plutes – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow Skip to content Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. Menu Books About Forums Podcast Newsletter RSS Mastodon Bluesky Medium Tumblr Tag: plutes Pluralistic: How the kleptocrats and oligarchs hunt civil society groups to the ends of the Earth (24 August 2023) Today's links How the kleptocrats and oligarchs hunt civil society groups to the ends of the Earth: The carrot is charitable giving, the stick is SLAPP suits and cyberweapons. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Continue reading "Pluralistic: How the kleptocrats and oligarchs hunt civil society groups to the ends of the Earth (24 August 2023)" Author Cory DoctorowPosted on August 23, 2023September 2, 2023Categories UncategorizedTags angola, big law, civil society, consiglieri, corruption, cyberweapons, enablers, guillotine watch, Gulnara Karimova, henchmen, high net work individuals, hnwis, international relations, ir, Isabel dos Santos, kleptocrats, lickspittles, money laundering, ngos, oligarchs, peps, plutes, political science, politically exposed persons, procurers, renfields, reputation laundering, scholarship, slapps, spyware, tans, transnational activist networks, transnational uncivil society networks, tusns, uk, Uzbekistan1 Comment on Pluralistic: How the kleptocrats and oligarchs hunt civil society groups to the ends of the Earth (24 August 2023) Pluralistic: 01 Oct 2020 Today's links Witch: Kill Bill meets Thomas Hardy. Attack Surface on the MMT Podcast: Imagining the first days of a better world. Private equity's profitable murder: Leonard Green, Prospect Medical Holdings, and the vast fortunes built on the dead. The Years of Repair: A Message From the Future (II). Block Google-Fitbit: A merger made in hell. This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading Continue reading "Pluralistic: 01 Oct 2020" Author Cory DoctorowPosted on October 1, 2020October 1, 2021Categories UncategorizedTags animation, attack surface, books, capitalist realism, data, design fiction, fantasy, fitbit, gift guide, gnd, google, grift, guillotine watch, health, health tech, jobs guarantee, leap manifesto, leonard green, mergers, mmt, monopolism, plutes, podcasts, private equity, prospect, reviews, spoken word, videos, witchy, ya1 Comment on Pluralistic: 01 Oct 2020 Pluralistic: 16 Apr 2020 Today's links Plutocrats firehose money on primary challenger to AOC: Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, a former Reagan Republican who wants to dismantle Social Security and Medicare FCC will spend $9B to improve broadband…without an accurate broadband map: Reality's left-wing bias makes accurate data the enemy of conservativism. Buddhist monk covers western pop songs: He's like a male, solo version of Shonen Knife. Apple hunters recover ten "lost" varieties from forgotten farms: The Lost Apple Society needs help. Finding the Money: A fabulous new documentary on Modern Monetary Theory Evangelical pastor denied quarantine, now he wants your stimulus check: Tony Spell's death-cult has a business-model. Zombie movies teach us all the wrong lessons for pandemic: Not only would a zombie plague be easy to contain, but people don't turn into monsters during crises. Building a "web of books": What would a federated alternative to Goodreads look like? The Facebook Political Ad Collector: Exposing targeted advertising's fraud and conspiracy This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading Continue reading "Pluralistic: 16 Apr 2020" Author Cory DoctorowPosted on April 16, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags acephalous societies, ajit fucking pai, amazon, anthropology, aoc, apples, botany, broadband, buddhism, covered dish people, crowdfunding, decentralized web, deletefacebook, documentaries, dweb, facebook, fcc, federation, food, goodreads, guillotine watch, helicopter money, japan, lost apple project, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, mmt, modern monetary theory, monopolism, movies, municipal fiber, music, paradise built in hell, plutes, political ads, rss, scholarship, tech exceptionalism, zombies2 Comments on Pluralistic: 16 Apr 2020 Pluralistic: 11 Apr 2020 Today's links PE companies that looted healthcare want billions in bailouts: Plute socialism. Automating arbitration claims: Fairshake recreates class action suits in arbitration form. Non-secret votes vs e-voting: Don't use it for elections, but maybe for elected officials. RNC plans ex-cop/military voter intimidation squad: Rebooting the "Ballot Security Task Force." "Job creators" are job annihilators: Bailout for me, not thee. Snowden warns of permanent pandemic surveillance: The new normal ain't pretty. RIP MAD's Mort Drucker: One of "the usual gang of idiots." This day in history: 2005, 2019 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading Continue reading "Pluralistic: 11 Apr 2020" Author Cory DoctorowPosted on April 11, 2020April 12, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags at&T, bailouts, ballot security task force, binding arbitration, e-voting, envision, fairshake, guillotine watch, heritage foundation, infosec, job annihilators, kkr, mort drucker, obits, pandemic, petard, plutes, rnc, security, snowden, stimulus, surveillance, true the vote, voter suppressionLeave a comment on Pluralistic: 11 Apr 2020 Pluralistic: 01 Mar 2020 Today's links Trump's rhetoric fits eerily well into the Tolkien canon: AR Moxon makes Mordor great again. The wealthy are chartering jets to avoid coronavirus: The Masque of the Red Death takes to the skies. The US already has Medicare for All: The day that Trump declares a national health emergency. America's uninsured will turn a covid crisis into a covid disaster: Our shared microbial destiny cannot be denied. Jury refuses to convict Extinction Rebellion activists: Long live the "necessity defense" and the human race it protects. This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019 Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading Continue reading "Pluralistic: 01 Mar 2020" Author Cory DoctorowPosted on March 1, 2020February 27, 2025Categories UncategorizedTags aca, alex azar, ar moxon, aviation, climate crisis, copyfight, corey robin, coronavirus, covid-19, disaster socialism, edgar allan poe, fair use, guillotine watch, jury nullification, masque of the red death, medicare for all, nancy pelosi, national disaster medical system, necessity defense, nhs, orcs, oregon, pat murphy, pdx, pharma, plutes, science fiction, the reactionary mind, tolkien, trumpism, xenophobiaLeave a comment on Pluralistic: 01 Mar 2020 Previous editions Pluralistic: Deranged billionaires and their syndromes (16 Jul 2026) Pluralistic: Gerontocracy's failure mode (14 Jul 2026) Pluralistic: Why aren't AI companies competing directly with their customers? 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