook Political Ad Collector: Exposing targeted advertising's fraud and conspiracy
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