Pluralistic: Async mugwump linkdump (30 Mar 2024)

Today's links

How Palantir will steal the NHS: Stealth privatisation was always the endgame for public-private-partnerships.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Tory Britain is crashing and burning: They got Brexit done.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Pixels of You: An illustrated tale of love and photos.
Wall Street's landlord business is turning every rental into a slum: And they're using public money to do it.
UK Tories want a national database of porn-viewing habits: Oh fuck not this bullshit again.
This day in history: 2002, 2012, 2017, 2021
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Solar futures and futuristic fellowships: What's happening at ASU's Center for Science and the Imagination.
FCC wants broadband complaints: Your chance to sound off about a shithole country.
Tories pass Grenfell costs onto tenants: A Parliament of Landlords, doing its job.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Crooked cops play music to kill livestreams: Beverly Hills Police Department Sergeant Billy Fair blasting Sublime's Santeria.
Duke is academia's meanest trademark bully: Empirically speaking, that is.
Tory donors reap 100X return on campaign contributions: Stochastic corruption.
A criminal enterprise with a country attached: Ladies and Gentlebeings, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Amazon's Monopoly Tollbooth: Quantifying the market-power abuses of Amazon's platform.
Thomas Hawk's Talking Heads: Judy's in the bedroom inventing situations.
Orwell prize winner trapped in orwellian nightmare: Jessica Johnson's predicament puts the "kafkaesque" in "orwellian."
Spikey: Infering key geometry from the sound of lock-entry.
Hedge fund won't return Citi's accidental $175m deposit: No backsies.
Yale admin: "Prepare for death": It's not quite "boola boola."
Austerity breeds Nazis: Analyzing Weimar election data.
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

The Fifth Pig: OG antifa agitprop.
"Fuck the algorithm": English children force Tories to U-turn on algorithmic educational assessments.
Mr Cook, Tear Down That Wall: Interop, Apple, Fortnite and the Berlin Wall.
Deindustrialization is a market failure: Future crises are never priced into market transactions.
Fed cops substitute dollars for warrants: Why talk to a judge when you can talk to a data-broker?
Upbeat surveillance marketing: Hikvision's jolly medieval spy-tech.
South Africa's copyright and human rights: Fair use, the Berne Convention, and Ramaphosa.
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

New podcast: Part nine of my reading of Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town.
Europe's interop coalition: DSA + Interop = Competition.
Scarfolk beermats: Ministers' Stout Hubris and more.
Miami cop owns illegal mansion nightclub: For some reason, the cops didn't prevent the nightly Lamborghini races.
Video and transcript of my OII talk: If you missed last week's "What Big Tech does to discourse, and the forgotten tech tool that can make tech less big."
Shower temperature vs handle position: You're not imagining it.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Bojo's "New Deal" is neither: tldr 0.2% of GDP is not 40% of GDP.
The real racial wealth gap: The 1% distort our statistics.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading