Today's links
- Experian doxes the world (again): And the breach is still ongoing.
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Tag: inequality
Pluralistic: 28 Apr 2021
Today's links
- Dems want to give $600b to the one percent: Repealing the SALT cap is not a middle-class issue.
- This day in history: 2006, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 13 Apr 2021
Today's links
- Jackpot: Inequality sucks…for everyone.
- Bill Gates will kill us all: Elite philanthropy created vaccine apartheid.
- What "IP" means: Control over customers, critics and competitors.
- Data-brokerages vs the world: The public-private partnership from hell.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 30 Mar 2021
Today's links
- How to donate to John Varley: Paypal versus science fiction.
- Minimum wage vs Wall Street bonuses: The fight for $44.
- America needs a high-fiber broadband diet: AT&T to rural America: "Drop dead (slowly)."
- Als Sysadmins die Erde beherrschten: My "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth," auf Deutsch.
- This day in history: 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 13 Feb 2021
Today's links
- Privacy Without Monopoly: A new EFF white paper, co-authored with Bennett Cyphers.
- Broad Band: Claire L Evans's magesterial history of women in computing.
- $50T moved from America's 90% to the 1%: The hereditary meritocracy is in crisis.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 18 Jan 2021
Today's links
- How to leak a Zoom meeting: Watermarks, tile randomization, and more.
- Pandemics and peak indifference: Squandering history's most expensive lessons.
- Planet Money's free Great Gatsby audiobook: The public domain in action.
- Honor MLK day with the Internet Archive: A fabulous, open access trove.
- Someone Comes to Town, Part 28: This week's podcast installment carries on my friendly dispute with Manuel Castells.
- Facebook's community standards: JWZ's 0-follower, 0-post FB account was suspended.
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2015, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 03 Oct 2020
Today's links
- Inequality and luck and risk and merit: Heads they win, tails we lose.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 05 Jul 2020
Today's links
- Bojo's "New Deal" is neither: tldr 0.2% of GDP is not 40% of GDP.
- The real racial wealth gap: The 1% distort our statistics.
- This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 29 Jun 2020
Today's links
- Female Furies: Cecil Castellucci finds the story that Jack Kirby missed.
- How to break up Google: A making things company, not a buying things company.
- Facebook and Trump collaborate on rule-rigging: You can't break the rules if you make the rules.
- NYC housing lottery favors the least-needy: The private sector cannot and will not solve the housing crisis.
- Podcast: Part 8 of Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town: Families are weird.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 22 May 2020
Today's links
- Oh Joy Sex Toy's new teen sex-ed book: Our Bodies and Health.
- Torcon: Gaiman, Okorafor, Kowal, Schwab: …and me!
- Copyright bots are slaughtering classical musicians' performances: Filternet, working as intended.
- Coronavirus has made the super-rich MUCH richer: The crisis is here, it's just not evenly distributed.
- How to start a platform co-op: A MOOC from NYU and Mondragon.
- Mum uses GDPR to force Gran to take down pics: That's one way to settle the dispute.
- Physical BLINK tag: Lenticular dominance.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading