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Pluralistic: 30 Apr 2020
berlin,germany,war,old school,sovkitsch,art,illustration,Nikolai Kolchitski ,medicare for all,office of the attending physician,broadridge financial solutions,tmg mail solutions,corporate murder,junk mail,randstad,new york,long island,finance,day and date,monopolism,business,china,private equity,amc,windowed releases,leverage,disney,market concentration,universal,comcast,disney,haunted mansion,fanac,themepunks,youtube,videos,old school,marc laidlaw,cyberpunk,science fiction,fiction,ebooks,half-life
Berlin in color, after the Reich's fall; Nikolai Kolchitski; Medicare for All (Congressjerks); Swedish covid death rates soar above neighbors'; Financial services workers dying for junk mail; AMC: "We will never show another Universal movie"; Revived Haunted Mansion videos from early internet fandom; Marc Laidlaw reads his fiction; A Room of One’s Own
Pluralistic: 30 Apr 2020 day-and-date
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Today's links
Berlin in color, after the Reich's fall: So vivid you could reach out and touch it.
Nikolai Kolchitski: He defined the Soviet look of space exploration for a generation.
Medicare for All (Congressjerks): Congress is happy to fund its exclusive white-glove concierge medical system.
Swedish covid death rates soar above neighbors': "Do nothing" is not doing something.
Financial services workers dying for junk mail: Broadridge workers denied PPE, sick leave.
AMC: "We will never show another Universal movie": Watch the monopolies form in realtime.
Revived Haunted Mansion videos from early internet fandom: The squees of yesteryear.
Marc Laidlaw reads his fiction: A new Youtube series from the author of Dad's Nuke and Half-Life.
A Room of One’s Own: New pandemic sf from Tochi Onyebuchi, with a live seminar to follow.
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on April 30, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags amc, art, berlin, broadridge financial solutions, business, china, comcast, corporate murder, cyberpunk, day and date, disney, ebooks, fanac, fiction, finance, germany, half-life, haunted mansion, illustration, junk mail, leverage, long island, marc laidlaw, market concentration, medicare for all, monopolism, new york, Nikolai Kolchitski, office of the attending physician, old school, private equity, randstad, science fiction, sovkitsch, themepunks, tmg mail solutions, universal, videos, war, windowed releases, youtubeLeave a comment on Pluralistic: 30 Apr 2020
Pluralistic: 21 Apr 2020
infosec,phishing,contact tracing,john scalzi,science fiction,podcasts,audio,mp3s,private equity,surprise billing,ads, media theory,supercuts,d&d;,rpgs,makers,old school,trash future,masque of the red death,plutewatch,bunkers,luxury bunkers,labor,guillotine watch,late stage capitalism,whole foods,unionization,class war,automation,amazon,texas, voter suppression,1a,ken paxton,christ what an asshole,australia,competition,right to repair,john deere,big ag,parenting,gadgets,iot,internet of shit,infosec,snoo smart bassinet,conspiracies,china,truthers
Phishers deploy fake contact-tracing warnings; Podcasting John Scalzi's The Last Emperox; Private equity blew millions on pro-surprise-billing ads while cutting doctor pay; Every Covid-19 Commerical is Exactly the Same; Multi-level dungeon built into the drawers of an old dresser; Talking bunker-busting with Trashfuture; Whole Foods has a union-busting "heatmap" app; Amazon workers plan nationwide walkout; Texas AG: We'll imprison people who warn about getting covid while voting; Australian regulator takes up Right to Repair for tractors; Smart bassinet can be remotely hacked; Covid did not escape from a Chinese lab
Pluralistic: 21 Apr 2020 all-in-it-together
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Today's links
Phishers deploy fake contact-tracing warnings: Co-evolution of a virus with a scam
Podcasting John Scalzi's The Last Emperox: Mutual aid in the time of pandemic
Private equity blew millions on pro-surprise-billing ads while cutting doctor pay: Follow the (dark) money.
Every Covid-19 Commerical is Exactly the Same: We're all in this together.
Multi-level dungeon built into the drawers of an old dresser: 1981 Basic Set box-set cover rides again!
Talking bunker-busting with Trashfuture: End of the world as we know, feeling fine.
Whole Foods has a union-busting "heatmap" app: Solve for equilibrium between guard labor and guillotines.
Amazon workers plan nationwide walkout: No warehouse workers, no Amazon.
Texas AG: We'll imprison people who warn about getting covid while voting: Mess with Texas.
Australian regulator takes up Right to Repair for tractors: John Deere reinvents sharecropping.
Smart bassinet can be remotely hacked: Internet of Shit, parenting edition.
Covid did not escape from a Chinese lab: Covid truthers are the new 9/11 truthers.
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on April 21, 2020April 22, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags 1a, ads, amazon, audio, australia, automation, big ag, bunkers, china, christ what an asshole, class war, competition, conspiracies, contact tracing, d&d;, gadgets, guillotine watch, infosec, internet of shit, iot, john deere, john scalzi, ken paxton, labor, late stage capitalism, luxury bunkers, makers, masque of the red death, media theory, mp3s, old school, parenting, phishing, plutewatch, podcasts, private equity, right to repair, rpgs, science fiction, snoo smart bassinet, supercuts, surprise billing, texas, trash future, unionization, voter suppression, whole foodsLeave a comment on Pluralistic: 21 Apr 2020
Pluralistic: 07 Apr 2020
Today's links
Pickled 2001 computer store: Deadstock ahoy!
A farewell to APIs: Greed, spam and entropy killed mashups.
Machine learning model performs butthole recognition: Peak Internet of Shit.
Covid loteria cards: Cabronavirus.
California's fiber for all bill: Tell your senator to support SB1130.
1978 Doonesbury stereotype: Come for the Indochina political humor, stay for the printer's lore.
LA crime plummets: Down 23% (domestic violence is down 11%).
US stimulus is one week's cash: Deflation ahoy.
Private equity blinks on cuts to health workers' wages: Speeding up slow destruction makes it impossible to ignore.
Virtual greenscreen: Incredible computer science paper from the 2020 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.
Landlord changes church's locks: The pastor of Cross Culture Christian Center in Lodi, CA refused to stop holding services.
This day in history: 2010, 2019
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on April 7, 2020April 15, 2025Categories UncategorizedTags analprinting, apis, art, biometrics, broadband, butthole cams, california, comics, computer science, crimes, doonesbury, economics, fiber, gadgets, gift guide, greenscreen, guillotine watch, health, healthcare, illustration, internet of shit, interoperability, jon duncan, la, loteria, mmt, old school, petitions, politics, poop jokes, precision health, printing, private equity, religion, sb1130, scholarship, solnit, stimulus, urbex, videos, web 2.0Leave a comment on Pluralistic: 07 Apr 2020
Pluralistic: 04 Apr 2020
Today's links
Private equity looting public health in a pandemic: The math is part of the con.
MacGuyver mask tutorial: Crafter/filmmaker marriages for the win.
Prescient Reagan-era text-adventures: What we can learn from the 1985 Infocom game "A Mind Forever Voyaging."
Landlord accidentally organizes rent strike: When you're threatening 300 tenants, don't CC them all on on the email.
The Pandumbic: Fox News is a suicide cult.
This day in history: 2005, 2019
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on April 4, 2020April 4, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags a mind forever voyaging, bcc, blackstone, cerebus, copyfight, finance, Forstmann Little & Co, guillotine watch, health, idiot plots, infocom, interactive fiction, long cons, makers, masks, pandumbic, petard, ppe, private equity, reaganomics, receipts, rent strikes, reply all, Steve MeretzkyLeave a comment on Pluralistic: 04 Apr 2020
Pluralistic: 01 Apr 2020
Today's links
Wood-metal worry beads: Chris Bathgate's latest, "The Woody."
Overly descriptive color palettes: Handpicked from the Colorschemez bot.
American Prospect high-school essay contest: An antidote to the Ayn Rand Institute contest.
Snowden's Box: The logistics of leaking are a mix of tradecraft and philosophy.
Alteon cuts covid-fighters' pay: $20k paycuts for docs fighting covid-19.
Tiktok Kremlinology: Systematically exploring Tiktok's algorithm.
American employment exceptionalism: Why the US is losing jobs much faster than other countries.
Solar as a beneficial fad: How good ideas spread.
This day in history: 2015, 2010, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on April 1, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags alteon health, art, baltimore, chris bathgate, climate, colors, design, education, employment, energy, fidget toys, kremlinology, late-stage capitalism, private equity, renewables, sculpture, solar, tiktok, usausausa, writingLeave a comment on Pluralistic: 01 Apr 2020
Pluralistic: 30 Mar 2020
Today's links
Lax antitrust killed ventilator stockpiles : The USG procured <$3k ventilators from a startup, so an incumbent bought them and shuttered them.
Koch network demands an end to lockdown: While sending its staff home for their safety.
Private equity firms scooping up pandemic bargains: It's not the wound that gets ya, it's the opportunistic parasitic infections.
Digital rights are human rights: Why broadband should be a public utility.
ACLU vanquishes the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: Terms of Service violations are not felonies.
Munching Squares and Munching Tunes: The music and visuals of slow-decay phosphors.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on March 30, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags 1201, aaronsw, aclu, americans for prosperity, bork, borked, cfaa, cgi, competition, dmca, elections, elections have consequences, felony contempt of business model, finance, graphics, guillotine watch, i hate you ronald reagan, koch network, law, monopolism, munching squares, paleocomputing, pdp7, pipes, private equity, social distancing, ventilators, xscreensaverLeave a comment on Pluralistic: 30 Mar 2020
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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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on February 27, 2020March 6, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags 2020, akil augustine, apple, basketball, bernie sanders, books, canada, canada reads, cbc, cdc, cdnpol, chavismo, coronavirus, democrats, dick van dyke, dotorg, dweb, eff, elections, ethos, facebookification, facial hair, federation, filternet, gmail, google, hip hop, isoc, los angeles, onpol, pir, politics, private equity, public enemy, radicalized, sarah silverman, science fiction, sidewalk labs, smart cities, surveillance, toronto, torpol, venezuela, walkawayLeave a comment on Pluralistic, your daily link-dose: 27 Feb 2020
Pluralistic, your daily link-dose: 25 Feb 2020
Today's links
Russian Multiplication: turning hard multiplication into easy addition with binary.
Cops' qualified immunity: so long as it's not identical to an established atrocity, it's fine.
Bloomberg's Plan B: buying the DNC: I don't care who does the voting, so long as I get to do the nominating.
Private equity looters underperform the S&P 500: Believing that you are accomplishing extraordinary things merely because you are paid extraordinary amounts is top-grade self-delusion.
New podcast about the history of Gopher and adversarial interoperability: It's judo for network effects.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on February 25, 2020March 6, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags adversarial interoperability, bloomberg, gopher, math, old school, private equity, qualified immunity, surveillance capitalismLeave a comment on Pluralistic, your daily link-dose: 25 Feb 2020
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