Pluralistic: 24 Feb 2021

Today's links

Bossware and the shitty tech adoption curve: White collar workers, your blue collar comrades tried to warn you.
EVs as distributed storage grid: Go green, buy a bigger truck.
The Mauritanian: Hitler painted roses and GWB does portraiture.
Court rejects TSA qualified immunity: Government genital massages can be video-recorded.
Why Brits can no longer order signed copies of my books: Brexit!
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Big Tech distorts our discourse: No mind-control required.
How the IoT reinforces gentrification: Smart doorbells and predictive policing are fully automated karens.
Private equity goes mainstream: If you're gonna loot, you MUST also asset-strip.
What to do about the police: 15 concrete things that should be done to reform American policing, right now.
Masks work: Source control is a thing.
Walmart's crummy anti-theft AI: Employees blow the whistle on their employers' credulous machine learning procurements.
GOP lawmaker hid his diagnosis from Democrats: Andrew Lewis wandered around Pennsylvania's statehouse, shedding virus particles.
Canadians newsrooms restructure as co-ops: And readers can join!
Get a peronalized, signed Poesy the Monster Slayer: Dark Delicacies will ship you copies signed by me and the original Poesy.
This day in history: 2005, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Russian Multiplication: turning hard multiplication into easy addition with binary.
Cops' qualified immunity: so long as it's not identical to an established atrocity, it's fine.
Bloomberg's Plan B: buying the DNC: I don't care who does the voting, so long as I get to do the nominating.
Private equity looters underperform the S&P 500: Believing that you are accomplishing extraordinary things merely because you are paid extraordinary amounts is top-grade self-delusion.
New podcast about the history of Gopher and adversarial interoperability: It's judo for network effects.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading