Pluralistic: Revenge of the Linkdumps (13 May 2023)

Today's links

Revenge of the Linkdumps: Something for the weekend, sir?
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
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A Year in Illustration

Creating visuals for abstract ideas with the public domain, fair use, Creative Commons and zero artistic talent.

A vintage illustration depicting Ida Tarbell chopping down a tree from which an irate John D Rockefeller shouts at her.

Back when we were inventing blogging, most posts did not have illustration, which was good for me, since I can’t draw so much as a stick figure, and there was precious little in the way of public domain or otherwise freely reusable stock art.

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Pluralistic: 23 Feb 2021

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Private equity's nursing home killing spree: Pre- and post-covid.
Malcolm X's true killers: NYPD deathbed confessions confirms "conspiracy theory."
A voyage to the moon of 1776: Filippo Morghen's imaginary travelogue.
German covid coinages: Schadenfreude fur CoronaFußgruß.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
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Pluralistic: 17 Feb 2021

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Reverse centaurs and the failure of AI: Turkers all the way down.
Gorgeous, slipcased editions of public domain classics: Dave McKean's Crime and Punishment.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 01 Dec 2020

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Ohio spends tax dollars to destroy Ohio: Kroger's state subsidies funnelled to "ghost kitchens."
Diving bell drawings: Pictures of the deep, drawn in a mid-19th C submersible.
Distanced stage plays: The first online arts centre in the English-speaking world.
Double your EFF donation: Up to $319,000 in donations matching.
Emotional deck: Crowdfunding the Becoming Dragon deck.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 15 Oct 2020

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Dystopia as clickbait: Chris Brown on uncozy apocalypses.
Trail of Mars: New, lyrically gifted science fictional music from John McDaid.
Bride of Frankenstein and the Monster: New, limited Brian Ewing prints for Hallowe'en 2020.
The Passenger Pigeon Manifesto: "Liberate and upload all digitised photographs and artworks."
Bricked Ferrari: DRM and the accommodation of corner-cases.
The Dennis Ball Show: Dad jokes and Haunted Mansion trivia with djBC's alter-ego.
This day in history: None
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Pluralistic: 22 Aug 2020

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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
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Pluralistic: 18 Aug 2020

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The Fifth Pig: OG antifa agitprop.
"Fuck the algorithm": English children force Tories to U-turn on algorithmic educational assessments.
Mr Cook, Tear Down That Wall: Interop, Apple, Fortnite and the Berlin Wall.
Deindustrialization is a market failure: Future crises are never priced into market transactions.
Fed cops substitute dollars for warrants: Why talk to a judge when you can talk to a data-broker?
Upbeat surveillance marketing: Hikvision's jolly medieval spy-tech.
South Africa's copyright and human rights: Fair use, the Berne Convention, and Ramaphosa.
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
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Pluralistic: 15 Jun 2020

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Al Jaffee has retired: MAD's tribute to a 99-year-old legend.
Raffi on radical politics: The more we get together the happier we'll be.
Podcast: Part 6 of "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town": Young love, strange love.
Force Multiplier: Free Little Brother story for Attack Surface pre-orders, UK edition.
Socializing with spreadsheets: Party in a shared doc.
Red state pandemic rising: Pools can't have pissing and non-pissing ends.
US cyberdefense is AWOL: US "cyber" spending is all offense, no defense.
Scraping traffic-cams to capture police violence: NY activists are archiving public camera footage.
Huge trove of unprotected dating-app data: 845GB of pics, chat and PII hanging out in unprotected Amazon buckets.
This day in history: 2010, 2015
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Pluralistic: 06 May 2020

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Alvim Corrêa's War of the Worlds illustrations: They started as fan art.
America's corporate lobbyists want a bailout: It's the political version of the human centipede.
Sacrifice banks to save businesses: Either we nerf landlords and banks to save businesses and jobs, or the businesses and jobs will collapse and take out landlords and banks.
Scarfolk death statistics: Juking the stats.
Chef paints portrait of every meal he eats: Itsuo Kobayashi has been at it for 32 years.
Appeals court says Miami jail doesn't need to provide soap: When waiting for your hearing becomes a death sentence.
Ohio's got snitchline for bosses whose workers who won't go back: Reopen and/or die.
Magic Puzzles: From Max "Cards Against Humanity" Temkin and friends.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
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