Today's links Announcing the Picks and Shovels book tour: There's a nonzero chance that you and I will shortly be in the same city! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2015, 2024 Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, … | Continue reading
Today's links MLMs are the mirror-world version of community organizing: In the mirror world, community organizers are community predators. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearance … | Continue reading
Today's links Ron Deibert's "Chasing Shadows": How Citizen Lab invented "counterintelligence for civil society." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest … | Continue reading
Today's links Petard, Part IV: Smart is at least as important as evil. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writ … | Continue reading
Today's links Petard, Part III: The Termite Mound is revealed as the Roach Motel. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep … | Continue reading
Today's links Petard (Part II): Systematizing and automating the struggle. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep … | Continue reading
Today's links Petard (Part I): I fought the ISP and the ISP won. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2024 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 All bets are off: Tearing up the rulebook doesn't end the games, it just gets rid of the rules. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Late … | Continue reading
Today's links It's pretty easy to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget, actually: Just end all the private-sector profiteering. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: … | Continue reading
Today's links It's not a crime if we do it with an app: How Big Potato and the other food cartels did greedflation and got away with it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appeara … | Continue reading
Today's links The first days of Boss Politics Antitrust: Selective enforcement in a target-rich environment. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Late … | Continue reading
Today's links Defense (of the internet) (from billionaires) in depth: "Nonprofits" can and do enshittify. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 20241 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest … | Continue reading
Today's links Kier Starmer appoints Jeff Bezos as his "first buddy": Regulatory capture, right there out in the open. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've be … | Continue reading
Today's links Enshittification isn't caused by venture capital: Sure, they want "profit at all costs" but ask yourself, 'why is enshittification profitable?' Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. … | Continue reading
Today's links Pinkslump linkdump: New year, new grab-bag. This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll kee … | Continue reading
Today's links Fu-Schnickens: Some upbeat earworms for a not-so-great week. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I' … | Continue reading
Today's links Canada shouldn't retaliate with US tariffs: It should hit the USA where it hurts, instead. Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 6 – CONCLUSION): It's a deal. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2020, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Wh … | Continue reading
Today's links Billionaire-proofing the internet: Scolding people for choosing popular services is no way to build a popular movement. Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 5): Now we're just haggling over the price. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2010 … | Continue reading
Today's links They were warned: "We've had enough of experts." Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 4): Electronic needles, digital haystacks. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent … | Continue reading
Today's links The cod-Marxism of personalized pricing: From each to their ability, to each according to their need? Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 3): DEFINITELY not a pyramid scheme. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024. … | Continue reading
Today's links Occupy the Democratic National Committee: A deliberately weak institution that has failed us again and again. Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 2): Meet the women of Computing Freedom. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2020, … | Continue reading
Today's links Chapter One of "Picks and Shovels" (Part 1): My next novel is the origin story of Martin Hench, Silicon Valley's greatest forensic accountant. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me … | Continue reading
Today's links The Brave Little Toaster: Gen AI in your appliances was a warning, not a pitch deck. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2020, 2024. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You … | Continue reading
Today's links Kickstarting a new Martin Hench novel about the dawn of enshittification: A crime thriller of pyramid schemes, faith scams, weird PCs, Reaganomics, punk rock, and San Francisco during the AIDS crisis (and Amazon won't sell it!). Hey look at this: Delights to delecta … | Continue reading
Today's links Winning coalitions aren't always governing coalitions: You can take power by making promises, but wielding power means breaking them. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2005, 2020 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: … | Continue reading
Today's links Proud to be a blockhead: The true economics of creativity and communication. 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 read … | Continue reading
Today's links Trumpism's healthcare fracture-lines: How public health can win the Battle of the Cranks. 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 Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app: "Uber for nurses" is even worse than it sounds. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You ke … | Continue reading
Today's links Happy Public Domain Day 2025 to all who celebrate: A new bumper crop, with many more to come! 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 boo … | Continue reading
Today's links Social media needs (dumpster) fire exits: No one wants to have a fire, but you need to plan for one anyway. 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 The GOP is not the party of workers: Which is why the Democrats should be. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 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 A Democratic media strategy to save journalism and the nation: Hire journalists, publish the news, win the country. 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 The housing emergency and the second Trump term: Weaponized shelter gave us Trump II; can we fix it despite Trumpism? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Whe … | Continue reading
Today's links Tech's benevolent-dictator-for-life to authoritarian pipeline: It's damned hard to be an anti-authoritarian in a C-suite. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2014, 2019 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've … | Continue reading
Today's links Predicting the present: Thinking about "Radicalized" after Brian Thompson's assassination. 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 A year in illustration (2024): Call me immodest, but I really think I've upped my game. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2009, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: Yo … | Continue reading
Today's links Battery rationality: Ringing down the curtain on 9/11's security theater. 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' … | Continue reading
Today's links Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar's "The Big Fix": Ugh, Canada. 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, I'll keep … | Continue reading
Today's links "That Makes Me Smart": When "unfair and deceptive" becomes fair game. 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 Canada sues Google: This is the US playbook we SHOULD be following. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2014, 2019 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep wri … | Continue reading
Today's links All the books I reviewed in 2024: Plus three of my own. 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, I'll keep wri … | Continue reading
Today's links Bossware is unfair (in the legal sense, too): Neotaylorists wielding digital calipers, breaking the law. 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 The far right grows through "disaster fantasies": Armageddon tired of this bullshit. 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 … | Continue reading
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