Today's links Eggflation is just more price-gouging: Cal-Maine Foods owns every egg brand you've ever heard of and its profits are up 65%. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, cu … | Continue reading
Today's links Tiktok's enshittification: The company manually allocates surplus to creators, and they can take it away again, too. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, curr … | Continue reading
Today's links Why the Fed wants to crush workers: Fall of Rome speedrun. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Why the Fed wants to … | Continue reading
Today's links Care Inflation: The inflation no one wants to talk about. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Care Inflation (perma … | Continue reading
Today's links 1,000,000 stranded Southwest passengers deserved better from Pete Buttigieg: The worst US aviation failure in history was a long time coming, and could have been averted. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018. Colophon: … | Continue reading
Today's links Kate Beaton's "Ducks": A memoir of oil, misogyny and economic precarity. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: None Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Kate Beaton's "Ducks" (p … | Continue reading
Today's links Booklist on "Red Team Blues": "Another winner from an sf wizard who has always proved himself adept at blending genres for both adults and teens." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upc … | Continue reading
Today's links Good riddance to the Open Gaming License: Hasbro accidentally gives us more freedom. John Deere's repair fake-out: So many strings attached. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent … | Continue reading
Today's links Deena Mohamed's 'Shubiek Lubiek': An English edition of a brilliant Egyptian alt history comic about a world where wishes are real. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2018, 2013 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, c … | Continue reading
Today's links The learned helplessness of Pete Buttigieg: Section 41712(a) or bust. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading The learn … | Continue reading
Today's links Social Quitting: How social media barons squandered their lock-in and made themselves obsolete. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: None Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading S … | Continue reading
Today's links Naomi Novik's incredible, brilliant, stupendous "Temeraire" series: The Napoleonic Wars, but with dragons! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2018, 2003 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, … | Continue reading
An end-of-year retrospective: 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022. Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Every day, I revisit all the posts I've ever made, over more than 20 years of blog … | Continue reading
Today's links An end-of-year retrospective: 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022. Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading An end-of-year retrospective (permalink) Every day, I revisit all th … | Continue reading
Today's links What the fediverse (does/n't) solve: We can protect our communities from commodification, but it takes work. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writ … | Continue reading
Today's links Here are just two of the corporate giveaways hidden in the rushed, must-pass, end-of-year budget bill: Crashing airplanes and starving old people. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2017 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent … | Continue reading
Today's links How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store: …and what we should do about it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing proje … | Continue reading
Today's links 2023's public domain is a banger: Hemingway! Holmes! Woolf! Pooh! Christie! Metropolis! Gershwin! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2012, 2017 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, cur … | Continue reading
Mastodon has gotten two things right that no other social media giant has even seriously attempted: If you follow someone on Mastodon, you’ll see everything they post; and If you leave a Mastodon server, you can take both your followers and the people you follow with you. … | Continue reading
Today's links Better failure for social media: The right of exit, freedom of reach, and technological self-determination. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writi … | Continue reading
Today's links The antitrust Twilight Zone: How rollups are destroying the productive economy and making the ultra-rich even richer. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, cur … | Continue reading
Today's links How cable monopolists tricked conservatives into shooting themselves in the face: Blocking Gigi Sohn's FCC confirmation is really bad for all of us, but especially Red State America. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017 Colo … | Continue reading
Today's links This "inflation" is different: New Stiglitz just dropped. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading This "inflation" is differe … | Continue reading
But you can’t have a web app without a web-app-compatible browser, and you can’t get a web-app-compatible browser in Apple’s App Store. The only browsers permitted in the App Store are those based on WebKit, the browser engine behind Safari. This means that every browser on iOS, … | Continue reading
Today's links Web apps could de-monopolize mobile devices: It's 2022 and we're still fighting the browser wars. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, cur … | Continue reading
Today's links Orphaned neurological implants: When the company that powers your nervous system decides to 'pivot.' Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing proj … | Continue reading
Today's links Freedom of reach IS freedom of speech: The end-to-end principle is good, actually. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, curren … | Continue reading
Today's links One weird trick to make monopolies self-destruct: Remember when corporate raiders broke companies up? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing pro … | Continue reading
Today's links EU to Facebook, 'Drop Dead': Ringing down the curtain on the consent theater. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading E … | Continue reading
Today's links Raising money for Locus Magazine: Bid on naming rights for a character in one of my upcoming novels. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing proj … | Continue reading
Today's links Monopoly's event-horizon: The true capitalist singularity. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2012 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Monopoly's event-horizon (permalink) W … | Continue reading
Today's links The urinary tract infection business-model: Welcome to the self-destructing space-ship future. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2007 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Th … | Continue reading
Today's links How tech changed global labor struggles for better and worse: Seize the means of computation! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2007, 2017, 2021. Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, curren … | Continue reading
Today's links All the books I reviewed in 2022: A year in books. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading All the books I reviewed in … | Continue reading
Today's links Booz Allen tickemastered America's public lands: An arms dealer makes millions on junk fees from National Parks visitors. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, curre … | Continue reading
Today's links The Big Four accounting firms are one (more) scandal away from collapse: Mutually assured destruction at the heart of the economy. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021. Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent ap … | Continue reading
Today's links How monopoly enshittified Amazon: Chokepoint Capitalism ruins everything. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading … | Continue reading
Today's links Citizens United and the FTX meltdown: The Keating Five were amateurs. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2012, 2017, 2021. Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Citizens Unite … | Continue reading
Today's links Tax prep services send sensitive financial info with Facebook: And they didn't even know they were doing it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, curren … | Continue reading
Today's links Universities secretly sold their students to online casinos: It's varsity-level corruption. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing project … | Continue reading
Today's links Private equity health-care monopolies are on a profitable killing spree: And you thought it was bad before. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current … | Continue reading
Today's links Tracers in the Dark: Andy Greenberg's gripping true crime tale of cryptocurrency forensics. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, cur … | Continue reading
Today's links Even if you're paying for the product, you're still the product: Incentives matter, but impunity matters more. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, curr … | Continue reading
Today's links The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've ever broken: If you only pay attention to how things work, you'll be screwed when they fail. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upco … | Continue reading
Today's links Apple's business model made Chinese oppression inevitable: A photon torpedo on the bridge in Act I will go off by Act III. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances … | Continue reading
Today's links Amazon and Apple have an illegal price-fixing conspiracy: The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history … | Continue reading
Today's links Delegating trust is really, really, really hard (infosec edition): Who knows what secrets lurk in your browser's root certificate store? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/rece … | Continue reading
Today's links Tech a la carte: A new antitrinitarian technognosticism. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Tech a la carte (perma … | Continue reading