Pluralistic: 09 Dec 2021

Today's links

Electrify: Saul Griffith's visionary, practical program for a US clean energy transition.
This day in history: 2011, 2016
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Against hygiene theater: Wired: Ventilation. Tired: Handwashing. Fired: Sterilization.
Saving the planet is illegal: Time to torch the Energy Charter Treaty.
This day in history: 2006, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Student loans are dischargeable: Billions in debt can be flushed away.
Cracking the Ghislaine Maxwell redactions: An interesting variation on an old theme.
Bring back the CCC: Towards a Job Guarantee.
Foxconn out-trumped Trump: And Wisconsin paid the price.
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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

Quantifying the meritocratic delusion: "Talent vs Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure."
AOC's WPA-style GND posters: A vivid, affirmative vision.
This day in history: 2005, 2015
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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

Homeschool to prison pipeline: Michigan judge jails Black teenager with a learning disability for not doing lockdown homework.
Spain has been an NSO customer since 2015: Whistleblower leaks the receipts.
McKinsey waxes fat off coronavirus failures: McKinsey got $100m (and climbing!) for its role in the disastrous US coronavirus response.
Biden's $2T climate plan: It's at least an order of magnitude shy of what's needed.
PE's three kids in a trenchcoat fraud: How private equity bilked PPP for hundreds of millions.
Leakypick: Probing smart speakers for covert audio exfiltration.
Poesy slays: Praise for "Poesy the Monster Slayer."
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

A new Marcus Yallow/Little Brother story!: "Force Multiplier" is free if you pre-order Attack Surface, the third Little Brother book
DRM and CHI: When the metaphor shear is deliberate.
Talking with Toronto Public Library's Shelve Under podcast: Toronto is a hell of an sf town.
The law is free: Carl Malamud wins big at the Supreme Court.
"Absolutely faithful" Discworld TV adaptations: Will we finally get a decent Discworld video adaptation?
Read the prologue of "The Lost Cause": My post-GND novel-in-progress
Foreclosure vultures hold illegal auctions on courthouse steps: You say "investor," I say "profiteer."
Hands-free door-handles: Ability is a spectrum.
NYC will pedestrianize 40 miles of city streets: Hey I'm walkin' here.
Citizen DJ: The Library of Congress wants to bring back the golden age of sampling.
"Essential" workers will strike across America for May Day: Amazon, Instacart, Whole Foods, Walmart, Target, and FedEx.
Synonyms vs machine learning: An adversarial example to defeat sentiment analyzers.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

EFF's videoconferencing backgrounds: With a deep cut from the NSA's secret listening post.
The ideology of economics: Economics doesn't have "laws" it has "policies."
LoC plugs Little Brother: Open access FTW.
Canada nationalizes covid patents: An Act respecting certain measures in response to COVID-19.
Exponential Threat: Trump threatened to sue media outlets that aired this spot.
Sanders on GOP stimulus cruelty: "Millions for plutes, but not one cent for workers."
Record wind-power growth: Covid stimulus could start a Green New Deal.
Social distancing and other diseases: Do we trust IoT thermometer companies, though?
Badger Masks: UW Madison's open facemask design.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading