Pluralistic: 10 Nov 2021

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Risk compensation considered harmful: HPV vaccines, N95s, seatbelts, helmets and the Chicago Boys.
This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 27 Oct 2021

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Hospital rings up $2755 upcharge by sending pregnant woman to ER: Poudre Valley Hospital is a clip-joint.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020.
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Pluralistic: 27 Sep 2021

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Podcasting "Breaking In": Why you shouldn't take career advice from successful writers.
Democrats, health care monopolies, and market failures: Market health care is a fatal disease.
Shelter is a toxic asset: NIMBYism is a fatal disease.
This day in history: 2001, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 19 Aug 2021

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Machine learning's crumbling foundations: Doing 'data science' with bad data.
Hench: The madcap rage of life under vigilante rule.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2020
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Pluralistic: 04 Aug 2021

Today's links

Vaccine refusal and health insurance: Insurers to unvaccinated: "Drop dead."
Congress has allocated enough money to end the eviction crisis: But they asked the states to hand it out.
Utilities governed like empires: One bad account disconnection can cost you everything.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 02 Aug 2021

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Machine learning sucks at covid: Every "AI" covid tool was useless.
Podcasting "Are We Having Fun Yet?": The first three parts of my ongoing Medium series on queueing, aggregate demand management and theme parks.
This day in history: 2020, 2016, 2011, 2006, 2001
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 28 Mar 2021

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On the occasion of John Varley's quadruple bypass: Raising funds for a beloved sf giant.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 03 Dec 2020

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Monopolies made America vulnerable to covid: Pharma, hospitals and other health industries were weak before the pandemic.
The Ministry For the Future: Kim Stanley Robinson's final (?) novel.
Graffitists hit dozens of NYC subway cars: Party like it's 1984.
Breathtaking Iphone hack: Zero-click wireless worms.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
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Pluralistic: 16 Nov 2020

Today's links

Jeremy Meyer's typewriter assemblages: Symmetry is everything.
HHS to pharma: stop bribing writing docs: No more cash-for-Rx.
The Attack Surface Lectures: Part 1, Politics and Protest.
Youtube-dl is back: EFF to the rescue!
Someone Comes to Town Part 23: The latest in my podcast.
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
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Pluralistic: 01 Oct 2020

Today's links

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
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