Today's links
- Bubble: Fantastic graphic novel adaptation of the brilliant comedy/sf podcast.
- This day in history: 2001, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Tag: reviews
Pluralistic: 19 Aug 2021
Today's links
- Machine learning's crumbling foundations: Doing 'data science' with bad data.
- Hench: The madcap rage of life under vigilante rule.
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 17 Aug 2021
Today's links
- Sandman Slim's final adventure: King Bullet brings in Richard Kadrey's masterpiece for a hell of a landing.
- Big Oil caught lying about methane: 84 times worse than CO2.
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 01 Jul 2021
Today's links
- When the Sparrow Falls: Neil Sharpson's dystopian tale of an anti-AI hermit kingdom.
- Exxon lobbyist confesses to his crimes: Keith McCoy thought he was talking to an executive recruiter.
- This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 09 Jun 2021
Today's links
- Prisoners' Inventions: The unmissable new edition of a maker classic for a carceral nation.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 08 Jun 2021
Today's links
- Rabbits: PK Dick meets Qanon: Terry Miles's debut novel of conspiratorial madness.
- Apple's manorial security: Works well, fails badly – think different?
- Billionaires don't pay tax: Leona Helmsley was an unrecognized genius.
- Google and France agree on ad-tech interop: Not the kind of competition we want.
- This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 11 May 2021
Today's links
- Cyclopedia Exotica: Aminder Dhaliwal's cryptid history of our one-eyed cousins.
- Let's eat all the cicadas: Harnessing the paperclip machine for good?
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 27 Apr 2021
Today's links
- Robot Artists & Black Swans: The fantascienza of "Bruno Argento" (AKA Bruce Sterling).
- Klobuchar on trustbusting: She's just published "Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age."
- Pharma's anti-generic-vaccine lobbying blitz: A civilization-ending delusion about pools with "no-pissing" ends.
- Unpack the court with judicial overrides: Consumer Protection and Recovery Act and beyond.
- Lexmark's toxic printer-ink: Every pirate wants to be an admiral.
- This day in history: 2011, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 13 Apr 2021
Today's links
- Jackpot: Inequality sucks…for everyone.
- Bill Gates will kill us all: Elite philanthropy created vaccine apartheid.
- What "IP" means: Control over customers, critics and competitors.
- Data-brokerages vs the world: The public-private partnership from hell.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 15 Mar 2021
Today's links
- Making Hay: My new "Lost Cause" story in MIT Tech Review's "Make Shift."
- Free markets: My latest Locus column on rent-seeking and audiobooks.
- STREAMLINER: Vantablack noir French hotrod comics for the win.
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading