Pluralistic: The Pizzaburger Presidency (29 May 2024)

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The Pizzaburger Presidency: Why the Biden administration talks so very little about the very small number of very good things it has done.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023
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Iowa's starvation strategy: Maybe the cruelty IS the point?
The Red Team Blues tour: LA, San Diego, Burbank, San Francisco, PDX, Mountain View, Berkeley, Vancouver, Calgary, Gaithersburg, DC, Toronto, Hay, Nottingham, Manchester, Edinburgh, London, Berlin.
Red Team Blues Chapter One, part three: Danny does THE THING.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Clarence Thomas and the generosity of a far-right dark-money billionaire: Harlan Crow showered the judge with millions in off-the-books, illegal "gifts."
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018, 2022
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Laundering torturers' reputations with copyfraud: Eliminalia, where "we erase your past and help you build your future."
Foxconn's Wisconsin death-rattle: Imagine losing your family home for a GOP media op.
John Deere's dismal infosec: Paternalistic security works well, fails badly.
This day in history: 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Someone Comes to Town Part 30: Nearly finished podcasting my 2006 novel!
Unidirectional entryism: Why aren't there more RINOs?
The good news about vaccination bad news: Attributing to malice AND incompetence (not intractability).
This day in history: 2011, 2016
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Mini retro computers: Oriol Ferrer Mesià's extraordinary 3D printed machines.
Bunkered, infectious, maskless Republicans infected Congress: Impossible to explain something to a Congressman whose caucus membership depends on his not understanding it.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Busting myths about the Night of the Short Fingers: Jillian C York's "ongoing list."
Impeachment and realignment: What the Dems should do to shatter the GOP.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

US passports basically worthless: Trump built a wall.
DNA Lounge deletes Postmates: Your pizza dollars, murdering future Jamal Khashoggis.
Mississippi's GOP lawmakers sicken: Dozens of mask-shunners test positive.
Wirecard's vanished COO wanted 15,000 Libyan militiamen: German finance scandal hides geopolitical private army scandal.
Near Future Labs' Covid Zine: Design fiction meets the unfathomable future.
This day in history: 2010, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Big Tech distorts our discourse: No mind-control required.
How the IoT reinforces gentrification: Smart doorbells and predictive policing are fully automated karens.
Private equity goes mainstream: If you're gonna loot, you MUST also asset-strip.
What to do about the police: 15 concrete things that should be done to reform American policing, right now.
Masks work: Source control is a thing.
Walmart's crummy anti-theft AI: Employees blow the whistle on their employers' credulous machine learning procurements.
GOP lawmaker hid his diagnosis from Democrats: Andrew Lewis wandered around Pennsylvania's statehouse, shedding virus particles.
Canadians newsrooms restructure as co-ops: And readers can join!
Get a peronalized, signed Poesy the Monster Slayer: Dark Delicacies will ship you copies signed by me and the original Poesy.
This day in history: 2005, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Web-wide copyright filters would be a disaster: No filternet. Not before, and especially not now.
Apartment buildings didn't cause the pandemic: The problem with slums is slumlords, not buildings.
Unmasking the registrants of the "reopen" websites: Koch Network, grifters, GOP orgs and musketfuckers.
Covid burns through Charter Cable employees: The company forced its workers to go to the office, denied PPE to field techs.
Disney heiress slams top execs' compensation: Abigail Disney wants the C-suite to zero out their bonuses
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading