Today's links

• Plutocrats firehose money on primary challenger to AOC: Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, a former Reagan Republican who wants to dismantle Social Security and Medicare
• FCC will spend $9B to improve broadband…without an accurate broadband map: Reality's left-wing bias makes accurate data the enemy of conservativism.
• Buddhist monk covers western pop songs: He's like a male, solo version of Shonen Knife.
• Apple hunters recover ten "lost" varieties from forgotten farms: The Lost Apple Society needs help.
• Finding the Money: A fabulous new documentary on Modern Monetary Theory
• Evangelical pastor denied quarantine, now he wants your stimulus check: Tony Spell's death-cult has a business-model.
• Zombie movies teach us all the wrong lessons for pandemic: Not only would a zombie plague be easy to contain, but people don't turn into monsters during crises.
• Building a "web of books": What would a federated alternative to Goodreads look like?
• The Facebook Political Ad Collector: Exposing targeted advertising's fraud and conspiracy
• This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
• Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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