Today's links
- Klobuchar wants to bust her some fuckin' trusts: CALERA is A Big Fucking Deal.
- This day in history: 2001, 2011, 2016
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Tag: monopolism
Pluralistic: 29 Jan 2021
Today's links
- David Dayen's MONOPOLIZED: Unraveling the grift and telling the tale.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 09 Jan 2021
Today's links
- Mashapedia: A third-party glossary of the technical concepts from Attack Surface.
- The City We Became: Jemisin relitigates Jacobs v Moses, with Lovecraft refereeing.
- Crowdsourcing a list of bad cops: Who's on the Brady List?
- Censorship, Parler and antitrust: Just because it doesn't violate the First Amendment…
- This day in history: 2006, 2016, 2020
Pluralistic: 08 Jan 2021
Today's links
- Competition is Killing Us: Consumer harm considered harmful.
- Predatory lender seeks national bank charter: Oportun led America in suing latinx borrowers during the pandemic.
- Militarizing cops was a failure: Water still wet.
- This day in history: 2006, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 11 Dec 2020
Today's links
- Antitrust and Facebook's paid disinformation: By all means, look at the mergers, but don't forget the outsourcing!
- Daddy Daughter Xmas Podcast 2020: An annual tradition.
- A lethally boring story: How pharma monopolists escape liability.
- This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 10 Dec 2020
Today's links
- Facebook vs Robert Bork: The FTC finally found a casus belli for killing off borkism.
- Why we can't have nice things: "Lobbying Expenditures and Campaign Contributions by the Pharmaceutical and Health Product Industry in the United States, 1999-2018."
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2109
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 05 Dec 2020
Today's links
- Descartes' God has failed and Thompson's Satan rules our computers: Computers, trust, and the knowability of the universe.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 03 Nov 2020
Today's links
- Deep Reckonings: Using deepfakes to conjure a contrafactual reality in which monsters confront their legacies.
- Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results: The limits of theory-free statistical inference.
- How Audible robs indie audiobook creators: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.
- Get an extra vote: Reminders from friends and family to vote have a bigger effect on turnout than anything campaigns do.
- A hopeful future: Optimism and pessimism are both fatalism.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 30 Oct 2020
Today's links
- Facebook loses users, makes more money: It's good to be king.
- DRM horror-stories needed: Your chance to change the law.
- This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 01 Oct 2020
Today's links
- 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.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading