Pluralistic: Denazification, truth and reconciliation, and the story of Germany's story (19 July 2023)

Today's links

Denazification, truth and reconciliation, and the story of Germany's story: How do you confront an incomprehensible monstrosity?
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Podcasting "Ideas Lying Around": A theory of change based on shovel-ready ideas.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Making Hay: My new "Lost Cause" story in MIT Tech Review's "Make Shift."
Free markets: My latest Locus column on rent-seeking and audiobooks.
STREAMLINER: Vantablack noir French hotrod comics for the win.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

This USPS Machine Kills Fascists: If Woody was a postie.
Zombie postcapitalism: What it means for the finance economy to decouple from the productive economy.
This day in history: 2005, 2015
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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

A new Marcus Yallow/Little Brother story!: "Force Multiplier" is free if you pre-order Attack Surface, the third Little Brother book
DRM and CHI: When the metaphor shear is deliberate.
Talking with Toronto Public Library's Shelve Under podcast: Toronto is a hell of an sf town.
The law is free: Carl Malamud wins big at the Supreme Court.
"Absolutely faithful" Discworld TV adaptations: Will we finally get a decent Discworld video adaptation?
Read the prologue of "The Lost Cause": My post-GND novel-in-progress
Foreclosure vultures hold illegal auctions on courthouse steps: You say "investor," I say "profiteer."
Hands-free door-handles: Ability is a spectrum.
NYC will pedestrianize 40 miles of city streets: Hey I'm walkin' here.
Citizen DJ: The Library of Congress wants to bring back the golden age of sampling.
"Essential" workers will strike across America for May Day: Amazon, Instacart, Whole Foods, Walmart, Target, and FedEx.
Synonyms vs machine learning: An adversarial example to defeat sentiment analyzers.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

I'm teaching a teen writing class: "Stories are Super Weird. Here’s Why They Work."
Trump will deliver killing blow to the USPS: The murder's been underway since 2006.
Fighting the EU Copyright Directive in court: Former MEP Julia Reda has a new gig doing impact litigation.
Virginia's election-day holiday: They also eliminated Lee-Jackson Day.
Quantifying Boris Johnson's body-count: Ireland makes for a natural experiment.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading