Today's links Anti-cheat, gamers, and the Crowdstrike disaster: The constituency for trusted computing is fracturing. 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 … | Continue reading
Today's links Matt Bors's "Justice Warriors: Vote Harder": Mr Gotcha For President! 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 keep readin' em, I'll … | Continue reading
Today's links America's best-paid CEOs have the worst-paid employees: Incentives matter, especially when it comes to stock buybacks. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearanc … | Continue reading
Today's links Marshmallow Longtermism: My latest Locus Magazine column. 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 keep readin' em, I'll keep w … | Continue reading
Today's links Nalo Hopkinson's "Blackheart Man": Language and worldbuilding to drown in, and a cracking novel besides. 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 … | Continue reading
Today's links Corporate Bullshit: From manumission to minimum wages, it's always the same nonsense. 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 "Disenshittify or Die": My speech from Defcon 32. 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 writin' ' … | Continue reading
Today's links MIT libraries are thriving without Elsevier: $2 million here, $2 million there, pretty soon you're talking real money. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I' … | Continue reading
Today's links Apple vs the "free market": Meet the new boss, worse than the old boss. 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' e … | Continue reading
Today's links The one weird monopoly trick that gave us Walmart and Amazon and killed Main Street: The Robinson-Patman Act is how we make sure companies aren't too big to jail nor too big to care. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 201 … | Continue reading
Today's links Madeline Ashby's 'Glass Houses': A savage, high-tech locked-room mystery. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' … | Continue reading
Today's links The paradox of choice screens: What does a post-Google world look like? 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, I'l … | Continue reading
Today's links "Carbon neutral" Bitcoin operation founded by coal plant operator wasn't actually carbon neutral: Score one for Hunterbrook Media. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Wh … | Continue reading
Today's links Private equity rips off its investors, too: Remorseless, greedy scumbags are – unsurprisingly – also disloyal. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2019 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Lates … | Continue reading
Today's links The Google antitrust remedy should extinguish surveillance, not democratize it: "People like relevant ads" is a lie, and "attribution" is an abomination. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where … | Continue reading
Today's links Circular battery self-sufficiency: 125m of tons of battery material is one *seventeenth* of our annual road transportation oil extraction. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Re … | Continue reading
Today's links Leveraged buyouts are not like mortgages: Corporate raiders and investment banks conspiring to steal companies. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I'v … | Continue reading
Today's links Rsync corrump linkdump: A roundup of stray but worthy links. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 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 books: Like I sai … | Continue reading
Today's links The reverse-centaur apocalypse is upon us: Microsoft, Oracle, and other bossware dealers are transforming our workplaces with "virtual whips." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2019 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent app … | Continue reading
Today's links Why is this Canadian university scared of you seeing its Privacy Impact Assessment: What is Langara College so afraid of? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2019 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've … | Continue reading
Today's links The largest campaign finance violation in US history: The "greater fools" election. 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 An open copyright casebook, featuring AI, Warhol and more: Up-to-date, erudite, and free! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2019 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You ke … | Continue reading
Today's links A profoundly stupid case about video game cheating could transform adblocking into a copyright infringement: Actual property rights are less important than the metaphorical property rights of "IP." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, … | Continue reading
Today's links Fintech bullies stole your kid's lunch money: Taking 60 cents out of every reduced-lunch public school dollar. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've … | Continue reading
Today's links AI's productivity theater: AI CAN'T do your job, but an AI salesman CAN convince your boss to fire you and replace you with AI. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2014, 2019 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: … | Continue reading
Today's links FTC vs surveillance pricing: A prelude to an ass-kicking. 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 w … | Continue reading
Today's links Holy CRAP the UN Cybercrime Treaty is a nightmare: "Cybercrime" is "anything any government dislikes" and every government will have to help every other government fight it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcomin … | Continue reading
Today's links Unpersoned: My latest Locus Magazine column. 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 keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. U … | Continue reading
Today's links AI art has no anti-cooption immune system: The seeming of intention, with no intender. 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 FCC strikes a blow against prison profiteering: The cost of a prison phone-call drops from $11.35 to $0.90. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2014, 2019, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've be … | Continue reading
Today's links Richard R John's "Network Nation": The definitive history of the Bell System is a must-read for 21st century Big Tech trustbusters. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Rec … | Continue reading
Today's links Bowen McCurdy and Jordan Morris's "Youth Group": A fabulous graphic novel of applied demonology and Sunday school. 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 b … | Continue reading
Today's links Bowen McCurdy and Jordan Morris's "Youth Group": A fabulous graphic novel of applied demonology and Sunday school. 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 b … | Continue reading
Today's links Bowen McCurdy and Jordan Morris's "Youth Group": A fabulous graphic novel of applied demonology and Sunday school. 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 b … | Continue reading
Today's links Foxx Nolte's "Hidden History of Walt Disney World": The rough edges are more interesting than the polished surfaces. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances … | Continue reading
Today's links The true, tactical significance of Project 2025: It's a schematic for tearing apart the Republican coalition. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Whee … | Continue reading
Today's links Austin Grossman's 'Fight Me': Gen-X superheroes, aging badly. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014 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 Kitchensink callithump linkdump: All the news I couldn't fit. 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 keep readin' em, I'll ke … | Continue reading
Today's links The reason you can't buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you: When monopoly meets infosec, hilarity ensues. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recen … | Continue reading
Today's links Copyright takedowns are a cautionary tale that few are heeding: If you can't post a law school symposium on fair use… Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I'v … | Continue reading
Today's links Cleantech has an enshittification problem: Who's gonna make a 25-year purchase from a startup with six months' worth of runway? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appear … | Continue reading
Today's links Mirion Malle's "So Long Sad Love": A long drop through the missing stair. 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 keep readin' … | Continue reading
Today's links Weinersmith and Boulet's "Bea Wolf": An absolutely delightful retelling of the bardic masterpiece. 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 book … | Continue reading
Today's links Neither the devil you know nor the devil you don't: Creative workers deserve better than a choice as to who rips them off. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2014, 2019 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Wher … | Continue reading
Today's links How to design a tech regulation: A modest proposal for a transatlantic self-equilibriating system. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2014, 2019 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest book … | Continue reading
Today's links It's been twenty years since my Microsoft DRM talk: It looks like you're trying to avert the DRM apocalypse… 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 b … | Continue reading
Today's links Bankruptcy is very, very good: "A large increase in earned income, employment, assets, real estate, secured debt, home ownership, and wealth that persists for more than 25 years after a court ruling." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 200 … | Continue reading
Today's links Sphinxmumps Linkdump: My weekly declaration of link bankruptcy. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 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 said, … | Continue reading