Today's links

• Walt's grandson calls for Disney execs' bonuses to be canceled: Brad Lund wants the money directed to furloughed workers.
• The Lost Cause and MMT: The climate emergency and centuries of full employment.
• Patent troll sues ventilator makers: Swirlate IP says anyone who uses LTE is violating its patents.
• Private equity's healthcare playbook is terrifying: Biopsy reveals metastatic private equity tumors throughout US healthcare's every organ.
• On Madame Leota's side-table: The evolution of a fine Haunted Mansion detail.
• Black Americans' covid mortality is 2.5X white mortality: AKA, "Why Republicans no longer care about coronavirus."
• Spotify's trying to kill podcasting: Another federated system facing monopolistic enclosure.
• Monopolies killed corporate R&D;: And that killed productivity growth.
• How spy agencies targeted Snowden journalists: Barton Gellman's Dark Mirror.
• This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
• Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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