Pluralistic: 10 Aug 2020

Today's links

Warren Buffet, monopolist: Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power.
Uber lost $4b in H1/2020: They're not even making it up in volume anymore.
Dragon's Lair skeleton Dirk pin: Come for Dirk, stay for Leia.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

US passports basically worthless: Trump built a wall.
DNA Lounge deletes Postmates: Your pizza dollars, murdering future Jamal Khashoggis.
Mississippi's GOP lawmakers sicken: Dozens of mask-shunners test positive.
Wirecard's vanished COO wanted 15,000 Libyan militiamen: German finance scandal hides geopolitical private army scandal.
Near Future Labs' Covid Zine: Design fiction meets the unfathomable future.
This day in history: 2010, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Scarfolk on Cumgate: Government Employee Eye-Test Slide (1970s).
Texas profiteers make bank from NYC's homeless: Crewfacilities.com LLC is gouging the city while finding hotel beds for homeless people.
FCC's willful broadband blindness in a pandemic: You can't fix broadband if you don't know what's wrong with it.
Uber is scrapping thousands of Jump bikes: Bikes are essential during lockdowns.
White Americans are increasingly opposed to democracy: Turkeys, Christmas, etc.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Audio from last night's Canada Reads event in Kelowna: Thanks to Sarah Penton for being such a great interviewer!
Gig economy drivers won't get sick-pay if they have covid-19 symptoms: Your Instacart driver is being incentivized to handle your food through his fever-sweats.
Compromise threatens Intel's chip-within-a-chip: A bug in the Management Engine threatens five years' worth of Intel systems.
The savior of Waterstones will turn every B&N into an indie: James Daunt has opened 60 profitable stores in his career.
This day in history: 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading