Today's links
- Adventure Capitalism: A history of "Libertarian Exit" movements.
- This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Tag: walkaway
Pluralistic: 25 Jun 2020
Today's links
- How Big Tech distorts discourse: My free Oxford Internet Institute webinar.
- Talking Job Guarantee with Pavlina Tcherneva: My latest for the LA Times.
- Walkaway, Chicago-style: Protesters re-enact the climax of my 2017 novel (and it worked!)
- 759 Trump atrocities: McSweeney's saved the receipts.
- Accessible, Affordable Internet for All Act: $80B for universal fiber rollout.
- Canada Reads is back: The debates will happen July 20-23.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 18 Apr 2020
Today's links
- Rural swing-state voters' social media show growing disapproval for Trump: Putting his literal signature on covid response makes it hard to argue it's not his fault.
- The Rent and Mortgage Cancellation Act: Ilhan Omar's bill to protect renters and mortgage payers during and after the crisis.
- Garbage Math: XKCD on the mathematics of uncertainty
- ICANN pauses selloff of .ORG registry: The GOP billionaires behind Ethos capital have to wait a while longer.
- Delivery services are gouging restaurants to death: Call the restaurant, order your meal, and pick it up.
- Post-collapse maker utopia sim: Not quite Walkaway, but interesting nevertheless.
- This day in history: 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 06 Apr 2020
Today's links
- The Jubilee: Fill Your Boots: My latest podcast, on a redefined form of abundance and luxury.
- Illinois reinstates physical restraints for special ed kids: Revenge of the "quiet room."
- Youtube vs 5G arsonists: There's plenty of things wrong with 5G, but coronavirus isn't one of them.
- Hamilton original cast reunites on Zoom: A ray of sunshine at a dark time.
- This day in history: 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 15 Mar 2020
Today's links
- HRDAG analyzes the best covid-19 studies: Ninja statisticians FTW.
- Chelsea Manning's supporters pay off her $256,000 fine in a day: She had our back so we have hers.
- The Onion is there for us: Doing for pandemic what they did for 9/11.
- The CIA's information security is really terrible: Root password was "123ABCdef".
- Euroleaks: exposing the secret workings of the Eurogroup: Where they decided to strangle Greece.
- Things to do with kids during lockdowns: A crowdsourced list.
- Covered Dish: A site for stories of mutual aid during a crisis.
- How to pull your business out of China: A guide for the anxious.
- This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading
Pluralistic: 02 Mar 2020
Today's links
- My new podcast, "Disasters Don’t Have to End in Dystopia": Tired: Look for the helpers. Wired: Be the helper.
- The next frontier for school censorware is spying on kids all the time: It's how we'll stop ISIS, apparently.
- I'm coming to Kelowna on March 5: It's my first-ever trip to the BC interior and more than half the (free) tickets are gone. RSVP now!
- Cool Mules, an investigative series on a Vice editor's cocaine-smuggling ring: From the people who brought you the stunning "Thunder Bay."
- Soviet Space Graphics: Cosmic Visions from the USSR.
- Apple, Nike and Dell's supply chain includes enslaved Uyghurs: Xinjiang Phase II.
- Drugs Without the Hot Air: The best book I've ever read on drugs and drug policy, in an expanded new edition.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading
Pluralistic, your daily link-dose: 27 Feb 2020
Today's links
- Ripping the window-dressing off the .ORG selloff: It's not even an ethos.
- CDC guide to filter-mask-friendly facial hair: You're good to go with a Zappa, Villain or Hitler, but stay away from the Dali, Hulahee and the dread F(l)u Manchu.
- Don't trust Google to build Toronto's Smart City: Sidewalk Labs's sleaze has disqualified it.
- A "girls-only" social service wants to analyze your facial bone structure: "It's science!"
- Norman Rockwell turned into a radical civil rights activist: His last painting was of Nixon, too.
- Gmail's filters are blocking opt-in election emails: Mayo Pete and Andrew Yang are winning the spam-filter primary.
- Talking Radicalized with The Next Chapter: Shelagh Rogers is a national treasure.
- Neoliberalism kills, the coronavirus edition: And you thought capitalism would kill us all with climate change!
- Bernie Sanders and Public Enemy LA rally this Sunday: With Sarah Silverman and Dick van Dyke!
- Venezuelan women's "army" break into dead factories to reboot them: "Only the people can save the people."
- Meet Akil Augustine, voice of the Raptors…and Radicalized: A fighter in my corner.
- This day in history: 2019, 2015, 2005
- Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading
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