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
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IDing anonymized cops with facial recognition: Privacy for the powerless, transparency for the powerful.
ENDSARS: Global protests over Nigeria's murdering special police.
Companies target robots in disclosures: Sentiment analysis is finally useful for something.
US border cruelty, powered by Google cloud: IBM at Auschwitz.
Free the law of Wisconsin: Carl Malamud wants you to read Wisconsin's jury instructions.
This day in history: 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Belarus's online/offline uprising: The evolution of tactics, from ice cream to doxing.
Newsletters' glorious history: An Antidote for Falsehood in the Daily Press.
Zombie banks: Why everyone loves to help banks hide their losses.
The Trump financial method: A quick and informative tldr on Trump's tax-returns.
Attack Surface excerpt: Read chapter one of the third Little Brother book.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Spike Lee made a David Byrne concert movie: Stop Making American Utopia.
Board unilaterally sells Mountain Equipment "Co-op" to US private equity: This is why we can't have nice things, ever.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Big Car says Right to Repair will MURDER YOU: You wouldn't download a car.
Algorithmic grading: Another weapon of math destruction.
Snowden vindicated: NSA spying was illegal.
Coronavirus is over (if we want it): All we have to do is reform our entire health-care system.
Rest in Power, David Graeber: Occupy, Debt, Utopia of Rules, Bullshit Jobs.
Hedge fund managers trouser 64%: 2-and-20 is a fiction.
Corporate spooks track you "to your door": SDKs are trojan horses.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Hard Wired: Robot rights are human rights.
Calavera masks: John Picacio wants to help you ride out the plague as a sugar-skull.
Classic, hand-lettered electronics textbook: The story of Forrest M Mims, III's "Getting Started in Electronics."
Bayer-Monsanto is in deep trouble: Destructive, reckless mergers are part of the Curse of Bigness.
Recapping Little Brother and Homeland: Nudging a generation of early-stage Oppenheimers.
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Concretizing "Main St vs Wall St": Zombie postcapitalism 101.
Don't use Bridgefy at protests: Audit shows "concert app" makes a terrible "protest app."
Nontransitive dice: A beats B, B beats C, but A doesn't beat C.
Chinese sf guidelines: "Raise the spirit of scientists."
New podcast episode, feat. radical bookstores: Part 14 of "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town."
This day in history: 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Grace is cleared: The homeschool-to-prison pipeline is closed…for now.
Mexico's terrible copyright is in trouble: Hasta la victoria siempre.
Failed State: Chris Brown's outstanding new ecopocalyptic cyberpunk legal thriller.
Marvel's $0.10 mini-comics: Gashapon funnies from 1966.
Sorting machines snatched from post offices: Administrative incompetence vs textualism?
Payday lenders are CFPB's pandemic aid: When the watchdogs switch sides.
Trump's Solicitor General says bribery is legal: Rule 48a applies even if the judge sees the prosecutor accept a bribe in the courtroom.
RSS WTF: An explainer for the newly awakened.
This day in history: 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Commercial real-estate's looming collapse: Highly leveraged REITs and extinction-level events don't mix.
Test-proctoring software worsens systemic bias: Also pedagogically bankrupt and run by corrupt, petty shitheads.
This day in history: 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Contextual ads can save media: Behavioral ads aren't just creepy, they're a scam
GE's billion dollar tax-fraud: "Financial engineering" is a euphemism for doing crimes.
Qanon is an ARG: "I'm a researcher."
Cori Bush triumphs in Missouri: Ferguson uprising continues by another means.
Trump wants to force you to invest in failing fossil fuel companies: Big Oil sure loves Big Gubmint.
Qanon is magical thinking: Satanic Panic 2.0.
This day in history: 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading