Today's links
- Facebook's alternative facts: If you don't like your transparency portal's data, shut it down.
- This day in history: 2001, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Tag: transparency
Pluralistic: 09 Feb 2021
Today's links
- Snowden's young adult memoir: The Young Readers' edition of Permanent Record.
- Favicons as undeletable tracking beacons: F-cache considered harmful.
- The ECB should forgive the debt it owes itself: Another round of austerity will destroy the European project.
- Fleet Street calls out schtum Tories: When Paul Dacre and Katharine Viner agree…
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 27 Jan 2021
Today's links
- Casino mogul steals First Nation's vaccine: Rodney and Ekaterina Baker, showing us settler colonialism is alive and well.
- Facebook champions (its own) privacy: UK privacy regulator says its settlement is a secret.
- Goldman CEO gets $17.5m reward for $4.5b fraud: 1MDB couldn't have happened without Goldman Sachs.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 08 Dec 2020
Today's links
- Ford patents plutocratic lane-changes: That part of Walkaway wasn't a suggestion, seriously.
- All the books I reviewed in 2020: A year in books.
- Armed cops terrorize Florida covid whistleblower: They pointed a gun at a two-year-old.
- Uber pays to get rid of its self-driving cars: Every Big Store has to close eventually.
- This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 29 Oct 2020
Today's links
- Amazon says only corporations own property: Everyone else is a licensor.
- Violent cops' deadly victim complex: Murderers hiding behind victims' rights laws.
- Sue your medical bully: A recipe for small-claims victory.
- This day in history: 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 25 Oct 2020
Today's links
- Facebook threatens ad-transparency group: Ad Observatory gets the Power Ventures treatment.
- The madness of elite varsity sports: WWI by another means.
- Bob Dylan sings a EULA: You've already made a legally binding commitment to watch this.
- This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 27 Jul 2020
Today's links
- Constitution Illustrated: R Sikoryak's amazing chameleon take on the US Constitution.
- My HOPE 2020 talk: Trying out my "grand unified theory."
- Replace the police: 10 steps to improve safety by reducing dependence on police.
- NYPD disciplinary records: Propublica has the receipts.
- New podcast episode: Part 11 of "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town."
- Finger-mounted crossbows: For your cuke-slaying needs.
- This day in history: 2010, 2015
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 26 Jun 2020
Today's links
- Copyright keeps police use-of-force training a secret: How cops are circumventing the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training.
- Splash Mountain to purge Song of the South: Princess and the Frog ahoy!
- Let's get rid of nursing homes: An end-of-life plan.
- Sympathy for the mask-shy: Abstinence-only covid prevention is a failure.
- "Violent protests" vs "violent police": How to report on protests.
- Microcontent guidelines for 2020: A successor to the 1998 classic.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 16 Jun 2020
Today's links
- The technology of Uyghur oppression: COIN and CVE with Chinese characteristics.
- Transparency without recourse: Keynote for tomorrow's Transparency By Design conference.
- How covid spreads: A tale in four charts.
- Why SCOTUS upheld LGBTQ rights: Time for some game theory.
- Hackers on Planet Earth: HOPE 2020 is happening, and I'm keynoting.
- Talking Radicalized with Podside Picnic: Science fiction, economics, politics, writing craft and beyond.
- Giant worry-stone: Machinist Chris Bathgate upscales his worry stone.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading