Pluralistic: 30 Nov 2020

Today's links

Twitter is more redeemable than Facebook: Guidelines for constructing a productive anti-bubble.
Open law and the rule of law: A copyrighted law can't be law.
RÄT: An extraordinary musical interlude.
Attack Surface in the New York Times: And Macleans!
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming 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

Cyberpunk and Post-Cyberpunk: Bruce Sterling and Christopher Brown on the Attack Surface Lectures.
Disney stiffs writer: Sure, what's new, but this is next-level fuckery #DisneyMustPay.
Tyson execs bet on covid spread in unsafe plant: Upton Sinclair was an optimist.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Cross-Media Sci-Fi with Amber Benson and John Rogers: The Attack Surface Lectures continue.
Storage Wars: The eviction epidemic comes to New York's self-storage lockers.
Embedded machine learning: Offline, low-powered and ubiquitous.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Jeremy Meyer's typewriter assemblages: Symmetry is everything.
HHS to pharma: stop bribing writing docs: No more cash-for-Rx.
The Attack Surface Lectures: Part 1, Politics and Protest.
Youtube-dl is back: EFF to the rescue!
Someone Comes to Town Part 23: The latest in my podcast.
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Boundless Realms: The definitive guide to the Haunted Mansion.
Student data breaches vastly underreported: When monopolism meets ed-tech.
UK corporate registrar bans code-injection: But you can still register +++ATH, Inc.
Someone Comes to Town Part 22: My latest podcast episode.
This day in history: 2005, 2010
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Phone surveillance, made in Canada: Octasic takes over Harris's Stingray division.
Chile restores democratic rule: Neoliberal's first gunshot has stopped echoing.
Someone Comes to Town, Part 20: "A glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read." -Gene Wolfe
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Turning plastics into carbon nanotubes: Promising new research!
Kids reason, adults rationalize: Thoughts on YA literature and books for adults.
Someone Comes to Town Part 19: This week on the podcast.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Dystopia as clickbait: Chris Brown on uncozy apocalypses.
Trail of Mars: New, lyrically gifted science fictional music from John McDaid.
Bride of Frankenstein and the Monster: New, limited Brian Ewing prints for Hallowe'en 2020.
The Passenger Pigeon Manifesto: "Liberate and upload all digitised photographs and artworks."
Bricked Ferrari: DRM and the accommodation of corner-cases.
The Dennis Ball Show: Dad jokes and Haunted Mansion trivia with djBC's alter-ego.
This day in history: None
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Pandemic shock doctrine vs internet freedom: Freedom House's 2020 report is grim reading.
What happened in Florida: Surrender, Bush v Gore style.
Prop 22 is a scam: Propping up a Ponzi with a Proposition.
How to spreadsheet: All the hard-won lessons in one convenient ruleset.
The Ministry of the Future: Eliot Peper interviews Kim Stanley Robinson.
This day in history: 2010, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading