Today's links Reverse engineers bust sleazy gig work platform: Mistrust, but verify. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep read … | Continue reading
Today's links Expert agencies and elected legislatures: Legislatures are entitled to their own (political) opinions but not their own facts. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent a … | Continue reading
Today's links Forcing Google to spin off Chrome (and Android?): Structural separation is the ultimate anti-cheat hack. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. … | Continue reading
Today's links Harpercollins wants authors to sign away AI training rights: Rights come from power. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: … | Continue reading
Today's links Canada's ground-breaking, hamstrung repair and interop laws: It's time for the "radical extremists" to have their day. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Wh … | Continue reading
Today's links America's richest Medicare fraudsters are untouchable: When you're famous they let you do it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Late … | Continue reading
Today's links Boss politics antitrust: Trump will use Xi Xinping's "anti-corruption" playbook. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin … | Continue reading
Today's links General Strike 2028: Unions fight fascism. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'e … | Continue reading
Today's links Antiusurpation and the road to disenshittification: We've got the wrong kind of middlemen. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest … | Continue reading
Today's links Every internet fight is a speech fight: And every internet fight is a sovereignty fight. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: Y … | Continue reading
Today's links How to have cancer: Unleash the Karen. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. U … | Continue reading
Today's links Neal Stephenson's "Polostan": Raising the curtain on a post-cyberpunk sf series about the dawn on the nuclear age. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: … | Continue reading
Today's links Bluesky and enshittification: No one is the enshittifier of their own story. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Hoisted from the comments: Smart stuff from readers. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearance … | Continue reading
Today's links Shifting $677m from the banks to the people, every year, forever: The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau is going to let you change banks with a click. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: W … | Continue reading
Today's links AI's "human in the loop" isn't: A moral crumple zone, an accountability sink, but not a supervisor. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been … | Continue reading
Today's links Conspiratorialism as a material phenomenon: What work does a conspiracy fantasy do? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You ke … | Continue reading
Today's links The US Copyright Office frees the McFlurry: The only kind of DMCA exemption that makes a difference. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've bee … | Continue reading
Today's links Keeping a suspense file gives you superpowers: The single best part of "Getting Things Done." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Late … | Continue reading
Today's links Ian McDonald's "The Wilding": A gorgeous, goddamned terrifying novel from one of the absolute greats. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've be … | Continue reading
Today's links The housing crisis considered as an income crisis: "The wage is too damned low" vs "The rent is too damned high." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: W … | Continue reading
Today's links Scientific American endorses Harris: "Conservatism never fails, it is only failed." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You ke … | Continue reading
Today's links Retiring the US debt would retire the US dollar: We don't tax billionaires to fight the national debt. We tax billionaires to fight BILLIONAIRES. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where t … | Continue reading
Today's links Penguin Random House, AI, and writers' rights: "You can't train an AI with our books" isn't the same thing as "We won't train an AI with YOUR book." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to f … | Continue reading
Today's links Blue states should play "constitutional hardball": Scooping up medical professionals, teachers, doctors and anyone with a trans kid. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent a … | Continue reading
Love to have Cory’s support. RSS is patient. Only 22 years since it took off. It’s always ready to “deshitify” the corporate Silicon Valley disneyfied web. | Continue reading
Cory Doctorow: RSS basically works like social media should work. Indeed. | Continue reading
Today's links Of course we can tax billionaires: They disguise their demands ("don't tax billionaires") as observations ("it is technically impossible to tax billionaires"). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019 Upcoming appearances: Where … | Continue reading
Today's links Dirty words are politically potent: Why "enshittification" took hold. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em … | Continue reading
Today's links Quinque gazump linkdump: A sprinkling of inklings for the weekend. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I sai … | Continue reading
Today's links Lina Khan's future is the future of the Democratic Party – and America: Is the Harris administration committed to the American people, or billionaire donors? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019 Upcoming appearances: W … | Continue reading
Today's links Cars bricked by bankrupt EV company will stay bricked: "Software-based car" is a warning, not a slogan. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. … | Continue reading
Today's links Google's new phones can't stop phoning home: The call is coming from inside the house. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest book … | Continue reading
Today's links China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI's backdoor: There's no such thing as a backdoor that only works when 'good guys' use it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. R … | Continue reading
Today's links Doublethink sump linkdump: Some short hits for an all-too-short weekend. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming … | Continue reading
Today's links Prime's enshittified advertising: Don't touch that dial. No, seriously, DON'T. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep re … | Continue reading
Today's links Epic Systems, a lethal health record monopolist: Clinical needs sacrificed to profit maximization. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Lates … | Continue reading
Today's links Everyday homeowners are human shields for Wall Street's Internet of Shit slumlords: Put Wall Street landlords up against a wall. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent … | Continue reading
Today's links A sexy, skinny defeat device for your HP ink cartridge: A machine in the middle that's too cheap to meter. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I' … | Continue reading
Today's links Sandra Newman's "Julia": An authorized retelling of Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" from the love interest's point-of-view. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appe … | Continue reading
Today's links Return to office and dying on the job: Denise Prudhomme was dead at her Wells Fargo desk, unnoticed for four days. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: … | Continue reading
Today's links When prophecy fails, election polling edition: Again? Bullwinkle, that trick NEVER works. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: … | Continue reading
Today's links Academic economists get big payouts when they help monopolists beat antitrust: Big Tobacco's cancer denial playbook is alive and well. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent … | Continue reading
Today's links Margaret Killjoy's "The Sapling Cage": Epic fantasy as queer coming-of-age. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readi … | Continue reading
Today's links What the fuck is a PBM? Matt Stoller's got you covered (but your health insurer doesn't). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest b … | Continue reading
Today's links Tech monopolists use their market power to invade your privacy: The FTC shows that privacy is a competition issue. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where … | Continue reading
Today's links Thinking the unthinkable: At a certain point, we have to admit that the correct amount of radium in your suppository is zero. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2014, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: W … | Continue reading
Today's links There's no such thing as "shareholder supremacy": When "fiduciary duty" means "whatever I wanted to do." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2014, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Lates … | Continue reading
Today's links Christopher Brown's 'A Natural History of Empty Lots': A gorgeous, lush tale of the nature bursting through every seam. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You … | Continue reading