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Pluralistic: 10 Apr 2021
Today's links
Youtube blocks advertisers from targeting "Black Lives Matter": On the impossibility of "brand safety."
This day in history: 2001, 2011, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on April 10, 2021April 10, 2021Categories UncategorizedTags ad-tech, ads, blm, brand safety, business, google, race, youtube1 Comment on Pluralistic: 10 Apr 2021
Pluralistic: 07 Apr 2021
Today's links
Leaked NYPD "goon squad" manual: The NYPD isn't "undertrained" – the cruelty is the point.
Door Dashers organize app-defeating solidarity: The #DeclineNow movement vs Tony's Casino.
This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Continue reading "Pluralistic: 07 Apr 2021"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on April 7, 2021April 7, 2021Categories UncategorizedTags black lives matter, blm, corruption, declinenow, doordash, gig economy, labor, leaks, new york, new york city, nyc, nypd, police, solidarity, srg, strategic response group1 Comment on Pluralistic: 07 Apr 2021
Pluralistic: 18 Mar 2021
Today's links
Help news, not news-barons: EFF on the proposed antitrust exemption for news.
Impunity for NYPD cops who brutalized BLM protesters: Only two officers face serious discipline.
Aviation bailout cost $666k/job: Socialism for capitalists.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Continue reading "Pluralistic: 18 Mar 2021"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on March 18, 2021March 18, 2021Categories UncategorizedTags ad-tech, airlines, antitrust, aviation, bailouts, black lives matter, blm, cartels, defund the police, eff, impunity, law, nyc, nypd, socialism for capitalists, violence2 Comments on Pluralistic: 18 Mar 2021
Pluralistic: 16 Feb 2021
Today's links
Uber loses (another) $6.8b: The market can stay predatory longer than you can stay angry.
Ring helped LAPD spy on BLM protests: The public-private surveillance partnership from hell.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Continue reading "Pluralistic: 16 Feb 2021"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on February 16, 2021November 8, 2021Categories UncategorizedTags bezzle, bezzles, blacklivesmatter, blm, doordash, la, lapd, los angeles, prop22, protest, public private partnerships, san francisco, sf, softbank, surveillance, uber1 Comment on Pluralistic: 16 Feb 2021
Pluralistic: 04 Dec 2020
Today's links
Student debt trap: Borrowed: $79,000. Paid: $190,000. Now Owes? $236,000.
Postmortem of the NYPD's murder of a Black man: How to write about individual stories of a structural crisis.
Section 230 is Good, Actually: It's not a "corporate giveaway," it's how you got the parts of the internet that you actually like.
This day in history: None
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Continue reading "Pluralistic: 04 Dec 2020"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on December 4, 2020December 4, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags abolish the police, addiction, blm, cda 230, debt, debt forgiveness, defund the police, eff, journalism, kawaski-trawick, mental illness, nyc, nypd, police, race, student debt1 Comment on Pluralistic: 04 Dec 2020
Pluralistic: 04 Sep 2020
Today's links
Fight the Power: Another summer.
Physicists overestimate their epidemiology game: Dunning-Kruger, meet the vaporisation of qualitative factors.
Trump is a salesman: He lacks the attention-span for fascism.
CO asphyxiation accounts for half of Hurricane Laura deaths: Generators are as deadly as 40mph winds.
Political ads have very small effect-sizes: Mind-control rays remain elusive.
Incredible Proof Machine: Lineal descendant of Sierra's Incredible Machine.
Kickstarting a Girl Genius game: Adventures in Castle Heterodyne.
This day in history: 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Continue reading "Pluralistic: 04 Sep 2020"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on September 4, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags ads, blm, carbon monoxide, co, crowdfunding, dunning kruger, education, emergency preparedness, epidemiology, games, generators, girl genius, hiphop, hurricane laura, kaja foglio, kickstarter, logic, mathematics, matt taibbi, mind control rays, persuasion, physics, politics, public enemy, quantitative residue, rain games, safety, trumpism, u illinois1 Comment on Pluralistic: 04 Sep 2020
Pluralistic: 04 Aug 2020
Today's links
Collective Action In Tech For Black Lives Matter: A guide to organize tech workers to support the anti-racism movement.
The art of density: The exuberant aerial collages of Cássio Vasconcellos.
Attack Surface sneak peek: A free extended preview of the next Little Brother novel.
Jack Dorsey's interop plan: If you can't beat 'em, out-federate 'em.
Google acquires major stake in ADT: Your Nest is spying on you.
Papercraft Addams Family house: Ray Keim is a genius.
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Continue reading "Pluralistic: 04 Aug 2020"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on August 4, 2020August 4, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags addams family, adt, architecture, attack surface, blm, Cassio Vasconcellos, charles addams, collage, Collective Action in Tech, collectives, content moderation at scale, crafting, density, fanac, federation, fediverse, google, interoperability, jack dorsey, little brother, marcus yallow, market concentration, papercraft, photography, ray heim, science fiction, structural separation, tech solidarity, tech worker uprising, themepunks, twitter, vertical monopolies1 Comment on Pluralistic: 04 Aug 2020
Pluralistic: 23 Jul 2020
Today's links
Canadian judge invalidates Safe Third Country Agreement: Asylum seekers are not safe in America.
Supreme Court poised to destroy machine learning security research: Why the CFAA should be narrowly interpreted.
Where Will Everyone Go: Modelling the climate emergency's migration emergency.
BLM footage censored by copyright bots: Background music makes it impossible to post human rights violations to social media.
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Continue reading "Pluralistic: 23 Jul 2020"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on July 23, 2020July 23, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags adversarial examples, adversarial preturbations, black lives matter, blm, canada, censorship, cfaa, climate, climate emergency, cndpol, copyfight, copyright, filternet, filters, human rights, infosec, kids in cages, law, machine learning, migration, models, pen testing, Safe Third Country Agreement, scholarship, scotus, van buren3 Comments on Pluralistic: 23 Jul 2020
Pluralistic: 20 Jul 2020
Today's links
Michigan Supreme Court to review teenager's no-homework jail sentence: Justice for Grace?
Grifters started the anti-mask movement: The Dorr brothers are Grand Wizards of the Flu Klux Klan.
Strike for Black Lives: Today's walkout.
No mask, no entry: Civilian casualties of the mask wars.
Dems vote to fund more DHS invasions of US cities: $50B for DHS with no ban on urban invasions.
This day in history: None
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on July 20, 2020July 20, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags black lives matter, blm, carceral state, covidiots, democrats, dhs, dorr brothers, essential workers, flu klux klan, free grace, grifters, homeschool to prison pipeline, mask up, mask wars, michigan, north carolina, outrage machine, pdx, portland, school to prison pipeline, snatch squads, strike for black lives, the power of the purse1 Comment on Pluralistic: 20 Jul 2020
Pluralistic: 26 Jun 2020
Today's links
Copyright keeps police use-of-force training a secret: How cops are circumventing the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training.
Splash Mountain to purge Song of the South: Princess and the Frog ahoy!
Let's get rid of nursing homes: An end-of-life plan.
Sympathy for the mask-shy: Abstinence-only covid prevention is a failure.
"Violent protests" vs "violent police": How to report on protests.
Microcontent guidelines for 2020: A successor to the 1998 classic.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Continue reading "Pluralistic: 26 Jun 2020"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on June 26, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags abstinence, accessibility, aging in place, black lives matter, blm, california, California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, chicago 1968, copyfight, copyright, corruption, disney, eff, epidemiology, harm reduction, microcontent, minstrelsy, nursing homes, police, post, protests, reportage, song of the south, splash mountain, the princess and the frog, themepunks, transparency, use of force, wdw, writingLeave a comment on Pluralistic: 26 Jun 2020
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