Pluralistic: 29 Sep 2021

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Debts that can't be paid, won't be paid: The first David Graeber Foundation meetup, between Thomas Piketty and Michael Hudson.
"Are you calling me a racist?": The libertarian case for racism.
Wells Fargo can't stop criming: The nation's third-biggest bank is a criminal enterprise.
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Pluralistic: 18 Aug 2021

Today's links

The Sacklers threaten us all with a good time: "Give us total impunity or we won't accede to the total impunity deal" is a hell of an ultimatum.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 11 Aug 2021

Today's links

Canada's got the world's worst internet ideas: The Canada Variant is the most virulent "online harms" rule.
IRS leaks reveal billions reaped through ultra-wealthy lobbying on the tax bill: A cast of dozens.
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Pluralistic: 12 Jul 2021

Today's links

Podcasting "Tech Monopolies and the Insufficient Necessity of Interoperability": Corporate rivalries vs public power.
The Sacklers will get to keep billions: What's a little mass-murder between friends?
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 19 Jun 2021

Today's links

The gig economy's dark-money, astroturf "community groups": Uber and Lyft spent their way into a rep for racial justice.
The doctrine of dynastic wealth: Abigail Disney on tax evasion and the American caste system.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 08 Jun 2021

Today's links

Rabbits: PK Dick meets Qanon: Terry Miles's debut novel of conspiratorial madness.
Apple's manorial security: Works well, fails badly – think different?
Billionaires don't pay tax: Leona Helmsley was an unrecognized genius.
Google and France agree on ad-tech interop: Not the kind of competition we want.
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Pluralistic: 23 May 2021

Today's links

How the Sacklers rigged the game: Kickstarting the opioid epidemic and escaping with a fortune bigger than the Rockefellers'.
This day in history: 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 31 Mar 2021

Today's links

AT&T will lay off thousands more: After promising that Trump's $20B tax-break would create jobs.
Cuba is a vaccine powerhouse: A vaccine for the Global South.
Sacklers to use Purdue bankruptcy to escape justice: Crime pays.
AI has a GIGO problem: Bias-laundering at mass scale.
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Pluralistic: 23 Nov 2020

Today's links

Opsec and personal security: Runa Sandvik and Window Snyder on the Attack Surface Lectures.
Australian predictive policing tool for kids: Digital phrenology vs racialized kids.
A textbook grift: Economics, Final Edition.
Labor and large firms: Lessons from Caterpillar and Hollywood.
The power of procurements: A streamlined way to regulate IoT.
Guatemala's guillotines: Protesters torch the parliament.
Someone Comes to Town part 24: This week on my podcast.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
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Pluralistic: 19 Nov 2020

Today's links

Cyberpunk and Post-Cyberpunk: Bruce Sterling and Christopher Brown on the Attack Surface Lectures.
Disney stiffs writer: Sure, what's new, but this is next-level fuckery #DisneyMustPay.
Tyson execs bet on covid spread in unsafe plant: Upton Sinclair was an optimist.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
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