Pluralistic: 14 Jul 2020

Today's links

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.
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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.
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EFF on EU interoperability policy: Securing Europeans' technological self-determination.
BAHA Blues: Patrick Costello's harrowing hearing aid implant experience.
Bossware: The remote work dystopia is here.
Big Cop's corporate armorers: Corporate "charity" funds police military and surveillance black budgets.
Invigilation CEO doxes student: Proctorio's CEO "takes privacy very seriously."
Sun Ra's syllabus: Lecture and reading list from "The Black Man in the Cosmos" (UC Berkeley 1971).
Snowden on Little Brother: The new Little Brother/Homeland omnibus is almost upon us!
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Impossible Music: Sean Williams's superb novel of Deafness and music theory.
Yanis Varoufakis on capitalism's self-destruction: And what to do about it.
India bans Chinese apps: Chekhov's Law, China-India cyberspace sovereignty edition.
Post-Trump trumpism: What will the right do after Trump's defeat?
Gilead's $3k covid med should sell for $10: And the research was funded by the US public.
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Everybody Knows: Charles Hugh Smith has prepared the rap sheet.
"Longshot" NYPD surveillance transparency law passes: NYC has finally passed the POST Act.
Juneteenth in the Internet Archive: Living history, in your browser.
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Ada Palmer, being brilliant for 2.5h: On the Singularity Podcast.
Restaurateur wreaks algorithmic vengeance upon Doordash: Nonconsensual delivery services vs arbitrage.
England's storks are back: A 600 year old deep cut.
See through walls with free software: TEMPEST, GNU Radio style.
Universal broadband now: Broadband is a human right.
Airgap-busting malware: Probabilistic sneakernet injections.
Deliveroo, without Deliveroo: The problem isn't the service, it's the social arrangements.
Podcast: Part 3 of Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town: Have your read all those books?
US insurers say paying for pandemic treatment is "selfless": Blind boxes r us.
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US public health officials on apps: "Meh": Exposure notification is no substitute for labor-intensive contact-tracing.
Volcano gods demand workers: Reopening is only possible under threat of starvation and homelessness.
Animal Crossing Haunted Mansion: Needs more AOC.
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Lovecraft Country: Jordan Peele's official trailer for his adaptation of Matt Ruff's book.
$150,000 "Magic" grants: For people to pursue their passions.
Pandemic could make Big Tech our permanent overlords: Kara Swisher on pandemic profiteering.
Hospital CEOs making millions amid cuts: Nurses and docs vs execs.
Wired workers have unionized: Just in time for rumored Conde Nast cuts.
The failure of software licensing: The right to hire a lawyer is not software freedom.
XML inventor quits Amazon over whistleblower firings: Tim Bray is no longer an Amazon VP and Distinguished Engineer.
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Indie booksellers during the pandemic: Better news that you might expect.
Podcasting Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town: "A glorious book unlike any book you've ever read."
Billionaires thriving on our pandemic losses: Plutocracy is comorbid with pandemic.
Pandemic proves ISP data-caps were always a pretense: Rent-seeking vs capex.
Hospital cuts healthcare workers' pay, pays six-figure exec bonuses: Denver Health Medical Center shows us who really matters.
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