Pluralistic: 08 Feb 2022

Today's links

Pixels of You: An illustrated tale of love and photos.
Wall Street's landlord business is turning every rental into a slum: And they're using public money to do it.
UK Tories want a national database of porn-viewing habits: Oh fuck not this bullshit again.
This day in history: 2002, 2012, 2017, 2021
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 04 Feb 2022

Today's links

A covid vaccine for your airways: The promising science of nasal spray vaccines.
Rail monopolies destroyed the American supply chain: Heads they win, tails we lose.
This day in history: 2012, 2017, 2021
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 29 Nov 2021

Today's links

The once and future mass-resignation and what it means for working people: On David Dayen's "The Great Escape."
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 16 Aug 2021

Today's links

Housing, money laundry, speculation and precarity: Henry George was an optimist.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 29 Jul 2021

Today's links

Bankruptcy and elite impunity: The Sacklers offer billions of reasons to overthrow the system.
Stories from Black women's customer service hell: The women who answer the phone when you call Disney, Airbnb, Carnival and others.
Tracking you with accelerometer signatures: Yet another latent unique identifier with horrifying consequences.
Unauthorized cups: RFID-equipped disposable cups deny water to homeless people.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 14 May 2021

Today's links

A weapon of mass financial destruction: Your pension is funding the destruction of the real economy…and itself.
This day in history: 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 29 Apr 2021

Today's links

What the hell is "carried interest": A scam, obviously, but the real ripoff is preferential tax-treatment of capital gains.
Korea set to break the Samsung dynasty: Intergenerational wealth transfers, dynastic fortunes, and eugenic meritocracy.
Disney's writer wage-theft is far worse than reported: Allan Dean Foster was just the first to go public.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 23 Feb 2021

Today's links

Private equity's nursing home killing spree: Pre- and post-covid.
Malcolm X's true killers: NYPD deathbed confessions confirms "conspiracy theory."
A voyage to the moon of 1776: Filippo Morghen's imaginary travelogue.
German covid coinages: Schadenfreude fur CoronaFußgruß.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 04 Feb 2021

Today's links

Organic fascism: The Pastel Q/organic food crossover.
Stop the "Stop the Steal" steal: My op-ed on ES&S's bullying of e-voting critics.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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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

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