Pluralistic: 05 Nov 2020

Today's links

Ant, Uber, and the true nature of money: Money vs finance.
Scarfolk & Environs: "Road & Leisure Map for Uninvited Tourists."
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Witch: Kill Bill meets Thomas Hardy.
Attack Surface on the MMT Podcast: Imagining the first days of a better world.
Private equity's profitable murder: Leonard Green, Prospect Medical Holdings, and the vast fortunes built on the dead.
The Years of Repair: A Message From the Future (II).
Block Google-Fitbit: A merger made in hell.
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A New American Manifesto: "Adapted from the Declaration of Independence."
Adventures of a Dwergish Girl: Daniel Pinkwater scores a bullseye on the absurd-normalcy firing range.
Trudeau promises massive covid stimulus: Fool me twice, you're the Prime Minister.
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Full Employment, the podcast edition: There's no AI employment crisis, but there IS a climate emergency.
Life as a fake Amazon reviewer: A security economics case-study.
Don't talk about cancer on FB: Facebook greets cancer diagnoses with a torrent of quack remedy ads.
Privacy as a right, not a product: Putting a pricetag on your data makes you less private.
Primary Richie Neal [D-MA]: Meet the powerful "Democrat" who defends surprise billing and zero taxes for private equity.
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The Case for a Job Guarantee: Pavlina Tcherneva's urgent pamphlet, in the midst of the employment crisis of the century.
The real cyberwar is Goliath, slaughtering an army of Davids: It's asymmetric, but the asymmetry goes the other way
Coders as RPG classes: Product managers are bards.
Podcast: Someone Comes to Town Pt 7: The Father's Day episode.
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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!
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White House street renamed "Black Lives Matter Plaza": But when will Mayor Bowser rein in the violent white supremacists in Metro PD?
Little Green Men: Who are the secretive, armed men patrolling DC?
Kim Stanley Robinson on the Jobs Guarantee: Forced labor or dignified labor?
There's a bright side: Massive waves of voter registration, support for defunding the police.
Toxic familial surveillance: Tech supercharges intimate surveillance.
Consumer Reports joins the revolution: Which side are you on?
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Bloomberg editorial calls for a supersized New Deal: Noah Smith says FDR didn't go far enough.
A Database of Ruin: Another excerpt from Barton Gellman's Snowden book.
Coronagrifting and other bad design fictions: Photoshop will not win the war on the virus.
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Walt's grandson calls for Disney execs' bonuses to be canceled: Brad Lund wants the money directed to furloughed workers.
The Lost Cause and MMT: The climate emergency and centuries of full employment.
Patent troll sues ventilator makers: Swirlate IP says anyone who uses LTE is violating its patents.
Private equity's healthcare playbook is terrifying: Biopsy reveals metastatic private equity tumors throughout US healthcare's every organ.
On Madame Leota's side-table: The evolution of a fine Haunted Mansion detail.
Black Americans' covid mortality is 2.5X white mortality: AKA, "Why Republicans no longer care about coronavirus."
Spotify's trying to kill podcasting: Another federated system facing monopolistic enclosure.
Monopolies killed corporate R&D;: And that killed productivity growth.
How spy agencies targeted Snowden journalists: Barton Gellman's Dark Mirror.
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Plutocrats firehose money on primary challenger to AOC: Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, a former Reagan Republican who wants to dismantle Social Security and Medicare
FCC will spend $9B to improve broadband…without an accurate broadband map: Reality's left-wing bias makes accurate data the enemy of conservativism.
Buddhist monk covers western pop songs: He's like a male, solo version of Shonen Knife.
Apple hunters recover ten "lost" varieties from forgotten farms: The Lost Apple Society needs help.
Finding the Money: A fabulous new documentary on Modern Monetary Theory
Evangelical pastor denied quarantine, now he wants your stimulus check: Tony Spell's death-cult has a business-model.
Zombie movies teach us all the wrong lessons for pandemic: Not only would a zombie plague be easy to contain, but people don't turn into monsters during crises.
Building a "web of books": What would a federated alternative to Goodreads look like?
The Facebook Political Ad Collector: Exposing targeted advertising's fraud and conspiracy
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