Pluralistic: 06 Oct 2020

Today's links

Maine's drunken, thieving, bumbling, child-porning public defenders: The cruelty is the point.
America's wild hog "pig bomb": Hybrid vigor is a hell of a drug.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Terra Nullius: Podcasting my column about "IP," John Locke, genocide and erasure.
How they're killing the post office: The USPS has been under threat for decades, but now it's an existential crisis.
When you hear "intangibles"…: Think "monopolies."
Text-based, cyberpunk MMORPG: CyberCode Online is based on the VSCode interface.
This day in history: 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Instagram's slow-mo appeals court: A nanosecond to block, 28 months to review.
DOD lie-detector manual leaked: How credible is the National Center for Credibility Assessment?
Farewell to Beyond the Beyond: Wired retires Bruce Sterling's blog, and he has thoughts.
Neoliberals won't waste this crisis: When the left abandoned leninism, the right swiped it.
This day in history: None
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Jesse Jackson endorses Sanders: "I stand with him because he stands with you."
Choose Your Own Adventure was Milton Friedman for Kids: There Is No Alternative.
Woman sues TSA over "pat-down" that penetrated her vagina: Las Vegas airport's finest.
Shat-out pig pedometer sparks farm-fire: Beyond Thunderdome, free range
UCSC strike prompts systemwide student and faculty solidarity strikes: Meanwhile, the regents are deporting striking TAs.
An open syllabus on "housing struggles": Detailed resources from the Pirate Care collective.
Yanis Varoufakis on how austerity leads to fascism: And how "constructive disobedience" can win support for alternatives.
John Deere is Right to Repair's archnemesis: Digital feudalism has reinvented the tenant farmer.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading