Pluralistic: 29 Jun 2021

Today's links

SCOTUS to wrongfully accused terrorists: "drop dead": Kavanaugh finds new ways to be wrong.
Intuit sabotages the Child Tax Credit: Bad web-design is a choice.
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Improving the ACCESS Act: Six ways to make the most important tech law of the legislative season even better.
Juul's junk science: Reporting bias makes vaping's safety is a hazy mess.
Peloton bricks its treadmills: Your kids are dead because you didn't buy the subscription.
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Rabbits: PK Dick meets Qanon: Terry Miles's debut novel of conspiratorial madness.
Apple's manorial security: Works well, fails badly – think different?
Billionaires don't pay tax: Leona Helmsley was an unrecognized genius.
Google and France agree on ad-tech interop: Not the kind of competition we want.
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NYC's driver-owned Uber alternative: Platform cooperativism needs interoperability, though.
Amazon running scared from arbitration at scale: The right kind of automation.
How the Dutch helped CBS cheat on its taxes: Onshore-offshore and the IP shell-game.
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Robot Artists & Black Swans: The fantascienza of "Bruno Argento" (AKA Bruce Sterling).
Klobuchar on trustbusting: She's just published "Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age."
Pharma's anti-generic-vaccine lobbying blitz: A civilization-ending delusion about pools with "no-pissing" ends.
Unpack the court with judicial overrides: Consumer Protection and Recovery Act and beyond.
Lexmark's toxic printer-ink: Every pirate wants to be an admiral.
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AT&T will lay off thousands more: After promising that Trump's $20B tax-break would create jobs.
Cuba is a vaccine powerhouse: A vaccine for the Global South.
Sacklers to use Purdue bankruptcy to escape justice: Crime pays.
AI has a GIGO problem: Bias-laundering at mass scale.
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Chevron bought the US justice system: It was cheaper than paying its $9.8b fine for ecocide.
Chickenized reverse-centaurs: Can Amazon drivers get justice?
Announcing "The Shakedown": Rebecca Giblin and I wrote a book about creative worker exploitation!
This day in history: 2020
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Help news, not news-barons: EFF on the proposed antitrust exemption for news.
Impunity for NYPD cops who brutalized BLM protesters: Only two officers face serious discipline.
Aviation bailout cost $666k/job: Socialism for capitalists.
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SMS security is flaming garbage: Netnumber is a perfect microcosm of telephonic uselessness.
The People's Parity Project: An antidote to corporate law.
Meet the new music boss, same as the old music boss: Monopsony begets monoposony.
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Bossware and the shitty tech adoption curve: White collar workers, your blue collar comrades tried to warn you.
EVs as distributed storage grid: Go green, buy a bigger truck.
The Mauritanian: Hitler painted roses and GWB does portraiture.
Court rejects TSA qualified immunity: Government genital massages can be video-recorded.
Why Brits can no longer order signed copies of my books: Brexit!
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