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

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

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

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

Privacy Without Monopoly: A new EFF white paper, co-authored with Bennett Cyphers.
Broad Band: Claire L Evans's magesterial history of women in computing.
$50T moved from America's 90% to the 1%: The hereditary meritocracy is in crisis.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Snowden's young adult memoir: The Young Readers' edition of Permanent Record.
Favicons as undeletable tracking beacons: F-cache considered harmful.
The ECB should forgive the debt it owes itself: Another round of austerity will destroy the European project.
Fleet Street calls out schtum Tories: When Paul Dacre and Katharine Viner agree…
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

David Dayen's MONOPOLIZED: Unraveling the grift and telling the tale.
This day in history: 2006, 2011
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Mashapedia: A third-party glossary of the technical concepts from Attack Surface.
The City We Became: Jemisin relitigates Jacobs v Moses, with Lovecraft refereeing.
Crowdsourcing a list of bad cops: Who's on the Brady List?
Censorship, Parler and antitrust: Just because it doesn't violate the First Amendment…
This day in history: 2006, 2016, 2020

Competition is Killing Us: Consumer harm considered harmful.
Predatory lender seeks national bank charter: Oportun led America in suing latinx borrowers during the pandemic.
Militarizing cops was a failure: Water still wet.
This day in history: 2006, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

The WELL State of the World: With special guest Malka Older.
Food and Climate Change Without the Hot Air: How to sustainably eat the planet.
Mass court: "I agree" means something: Finally, we find the bottom.
Congress bans "little green men": No more anonymous federal snatch-squads.
This day in history: 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading