Pluralistic: Announcing the Picks and Shovels book tour (06 Feb 2025)

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Announcing the Picks and Shovels book tour: There's a nonzero chance that you and I will shortly be in the same city!
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Object permanence: 2005, 2015, 2024
Recent appearances: Where I've been.
Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Colophon: All the rest.

Housing is a labor issue: The eternal labor September bodes well for the American housing crisis.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2015, 2018, 2022
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Biden wants to ban ripoff "financial advisors": Big gubmint wants to take away your freedom to starve to death in old age.
Announcing The Lost Cause Tour: LA, Stratford, Concord, Simsbury, Toronto, New York and Chapel Hill!
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2013, 2018, 2022
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

The Chokepoint Capitalism tour: Ottawa, Toronto, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles (and beyond!)
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Charter uses bad credit threats to corral ex-subscribers: "Resubscribe or we'll keep trashing your credit report."
Adobe uses copyfraud to preserve spyware: A free-as-in-surveillance-free Flash installer is gone thanks to a bogus copyright claim.
India funded a starving kids' app, but not food: Solutionism at its worst.
This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Podcasting "Hope, Not Optimism": A theory of change based on truth, not fiction.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Biden's shift on vaccine patents is a Big Deal: A world turned upside-down.
LA traveling toward free public transit: But first we must abolish means-testing.
How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism Part 6: Nearly done with my serialized podcast reading!
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Uber loses (another) $6.8b: The market can stay predatory longer than you can stay angry.
Ring helped LAPD spy on BLM protests: The public-private surveillance partnership from hell.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Nnedi Okarafor and me in conversation tonight: Torcon's closing keynote, 4PM Pacific/7PM Eastern.
LA schools returned grenade launchers, kept assault rifles: An M-16 for teacher.
Black box voting: Voting machine vendor won't give election officials a login.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

How cops spy on Black journalists: Wendi C Thomas is on Memphis PD's enemies list.
Teen Vogue on surviving rubber bullets: Less lethals are still lethal.
How Do We Change America?: GW Bush is not our friend.
Time to retheme Splash Mountain: "Problematic" doesn't begin to cover it.
Appeals court rejects judge who wanted $65m for lost pants: Roy Pearson, Jr has been at this for fifteen years.
Compton's Black cowboys ride out: 100+ Black cowboys mass to support Black Lives Matter.
Wargame based on the 1968 Chicago police riots: Strategy and Tactics Magazine #21 (1970).
LRAD shields: Audio engineers develop sound cannon defense.
MMT in the NYT: Happy book-birthday, Stephanie Kelton!
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading