Pluralistic: 02 Oct 2020

Today's links

Call center workers pay for the privilege: Propublica breaks open the massive, secretive abuser Arise, fronted by Disney, Airbnb, Intuit, Comcast, Carnival and more.
Dan Hillier's Six Women/Six Men: New "box sets" from the spooky, brilliant collagist.
Apple kills RSS readers in China: Chekhov's Law for DRM strikes again.
This day in history: 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

Fincen (they fucking knew all along): $2t in unpunished money laundering, leaked from the US Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
California's fire-debt: A century of mismanagement and PG&E;'s criminal neglect meets the climate emergency.
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

California's preventable fires: 1,000,000 acres of fire-debt.
Zuck calls Apple a monopolist: I know you are but what am I?
This day in history: 2005, 2010
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

Rewarding CEOs for failure: Heads they win, tails we lose.
DIY giant chalk: Tempura paint, plaster of paris, and water.
Fairness and machine learning: Open access computer science textbook.
Facebook overrules its own fact-checkers: The far right works the refs.
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

Satanic Abortions cut through unconstitutional abortion laws: Go ahead, sue to overturn the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Restore the Office of Technology Assessment: In the 21st Century, it's no longer OK to not understand technology.
US plummets below Russia and Mexico in global misery index: Tired of Winning.
Novartis's $678m bribery scandal: Epistemological crisis actors.
California DMV's $50m/year data selloff: California lawmakers want to know who's buying.
This day in history: 2010, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Poesy the Monster Slayer: My first picture book is out today!
Atlas of Surveillance: How are your local cops spying on you?
Catalan politician hacked with NSO Group malware: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
Artists vs tax havens: A report from Tax Havens: Normalized Grand Theft.
Free "extended preview" of my next book: "Attack Surface" AKA "Little Brother III."
Target workers strike over chickenization: Working for a chickenshipt outfit.
Big Oil can have you locked up: Chevron's old legal firm have the oil company's most effective critic under house arrest.
California goes antitrust on Google: Xavier Becerra rides again!
2019's highest-paid execs: I'm sure they earned every dime.
This day in history: None
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading