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
Tag: inequality
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
Pluralistic: 05 Apr 2020
Today's links
- Socioeconomics of coronavirus: Everything bad is now worse.
- How to drain your lungs: Knowledge is power.
- Bookshop: a local, indie alternative to Amazon: What could booksellers find to buy one-half so precious as the stuff they sell.
- This day in history: 2010, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 22 Mar 2020
Today's links
- How prepper media is coping with the crisis: Fantasy meets reality while grifters pick up the pieces.
- Law firm tells work-from-homers to switch off smart speakers: Bugging your own house is not compatible with attorney-client privilege.
- Gorgeous painting of coronavirus from a molecular scientist: Free to use, too.
- Slim's is shut, but DNA Lounge needs your help: It's not a business, it's a community.
- Florida mayor ducks accountability for threatening power disconnections during the pandemic: Mayor Pam Triolo has permanently disqualified herself for public office, and commissioner Omari Hardy has the receipts.
- Rashida Tlaib proposes minting two trillion-dollar coins: A people's covid bailout.
- How "concierge doctors" supply the "worried well" with masks, respirators and tests: Pandemic capitalism is guillotine capitalism.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading
Pluralistic: 13 Mar 2020
Today's links
- Announcing the third Little Brother book, Attack Surface: And a new Little Brother/Homeland reissue, with an intro by Ed Snowden!
- Where I Write: A column for the CBC that's really about how I write.
- Stream 200+ global news channels: Each hand-picked, no registration required.
- AT&T's CEO fired 23,000 workers and gave himself a 10% raise: Life on the easiest setting.
- Chelsea Manning is free: But she's been fined $256K for refusing to testify to the Grand Jury.
- Rep Katie Porter forces CDC boss to commit to free testing: Literally the most effective questioner in Congress.
- Trump's unfitness in a plague: It's not because he's an ignoramus, it's because he's a nihilist.
- Malware that hides behind a realtime Covid-19 map: Peter Watts' prophecy comes true.
- Locked-down Siennese sing their city's hymn: A cause for hope in the dark.
- This day in history: 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading
Pluralistic: 10 Mar 2020
Today's links
- Safe and moral societies need "firewalls" between immigration and public services: The UK's "hostile environment" puts everyone at risk.
- Detroit will reconnect water services during the Covid-19 emergency: But it's $25/month thereafter.
- Thomas Piketty endorses Sanders: both his program and his electability.
- Sonos "recycling mode" no longer bricks working speakers: Fire the person who came up with this deeply shitty idea.
- Brave will randomize browser profiles to fight fingerprinting attacks: More from the most privacy-friendly browser.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010
- Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading