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The IRS will do your taxes for you (if that's what you prefer)
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This Saturday (May 20), I’ll be at the GAITHERSBURG Book Festival with my novel Red Team Blues; then on May 22, I’m keynoting Public Knowledge’s Emerging Tech conference in DC.
On May 23, I’ll be in TORONTO for a book launch that’s part of WEPFest, a benefit for the West End Phoenix, onstage with Dave Bidini (The Rheostatics), Ron Diebert (Citizen Lab) and the whistleblower Dr Nancy Olivieri.
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America is a world leader in allowing private companies to levy taxes on its citizens, including (stay with me here), a tax on paying your taxes.
In most of the world, the tax authorities prepare a return for each taxpayer, sending them a prepopulated form with all their tax details — collected from employers and other regulated entities, like pension funds and commodities brokers, who must report income to the tax office. If the form is correct, the taxpayer signs it and sends it back (in some countries, taxpayers don’t even have to do that — they just ignore the return unless they want to amend it).
No one has to use this system, of course. If you have complex finances, or cash income that doesn’t show up in mandatory reporting, or if you’d just prefer to prepare your own return or pay an accountant to do so for you, you can. But for the majority of people, those with income from a job or a pension, and predictable deductions, say, from caring for minor children, filing your annual tax return takes between zero and five minutes and costs absolutely nothing.
Not so in America. America is one of the very few rich countries (including Canada, though this is changing), where the government won’t just send you a form containing all the information it already has, ready to file. As is common in complex societies, America has a complex tax code (further complexified by deliberate obfuscation by billionaires and their lickspittle Congressjerks, who deliberately perforate the tax code with loopholes for the ultra-rich):
https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/11/the-canada-variant/#shitty-man-of-history-theory
That complexity means that most of us can’t figure out how to file our own taxes, at least not without committing scarce hours out of the only life we will ever have to poring over the ramified and obscure maze of tax-law.
Why doesn’t the IRS just send you a tax-return? Well, because the tax-prep industry — an oligopoly dominated by a handful of massive, ultra-profitable firms — bribes Congress (that is, “lobbies”) to prohibit this. They are aided in this endeavor by swivel-eyed lunatic anti-tax obsessives, like Grover Nordquist and Americans for Tax Reform, who argue that paying taxes should be as difficult and painful as possible in order to foment opposition to taxation itself.
The tax-prep industry is dominated by a single firm, Intuit, who took over tax-prep through its anticompetitive acquisition of TurboTax, itself a chimera of multiple companies gobbled up in a decades-long merger orgy. Inuit is a freaky company. For decades, its defining CEO Brad Smith ran the company as a cult of personality organized around his trite sayings, like “Do whatever makes your heart beat fastest,” stenciled on t-shirts worn by employees. Other employees donned Brad Smith masks for selfies with their Beloved Leader.
Smith’s cult also spent decades lobbying to keep the IRS from offering a free filing service. Instead, Intuit joined a cartel that offered a “Free File” service to some low- and medium-income Americans:
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free
But the cartel sabotaged Free File from the start. They blocked search engines from indexing their Free File services, then bought Google ads for “free file” that directed searchers to soundalike programs (“Free Filing,” etc) that hit them for hundreds of dollars in tax-prep fees. They also funneled users to versions of Free File they were ineligible for, a fact that was only revealed after the user spent hours painstaking entering their financial information, whereupon they would be told that they could either start over or pay hundreds of dollars to finish filing with a commercial product.
Intuit also pioneered the use of binding arbitration waivers that stripped its victims of the right to sue the company after it defrauded them. This tactic blew up in Intuit’s face after its victims banded together to mass-file thousands of arbitration claims, sending the company to court to argue that binding arbitration wasn’t enforceable after all:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/24/uber-for-arbitration/#nibbled-to-death-by-ducks
But justice eventually caught up with Intuit. After a series of stinging exposes by Propublica journalists Justin Elliot, Paul Kiel and others, NY Attorney General Letitia James led a coalition of AGs from all 50 states and DC that extracted a $141m settlement for 4.4 million Americans who had been tricked into paying for Turbotax services they were entitled to get for free:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/turbotax-to-begin-payouts-after-it-cheated-customers-new-york-ag-says/ar-AA1aNXfi
Fines are one thing, but the only way to comprehensively end the predatory tax-prep scam is to bring the USA kicking and screaming into the 20th century, when most of the rest of the world brought in free tax-prep for ordinary income earners. That’s just what’s happening: the IRS is trialing a free tax prep service for next year’s tax season:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/15/irs-free-file/
This, despite Intuit’s all-out blitz attack on Congress and the IRS to keep free tax-prep from ever reaching the American people:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/20/turbotaxed/#counter-intuit
That charm offensive didn’t stop the IRS from releasing a banger of a report that made it clear that free tax-prep was the most efficient, humane and cost-effective way to manage an advanced tax-system (something the rest of the world has known for decades):
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p5788.pdf
Of course, Intuit is furious, as in spitting feathers. Rick Heineman, Intuit’s spokesprofiteer, told KQED that “A direct-to-IRS e-file system is wholly redundant and is nothing more than a solution in search of a problem. That solution will unnecessarily cost taxpayers billions of dollars and especially harm the most vulnerable Americans.”
https://www.kqed.org/news/11949746/the-irs-is-building-its-own-online-tax-filing-system-tax-prep-companies-arent-happy
Despite Upton Sinclair’s advice that “it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it,” I will now attempt to try to explain to Heineman why he is unfuckingbelievably, eye-wateringly wrong.
“e-file…is wholly redundant”: Well, no, Rick, it’s not redundant, because there is no existing Free File system except for the one your corrupt employer made and hid “in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.’”
“nothing more than a solution in search of a problem”: The problem this solves is that Americans have to pay Intuit billions to pay their taxes. It’s a tax on paying taxes. That is a problem.
“unnecessarily cost taxpayers billions of dollars”: No, it will save taxpayers the billions of dollars (they pay you).
“harm the most vulnerable Americans”: Here is an area where Heineman can speak with authority, because few companies have more experience harming vulnerable Americans.
Take the Child Tax Credit. This is the most successful social program in living memory, a single initiative that did more to lift American children out of poverty than any other since the days of the Great Society. It turns out that giving poor people money makes them less poor, which is weird, because neoliberal economists have spent decades assuring us that this is not the case:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/16/mortgages-are-rent-control/#housing-is-a-human-right-not-an-asset
But the Child Tax Credit has been systematically sabotaged, by Intuit lobbyists, who successfully added layer after layer of red tape — needless complexity that makes it nearly impossible to claim the credit without expert help — from the likes of Intuit:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/29/three-times-is-enemy-action/#ctc
It worked. As Ryan Cooper writes in The American Prospect: “between 13 and 22 percent of EITC benefits are gulped down by tax prep companies”:
https://prospect.org/economy/2023-05-17-irs-takes-welcome-step-20th-century/
So yes, I will defer to Rick Heineman and his employer Intuit on the subject of “harming the most vulnerable Americans.” After all, they’re the experts. National champions, even.
Now I want to address the peply guys who are vibrating with excitement to tell me about their 1099 income, the cash money they get from their lemonade stand, the weird flow of krugerrands their relatives in South African FedEx to them twice a year, etc, that means that free file won’t work for them because the IRS doesn’t actually understand their finances.
That’s a hard problem, all right. Luckily, there is a very simple answer for this: use a tax-prep service.
Actually, it’s not a hard problem. Just use a tax-prep service. That’s it. No one is going to force you to use the IRS’s free e-file. All you need to do to avoid the socialist nightmare of (checks notes) living with less red-tape is: continue to do exactly what you’re already doing.
Same goes for those of you who have a beloved family accountant you’ve used since the Eisenhower administration. All you need to do to continue to enjoy the advice of that trusted advisor is…nothing. That’s it. Simply don’t change anything.
One final note, addressing the people who are worried that the IRS will cheat innocent taxpayers by not giving them all the benefits they’re entitled to. Allow me here to simply tap the sign that says “between 13 and 22 percent of EITC benefits are gulped down by tax prep companies.” In other words, when you fret about taxpayers being ripped off, you’re thinking of Intuit, not the IRS. Just calm down. Why not try using fluoridated toothpaste? You’ll feel better, and I promise I won’t tell your friends at the Gadsen Flag appreciation society.
Your secret is safe with me.
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If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/17/free-as-in-freefile/#tell-me-something-i-dont-know
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[Image ID: A vintage drawing of Uncle Sam toasting with a glass of Champagne, superimposed over an IRS 1040 form that has been fuzzed into a distorted halftone pattern.]
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Stuber Jr. đến Lailuma Meherdil, 114.000 đô la. • 91 Colby St., Ruth V. Nguyen đến Patricia E. Simons, 110.000 đô la. • Địa điểm 116, Jeanna M. Cellino; Bensalem Khalid cho Christiana Tin tưởng Tr; Hilldale Tin tưởng Tr; Hội tiết kiệm quỹ Wilmington Fsb Tr dba, 93.755 đô la. • 37 Jackie Lane, Michael Cimasi; Kumro Gary W Est đến Demato Development LLC, $ 91.500. • 51 Westchester Drive, Russell A. Mantione đến Amanda M. Costanzo; Nicholas W. Martinelli, 88.000 đô la. • 20-22 Elkhurst Drive, Tracey Dillemuth; Donald Lorrens cho Pauline M. Panna, 83.000 đô la. • Tòa án 5 Janine, Michael Gawinski đến 160 Kokomo LLC, 80.000 đô la. • 35 Crane St., Michael J. Racine cho Keith Canazzi Ira Ben; Công ty ủy thác vốn cổ phần, 80.000 đô la. • 150 Roland St., Nicole K. Lojek; Nicole K. Volpe đến Ysms Property Holdings LLC, 70.000 đô la. • 14 Hedwig Ave., HUD đến Cong Van Huynh, 56.000 đô la. • 12-14 Sandstone, Arthur J. Yates Jr. đến Elgin LLC, 55.500 đô la. • 50 Grand Boulevard, Stephen W. Smith đến Anthony S. Castronova, 45.000 đô la. • 1047 Đường Beach, Cynthia A. Bolis; Đánh dấu S. Bolis cho Rockstar Homes LLC, 45.000 đô la. • 120 Colden Court, Kenneth R. Stuber đến Lailuma Meherdil, 28.500 đô la. • 8 Delray Drive, Robert P. Johnson; Lance G. Lavigne; Sherry L. Lavigne đến Duane Barwell; Chủ nhà WNY, $ 24,700. CÂU HỎI • 4135 Đường vận chuyển, Tru 2005 Re I LLC đến Mdc Coast 17 LLC, $ 8,790,505. • 9433 Hunting Valley Rd S, Timothy Andruschat; Maureen A. Giokas; Michael Giokas đến Ngân hàng Năm sao, 700.000 đô la. • 6700 Westminster Drive, Gregory W. Henzler; Rosalyn Henzler to We Richt Mobility Mobility Inc, $ 586.500. • 6700 Westminster Drive, We Richt Workforce Mobility Inc cho Jose P. Cruz; Kristin M. Cruz, $ 586.500. • Tòa án Spruce 9313 Sitka, Joseph A. Fruscione; Krista Fruscione đến mùa thu Carini; Daniel Carini, 430.000 đô la. • 4675 ngõ Pepperwood, Dorothy A. Wzontek; Stephen M. Wzontek đến Joseph W. Yedinak; Molly C. Yedinak, $ 409.900. • 8916 ngõ gỗ, Kristin L. Marra đến Christopher Schiumo; Stephanie Schiumo, $ 264,900. • 4343 Cameron Drive, Albert G. Evans; Florentine Evans đến Kristin Marie Goetz, $ 189.500. • 4156 Oakwood Drive, Carol Ann King; Sandra L. Ponichtera cho Lisa M. Williams, $ 172.000. COLDEN • 9422 Đường Partridge, Patrick Emantic đến Ryno Cho thuê LLC, $ 250.000. MÀU SẮC • 2840 Gowanda Zoar Road, Brianna L. Cambio; Michael D. Logsdon cho Larry R. Miller Jr., $ 176.500. CONCORD • 24 North Edgewood Drive, Dorothy Holtz Cott đến Brianna L. Logsdon; Michael D. Logsdon, $ 172.500. • 67 Hardwood Drive, Van A. Schirmer to Leslie Hornung; Michael Korchynski, 153.500 đô la. • Đường giữa, Gokce Capital LLC đến John Rf Hedrich, 7.499 đô la. EDEN • 2867 Hillview Place, Suzanne R. Swanson đến Matthew J. Wiedemann; Danielle Wittek, 175.000 đô la. • 8670 Elizabeth Parkway, Brent A. Hardy đến Karie Colantino, 161.200 đô la. • 2781 George St., Daniel J. Schwabel đến Shannon M. Mahoney, 126.950 đô la. ELMA • 141 Đường Kinsley, John R. Sherk đến Deborah A. Franklin; Kenneth J. Franklin, $ 275,000. • 7881 Seneca St., Randall D. Wuest đến Brittany D. Rashbrook; James D. Rashbrook, 205.000 đô la. • Đường đất trống, Đường Eckam Douglas Charles Jr; Douglas Eckam Jr. đến 460 E Center LLC, $ 49,900. MỌI NGƯỜI • 1443 Darlington Drive, Louis Celia; Vicki L. Celia cho Sara J. Lelonek, 155.000 đô la. • 1383 Đường Burns, John T. Nowak Jr. đến Brandon J. Genek; Ryan F. Genek, $ 121,540. • 1376 Ổ đĩa Độc lập, Lynette Sue Koscielski; Michael Koscielski đến Jeanne Ohara; John Ohara, 80.000 đô la. • 9567 Oakland St., Colleen Fendt to Keith Hooper, 40.000 đô la. • 105 South Lane Road, American Homeowner Preservation Trust Series 2015a + Tr; Ngân hàng Hoa Kỳ ủy thác NA Tr cho Công ty Đông Bắc Bất động sản LLC, 17.000 đô la. ĐẢO GRAND • 149 Woodstream, Christy L. Frank; Michael W. Frank đến Alicia C. Tarasek; Joshua D. Tarasek, 300.000 đô la. • 2818 Đường Đông sông, Joseph W. Carosella đến David Michael Bruno, 125.000 đô la. • 1150 Lasalle Ave., Golda Theodore S Est; Philip D. Leone cho Keith Canazzi Ira Ben; Công ty ủy thác vốn cổ phần, $ 82.000. HAMBURG • 4490 Lake Ave., Floyd C. Huntz đến Marotta Property Management LLC, $ 550,000. • 4543 # 37 Camp Road, Villages of Mission Hills Patio Homes LLC đến Edward J. Luba; Lola Irene Luba, 362.700 đô la. • 4543 # 49 Đường Camp, Làng của Mission Hills Patio Homes LLC đến Josefina E. Offredo, $ 326.300. • 3330 Ngõ quê, Joel M. Bearfield; John M. Bearfield; Judith M. Bearfield đến Natalie Bucholtz; George Griesbaum, $ 323,000. • 4025 Đường kết nối, Renee L. Gennocro; John J. Roberts đến Alexandra R. Izzo, $ 319.500. • 2416 Hobblebush Lane, Marrano / marc Equity Corporation đến Kelsey D. Gawronski; Kyle J. Gawronski, $ 296,183. • 4701 Đường Parker, Mz3 Properties LLC đến Jenna M. Vella; Joseph A. Vella, $ 265.500. • 21 Sherburn Drive, Carol M. Maurer đến Kelsey Marie Garey; Peter Bruce Walbrandt, $ 235.500. • 6501 Đường Heltz, Christine Popovski; Nikola Popovski đến Jm trọ LLC, $ 220.000. • 1537 Sundance Trl, Michele M. Smith; Russell J. Smith đến Brittany A. Lelonek, 153.000 đô la. • 3054 Lyth Road, Faith C. Fischer to Joel Iannaccone, 135.999 đô la. • 6368 Center St., Theodore Kalembkiewicz đến Glen William Farrell, 120.000 đô la. Dillsworth; Gary Dillsworth; Barbara M. Tate; Barbara Mae Tate cho Erica Kennedy, 117.000 đô la. • 42 Martha Place, Ngân hàng thứ ba NA cho Cindy S. Helinger; James R. Helinger, 112.500 đô la. • 5128 Thurston Ave., Helen M. Mcmahon; Robert F. Mcmahon cho Ashley E. Churchman; Ryan Y. Churchman, 111.000 đô la. • 6572 Taylor Road, Bcat 2015-14btt Tr; Christiana tin tưởng Tr; Hội tiết kiệm quỹ Wilmington Fsb Tr dba đến Glen Smith; Nicole Smith, 95.999 đô la. • 5673 Mckinley Parkway, Kbj Holding Company Inc đến Kb Homes LLC, 90.000 đô la. • 5255 Orchard Ave., Annmarie Rooth Cellino; Richard H. Roehm đến Daniel Hanna, 88.600 đô la. • 22 Robert St., Charles R. Rader; Charles Raymond Rader đến Laurie A. Munley; Nathan T. Munley, 85.000 đô la. • 4217 Mundy St., Suzanne M. Diaz đến Daniel Virant; Krystal Virant, 75.000 đô la. • Đất trống 35 Tòa án Jordy, Country Meadows kết hợp với Ryan ngôi nhà của New York, 48.000 đô la. HÀ LAN • 56 Nước St., Anna Agt Scheider; Emily Agt Scheider; Scheider William L Cust; Rachel Agt Trắng; Vỏ trắng Robert R II; Sarah Agt White đến John Covey, $ 82.500. • 56 Water St., Anna Agt Scheider; Emily Agt Scheider; Scheider William L Cust; Rachel Agt Trắng; Vỏ trắng Robert R II; Sara Agt Trắng đến Margaret M. White; Richard L. White, 15.000 đô la. LACKAWANNA • 11 Vòng tròn Highview, Robert Fulton đến Dexter Nowak; Jacqueline Nowak, 146.300 đô la. • 69 Verel Ave., Christopher P. Stone; Christopher Paul Stone; Jennifer Stone đến Rusia Musangwa; Etando Omari, $ 119.000. • 161 Wilmuth Ave., Lisa M. Mulder đến Dale Amos, 80.000 đô la. • 1693 Electric Ave., Daniel Virant; Krystal Virant cho Paul R. Borchlewicz, 75.000 đô la. • 41 Maple St., Shirley M. Pauley đến John Evancho, 52.500 đô la. • 282 Center St., Douglas S. Coppola; Hilda G. Hill đến Lmb Capital Inc, $ 40.300. LANCASTER • Đường 1432 Town Line, Nhà xây dựng Cmk của Alden Inc đến Melissa Bollman; Wesley D. Bollman, $ 428.500. • Đường 76 Freeman, Elisabeth Laistner; Fritz K. Laistner cho Alec Venturin, 204.000 đô la. • 96 Harvey Drive, John J. Marks cho Jessica A. Munzel; John P. Munzel, $ 182,000. • 11 James Place, Jennifer A. Sennett đến Shannon V. Carr, $ 178.500. • 41 School St., Patricia A. Landis; Patricia Adelle Landis đến R2m2 LLC, 90.000 đô la. • 6218 Broadway St., Alice Damato đến S & g Properties LLC, 27.000 đô la. MARILLA • 13304 Williston Road, Steven Herod đến Matthew V. Vanhauwaert, $ 258.000. • 11197 Clinton St., Tammie Cochran; Dean S. Puleo cho Mtglq Nhà đầu tư Lp, $ 254,937. • 11635 East Ave., Kathy L. Skingley cho Jamie L. Thompson; Jonathan D. Thompson, 55.000 đô la. BẢN TIN MỚI • 7768 Đường Fletcher, James Dematteo; Darryl J. Schmid; Trudith L. Schmid gửi ủy thác cho vay thế chấp Stanwich F Tr; Hội tiết kiệm quỹ Wilmington Fsb Tr, $ 96,102. • 4326 South Newstead Road, C & f Brothers LLC đến Bryan P. Kern; Shannon M. Kern, 75.000 đô la. • Vùng đất trống Cedar St., Cord Jones đến Elizabeth A. Graney; Patrick M. Graney, 55.000 đô la. ORCHARD PARK • 5959 Big Tree Road, Quaker 20a Realty LLC đến Công viên Orchard 5959 Medical Properties LLC, 44.500.000 đô la. • Đất trống California Road, Gordon J Sheffer Tin tưởng không thể thu hồi 042815 Tr đến Orchard Park Equity Associates LLC, $ 530.000. Margaret Schoell; Đánh dấu Schoell cho Hailley A. Fenski; John P. Fenski, $ 380.000. • 96 Eddy Lane, Joyce M. Day đến Emily Kristen Garrison; Matthew James Webb, 240.000 đô la. • 54 Puritan Place, Jace Tyler Gangel đến Robert L. Buscaglia, 206.000 đô la. • 80 Vistula Ave., Alan B. Huegel Jr. đến John J. Roberts, 205.000 đô la. • 7957 Michael Road, Dawn M. Vogel; William T. Vogel cho Ashlie Taylor Chojecki; Debbie Wendel Chojecki; Richard Michael Chojecki, $ 153,900. MÙA XUÂN • 30 Rachel Lane, Niềm tin của William F Garlock Tr cho Catherine A. Ford, 152.500 đô la. THÀNH PHỐ TONAWANDA • 11 Vòng tròn Ridgedale, Đoàn Trang Đỗ; Nicholas Zachary Howard đến Vicki A. Keleman, 199.900 đô la. • 63 Fuller Ave., Jill M. Phúc lợi cho Nicolette L. Bezek, 160.000 đô la. • 94 Harriet St., Corbett Frank LG đến Tiana S. Hall, 150.500 đô la. • 260 Hinds St ., Conor J. Margraf cho Louis Rogers III, $ 137,000. • 108 State St., Cutting Edge Holding LLC; Cắt Edge Holdings LLC cho Bryan E. Darrow, $ 115.500. TONAWANDA • 474 Đại lộ Thác Niagara, Syed Eajazul Haq đến Jujhar Developments LLC, $ 245.000. • 597 Englewood Ave., Lori Hassinger; Paul E. Hassinger đến Lsf9 Master Trion Trust Tr; Ngân hàng Hoa Kỳ NA Tr, 205.829 đô la. • 147 Louvaine Drive, Colleen A. Poeller cho Faye L. Greco; Peter J. Greco, 179.900 đô la. • 99 Springfield Ave., Sara D. Danheiser đến Shelby J. Allen, 175.000 đô la. • 133 Bathurst Drive, Daniel A. Nyberg tới Sarah Sankey, 170.000 đô la. • 542 Glenalby Road, Vicki A. Keleman Kristopher T. Kavanagh, 165.000 đô la. • 160 Tulane, Scott F. Brazee; Chelsea Wilczek đến Chinequia Williams, 155.000 đô la. • 254 Moore Ave., Judith A. Dagustine; Patrick R. Dagustine cho Anna Marie Turski; Ralph Joseph Wilson, $ 146,400. • 235 Joseph Drive, Dorothy K. Folck; Dorothy Kinda Folck đến John Edward Pfalzer, 140.000 đô la. • 17 Edgewood Ave., Denise M. Rackl đến Laura M. Galatioto, 127.000 đô la. • Đường 124 Treadwell, Diane kích thích đến Nikki Maria Parlato, 125.000 đô la. đến Jacob Wisor, $ 118,450. • 177 Mcconkey, Phyllis J. Tuhovak; Stephen M. Tuhovak đến Matthew W. Langenfeld, $ 118.000. • 63 Hawthorne Ave., Elmer S. Gee Jr.; Linda R. Gee; James A. Partacz đến Limaz LLC, 106.000 đô la. • 40 Ermann Drive, Rita Sliwinski Tin tưởng không thể hủy ngang Tr đến Cassandra L. Kerr, 97.938 đô la. • 130 Euclid Ave., Mohammed H. Said; Muhammed H. Đã nói với Queen House Inc, 90.000 đô la. • 131 Ralston Ave., Anthony Joseph Lana; Michael C. Olson; Phyllis Olson cho Tập đoàn thế chấp cho vay mua nhà liên bang, 84.099 đô la. • 305 Homewood Ave., Daniel R. Bunch Sr. đến Robert Koerntgen Ira Ben; Công ty ủy thác vốn cổ phần, 70.000 đô la. • 2858 Đường Eggert, Robert C. Baron; Michele M. Gajewski; Michele Perfetti đến Ngân hàng Citizens NA, 68.300 đô la. • 270 Tremaine Ave., Terrance M. Williams đến Micah Golba, 60.650 đô la. TÂY SENECA • 20 Circle End Drive, Paul Frontera; Lynn Rizzo-George đến Emily I. Brill; Jason R. Brill, 225.000 đô la. • Đường 248 Wind Mill, David J. Drzymala đến Steven Gaiser; Lisa Wisniewski, 195.900 đô la. • 118 đường Icner, Clifford J. Alf Jr. đến Amy Lynn Sitarski, 179.900 đô la. • 83 Angelacrest Lane, Ronald T. Wilczak đến Chad B. Blanar; Jessica L. Blanar, $ 167.500. • 36 Sibley Drive, Mark Riley; Mark Joseph Riley cho Michael S. Crum, 165.000 đô la. • 418 Mill Road, Cooley 2014 Familty Trust 102314 Tr to Aaron W. Polanski, 154.000 đô la. • 49 Fremont Ave., Derek P. Termer; Sarah K. Termer cho Tyler Stevens; Elisa N. Vazquez, 140.000 đô la. • 3880 Seneca St., James C. Horder; John Mccracken; Richard B. Scott đến Kyle Lelito, 120.000 đô la. • Đường dự trữ đất trống, Quan hệ đối tác gia đình Peter Liberatore; Peter Liberatore Sr Family Limited hợp tác với Hanley Phát triển WNY Inc, 114.000 đô la. 1080 Dự trữ Rd Đơn vị 3, Ae Buffalo Properties LLC đến William Severyn Sr., 47.000 đô la. • 4-5 Ruskin, Stefan Kablak đến Daniel T. Gawel, 40.000 đô la. [ad_2] Nguồn
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Dawn Olivieri Dating, Boyfriend, Affairs, Net Worth, Facts, Wiki-Bio
Dawn Olivieri Dating, Boyfriend, Affairs, Net Worth, Facts, Wiki-Bio
Dawn Olivieri might possibly be single at the moment or is she? Born Name Dawn Orienne Olivieri Birth Place St. Petersburg, Florida, United States Height 5 feet 8 inches Eye Color Brown Zodiac Sign Aquarius Nationality American Ethnicity Hispanic Profession Actress and Model Net Worth $1.5 million Weight 56 Kg Age 38 years Sibling Bettina Olivieri Parents Salvatore A. Olivieri and Nancy Olivieri
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Episode 20: The Murder of Barry and Honey Sherman
Soundcloud: - Episode 20: The Murder of Barry and Honey Sherman
The complete text of Barry Sherman’s unfinished autobiography, “A Legacy of Thought”
Short overview of the reforms in generic drug patent laws in Canada that made Barry Sherman rich
The class action lawsuit filed against his company Apotex for providing women with extra placebos instead of birth control 
Article from The Star providing an overview of what is known about the timeline of the murders and for the police response to them
Article on mefloquine, the anti malaria drug Barry Sherman was providing to Canadian armed forces that is alleged to have psychosis, depression, and suicidal tendencies as side effects.
Apotex filed a lawsuit against researcher Nancy Olivieri for publishing study results that might have had a negative impact on their ability to sell their drug. 
Article on the relatively high prices Canada pays for generic drugs (relative to most countries not named the United States)
Barry was extremely litigious, including suing the designers and builders of his home, making the list of people who might have had a grudge against him long
Another article on his litigious nature
He sued the Canadian lobbying commissioner to block a probe into his fund raising for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government. There have been allegations that his contracts to supply Mefloquine and some other drugs to the Canadian government might have been tied into this fund raising.
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The Two-Fold Intimidation of Dr Bornstein, as Orchestrated by Donald Trump, Apparently to Conceal Something About Trump's Medical History
Introduction: Pressures on Health Care Professionals to Violate Core Values and Ethical Standards Our first discussions with health professionals about the causes of health care dysfunction(1) quickly revealed concerns about influences that push professionals towards unethical actions.  We first heard about cases in which physicians were influenced to suppress clinical research whose results threatened vested interests, and punished when they did not cooperate.  These included the cases of Dr David Kern in the US, Dr Nancy Olivieri in Canada, (look here for summary) and Dr Aubrey Blumsohn in the UK (look here).  We also heard about numerous cases of whistleblowers who also were punished after revealing research misconduct, quality problems, mismanagement, financial malfeasance, etc, etc, etc. We found evidence that many young medical faculty members felt pressured by leaders who put money ahead of professional core values.  Pololi and colleagues' qualitative interviews of young medical faculty included anecdotes of angst due to academic leaders who put revenues ahead of patient care, teaching, and research; and who allegedly used deception for personal gain.(2)   (Also, see our comments on this paper)(3)  Pololi and colleagues' large survey of US medical faculty showed that over half were being pressured to put revenue generation for the organization ahead of all else, including their professional values.(4) Many attempts to influence health care professionals used financial incentives that generated conflicts of interests.  Some rose to the level of kickbacks or bribery.  On the other hand, some used threats, including intimidation and extortion.  In nearly all the cases the physicians were pushed towards behavior that would help out large organizations and those who lead them, including hospitals and hospital systems, insurance companies, and drug, device and biotechnology companies. However this week we heard two instances involving attempts to influence one physician that seemed to come from an alternate universe. Donald Trump Dictated the Content of a Letter His Physician Signed, Describing Trump's Health in Glowing Terms First on May 1, 2018, NBC reported, and then CNN reported on May 2, 2018 that a well publicized letter Donald Trump's former private physician,  Dr Harold Bornstein, signed in 2015 about Trump's health was in fact written by Mr Trump.  To quote CNN,
When Dr. Harold Bornstein described in hyperbolic prose then-candidate Donald Trump's health in 2015, the language he used was eerily similar to the style preferred by his patient. It turns out the patient himself wrote it, according to Bornstein. 'He dictated that whole letter. I didn't write that letter,' Bornstein told CNN on Tuesday. 'I just made it up as I went along.'
Bornstein's signature on a letter whose content was largely dictated by Trump was obviously  deceptive and unethical, and possibly illegal.  A brief article in RawStory quoted President Obama's former physician.
CNN anchor Erin Burnett asked. 'And is there any issue you have ethically with this, that Trump dictated it and the doctor would sign it?' 'Yeah, if the doctor signed it and it’s not his medical report, it’s fraudulent,' Dr. [David] Scheiner explained.
An article in Fortune quoted a physician who believes Dr Bornstein's actions were medical misconduct.
Dr. Anirban Maitra, an oncologist at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, pointed out on Twitter that Bornstein’s admission about the dictated doctor note could amount to misconduct under New York law. 'Permitting, aiding, or abetting an unlicensed person to perform activities requiring a license' is indeed listed under the state’s Office of the Professions definitions of professional misconduct by doctors.
This raises a big question.  Why did Dr Bornstein do something so patently dishonest?  Nothing published so far establishes an answer.  IMHO, it does not seem unreasonable to suppose that he was intimidated by Mr Trump, a billionaire known to use aggressive and well-funded legal tactics against anyone who opposed him.  The second part of Dr Bornstein's story corroborates the intimidation scenario. Trump Organization Functionaries Confiscated All Copies of President Trump's Medical Records NBC also reported on May 1, 2018, that President Trump sent minions, including two lawyers from the Trump Organization, and his former personal bodyguard, to Dr Bornstein's office to confiscate all the records Dr Bornstein had for Trump
In February 2017, a top White House aide who was Trump's longtime personal bodyguard, along with the top lawyer at the Trump Organization and a third man, showed up at the office of Trump's New York doctor without notice and took all the president's medical records. The incident, which Dr. Harold Bornstein described as a 'raid,' took place two days after Bornstein told a newspaper that he had prescribed a hair growth medicine for the president for years. In an exclusive interview in his Park Avenue office, Bornstein told NBC News that he felt 'raped, frightened and sad' when Keith Schiller and another 'large man' came to his office to collect the president's records on the morning of Feb. 3, 2017. At the time, Schiller, who had long worked as Trump's bodyguard, was serving as director of Oval Office operations at the White House.
Yet,
Bornstein said he was not given a form authorizing the release of the records and signed by the president known as a HIPAA release — which is a violation of patient privacy law.
Also,
Bornstein said the original and only copy of Trump's charts, including lab reports under Trump's name as well as under the pseudonyms his office used for Trump, were taken. Another man, Trump Organization chief legal officer Alan Garten, joined Schiller's team at Bornstein's office....
An AP story explained why it may have been unethical, or illegal, for Dr Bornstein to hand over the records in these circumstances.
Patients have a right to a copy of their medical records but the original physical record belongs to the doctor, said Dr. Matthew Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado. 'If a patient wants a copy, they can have a copy, but they don't get the original. Patients can also ask for their records to be transferred to a new doctor, but that also involves making copies (i.e., transferring the information), not literally packaging up the originals and sending them off,' Wynia said in an email. Most states require doctors to keep and maintain records, Wynia said. Federal patient privacy law bars doctors from relinquishing records without a signed release from the patient or an authorized representative.
Nonetheless, per NBC
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that taking possession of medical records was 'standard operating procedure for a new president' and that it was not accurate to characterize what happened as a "raid." 'Those records were being transferred over to the White House Medical Unit, as requested,' said Sanders.
In my humble opinion, third parties confiscating all copies of a patient's records from a physician's office, whether or not at the behest of the patient, is the opposite of standard operating procedure. Again, in this case, Dr Bornstein appears to have violated HIPAA regulations, and probably New York State law on the integrity of medical records.  However, it also appears that he did so under duress from three men, two of which he described as "large," presumably meaning physically intimidating, and two of which were top lawyers for the Trump Organization.    Why Mr then President Trump was so intent on covering up his medical records is yet another queston about which speculation seems fruitless at this point. Discussion As noted above, we have seen many cases in which health care professionals were pressured to violate their core values and ethical norms by outside parties, most often large health care organizations seeking financial gain. Now, in this new case, we see a single health care professional twice pressured to violate core values and ethical norms by a patient, a wealthy billionaire corporate CEO who became President of the United States.  Thus we are now in a situation in which the President of the US, to whom all federal health care regulatory and law enforcement agencies at least nominally report, has shown contempt for the core values and ethical standards of the medical profession. This lowers whatever minimal expectations we might have had that the US government might help health care professionals defend their values and ethics.  However vulnerable health care professionals used to feel to outside pressure from large private organizations, they now must feel much more vulnerable. We used to rant that health care professionals' values and ethics needed better defense, and that the government should be urged to take a greater role in providing it.  Now the government under Trump seems to be raising the threat level to health care professionals.  True health care reform now seems to require not just changes in government processes and attitudes, but a new person to sit at the head of government. References 1. Poses MD. A cautionary tale: the dysfunction of American health care.  Eur J Int Med 2003; 14: 123-130.  Link here 2.Pololi L, Kern DE, Carr P, et al. The culture of academic medicine: faculty perceptions of the lack of alignment between individual and institutional values. J Gen Intern Med 2009; 24: 1289-95. Link here. 3.  Poses RM, Smith WR. Faculty values. J Gen Intern Med 2010; 25: 646. Link . 4. Pololi L, Ash A, Krupat E. Faculty values in the culture of academic medicine: findings of a national faculty survey. Link here Article source:Health Care Renewal
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tuseriesdetv · 6 years
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Noticias de series de la semana: Otro despido
Despedido el creador de Fuller House
Warner ha despedido a Jeff Franklin, creador y showrunner de Fuller House. No ha sido acusado de acoso por ningún miembro del equipo, pero fue investigado a raíz de una carta en la que guionistas y otros trabajadores se quejaban de sus comentarios sobre su propia vida sexual o de que se llevaba a las citas al trabajo y a veces les ofrecía pequeños papeles.
Renovaciones de series
Amazon ha renovado Lore por una segunda temporada
Comedy Central ha renovado Corporate por una segunda temporada
Syfy ha renovado The Magicians por una cuarta temporada
Showcase ha renovado Travelers por una tercera temporada
Cancelaciones de series
FOX ha cancelado Wayward Pines tras su segunda temporada
BBC Three ha cancelado Murder in Successville tras su tercera temporada
Incorporaciones y fichajes de series
Clara Lago (Ocho apellidos vascos, Al final del túnel) protagonizará la dramedia Playing Dead, en fase de piloto para The CW, sobre una estafadora que pide a su ex (Tyler Ritter; The McCarthys, Arrow) que le ayude a fingir su muerte para huir de la mafia. Les acompaña Luke Youngblood (Galavant, Community).
Jessica Alba (Fantastic Four, Sin City) protagonizará el spin-off de Bad Boys junto a Gabrielle Union. Será Nancy McKenna, compañera en la policía de Los Ángeles de Syd Burnett (Union).
Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin) será la novia de Rosa (Stephanie Beatriz) en la quinta temporada de Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
Josh Stewart (Shooter, Dirt), Floriana Lima (Supergirl, The Family) y Giorgia Whigham (Scream, 13 Reasons Why) se unen a la segunda temporada de The Punisher. Serán Josh Pilgrim, la psicoterapeuta Krista Dubois y Amy Bendix.
Adam Scott (Ed), Iain Armitage (Ziggy), James Tupper (Nathan) y Jeffrey Nordling (Gordon) también estarán en la segunda temporada de Big Little Lies.
Bebe Neuwirth retomará su papel de juez Claudia Friend (The Good Wife) en la segunda temporada de The Good Fight.
Maya Thurman-Hawke (Little Women) se une como regular a la tercera temporada de Stranger Things. Será Robin, una joven aburrida de la rutina que busca algo de emoción en su vida y, sin duda, lo encuentra.
Betty Gabriel (Westworld, Get Out) se une como recurrente a la segunda temporada de Counterpart. Será Naya Temple, antigua agente del FBI recientemente contratada por la oficina.
Denis Leary (Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, Rescue Me) será recurrente como Billy, el padre de Deran (Jake Weary), en la tercera temporada de Animal Kingdom.
Elena Kampouris (American Odyssey, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2) protagonizará Sacred Lies. Será Minnow Bly, una joven sin manos que escapa de una secta. Kevin Carroll (The Leftovers, The Catch) será el doctor Wilson, psicólogo forense. Kiana Madeira y Ryan Robbins (The Killing, Arrow) serán la compañera en detención juvenil y el padre de Minnow.
Brett Tucker (The Americans, Mistresses) participará en varios episodios de Station 19. Se desconocen detalles.
Olivia Sandoval (Fargo, Medium) participará en varios episodios de For The People interpretando a Celia Chavez, asistente judicial.
Amanda Payton (Animal Kingdom) se une como regular a la segunda temporada de Trial & Error.
Mercedes Mason (Fear The Walking Dead) será la capitana Zoe Andersen en The Rookie.
Lorenza Izzo (Feed the Beast) será recurrente en la cuarta y última temporada de Casual como Tathiana, una amiga que Laura (Tara Lynne Barr) hizo viajando.
Dawn Olivieri (Heroes, House of Lies) será recurrente en SEAL Team como Amy Nelson, nuevo interés amoroso de Jason (David Boreanaz).
Patti LaBelle (American Horror Story, Daytime Divas) será recurrente en la tercera temporada de Greenleaf como Maxine Patterson, amiga de la universidad de Mae (Lynn Whitfield).
Emma Appleton (Clique) y Luke Treadaway (Fortitude) protagonizarán Jersusalem. Serán Feef Symonds, una joven que acepta espiar a su propio gobierno para los americanos en 1945, y su amante americano.
Mamadou Athie (The Get Down, The Detour) y Kelly Marie Tran (Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi) se unen a la dramedia de Facebook Watch protagonizada Elizabeth Olsen, que se titulará Sorry For Your Loss.
Chosen Jacobs (It, Hawaii Five-0) será recurrente en Castle Rock como Wendell Deaver, hijo de Henry (Andre Holland).
Joy Bryant (Parenthood) será recurrente en la cuarta temporada de Ballers como una exitosa abogada y madre de una futura estrella del fútbol.
Gabriel Chavarria (East Los High) y Jessica Garza (Six) protagonizarán Purge. Serán dos hermanos, él marine y ella miembro de una secta.
Laine Neil será recurrente en Strange Angel como Patty, medio hermana de Susan (Bella Heathcote).
Faith Ford (Corky), Joe Regalbuto (Frank) y Grant Shaud (Miles) también volverán al revival de Murphy Brown.
John Magaro (Crisis in Six Scenes, Orange Is the New Black) se une como regular a The Umbrella Academy. Será Leonard Peabody, interés amoroso de Vanya (Ellen Page).
Rhyon Nicole Brown (Lincoln Heights) y Porscha Coleman serán recurrentes en la cuarta temporada de Empire como la hija de Poundcake (Da'Vine Joy Randolph) y la prima de Porsha (Ta'Rhonda Jones).
Pósters de series
    Nuevas series
Sarah Wayne Callies (Prison Break, The Walking Dead), Shawn Doyle (The Expanse, Big Love), Camille Sullivan (The Disappearance, The Man in the High Castle) y Michael Shanks (Saving Hope, Stargate SG-1) protagonizarán Unspeakable, miniserie de CBC y SundanceTV  sobre la llegada del VIH y la hepatitis C a Canadá en los años ochenta. Creada por Robert C. Cooper (Stargate: Atlantis, Dirk Gently) y basada en los libros 'Bad Blood' de Vic Parsons y 'The Gift of Death' de Andre Picard.
Luz verde directa en Apple a diez episodios de un thriller psicológico escrito por Tony Basgallop (Berlin Station, 24: Live Another Day) y producido por M. Night Shyamalan (The Village, Unbreakable). Se desconocen detalles de la trama.
Reese Witherspoon (Big Little Lies) y Kerry Washington (Scandal) protagonizarán y producirán una miniserie adaptación de Little Fires Everywhere, la novela de Celeste Ng sobre un pueblo dividido tras la adopción de una niña china. Escribe Liz Tigelaar (Casual, Bates Motel).
BBC Studios prepara The Watch (seis episodios), basada en la saga de novelas Discworld de Terry Pratchett. Adaptación escrita por Simon Allen (The Musketeers).
Netflix ha encargado Jinn, su primera serie árabe. Es un thriller sobrenatural sobre un grupo de adolescentes que deben detener a una figura espiritual, que se les ha aparecido en Petra, antes de que destruya el mundo. Seis episodios.
Fechas de series
La segunda temporada de Ransom se estrena en Global el 7 de abril
La novena temporada de Archer llega a FXX el 25 de abril
Tráilers de series
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Makerspaces Event Recordings + "Are You Global Ready?" The 2017 GEC Online Conference Is Coming!
The Library 2.017 Makerspaces mini-conference recordings have been posted! You can find them at:
Library 2.0 Site - Recordings Page: http://ift.tt/2lDGLjV (must be logged in)
YouTube Conference Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGvt9IyrGCa68EtCWNg2w57IMjSxFJFuT 
Library 2.0 YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/Library20 
Included in the recordings are: the keynote sessions from Heather Moorefield-Lang, June Abbas, Leanne Bowler, Kristin Fontichiaro, and Kyungwon Koh; the pre-conference special webinar with Susan Considine and Mike Cimino from the Fayetteville Free Library on "STEAM and Making at the FFL;" and our general sessions: Tara Smith + Jessica McClean--'Hosting Maker Days and Forging Collaborative Partnerships in Anticipation of an Academic Library Makerspace;' Alisha Wilson + Nancy Stetzinger--'Keeping It Fresh: How to Create and Sustain a Maker Culture that Motivates Teens;' Ben Rearick--'Proposal for a Theoretical Framework for Small + Rural Libraries Supporting Entrepreneurs;' Rachel Seltz--'Volunteers at Your Library Makerspace;' IdaMae Craddock--'From Makerspace to Learning Commons: What's Next;' Rebecca Ferrer--'From Zero to System Wide Makerspace in 3 Grants and 4 Years;' Josh Weisgrau +Jessica Parker--'Librarians are Maker Champions: Here's how you can be too!;' Kristina A. Holzweiss--'Making a Difference:' Morgan Chivers + Katie Musick Peery--'Walking the Walk: iterative design in student staff service learning projects;' Hilda Gómez--'Bibliotecas Activas;' Abigail L. Phillips--'Finding What Fits: Approachability of Makerspaces and Making in the Library;' Robert Pronovost--'Low Cost Tools to Bring Making into Your Library;' Stephanie Piper--'Smart Working for Active Makerspaces;' and Martin Wallace, Katie Peery, + Morgan Chivers--'Making Maker Literacies: Competencies-based Course Integration of Academic Library Makerspaces.'
The 8th Annual Global Education Conference (GEC) November 13 - 16, 2017
The Global Education Conference Network's eighth annual worldwide collaboration on globally-connected education will take place around the clock starting Monday, November 13, and continue through Thursday, November 16.
This event is FREE to attend, but does require that you REGISTER! Please register HERE. 
The GEC features thought leaders from the world of education and beyond, is completely free to attend and takes place online in live webinar format. We invite you to join the 25,600 GEC community members (from 170+ countries) and actively participate in dozens of sessions focused on international education topics. Some important conference updates are below:
Still Taking Proposals
Keynotes + Sessions
Thanks to the GEC Sponsors + Partners
We're Still Taking Proposals!
The call for proposals is open until November 5th. We encourage all to submit by following the detailed directions listed here. If accepted, you can present in your time zone at a time that is convenient to you!
Keynotes + Sessions
As usual, Lucy Gray is putting together an INCREDIBLE keynote speaker lineup and it is still growing.
Mali Bickley (Collaboration Specialist, TakingITGlobal)
David Bornstein (Co-Founder + CEO, Solutions Journalism Network)
Fabrice Fresse (Member of EvalUE, EvalUE)
Michael Furdyk (Co-founder, TakingITGlobal)
Terry Godwaldt (Executive Director, The Centre for Global Education)
Seán Ó Grádaigh (National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG))
Alan Mather (Chief, Office of College + Career Success)
Ann S. Michaelsen (Teacher and school leader, Sandvika vgs)
Jean-Luc Moreau (President, EvalUE association)
Dana Mortenson (CEO + Co-founder, World Savvy)
Jennie Niles (DC's Deputy Mayor of Education)
Lori Roe (Instructional Technology Specialist, Delaware Department of Education)
Maggie Mitchell Salem (Executive Director, QFI)
Ariel Tichnor-Wagner (Senior Fellow of Global Competence, ASCD)
Erin Towns (Global Educator, Edward Little High School)
Liam Wegimont (Chairperson, GENE)
Dr. Jennifer Williams (Director of Education Strategy, Participate)
Below are the session titles and presenters for our 59 currently-accepted general sessions, and more of these are coming as well! Full details are here.
Amplifying Student Voices Globally Via the Our Global Classroom What If Grid. - Bronwyn Joyce
Beyond Our Borders: Fostering Global Competency Through Student Travel and Virtual Exchanges - Cynthia Derrane
Bringing learning BACK INTO the classroom - Liu Yijie
Bringing the world to rural environments - Peter Raatz
Children's Literature, Math, and Global Connections - Oh My! - Glenna Gustafson
Classroom Conversations with the World - Paul Hurteau
Conference Proposal #WebDay - Sean Terwilliger
Connecting Kids @SOS Children Village Globally - a dive into iEARN projects - Sheeba Ajmal
Connecting through Architecture: Minecraft in the Language Classroom - Kathleen Reardon
Cosmopolitan Project Based Learning - Using the UN Sustainable Development Goals in PBL - Craig Perrier
Creating Change through Youth Empowerment - Mahika
Designing for All: Lessons from a Global Network of Maker Classrooms - Lisa Jobson
Developing Globally Competent Students - Ann C. Gaudino
Enhancing Intercultural Communication through an International Film Club - Helaine W. Marshall
Exploring Gender Neutral/Inclusive Bathrooms in Libraries: A Global Perspective - Raymond Pun
Food Rescue through a High School - Toni Olivieri-Barton
Foundations of Global Learning: Creating Global Citizens in the First-Year Experience - Dr. Shelbee NguyenVoges
Global Learning Collaboration in a Less Tech World - Dr. Reynaldo L. Duran
Global Mentors Project: Connecting Student Teachers with Mentors from Around the World - Terry Smith
Global PBL in the Digital Age - Brad Bielawski
Global Scholar Diploma at the High School Level - Toni Olivieri-Barton
Global Students Global Perspectives - Amazing Race Project - Laurie Clement
Going Beyond the Hour of Code - Bryan L. Miller
Great Global Challenge Project Awardee Presentation: Why should I study a Foreign Language? - Ruth Valle
Harnessing the Power of Children's Literature to Teach Math and Global Themes - Glenna Gustafson
High School Global Issues Class as a Springboard for Creating Young Activists - Adam Carter
How can schools be vehicles for creating community wellness? - Jennifer Moore
How might preparation for and engagement in a protest poetry festival enhance Grade 10 boys’ understanding of global conflict? - Glynnis Moore
How to create inclusion and shared power in virtual exchange partnerships. - Jack Haskell
How to increase global competency in students: A research-based discussion with Empatico - Chelsea Donaldson
iEARN - Girl Rising project - R. Allen Witten
Integration of Global Outdoors Learning Blogs, TED Ed Lessons and Global Goals in Management Courses - Dr. Jose G. Lepervanche
Intercultural Competence - Shawn Simpson
Intercultural Competence For Educators: What's In It For Me? - Dr. Whitney Sherman
Just Little ol' Me Sharing my Global Collaboration Experiences. - Lynn Koresh
Maverick Leadership - Mike Lawrence
More Than Current Events- A Globally Connected Triad of Tri-BOBs - Noa Daniel
One Truth and a Million Truths: Teaching History in a Globalizing World - Nayun Eom
Online global collaboration - enablers, barriers and implications for teacher education - Julie Lindsay
Opening up Statistics Education to a Global Audience - Larry Musolino
Power of Impact Cinema: How to bring the world into your classroom? - Gemma Bradshaw
Practice Active Global Citizenship with the K-12 Global Art Exchange - Paul Hurteau
Preparing Students for Careers in a Globally Connected World - Heather Singmaster
Promote Global Tolerance + Celebrate Cultural Diversity by Creating New Media with the My Hero Project - Wendy Milette
Promoting Internationalism In Teaching And Preparing Global Citizens Through Exchange Projects: Different But The Same Project As An Example - Mr. Omar Titki
Ripples Make Waves: Bring The Global Water Crisis Into Your Classroom - Joan Roehre
talking kites in the footsteps of J. Korczak - Ruty Hotzen
Teaching Math and Global Themes with Children's Literature - Glenna Gustafson
Tech Trip: Using EdTech to Get the Most Out of Global Travel - Kathleen Reardon
Teens Dream: A global video contest for teens to express their dreams as they relate to one of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - Linda Staheli
The power of case studies - Anne Fox
Tips for starting your own DIY Global Youth Summit - Tara Kajtaniak
Tutoring Students Online to Promote Universal Access to a Quality Education - Kasey Beck
Understanding the Reproductive Health Education Needs for Sustainable Development - Ms. Eunmi Song
Use Design Thinking to Integrate Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) into STEM - Barbara Bray
Utilizing School-Based Virtual Field Trips for Global Learning - Dr. Stacy Delacruz
Virtual STEM Competition-Your Community, Your World - Volita Russell
What's a Crankie?? Using Creative Story Exchanges to Build Global Competence and Connect Students Across Borders - Cora Bresciano
World Peace Music Project - Yoshiro Miyata
Thanks to the GEC Sponsors
Without the support of the following organizations, GlobalEdCon would not be possible. We are grateful for companies and organizations who believe in the power of globally connected learning. Contact Steve Hargadon ([email protected]) about opportunities to get involved with our community.
That's all for now, but there is a lot more to come! Be sure to REGISTER and then join the Global Education Conference network to receive daily updates about the conference and notice of any changes. Thank you for your continuing support, and...
See you online! Makerspaces Event Recordings + "Are You Global Ready?" The 2017 GEC Online Conference Is Coming! posted first on http://ift.tt/2tX7Iil
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Makerspaces Event Recordings + "Are You Global Ready?" The 2017 GEC Online Conference Is Coming!
The Library 2.017 Makerspaces mini-conference recordings have been posted! You can find them at:
Library 2.0 Site - Recordings Page: http://ift.tt/2lDGLjV (must be logged in)
YouTube Conference Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGvt9IyrGCa68EtCWNg2w57IMjSxFJFuT 
Library 2.0 YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/Library20 
Included in the recordings are: the keynote sessions from Heather Moorefield-Lang, June Abbas, Leanne Bowler, Kristin Fontichiaro, and Kyungwon Koh; the pre-conference special webinar with Susan Considine and Mike Cimino from the Fayetteville Free Library on "STEAM and Making at the FFL;" and our general sessions: Tara Smith + Jessica McClean--'Hosting Maker Days and Forging Collaborative Partnerships in Anticipation of an Academic Library Makerspace;' Alisha Wilson + Nancy Stetzinger--'Keeping It Fresh: How to Create and Sustain a Maker Culture that Motivates Teens;' Ben Rearick--'Proposal for a Theoretical Framework for Small + Rural Libraries Supporting Entrepreneurs;' Rachel Seltz--'Volunteers at Your Library Makerspace;' IdaMae Craddock--'From Makerspace to Learning Commons: What's Next;' Rebecca Ferrer--'From Zero to System Wide Makerspace in 3 Grants and 4 Years;' Josh Weisgrau +Jessica Parker--'Librarians are Maker Champions: Here's how you can be too!;' Kristina A. Holzweiss--'Making a Difference:' Morgan Chivers + Katie Musick Peery--'Walking the Walk: iterative design in student staff service learning projects;' Hilda Gómez--'Bibliotecas Activas;' Abigail L. Phillips--'Finding What Fits: Approachability of Makerspaces and Making in the Library;' Robert Pronovost--'Low Cost Tools to Bring Making into Your Library;' Stephanie Piper--'Smart Working for Active Makerspaces;' and Martin Wallace, Katie Peery, + Morgan Chivers--'Making Maker Literacies: Competencies-based Course Integration of Academic Library Makerspaces.'
The 8th Annual Global Education Conference (GEC) November 13 - 16, 2017
The Global Education Conference Network's eighth annual worldwide collaboration on globally-connected education will take place around the clock starting Monday, November 13, and continue through Thursday, November 16.
This event is FREE to attend, but does require that you REGISTER! Please register HERE. 
The GEC features thought leaders from the world of education and beyond, is completely free to attend and takes place online in live webinar format. We invite you to join the 25,600 GEC community members (from 170+ countries) and actively participate in dozens of sessions focused on international education topics. Some important conference updates are below:
Still Taking Proposals
Keynotes + Sessions
Thanks to the GEC Sponsors + Partners
We're Still Taking Proposals!
The call for proposals is open until November 5th. We encourage all to submit by following the detailed directions listed here. If accepted, you can present in your time zone at a time that is convenient to you!
Keynotes + Sessions
As usual, Lucy Gray is putting together an INCREDIBLE keynote speaker lineup and it is still growing.
Mali Bickley (Collaboration Specialist, TakingITGlobal)
David Bornstein (Co-Founder + CEO, Solutions Journalism Network)
Fabrice Fresse (Member of EvalUE, EvalUE)
Michael Furdyk (Co-founder, TakingITGlobal)
Terry Godwaldt (Executive Director, The Centre for Global Education)
Seán Ó Grádaigh (National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG))
Alan Mather (Chief, Office of College + Career Success)
Ann S. Michaelsen (Teacher and school leader, Sandvika vgs)
Jean-Luc Moreau (President, EvalUE association)
Dana Mortenson (CEO + Co-founder, World Savvy)
Jennie Niles (DC's Deputy Mayor of Education)
Lori Roe (Instructional Technology Specialist, Delaware Department of Education)
Maggie Mitchell Salem (Executive Director, QFI)
Ariel Tichnor-Wagner (Senior Fellow of Global Competence, ASCD)
Erin Towns (Global Educator, Edward Little High School)
Liam Wegimont (Chairperson, GENE)
Dr. Jennifer Williams (Director of Education Strategy, Participate)
Below are the session titles and presenters for our 59 currently-accepted general sessions, and more of these are coming as well! Full details are here.
Amplifying Student Voices Globally Via the Our Global Classroom What If Grid. - Bronwyn Joyce
Beyond Our Borders: Fostering Global Competency Through Student Travel and Virtual Exchanges - Cynthia Derrane
Bringing learning BACK INTO the classroom - Liu Yijie
Bringing the world to rural environments - Peter Raatz
Children's Literature, Math, and Global Connections - Oh My! - Glenna Gustafson
Classroom Conversations with the World - Paul Hurteau
Conference Proposal #WebDay - Sean Terwilliger
Connecting Kids @SOS Children Village Globally - a dive into iEARN projects - Sheeba Ajmal
Connecting through Architecture: Minecraft in the Language Classroom - Kathleen Reardon
Cosmopolitan Project Based Learning - Using the UN Sustainable Development Goals in PBL - Craig Perrier
Creating Change through Youth Empowerment - Mahika
Designing for All: Lessons from a Global Network of Maker Classrooms - Lisa Jobson
Developing Globally Competent Students - Ann C. Gaudino
Enhancing Intercultural Communication through an International Film Club - Helaine W. Marshall
Exploring Gender Neutral/Inclusive Bathrooms in Libraries: A Global Perspective - Raymond Pun
Food Rescue through a High School - Toni Olivieri-Barton
Foundations of Global Learning: Creating Global Citizens in the First-Year Experience - Dr. Shelbee NguyenVoges
Global Learning Collaboration in a Less Tech World - Dr. Reynaldo L. Duran
Global Mentors Project: Connecting Student Teachers with Mentors from Around the World - Terry Smith
Global PBL in the Digital Age - Brad Bielawski
Global Scholar Diploma at the High School Level - Toni Olivieri-Barton
Global Students Global Perspectives - Amazing Race Project - Laurie Clement
Going Beyond the Hour of Code - Bryan L. Miller
Great Global Challenge Project Awardee Presentation: Why should I study a Foreign Language? - Ruth Valle
Harnessing the Power of Children's Literature to Teach Math and Global Themes - Glenna Gustafson
High School Global Issues Class as a Springboard for Creating Young Activists - Adam Carter
How can schools be vehicles for creating community wellness? - Jennifer Moore
How might preparation for and engagement in a protest poetry festival enhance Grade 10 boys’ understanding of global conflict? - Glynnis Moore
How to create inclusion and shared power in virtual exchange partnerships. - Jack Haskell
How to increase global competency in students: A research-based discussion with Empatico - Chelsea Donaldson
iEARN - Girl Rising project - R. Allen Witten
Integration of Global Outdoors Learning Blogs, TED Ed Lessons and Global Goals in Management Courses - Dr. Jose G. Lepervanche
Intercultural Competence - Shawn Simpson
Intercultural Competence For Educators: What's In It For Me? - Dr. Whitney Sherman
Just Little ol' Me Sharing my Global Collaboration Experiences. - Lynn Koresh
Maverick Leadership - Mike Lawrence
More Than Current Events- A Globally Connected Triad of Tri-BOBs - Noa Daniel
One Truth and a Million Truths: Teaching History in a Globalizing World - Nayun Eom
Online global collaboration - enablers, barriers and implications for teacher education - Julie Lindsay
Opening up Statistics Education to a Global Audience - Larry Musolino
Power of Impact Cinema: How to bring the world into your classroom? - Gemma Bradshaw
Practice Active Global Citizenship with the K-12 Global Art Exchange - Paul Hurteau
Preparing Students for Careers in a Globally Connected World - Heather Singmaster
Promote Global Tolerance + Celebrate Cultural Diversity by Creating New Media with the My Hero Project - Wendy Milette
Promoting Internationalism In Teaching And Preparing Global Citizens Through Exchange Projects: Different But The Same Project As An Example - Mr. Omar Titki
Ripples Make Waves: Bring The Global Water Crisis Into Your Classroom - Joan Roehre
talking kites in the footsteps of J. Korczak - Ruty Hotzen
Teaching Math and Global Themes with Children's Literature - Glenna Gustafson
Tech Trip: Using EdTech to Get the Most Out of Global Travel - Kathleen Reardon
Teens Dream: A global video contest for teens to express their dreams as they relate to one of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - Linda Staheli
The power of case studies - Anne Fox
Tips for starting your own DIY Global Youth Summit - Tara Kajtaniak
Tutoring Students Online to Promote Universal Access to a Quality Education - Kasey Beck
Understanding the Reproductive Health Education Needs for Sustainable Development - Ms. Eunmi Song
Use Design Thinking to Integrate Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) into STEM - Barbara Bray
Utilizing School-Based Virtual Field Trips for Global Learning - Dr. Stacy Delacruz
Virtual STEM Competition-Your Community, Your World - Volita Russell
What's a Crankie?? Using Creative Story Exchanges to Build Global Competence and Connect Students Across Borders - Cora Bresciano
World Peace Music Project - Yoshiro Miyata
Thanks to the GEC Sponsors
Without the support of the following organizations, GlobalEdCon would not be possible. We are grateful for companies and organizations who believe in the power of globally connected learning. Contact Steve Hargadon ([email protected]) about opportunities to get involved with our community.
That's all for now, but there is a lot more to come! Be sure to REGISTER and then join the Global Education Conference network to receive daily updates about the conference and notice of any changes. Thank you for your continuing support, and...
See you online! Makerspaces Event Recordings + "Are You Global Ready?" The 2017 GEC Online Conference Is Coming! published first on http://ift.tt/2xx6Oyq
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This Saturday (May 20), I’ll be at the GAITHERSBURG Book Festival with my novel Red Team Blues; then on May 22, I’m keynoting Public Knowledge’s Emerging Tech conference in DC.
On May 23, I’ll be in TORONTO for a book launch that’s part of WEPFest, a benefit for the West End Phoenix, onstage with Dave Bidini (The Rheostatics), Ron Diebert (Citizen Lab) and the whistleblower Dr Nancy Olivieri.
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David Roth memorably described the job of neoliberal economists as finding “new ways to say ‘actually, your boss is right.’” Not just your boss: for decades, economists have formed a bulwark against seemingly obvious responses to the most painful parts of our daily lives, from wages to education to health to shelter:
https://popula.com/2023/04/30/yakkin-about-chatgpt-with-david-roth/
How can we solve the student debt crisis? Well, we could cancel student debt and regulate the price of education, either directly or through free state college.
How can we solve America’s heath-debt crisis? We could cancel health debt and create Medicare For All.
How can we solve America’s homelessness crisis? We could build houses and let homeless people live in them.
How can we solve America’s wage-stagnation crisis? We could raise the minimum wage and/or create a federal jobs guarantee.
How can we solve America’s workplace abuse crisis? We could allow workers to unionize.
How can we solve America’s price-gouging greedflation crisis? With price controls and/or windfall taxes.
How can we solve America’s inequality crisis? We could tax billionaires.
How can we solve America’s monopoly crisis? We could break up monopolies.
How can we solve America’s traffic crisis? We could build public transit.
How can we solve America’s carbon crisis? We can regulate carbon emissions.
These answers make sense to everyone except neoliberal economists and people in their thrall. Rather than doing the thing we want, neoliberal economists insist we must unleash “markets” to solve the problems, by “creating incentives.” That may sound like a recipe for a small state, but in practice, “creating incentives” often involves building huge bureaucracies to “keep the incentives aligned” (that is, to prevent private firms from ripping off public agencies).
This is how we get “solutions” that fail catastrophically, like:
Public Service Loan Forgiveness instead of debt cancellation and free college:
https://studentloansherpa.com/likely-ineligible/
The gig economy instead of unions and minimum wages:
https://www.newswise.com/articles/research-reveals-majority-of-gig-economy-workers-are-earning-below-minimum-wage
Interest rate hikes instead of price caps and windfall taxes:
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/03/1173371788/the-fed-raises-interest-rates-again-in-what-could-be-its-final-attack-on-inflati
Tax breaks for billionaire philanthropists instead of taxing billionaires:
https://memex.craphound.com/2018/11/10/winners-take-all-modern-philanthropy-means-that-giving-some-away-is-more-important-than-how-you-got-it/
Subsidizing Uber instead of building mass transit:
https://prospect.org/infrastructure/cities-turn-uber-instead-buses-trains/
Fraud-riddled carbon trading instead of emissions limits:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/27/voluntary-carbon-market/#trust-me
As infuriating as all of this “actually, your boss is right” nonsense is, the most immediate and continuously frustrating aspect of it is the housing crisis, which has engulfed cities all over the world, to the detriment of nearly everyone.
America led the way on screwing up housing. There were two major New Deal/post-war policies that created broad (but imperfect and racially biased) prosperity in America: housing subsidies and labor unions. Of the two, labor unions were the most broadly inclusive, most available across racial and gender lines, and most engaged with civil rights struggles and other progressive causes.
So America declared war on labor unions and told working people that their only path to intergenerational wealth was to buy a home, wait for it to “appreciate,” and sell it on for a profit. This is a disaster. Without unions to provide countervailing force, every part of American life has worsened, with stagnating wages lagging behind skyrocketing expenses for education, health, retirement, and long-term care. For nearly every homeowner, this means that their “most valuable asset” — the roof over their head — must be liquidated to cover debts. Meanwhile, their kids, burdened with six-figure student debt — will have little or nothing left from the sale of the family home with which to cover a downpayment in a hyperinflated market:
https://gen.medium.com/the-rents-too-damned-high-520f958d5ec5
Meanwhile, rent inflation is screaming ahead of other forms of inflation, burdening working people beyond any ability to pay. Giant Wall Street firms have bought up huge swathes of the country’s housing stock, transforming it into overpriced, undermaintained slums that you can be evicted from at the drop of a hat:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/08/wall-street-landlords/#the-new-slumlords
Transforming housing from a human right to an “asset” was always going to end in a failure to build new housing stock and regulate the rental market. It’s reaching a breaking point. “Superstar cities” like New York and San Francisco have long been priced out of the reach of working people, but now they’re becoming unattainable for double-income, childless, college-educated adults in their prime working years:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/15/upshot/migrations-college-super-cities.html
A city that you can’t live in is a failure. A system that can’t provide decent housing is a failure. The “your boss is right, actually” crowd won: we don’t build public housing, we don’t regulate rents, and it suuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks.
Maybe we could try doing things instead of “aligning incentives?”
Like, how about rent control.
God, you can already hear them squealing! “Price controls artificially distort well-functioning markets, resulting in a mismatch between supply and demand and the creation of the dreaded deadweight loss triangle!”
Rent control “causes widespread shortages, leaving would-be renters high and dry while screwing landlords (the road to hell, so says the orthodox economist, is paved with good intentions).”
That’s been the received wisdom for decades, fed to us by Chicago School economists who are so besotted with their own mathematical models that any mismatch between the models’ predictions and the real world is chalked up to errors in the real world, not the models. It’s pure economism: “If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They’d sit in their studies and say to themselves, ‘What would I do if I were a horse?’”
https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/27/economism/#what-would-i-do-if-i-were-a-horse
But, as Mark Paul writes for The American Prospect, rent control works:
https://prospect.org/infrastructure/housing/2023-05-16-economists-hate-rent-control/
Rent control doesn’t constrain housing supply:
https://dornsife.usc.edu/pere/rent-matters
At least some of the time, rent control expands housing supply:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-9906.2007.00334.x
The real risk of rent control is landlords exploiting badly written laws to kick out tenants and convert their units to condos — that’s not a problem with rent control, it’s a problem with eviction law:
https://web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/DMQ.pdf
Meanwhile, removing rent control doesn’t trigger the predicted increases in housing supply:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094119006000635
Rent control might create winners (tenants) and losers (landlords), but it certainly doesn’t make everyone worse off — as the neoliberal doctrine insists it must. Instead, tenants who benefit from rent control have extra money in their pockets to spend on groceries, debt service, vacations, and child-care.
Those happier, more prosperous people, in turn, increase the value of their landlords’ properties, by creating happy, prosperous neighborhoods. Rent control means that when people in a neighborhood increase its value, their landlords can’t kick them out and rent to richer people, capturing all the value the old tenants created.
What is life like under rent control? It’s great. You and your family get to stay put until you’re ready to move on, as do your neighbors. Your kids don’t have to change schools and find new friends. Old people aren’t torn away from communities who care for them:
https://ideas.repec.org/a/uwp/landec/v58y1982i1p109-117.html
In Massachusetts, tenants with rent control pay half the rent that their non-rent-controlled neighbors pay:
https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/housing%20market%202014.pdf
Rent control doesn’t just make tenants better off, it makes society better off. Rather than money flowing from a neighborhood to landlords, rent control allows the people in a community to invest it there: opening and patronizing businesses.
Anything that can’t go on forever will eventually stop. As the housing crisis worsens, states are finally bringing back rent control. New York has strengthened rent control for the first time in 40 years:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/12/nyregion/rent-regulation-laws-new-york.html
California has a new statewide rent control law:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/business/economy/california-rent-control.html
They’re battling against anti-rent-control state laws pushed by ALEC, the right-wing architects of model legislation banning action on climate change, broadband access, and abortion:
https://www.nmhc.org/research-insight/analysis-and-guidance/rent-control-laws-by-state/
But rent control has broad, democratic support. Strong majorities of likely voters support rent control:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/07/metro/new-statewide-poll-shows-strong-support-rent-control/
And there’s a kind of rent control that has near unanimous support: the 30-year fixed mortgage. For the 67% of Americans who live in owner-occupied homes, the existence of the federally-backed (and thus federally subsidized) fixed mortgage means that your monthly shelter costs are fixed for life. What’s more, these costs go down the longer you pay them, as mortgage borrowers refinance when interest rates dip.
We have a two-tier system: if you own a home, then the longer you stay put, the cheaper your “rent” gets. If you rent a home, the longer you stay put, the more expensive your home gets over time.
America needs a shit-ton more housing — regular housing for working people. Mr Market doesn’t want to build it, no matter how many “incentives” we dangle. Maybe it’s time we just did stuff instead of building elaborate Rube Goldberg machines in the hopes of luring the market’s animal sentiments into doing it for us.
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Venture predation
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Tomorrow (May 20), I’ll be at the GAITHERSBURG Book Festival with my novel Red Team Blues; then on Monday (May 22), I’m keynoting Public Knowledge’s Emerging Tech conference in DC.
On Tuesday (May 23), I’ll be in TORONTO for a book launch that’s part of WEPFest, a benefit for the West End Phoenix, onstage with Dave Bidini (The Rheostatics), Ron Diebert (Citizen Lab) and the whistleblower Dr Nancy Olivieri.
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They said it couldn’t happen. After decades of antitrust enforcement against Predatory Pricing — selling goods below cost to kill existing competitors and prevent new ones from arising — the Chicago School of neoliberal economists “proved” that predatory pricing didn’t exist and that the courts could stand down and stop busting companies for it.
Predatory pricing — the economists explained — may be illegal, but it was also imaginary. A mirage. No one would do predatory pricing, because it was “irrational.” And even if there was someone irrational enough to try it, they would fail. Stand down, judges of America — predatory pricing is solved.
Chicago School economists — whose job (to quote David Roth) is to find new ways to say “actually, your boss is right” — held enormous sway of the federal judiciary. The billionaire-backed Manne Seminars offered free “continuing education” junkets to judges — all-expense-paid luxury vacations salted with lengthy your-boss-is-right econ seminars. 40% of the US federal judiciary got their heads filled up at a Manne Seminar.
For monopolists and other predators, the Manne Seminar was an excellent return on investment. After attending a Manne Seminar, the average judge’s legal decisions tipped decidedly in favor of monopoly, operating on the Chicago bedrock assumption that monopolies are “efficient,” and, where we see them in nature, we should celebrate them as the visible manifestation of the entrepreneurial genius of some Ayn Rand hero in a corporate boardroom:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/13/post-bork-era/#manne-down
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Even as post-Chicago economists showed that predatory pricing was both possible and rampant, a “rational” and effective strategy for cornering markets, suppressing competition, crushing innovation and gouging on price, judges continued to craft tortuous, unpassable tests that any predatory pricing case would have to satisfy to proceed. Economics moved on, but predatory pricing cases continued to fail the trial-by-ordeal constructed by Chicago-pilled judges.
Which is a shame, because there are at least three ways that predatory pricing can be effective:
Cost Signaling Predation: A predator tricks competitors into thinking they’ve found a new way to cut their costs, which allows them to drop prices. Competitors, fooled by the ruse, exit the market, not realizing that the predator is merely subsidizing their products’ costs to trick them.
Financial Market Predation: A predator tricks the competitors’ creditors into thinking the predator has a new way to cut costs. The creditors refuse to loan the prey companies the money needed to survive the price war, and the prey drops out of the war.
Reputation Effect Predation: A predator subsidizes prices in one region or one line of goods in order to trick prey into thinking that they’ll do the same elsewhere: “Don’t try to compete with us in Cleveland, or we’ll drop prices like we did in Tampa.”
These models of successful predation are decades old, and have broad acceptance within economics — outside of Chicago-style ideologues — but they’ve yet to make much of a dent in minds of the judges who hear Predatory Pricing cases.
While judges continue to hit the snooze-bar on any awakening to this phenomenon, a new kind of predator has emerged, using a new kind of predation: the Venture Predator, a predatory company backed by venture capital funds, who make lots of high-risk bets they must cash out in ten years or less, ideally for a 100x+ return.
Writing in the Journal of Corporation Law Matthew Wansley and Samuel Weinstein — both of the Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University — lay out a theory of Venture Predation in clear, irrefutable language, using it to explain the recent bubble we sometimes call the Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4437360
What’s a Venture Predator? It’s “a startup that uses venture finance to price below its costs, chase its rivals out of the market, and grab market share.” The predator sets millions or billions of dollars on fire chasing “rapid, exponential growth” all in order to “create the impression that recoupment is possible” among future investors, such as blue-chip companies that might buy them out, or sucker retail investors who buy in at the IPO, anticipating years of monopoly pricing.
In other words, the Venture Predator constructs a pile of shit so large and impressive that investors are convinced that there must be a pony under there somewhere.
There’s another name for this kind of arrangement: a bezzle, which Galbraith described as “the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it.”
Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy companies are bezzles. Uber, annihilated tens of billions of dollars on its bezzle, destroying the taxi industry and laying waste to public transit investment, demolishing labor protections and convincing people that impossible self-driving robo-taxis were around the coner:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/16/ring-ring-lapd-calling/#uber-unter
But while Uber the company lost billions of dollars, Uber’s early investors and executives made out like bandits (or predators, I suppose). The founders were able to flog their shares on the secondary market long before the IPO. Same for the early investors, like Benchmark capital.
Since the company’s IPO, its finances have steadily worsened, and the company has resorted to increasingly sweaty balance-sheet manipulation tactics and PR offensives to make it seem like a viable business:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/05/a-lousy-taxi/#a-giant-asterisk
But Uber can’t ever recoup the billions it spent convincing the market that there was a pony beneath its pile of shit. The app Uber uses to connect riders with the employees it misclassifies as contractors isn’t hard to clone, and it’s not hard for drivers or riders to switch from one app to another:
https://locusmag.com/2019/01/cory-doctorow-disruption-for-thee-but-not-for-me/
Nor can Uber prevent its rivals from taking advantage of the hundreds of millions of dollars it spent on “regulatory entrepreneurship” — changing the laws to make it easier to misclassify workers and operate unlicensed taxi services.
It’s not clear whether Uber ever believed in robo-taxis, or whether they were just part of the bezzle. In any event, Uber’s no longer in the robotaxi races: after blowing $2.5B on self-driving cars, Uber produced a vehicle whose mean-distance-between-fatal-crashes was 0.5 miles. Uber had to pay another company $400M to take its self-driving unit off its hands:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/09/herbies-revenge/#100-billion-here-100-billion-there-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money
Uber’s prices rose 92% between 2018–21, while its driver compensation has plunged. The company is finding it increasingly difficult to passengers into cars, and drivers onto the road. They have invented algorithmic wage disrimination, an exciting new field of labor-law violations, in order to trick drivers into thinking there’s a pony under all that shit:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men
To Uber’s credit, they have been a wildly innovative company, inventing many new ways to make the pile of shit bigger and the pony more plausible. Back when Uber and Lyft were locked in head-to-head competition, Uber employees created huge pools of fake Lyft rider accounts, using them to set up and tear down rides in order to discover what Lyft was charging for rides in order to underprice them. Uber also covertly operated the microphones in its drivers’ phones to listen for the chimes the Lyft app made: drivers who had both Lyft and Uber installed on their devices were targeted for (strictly temporary) bonuses.
Uber won’t ever recoup, but that’s OK. The investors and execs made vast fortunes. Now, normally, you’d expect company founders and other managers with large piles of stocks in a VC-backed company to be committed to the business’s success, at least in the medium term, because their shares can’t be liquidated until well after the company goes public.
But the burgeoning “secondary market” for managers’ shares has turned investors and managers into co-conspirators in the Venture Predation bezzle: “half of Series A and B deals now have some secondary component for founders.” That means that founders can cash out before the bezzle ends.
The trick with any bezzle is to skip town while the mark is still energetically digging through the shit, before the pony is revealed for an illusion. That’s where crypto comes in: during the cryptocurrency bubble, VCs cashed out of their investments early through Initial Coin Offerings and other forms of securities fraud. The massive returns this generated were well worth the millions they sprinkled on Superbowl ads and bribes for Matt Damon.
But woe betide the VC who mistimes their exit. As Wework showed, it’s entirely possible for VCs to be left holding the bag if they get the timing wrong. Wework blew $12b on predatory pricing — promising tenants at rivals’ businesses moving bonuses or even a year’s free rent, all to make the pile of shit look larger and thus more apt to contain a pony. The company opened its co-working spaces as close as possible to existing shops, oversaturating hot markets and showing “growth” by poaching customers through deep subsidies, then pretending that those customers would stay when the subsidies evaporated. But Wework’s “product” was temporary hot-desks, occupied by people who could (and did) move at the drop of a hat.
To its competitors, its competitors’ creditors, and credulous investors, it appeared that Wework had developed some kind of “efficiency advantage” — a secret sauce that let it sell a product at a price that was far below its rivals’ costs. But once Wework filed for its IPO, its S-1 — the form that discloses the company’s finances — revealed the truth. Wework’s only “advantage” was the bafflegab of its cult-like leader and the torrent of cash supplied by its VCs.
Wework’s IPO was a disaster. After canceling a real IPO, the company eventually went public through a scammy SPAC, saw its shares immediately tank, and continue to fall, as its balance-sheet is still blood-red with losses.
Another Venture Predator is Bird, the company that flooded American cities with cheap, flimsy Chinese scooters, choking curbs and sidewalks. 25% of the gross revenues from each scooter ride had to be written off as depreciation on the scooter. As a Bird spokesperson told the LA Times: “There are very few unique companies for which you can build global scale really quickly and build a dominant market position before other people do, and for those rarefied companies scaling quickly matters more than short-term profits.”
Bird was another company that could never recoup, whose executives and investors could only cash out if they could maintain the faint hope of the pony underneath its pile of shitty scooters. It drove the company to some genuinely surreal lengths. For example, in 2018, I reported on the existence of a kit that let you buy an impounded Bird scooter for pennies and retrofit it to run without an app, so you could take it anywhere:
https://boingboing.net/2018/12/08/flipping-a-bird.html
Shortly thereafter, I got a legal threat from Linda Kwak, Bird’s Senior Corporate Counsel, claiming that publishing a link to a website that sells you a product you install by unscrewing one board and inserting another was a violation of Section 1201 of the DMCA, which was an astonishingly stupid claim:
https://www.eff.org/document/bird-rides-takedown-boing-boing-dec-20-2018
It was also an astonishingly stupid claim to make to me, a career activist with 20 years experience fighting DMCA1201, a decades-old professional affiliation with EFF, and a giant megaphone:
https://boingboing.net/2019/01/11/flipping-the-bird.html
But Bird was palpably desperate to keep its bezzle going, and Kwak — an employment lawyer with undeniable deficits in her understanding of copyright and cyber-law — was their champion
Fascinatingly, one thing Bird didn’t worry about was competition from Uber and Lyft, who piled into the e-scooter market. Bird circulated a (leaked) pitch-deck reassuring investors that Uber/Lyft weren’t gunning for them, because they ““won’t subsidize prices” as they prepared for their IPOs, which involved disclosing their finances to their investors.
Bird’s investors either lost money or made small-dollar returns, but they were outfoxed by Bird founder Travis VanderZanden, a superpredator who cashed out $44m in shares just as the VCs were piling in.
Venture Predation is another stinging rebuttal to the Chicago School’s blithe dismissal of Predatory Pricing as an illusion. Private firms — of the sort that VCs back — whose boards are made up of founders and VCs who stand to benefit from the pile-of-shit gambit are perfectly capable of spending huge fortunes to make Predatory Pricing work. VCs make a practice of repeatedly co-investing in businesses together, which fosters the kind of trust that allows for these gambits to be played again and again.
For later stage, pony-thirsty investors who get stuck holding the bag, the lure of monopoly profits is both powerful and plausible — after 40 years of antitrust neglect, monopolies are the kinds of things one can both attain and defend (think of Peter Thiel’s maxim, “competition is for losers,” or Warren Buffett’s terrifying priapisms induced by the mere thought of businesses with “wide, sustainable moats”).
In a world of Facebook and Google, dreaming of monopolies isn’t irrational — it’s aspirational.
VCs are ideally poised to play the Venture Predation gambit. They are risk-tolerant and need to cash out over short timescales. What’s more, VCs’ longstanding boasts of their ability to identify companies who have invented new, super-efficient ways to do boring things like “rent out office space” or “provide taxis” gives the pile-of-shit pony-pitch a plausible ring.
The Venture Predator gambit isn’t just a form of plute-on-plute violence in which billionaires fleece millionaires. Like any anticompetitive scam, Venture Predators are able to pick winners in the marketplace — rather than getting the taxi or the office rental service or the scooter that serves you best, you get the scammiest version.
Workers who are roped in by the scam also suffer — the authors raise the example of a cab driver who leases a car to drive for Uber, based on the early subsidies the company offered, only to find themselves unable to make payments once the bezzle ends and Uber starts clawing back the driver’s wages.
Then there’s the cost to society: during the decade-plus in which Uber was pissing away the Saudi royal family’s billions subsidizing rides, cities dismantled their public transit, even as residents made decisions about where to live and work based on the presumption that Uber was charging a fair, sustainable price for rides.
The authors propose a bunch of legislative fixes for this, but warn that none of them are likely to get through Congress or the Manne-pilled judiciary. But they do hold out hope for a proposed SEC rule “requiring large, private companies to make basic financial disclosures.” These disclosures would make it impossible for companies to pretend that they had built a better mousetrap when all they had was a bigger pile of shit.
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This Saturday (May 20), I’ll be at the GAITHERSBURG Book Festival with my novel Red Team Blues; then on May 22, I’m keynoting Public Knowledge’s Emerging Tech conference in DC.
On May 23, I’ll be in TORONTO for a book launch that’s part of WEPFest, a benefit for the West End Phoenix, onstage with Dave Bidini (The Rheostatics), Ron Diebert (Citizen Lab) and the whistleblower Dr Nancy Olivieri.
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It’s no longer controversial to claim that Big Tech is a parasite on the news business. But there’s still a raging controversy over the nature of the parasitism, and, much more importantly, what to do about it.
https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/18/stealing-money-not-content/#beyond-link-taxes
This week on EFF’s Deeplinks blog, I kick off a new series on the abusive relationship between Big Tech and the news, analyzing four different dirty practices and proposing policy answers to all four:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/saving-news-big-tech
The context here is that various governments around the world have taken notice of the tech/news problem, and are chasing a counterproductive “solution” — the “link tax,” where tech firms are required to pay for the links and short snippets their users or news search-tools make to news-stories. In some cases, the “tax” is indirect: tech is required to negotiate a payment to make up for other misdeeds (like ripping publishers off with ad fraud).
You can argue that this isn’t a link tax, it’s just pressure to bargain, but because these rules typically ban platforms from simply blocking publishers’ content if they can’t reach an agreement, they become link taxes: “You must carry links, and you must pay the sites you link to” isn’t meaningfully different from “You must pay for linking to those sites.”
This “must-carry” dimension — requiring tech firms to publish links to sites they don’t want to link to — has lots of things wrong with it, but in the US, must-carry has a showstopper bug: it contravenes the First Amendment and any law with a must-carry provision is unlikely to survive a court challenge. So people who care about protecting the news from Big Tech predators — like me — need to try other approaches.
But no matter where you are, requiring tech to pay fees to news is the wrong approach. For one thing, it’s a solution that only works for so long as Big Tech stays big: that means that efforts to break up Big Tech, force it to pay taxes and fines, and limit its profits (say, through privacy laws that end surviellance ads) are incompatible with link taxes and adjacent proposals.
The big risk here is that news outlets will become partisans in the fight against shrinking Big Tech, because news companies’ destinies will be linked to the tech giants’ own fate. More immediately, there’s the risk that news companies that depend on negotiating payments from Big Tech will not act as the effective watchdogs we need them to be.
That’s not just a hypothetical risk: in Canada, Big Tech entered into negotiations with the Toronto Star — the country’s widest-circulating paper — ahead of a proposed “news bargaining code” that was working its way through Parliament. Once that settlement was reached, the Star abruptly killed “Defanging Tech” its excellent critical series on the tech giants it had just climbed into bed with:
https://www.thestar.com/news/big-tech.html
Another important risk from “bargaining codes” and link taxes is that they tend to favor the largest and/or most sensationalist news companies, who have the leverage to bargain for the highest sums. In Australia, Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp bargained for a sizable payment from the tech sector — but then it laid off its news workers. Merely transferring money to media giants doesn’t mean an increase in investment in news. That’s especially true in the Canadian context, where a US vulture-capitalist fund bought out the National Post and its nationwide affiliates and then loaded the chain up with debt, while hacking newsroom staff to the bone and beyond. There’s no reason to think that tech payments to the Post will go anywhere except to the financial speculators who are its major creditors.
Meanwhile, the proposed US version, JCPA, has a payout schedule based on the number of clicks a news outlet generates for each platform — a metric that will see the lion’s share of money going to the far-right clickbait sites that push conspiracy theories, disinformation, and culture-war nonsense — and see floods of social media traffic as a result.
Any solution to the tech/news conflict should benefit the news, and the workers who produce it — not the shareholders of the giant companies whose short-sighted consolidation, mass firings, and sell-offs of physical plant created the hyper-concentrated, brittle news sector of today:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/16/sociopathic-monsters/#all-the-news-thats-fit-to-print
Luckily for the news, there’s a whole bushel of policy levers we can yank on to make the news better, stronger, and more sustainable, even as tech monopolies and the surveillance they rely on are consigned to the scrapheap of history.
In this series — which will publish weekly over the next four weeks — I’ll dig into four policy prescriptions for making a better news that is free of Big Tech, not dependent on it:
I. Break up ad-tech: Following the lead of Senator Mike Lee’s AMERICA Act, we must end the ad-tech sector’s self-dealing. Ad-tech scoops up 51% of every ad-dollar. That’s thanks to the ad-tech companies practice of offering marketplaces in which they represent both advertisers and publishers: that’s like a game where the referee pays the salaries of the head coaches for both teams. If we pare back the ad-tech tax to, say 10% and split the difference between advertisers and publishers, then every publisher will see an immediate 20% increase in their top-line revenue, without having to “bargain” for a “voluntary” payment from tech companies.
II. Ban surveillance ads: America is long overdue for a federal privacy law with a private right of action. When we finally get such a law, surveillance advertising is dead. Ad-tech has long argued that people like ads, so long as they’re “relevant,” a state that can only be attained through continuous, invasive surveillance. In reality, no one consents to surveillance — which is why, when Apple gave its users a one-click opt-out from spying, 94% blocked spying (unfortunately, Apple only blocks its competitors from spying on Apple customers; even if you opt out of spying on your Apple device, Apple will continue to spy on you).
The natural successor to surveillance ads is context ads: ads based on the content you’re looking at, not the surveillance data an ad-tech platform amassed on you without your consent. Context ads are intrinsically better for publishers: no publisher will ever know as much about a reader’s behavior than a spying ad-tech platform, but no ad-tech platform will ever know as much about a publisher’s own content than the publisher does.
That means that the benefits of a ban on surveillance ads wouldn’t just be an end to creepy internet spying — it would also transfer power from tech companies to news companies, online performers and other creative workers.
III. Open up app stores: 30% of every dollar spent on app-based digital subscriptions is claimed by two companies, Google and Apple, the mobile duopoly. This app store tax is a pure transfer from news to tech. The EU’s Digital Markets Act and the proposed US Open App Markets Act are both designed to kill the app store tax. Dropping mobile payment processing fees from 30% to the industry standard 2–5% will instantaneously make increase the revenue from every subscriber by 25% or more.
IV. Make social media end-to-end: Tech platforms’ predictable enshittification strategy always ends with publishers no longer being able to reach their subscribers unless they pay to “boost” their content. Social media companies claim to be facilitators of the connection between publishers and audiences, but in reality, they take those audiences hostage and ransom them off to publishers. An end-to-end rule for social media would require platforms to reliably deliver material published by accounts to their own followers, who asked to see that material.
The debate over news and tech starts from the erroneous — and dangerous — assumption that the platforms are stealing the news media’s content, by letting their users talk about, quote and link to the news. This isn’t theft: if you’re not allowed to talk about the news, then it’s not the news — it’s a secret.
The platforms are stealing from news, though: they’re not stealing content, they’re stealing money. Between sky-high ad-tech rakes, app store taxes, and ransom demands to reach your own subscribers, the tech companies have grabbed the majority of money generated by news workers and the companies they work for.
Ending this theft will produce a more sustainable and robust source of funding for the news — without compromising news companies’ ability to aggressively hold tech to account, and without propping up financialized, hollowed-out media monopolies at the expense of an independent press.
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Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher
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This Saturday (May 20), I’ll be at the GAITHERSBURG Book Festival with my novel Red Team Blues; then on May 22, I’m keynoting Public Knowledge’s Emerging Tech conference in DC.
On May 23, I’ll be in TORONTO for a book launch that’s part of WEPFest, a benefit for the West End Phoenix, onstage with Dave Bidini (The Rheostatics), Ron Diebert (Citizen Lab) and the whistleblower Dr Nancy Olivieri.
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When the EU passed its landmark General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), it seemed like a privacy miracle. Despite the most aggressive lobbying Europe had ever seen, 500 million Europeans were now guaranteed a digital private life. Could this really be?
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Well, yes…and no. Despite flaws (Right to Be Forgotten), the GDPR has strong, well-crafted, badly needed privacy protections. But to get those protections, Europeans need their privacy regulators to enforce the rules.
That’s where the GDPR miracle founders. Europe includes several tax-havens — Malta, Cyprus, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Ireland — that compete to offer the most favorable terms to international corporations and other criminals. For these havens, paying little to no tax is just table-stakes. As these countries vie to sell themselves out to giant companies, they compete to offer a favorable regulatory environment, insulating companies from lawsuits over corruption, labor abuses and other crimes.
All of this is made possible — and even encouraged — by the design of European federalism, which lets companies easily shift which flag of convenience they fly. Once a company re-homes in a country, it can force Europeans across the union to seek justice in that country’s courts, under the looming threat that the company will up sticks for another haven if the law doesn’t bend over backwards to protect corporate citizens from the grievances of flesh-and-blood humans.
Big Tech’s most aggressive privacy invaders have long flown Irish flags. Ireland is “headquarters” to Google, Meta, Tinder, Apple, Airbnb, Yahoo and many other tech companies. In exchange for locating a handful of jobs to Ireland, these companies are allowed to maintain the pretense that their global earnings are afloat in the Irish Sea, in a state of perfect, untaxable grace.
That cozy relationship meant that the US tech giants were well-situated to sabotage Ireland’s privacy regulator, who would be the first port of call for Europeans whose privacy had been violated by American firms. For many years, it’s been obvious that the Irish Data Protection Commission was a sleeping watchdog, with infinite tolerance for the companies that pretend to make Ireland their homes. 87% of Irish data protection claims involve just eight giant US companies (that pretend to be Irish).
But among for hardened GDPR warriors, the real extent of the Data Protection Commissioner’s uselessness is genuinely shocking. A new report from the Irish Council for Civil Liberties reveals that the DPC isn’t merely tolerant of privacy crimes, they’re gamekeepers turned poachers, active collaborators in privacy abuse:
https://www.iccl.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/5-years-GDPR-crisis.pdf
The report’s headline figure really tells the story: the European Data Protection Board — which oversees Ireland’s DPC — overturns the Irish regulator’s judgments 75% of the time. It’s actually worse than it appears: that figure only includes appeals of the DPC’s enforcement actions, where the DPC bestirred itself to put on trousers and show up for work to investigate a privacy claim, only to find that the corporation was utterly blameless.
But the DPC almost never takes enforcement actions. Instead, the regulator remains in its pajamas, watching cartoons and eating breakfast cereal, and offers an “amicable resolution” (that is, a settlement) to the accused company. 83% of the cases brought before the DPC are settled with an “amicable resolution.”
Corporations can bargain for multiple, consecutive amicable resolutions, allowing them to repeatedly break the law and treat the fines — which they negotiate themselves — as part of the price of doing business.
This is illegal. European law demands that cases that involve repeat offenders, or that are likely to affect many people, must be fully investigated.
Ireland’s government has stonewalled on calls for an independent review of the DPC. The DPC continues to abet lawlessness, allowing corporations to use privacy invasive techniques for surveillance, discrimination and manipulation. In 2022, the DPC concluded 64% of its cases with mere reprimands — not even a slap on the wrist.
Meanwhile, the DPC trails the EU in issuing “compliance orders” — which directly regulate the conduct of privacy-invading companies — only issuing 49 such orders in the past 4.5 years. The DPC has only issues 28 of the GDPR’s “one-stop-shop” fines.
The EU has 26 other national privacy regulators, but under the GDPR, they aren’t allowed to act until the DPC delivers its draft decisions. The DPC is lavishly funded, with a budget in the EU’s top five, but all that money gets pissed up against a wall, with inaction ruling the day.
Despite the collusion between the tech giants and the Irish state, time is running out for America’s surveillance-crazed tech monopolists. The GDPR does allow Europeans to challenge the DPR’s do-nothing rulings in European court, after a long, meandering process. That process is finally bearing fruit: in 2021, Johnny Ryan and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties brought a case in Germany against the ad-tech lobby group IAB:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/16/inside-the-clock-tower/#inference
And the activist Max Schrems and the group NOYB brought a case against Google in Austria:
https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/15/out-here-everything-hurts/#noyb
But Europeans should not have to drag tech giants out of Ireland to get justice. It’s long past time for the EU to force Ireland to clean up its act. The EU Commission is set to publish a proposal on how to reform Ireland’s DPA, but more muscular action is needed. In the new report, the Irish Council For Civil Liberties calls on the European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, to treat this issue with the urgency and seriousness that it warrants. As the ICCL says, “the EU can not be a regulatory superpower unless it enforces its own laws.”
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Catch me on tour with Red Team Blues in Toronto, DC, Gaithersburg, Oxford, Hay, Manchester, Nottingham, London, and Berlin!
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Justice Warriors
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Today (May 22), I’m keynoting Public Knowledge’s Emerging Tech conference in DC.
Tomorrow (May 23), I’ll be in TORONTO for a book launch for Red Team Blues that’s part of WEPFest, a benefit for the West End Phoenix, onstage with Dave Bidini (The Rheostatics), Ron Diebert (Citizen Lab) and the whistleblower Dr Nancy Olivieri.
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The internet did not create Matt Bors, but the internet would be a much poorer place without Bors and his acerbic, scorchingly funny webcomics, which he publishes at The Nib (a site he founded), amongst some of the web’s most iconic humor:
https://thenib.com/
Founding The Nib and creating a home for all those great webcomics would be legacy enough for one creator, but Bors monumental accomplishment with The Nib is topped by his savage creation, Mr Gotcha, the single most effective rebuttal to the most annoying Reply Guys on the whole internet:
https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
Dayenu: if he had only founded The Nib, it would be enough. If he had only created Mr Gotcha, it would be enough. But Bors continues to amaze and delight. In Justice Warriors, a graphic novel he co-produced with Ben Clarkson, we get a distillate of all the weird, crazed things both grotesque and lovable about the net of a thousand lies:
https://membership.thenib.com/products/justice-warriors
Justice Warriors is what you’d get if you put Judge Dredd in a blender with Transmetropolitan and set it to chunky. The setup: the elites of a wasted, tormented world have retreated into Bubble City, beneath a hermetically sealed zone. Within Bubble City, everything is run according to the priorities of the descendants of the most internet-poisoned freaks of the modern internet, click- and clout-chasing mushminds full of corporate-washed platitudes about self-care, diversity and equity, wrapped around come-ons for sugary drinks and dubious dropshipper crapola.
Outside of Bubble City is the Unoccupied Zone, which is very much occupied with a teeming assortment of motley mutants, themselves gripped by endless crazes, fads, and trending subjects. The Uzzers are Bubble City’s hated underclass, viciously policed by the Bubble City cops, who mow them down with impunity, crying about their impending PTSD as they work the trigger.
Justice Warriors is a cop buddy-story dreamed up by Very Online, very angry creators who live in a present-day world where reality is consistently stupider than satire. As Bors told Cy Beltran in Comics Beat, “The current moment is so many things at once, it’s an omni-crisis of politics and attention — that’s what felt important to tap into, that sense of frenzy you can barely keep up with.”
https://www.comicsbeat.com/matt-bors-justice-warriors-interview/
That’s the feeling of Justice Warriors, all right. As Bors puts it, they tackle “social media derangement, celebrity culture, investment schemes, mass movements, and A.I.” in a tale with more sight-gags, densely packed literary references, and savage takedowns per page than anything you’ve ever read.
The art in this book is spectacular, styled a bit like those ultra-busy Al Jaffee full-page MAD Magazine spreads, or the Moss Eisley Cantina, or the wild alien scenes from Ben Hatke’s YA classic Zita the Space Girl kids’ graphic novels:
https://memex.craphound.com/2012/06/25/zita-the-space-girl-delightful-kids-science-fiction-comic-thats-part-vaughn-bode-part-mos-eisley-cantina/
But Justice Warriors is grosser, busier, and more frenetic than any of them. As Bors describes it, they created “a chaotic mutant-infested city that tops the most sensory-overloading cities in all of comics and animation.”
Justice Warriors is a mind-altering experience. If you liked Bubble, Jordan Morris and Sarah Morgan’s apocalyptic comedy podcast/graphic novel, you’ll love Justice Warriors:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/21/podcasting-as-a-visual-medium/#huntr
This is a comic book the internet needs. In a century, when our mutant descendants wonder how it all went wrong, they can use Justice Warriors as a Rosetta Stone to make sense of the detritus of our civilization.
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[Image ID: A panel from Justice Warriors depicting a mob of motley mutants protesting over the financialization of bread. One shouts, 'Stabilize the economy!' Another shouts, 'Bread is not money!']
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