Today's links

Al Jaffee has retired: MAD's tribute to a 99-year-old legend.

Raffi on radical politics: The more we get together the happier we'll be.

Podcast: Part 6 of "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town": Young love, strange love.

Force Multiplier: Free Little Brother story for Attack Surface pre-orders, UK edition.

Socializing with spreadsheets: Party in a shared doc.

Red state pandemic rising: Pools can't have pissing and non-pissing ends.

US cyberdefense is AWOL: US "cyber" spending is all offense, no defense.

Scraping traffic-cams to capture police violence: NY activists are archiving public camera footage.

Huge trove of unprotected dating-app data: 845GB of pics, chat and PII hanging out in unprotected Amazon buckets.

This day in history: 2010, 2015

Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Today's links

Podcast swap with Wil Wheaton: Wil and I read each others' work in our podcasts this week.
Corona-denying pastor dies of coronavirus: Governments who depend on the religious right have a conflict of interest.
Ticketmaster ends refunds for canceled events: Ever wonder what "terms subject to change without notice" really means?
Amazon fires tech workers for their warehouse worker solidarity: Threatened for speaking out on climate, fired for speaking out on warehouse conditions.
Southern states in for worst of coronavirus impact: The white gerontocracy has engineered a perfect pandemic storm.
Abolish Silicon Valley: Wendy Liu's new memoir is a case-study from the tech worker uprising.
I'm doing Podapalooza! It's a pay-what-you-can onlin podcast festival with proceeds to Give Directly.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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