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Pluralistic: 27 Apr 2021
Today's links
Robot Artists & Black Swans: The fantascienza of "Bruno Argento" (AKA Bruce Sterling).
Klobuchar on trustbusting: She's just published "Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age."
Pharma's anti-generic-vaccine lobbying blitz: A civilization-ending delusion about pools with "no-pissing" ends.
Unpack the court with judicial overrides: Consumer Protection and Recovery Act and beyond.
Lexmark's toxic printer-ink: Every pirate wants to be an admiral.
This day in history: 2011, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on April 27, 2021April 28, 2021Categories UncategorizedTags adversarial interoperability, alera, amy klobuchar, anti-circumvention, antibork, antitrust, apollo 1201, big tech, books, bruce sterling, bruces, chairman bruce, comcom, competitive compatibility, consumer welfare, corruption, cyberpunk, dmca 1201, drm, every pirate wants to be an admiral, fantascienza, gift guide, global south, interoperability, judicial overrides, late-stage capitalism, law, lexmark, lobbying, pfizer, pharma, printers, reviews, science fiction, scotus, shared microbial destiny, trustbusting, unauthorized bread, vaccine apartheid, vaccines1 Comment on Pluralistic: 27 Apr 2021
Pluralistic: 08 May 2020
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US public health officials on apps: "Meh"; Volcano gods demand workers; Animal Crossing Haunted Mansion
Pluralistic: 08 May 2020 volcano-gods
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Today's links
US public health officials on apps: "Meh": Exposure notification is no substitute for labor-intensive contact-tracing.
Volcano gods demand workers: Reopening is only possible under threat of starvation and homelessness.
Animal Crossing Haunted Mansion: Needs more AOC.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on May 8, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags animal crossing, aoc, apis, class war, contact tracing, disney, disneyland, epidemiology, exposure notification, guillotine watch, haunted mansion, late-stage capitalism, shared microbial destiny, shoe leather, snitchlines, stimulusLeave a comment on Pluralistic: 08 May 2020
Pluralistic: 23 Apr 2020
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Mayor of Las Vegas says the "free market" will decide what's safe; Powell's botanically correct flower guy is in trouble; Library of Last Resort; Manyland; Riot Baby
Pluralistic: 23 Apr 2020 riot-baby
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Today's links
Mayor of Las Vegas says the "free market" will decide what's safe: Reality has a leftist bias.
Powell's botanically correct flower guy is in trouble: Arnold Drake World is about to lose his home.
Library of Last Resort: Interactive fiction, meet metafiction
Manyland: An open-ended virtual world you visit in your browser
Riot Baby: An incandescent Afrofuturist novella.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on April 23, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags arnold drake world, art, botany, carolyn goodman, crowdfunding, games, las vegas, manyland, metafiction, origami, reviews, science fiction, shared microbial destiny, text adventures, Tochi Onyebuchi, virtual worldsLeave a comment on Pluralistic: 23 Apr 2020
Pluralistic: 16 Mar 2020
Today's links
Covid At Home: A guide for isolation, illness and recovery
Trump wants a US-only vaccine: Reality has a well-known globalist/collectivist bias.
Folding@Home to beat covid: 23 distcomp projects to give your CPU to.
Italian hospitals fix their ventilators with 3D printed parts: Fablabs to the rescue.
How to prepare for coming layoffs: A guide for techies junior, senior and prickly.
Leaked Tiktok moderation guidelines are a censoring mess: No poors or ugly people welcome.
Canceled Bar Mitzvah is still a mitzvah: Today I am a mensch.
Shmoocon 2020 videos online: Hours of entertainment and infosec funnies.
This day in history: 2005, 2010
Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on March 16, 2020March 16, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags 3d printing, ableism, bytedance, citizen science, content moderation at scale, covered dishes, covid at home, distcomp, employment, fablab, falun gong, folding@home, great firewall, infosec, isolationism, italy, judiasm, makers, recessions, shared microbial destiny, shmoocon, Tiananmen Square, tiktok, trumpism, videosLeave a comment on Pluralistic: 16 Mar 2020
Pluralistic: 12 Mar 2020
Today's links
TSA boss doubles down on taking away health care from part-time screeners: They're touching your junk with diseased hands.
Akil Augustine on Radicalized: My book's Canada Reads champion lays out the case for Radicalized.
A former top Cigna exec rebuts Joe Biden's healthcare FUD: Wendell Potter is the prodigal corporate villain.
Ars Technica's Covid-19 explainer is the best resource on the pandemic: Beth Mole has outdone herself.
Boeing is even worse at financial engineering than they are at aircraft engineering: The $43B they incinerated through stock buybacks would sure come in handy about now.
Senate Republicans kill emergency sick leave during pandemic: Sick leave is cheaper than pandemics, but pandemics generate cost-plus contracts for the donor class.
The EU's new Right to Repair rules finally come for electronics: Snoods cocked at Apple and other US Big Tech monopolists.
How to run a virtual classroom: Masterclass from the 14-year-old Stanford Online High School.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on March 12, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags akil augustine, beth mole, boeing, books, canada, canada reads, canlit, christ what an asshole, circular economy, Circular Economy Action Plan, Circular Electronics Initiative, covid-19, david pekoske, disaster capitalism, education, eu, explainers, financial engineering, gadgets, gop, joe biden, late-stage capitalism, medicare for all, pandemics, pedagogy, podcasts, precariat, public private partnerships, radicalized, right to repair, science fiction, shared microbial destiny, tsa, webinars, wendell potterLeave a comment on Pluralistic: 12 Mar 2020
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