Pluralistic: Kinkslump Linkdump (09 Dec 2023)

Today's links

Kinkslump Linkdump: A week's worth of assortment.
This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Tesla's Dieselgate: How DRM let Tesla defraud every one of its customers.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Wework founder raises $70m for blockchain-based, "voluntary" carbon credits: It's a scam matrioshka.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: None
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Capitalism's crooked refs: Big Accounting and the bezzle.
Aaron Swartz, vindicated: Van Buren and the CFAA.
This day in history: 2006, 2011
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

K-shaped recovery vs wealth taxes: Evita's spectre is haunting Argentina.
Facebook vs Australia: It's not a link-tax, it's collective bargaining.
The Paltrow-Industrial Complex: How Goop is cashing in on covid.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 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

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

Terra Nullius: Podcasting my column about "IP," John Locke, genocide and erasure.
How they're killing the post office: The USPS has been under threat for decades, but now it's an existential crisis.
When you hear "intangibles"…: Think "monopolies."
Text-based, cyberpunk MMORPG: CyberCode Online is based on the VSCode interface.
This day in history: 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

NY State's promising new antitrust law: Senator Mike Gianaris will let the state step into the federal vacuum.
Ventilation vs covid: Survive winter with DIY HEPA filters plus over-indexed steam heaters.
Writers Guild vanquishes a major agency: ACM folded, WME and CAA next.
NY AG wants to dissolve NRA: "Rampant corruption" is not compatible with tax-charitable status.
Qanon is an ARG (pt II): The other Hon brother weighs in.
This day in history: 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Michigan Supreme Court to review teenager's no-homework jail sentence: Justice for Grace?
Grifters started the anti-mask movement: The Dorr brothers are Grand Wizards of the Flu Klux Klan.
Strike for Black Lives: Today's walkout.
No mask, no entry: Civilian casualties of the mask wars.
Dems vote to fund more DHS invasions of US cities: $50B for DHS with no ban on urban invasions.
This day in history: None
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading