Today's links
- QE, inflation, slave labor and a People's Bailout: Uber is a (terrible) job guarantee program.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Tag: pavlina tcherneva
Pluralistic: 25 Jun 2020
Today's links
- How Big Tech distorts discourse: My free Oxford Internet Institute webinar.
- Talking Job Guarantee with Pavlina Tcherneva: My latest for the LA Times.
- Walkaway, Chicago-style: Protesters re-enact the climax of my 2017 novel (and it worked!)
- 759 Trump atrocities: McSweeney's saved the receipts.
- Accessible, Affordable Internet for All Act: $80B for universal fiber rollout.
- Canada Reads is back: The debates will happen July 20-23.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 22 Jun 2020
Today's links
- 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.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 06 Jun 2020
Today's links
- 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?
- This day in history: 2005, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading