Today's links
- Doc resigns after his employer charges $11k for a $8 covid test: But he still opposes medicare for all.
- This day in history: 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Tag: testing
Pluralistic: 03 Sep 2020
Today's links
- Big Car says Right to Repair will MURDER YOU: You wouldn't download a car.
- Algorithmic grading: Another weapon of math destruction.
- Snowden vindicated: NSA spying was illegal.
- Coronavirus is over (if we want it): All we have to do is reform our entire health-care system.
- Rest in Power, David Graeber: Occupy, Debt, Utopia of Rules, Bullshit Jobs.
- Hedge fund managers trouser 64%: 2-and-20 is a fiction.
- Corporate spooks track you "to your door": SDKs are trojan horses.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 28 Jul 2020
Today's links
- Afterland: Lauren Beukes's regrettably brilliantly timed plague novel.
- Mexican copyright crushes free speech: Trump's trade deal takes away Mexicans' fundamental rights.
- Audible Exclusives: Monopolists gonna monopolize.
- Snowden's Little Brother intro: The Age of Mass Surveillance Will Not Last Forever.
- Police "unions" are not unions: They're protection rackets.
- Quick, inaccurate, cheap covid tests: Frequency vs accuracy.
- Swarov.se: Once you see it…
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 07 Jul 2020
Today's links
- New Little Brother/Homeland edition is out today!: With an intro by Edward Snowden.
- There is no automation employment crisis: But there is a climate emergency.
- Cyberpunk Culture: An online conference, Jul 9/10.
- Or What You Will: Jo Walton's new, brilliant meta-meta-novel.
- #BlackOutDay2020: Pledge not to spend a dime in a store or online, except in Black-owned businesses.
- Right wing press duped by state-sponsored influence campaign: Deepfakes and avatars manipulated to defeat reverse image searches.
- Coronavirus tests are a taxable benefit: HMRC creates a perverse incentive.
- Big 4 accounting firms headed for breakup: When the referee cheats.
- Home security cameras are really insecure: Even encrypted video streams can give away sensitive info.
- Why covid cases are spiking but deaths aren't: Lead-time bias.
- This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 10 May 2020
Today's links
- Probability and pandemics: Billions of people generate one-in-a-billion outcomes.
- Striking New Orleans garbage collectors replaced with prison labor: New Jim Crow, pandemic edition.
- Factchecking virologist/conspiracist Judy Mikovits: Demonstrably false claims.
- Pandemic countermeasures from the porn industry: How to control contagion in intimate circumstances.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading