* Summary: Pinkslump linkdump; Upcoming appearances; Recent appearances; Latest books; Upcoming books URL: https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/18/ragbag/ Title: Pluralistic: Pinkslump linkdump (18 Jan 2025) ragbag > * Bullet: 🤼 Separator: > * ^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^ Top Sources: Today’s top sources: Naked Capitalism (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/). –> Today’s links Pinkslump linkdump: New year, new grab-bag. This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I’ve been. Latest books: You keep readin’ em, I’ll keep writin’ ’em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I’ll keep writin’ ’em. Colophon: All the rest. Pinkslump linkdump (permalink) We’re less than a month into 2025 and I’m already overwhelmed by my backlog of links! Herewith, then, is my 25th linkdump post, a grab-bag of artful transitions between miscellaneous subjects. Here’s the previous 24: https://pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/ Last week’s big tech event was the Supreme Court giving the go-ahead for Congress to ban Tiktok, because somehow the First Amendment allows the US government to shut down a speech forum if they don’t like the content of its messages. From now on, only Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk and Tim Cook and the faceless mere centimillionaires running companies like Match.com will be able to directly harvest Americans’ most private, sensitive kompromat. The People’s Liberation Army will have to build their dossiers on Americans’ lives the old fashioned way: by paying unregulated data-brokers who will sell any fact about you to anyone and who know everything about everyone. After all, the reason the American market matters so…Pluralistic: Pinkslump linkdump (18 Jan 2025)