Pluralistic: 20 May 2022

Today's links

Podcasting "About Those Killswitched Ukrainian Tractors": Good spaceships don't have self-destruct buttons.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2002, 2017
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

How English libel law enables Russian kleptocrats: Tories and Putin's cronies are both impedance-matched and comorbid.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Jackpot watch: How the klept operates in the UK.
This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Little Revolutions: Bethany C Morrow and Tochi Onyebuchi on the Attack Surface Lectures.
Russian Cyberpunk Farm: Superb comedy-dystopia in a russo-futuristic vein.
We're already (badly) forgiving student debt: Debts that can't be paid won't be paid.
Facebook bullies watchdog: My Wired op-ed on the Ad Observer scandal.
Google's monopoly rigged the ad market: Dina Srinivasan is on fire.
This day in history: 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

In Search Of A Flat Earth: From Flat Earth to Qanon, the rise of murderous cults.
A cryptographic mystery solved: How a Cuban numbers station's decade-long opsec fail blew Russian spies' cover.
Youtube's war on algorithmic radicalization: Selective rabbit-hole elimination is HARD.
The Hardware Lottery: Chip architecture is the secret legislator of machine learning.
This day in history: 2015
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

US passports basically worthless: Trump built a wall.
DNA Lounge deletes Postmates: Your pizza dollars, murdering future Jamal Khashoggis.
Mississippi's GOP lawmakers sicken: Dozens of mask-shunners test positive.
Wirecard's vanished COO wanted 15,000 Libyan militiamen: German finance scandal hides geopolitical private army scandal.
Near Future Labs' Covid Zine: Design fiction meets the unfathomable future.
This day in history: 2010, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading