Today's links The good news is that Penguin Random House can't buy all the other publishers: Now for the bad news. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing proj … | Continue reading
Today's links "When Franny Stands Up," Eden Robins' debut novel: Supernaturual comediennes of WWII. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021. Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, cu … | Continue reading
Today's links Adobe steals your color: A SaaS on the mantel in Act I must go off by Act III. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021. Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading … | Continue reading
Today's links Substituting economics for politics is a failure: The verdict is in on "economism." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021. Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current re … | Continue reading
Today's links Uline's billions fund voter suppression: The Uihlein family used to fund the John Birch Society, today it's the Big Lie. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appeara … | Continue reading
Today's links An hour of interwar Halloween music: Spooky season listening from Centuries of Sound. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, cur … | Continue reading
Today's links The Persuaders (how minds really change): No mind control required. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading The Persuaders (h … | Continue reading
Today's links Backdooring a summarizerbot to shape opinion: Model spinning maintains accuracy metrics, but changes the point of view. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, c … | Continue reading
Today's links It was all downhill after the Cuecat: On the origins of "user manipulation and surveillance." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, c … | Continue reading
Today's links Being good at your job is praxis: The FTC can mandate Right to Repair without (further) Congressional authorization. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: None Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projec … | Continue reading
Today's links A giant grocery merger will send "inflation" through the roof: The Kroger-Albertson's merger will trigger massive price-hikes. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current r … | Continue reading
Today's links RIP, Roger Wood, genius assemblage sculptor: Sorely missed already. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading RIP, … | Continue reading
Today's links How lawyers became sadists: What about the incentive not to be perceived as a colossal asshole? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2020. Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing pr … | Continue reading
Today's links Medieval Times invents a modern union-busting tactic: Trademark, like all "IP," is a tool to control critics, customers and competitors. Billionaire dilettantes vs good Democrats: Even the best Democratic candidate is no match for the worst Republican when wealthy " … | Continue reading
Today's links US health insurers get more and more federal funding, deliver less and less care: Medicare Advantage will murder your grandparents – and you're next. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: None Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent ap … | Continue reading
Today's links Undetectable, undefendable back-doors for machine learning: IMPNet will give your model hallucination and you can't stop it. Shelter in place: Prison for homelessness and lock-ins for home owners. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: None Co … | Continue reading
Today's links Antitrust is – and always has been – about fairness: SCOTUS is entitled to its own (judicial) opinions, but not its own facts. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, … | Continue reading
Today's links $100 billion later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck: The self-driving car fraud was great business for Uber and Tesla. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021. Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recen … | Continue reading
Article URL: https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/07/sensory-deprivation/#sensorship Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33132177 Points: 60 # Comments: 25 | Continue reading
Today's links "Don't spy on a privacy lab" (and other career advice for university provosts): Northeastern grad student vs surveillance-driven austerity. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upco … | Continue reading
Today's links An antitrust murder whodunnit: I accuse Judge Bork with the Powell Memo in the smoke-filled room. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing p … | Continue reading
Britons are divided on many matters, but one uniting force that cuts across regional, party and class lines is jealous pride for the NHS and fierce resistance to its privatisation and the importation of America's grisly omnishambolic health care "system." But while the British pe … | Continue reading
Today's links How Palantir will steal the NHS: Stealth privatisation was always the endgame for public-private-partnerships. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, curr … | Continue reading
Today's links Maintaining monopolies with the cloud: Microsoft, Oracle and other cloud giants use their terms of service to prevent competition. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent app … | Continue reading
Today's links Federalist Society v Corporate Personhood: Corporations don't have First Amendment rights except when they're making political donations, refusing to bake cakes, or blocking birth control. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2012, 201 … | Continue reading
Providence is a health giant whose anchor is a network of Catholic hospitals. They colluded with McKinsey to steal from their poorest patients, by deceiving them about their eligibility for free care, saddling poor, sick people with crushing debts: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09 … | Continue reading
Today's links McKinsey and Providence colluded to force poor patients into destitution: "How would you like to pay that today?" Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, c … | Continue reading
Today's links Billionaire grifters hate her: Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Ida M Tarbell. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading … | Continue reading
This week on my podcast, I read my recent Medium column, "View a SKU: Let's Make Amazon Into a Dumb Pipe," about how interop can help us demonopolize Amazon and tame its market power: https://doctorow.medium.com/view-a-sku-32721d623aee To explain this proposal, I need to start wi … | Continue reading