Today's links How the kleptocrats and oligarchs hunt civil society groups to the ends of the Earth: The carrot is charitable giving, the stick is SLAPP suits and cyberweapons. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Rec … | Continue reading
Today's links Supervised AI isn't: Automation blindness can't be automated away. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Supervised A … | Continue reading
Today's links Podcasting "Enshitternet": The old, good internet deserves a new, good internet. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current … | Continue reading
Today's links SoCal Gas spent millions on astroturf ops to fight climate rules: And then fraudulently billed it all to their customers. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, curre … | Continue reading
Today's links Open AI isn't: Not "open," nor "artificial," and certainly not "intelligent." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Open AI isn't … | Continue reading
Today's links When parties fail, movements step up: Thomas Frank on why we need to occupy the Democrats. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current re … | Continue reading
Today's links At long last, a meaningful step to protect Americans' privacy: The CFPB rejects the learned helplessness of generations of regulators. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/ … | Continue reading
Today's links Open Circuits: The hidden beauty of electronics components. 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 Open Circuits (perm … | Continue reading
Today's links Paying consumer debts is basically optional in the United States: The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act protects the people who need it least. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, … | Continue reading
Today's links The Sacklers woulda gotten away with it if it wasn't for those darned meddling feds: A Supreme Court surprise might spell the end of one of the worst forms of elite impunity. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: None Colophon: Recent publica … | Continue reading
Today's links The long bezzle: Verizon can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: None Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading The long bezzl … | Continue reading
Today's links No, Uber's (still) not profitable: A relentless, world-leading innovator in ever-sweatier balance sheet tricks, accounting gimmicks and hopium. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent ap … | Continue reading
Today's links Private equity plunderers want to buy Simon & Schuster: From the same parasites that infected your hospital's emergency room and sucked Toys R Us dry. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcom … | Continue reading
Today's links America's largest hospital chain has an algorithmic death panel: HCA's administrators berate doctors over "missed hospice opportunities." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcomi … | Continue reading
Today's links Fighting junk fees is "woke": Visa and Mastercard want you to pay credit card swipe fees to own the libs. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing … | Continue reading
Today's links Cloudburst: The timely surge of "local-first computing." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Cloudburst (permalink) Enshi … | Continue reading
Today's links Forcing your computer to rat you out: Self determination starts with the right to decide who can know which facts about you. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent app … | Continue reading
Today's links Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it: "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" comes out from Verso on Sept 5. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Re … | Continue reading
Today's links When the app turns you into a robo-scab: The implacable, inarguable tactics of disciplinary technology. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current wri … | Continue reading
Today's links Tesla's Dieselgate: How DRM let Tesla defraud every one of its customers. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading … | Continue reading
Today's links The surprising truth about data-driven dictatorships: No autocrat is more powerful than GIGO. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing proje … | Continue reading
Today's links Autoenshittification: How the computer killed capitalism. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Autoenshittification (permalink) Forget F1: the only car race … | Continue reading
Today's links The art of Daniel Danger: The best thing I saw at Comic-Con. 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 The art of Daniel … | Continue reading
Today's links Private equity ghouls have a new way to steal from their investors: Continuation funds are a multi-billion-dollar blackmail racket. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearan … | Continue reading
Today's links Denazification, truth and reconciliation, and the story of Germany's story: How do you confront an incomprehensible monstrosity? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appea … | Continue reading
Today's links Podcasting "Let the Platforms Burn": It's past time to evacuate the fire-zone. 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 … | Continue reading
Today's links Linkty Dumpty: Things I thought about when I was supposed to be on holidays. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Linkty Dumpty (permalink) I was supposed to … | Continue reading
Today's links Why they're smearing Lina Khan: She wants you to have nice things and they don't (it's really that simple). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, … | Continue reading
Today's links A "secure" system can be the most dangerous of all: Who we secure FOR – and AGAINST – reveals our true priorities and values. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2013 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writi … | Continue reading
Today's links Why are so many Californians homeless?: It's not "homeless migration." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Why are so many Cali … | Continue reading
Today's links The "religious liberty" angle for overturning the overturning of Dobbs: Paging the Satanic Temple to the white courtesy stirrups. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: None Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current w … | Continue reading
Today's links In defense of Deliverism: The radical idea that people vote for politicians who make their lives better. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, cu … | Continue reading
Today's links Conservatives are fringe outliers – and leftists could learn from them: Unhinged QGOP freaks may be completely unhinged, but they know how to use power. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, rec … | Continue reading
Today's links Google makes millions on paid abortion disinformation: The real secret of "dark SEO" is "pay for an ad." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing … | Continue reading
Today's links How Amazon transformed the EU into a planned economy: Monopsony, junk fees and market power. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, cu … | Continue reading
Today's links Saving the news from Big Tech with end-to-end social media: The final installment in my EFF series on saving the news. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current … | Continue reading
Today's links Podcasting "Ideas Lying Around": A theory of change based on shovel-ready ideas. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current … | Continue reading
Today's links Links, dumped: A grab-bag of delicious miscellania. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Links, dumped (permalink) It's Saturday, which means: time for a lin … | Continue reading
Today's links Capitalists hate capitalism: Merck's version of "market pricing" is "whatever we ask for." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects … | Continue reading
Today's links To save the news, repeal the app tax: The latest in "saving the news from Big Tech." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2013, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading To sav … | Continue reading
Today's links A business model for bankrupting the oil companies: Incentives matter (and that matters). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, … | Continue reading
Today's links Wall Street Journal goes to bat for the vultures who want to steal your house: When the editorial page leaks into the news. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appe … | Continue reading
Today's links Washington State's capital gains tax proves we can have nice things: We just need to tax the rich. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Washington State's capital … | Continue reading
Today's links The long, bloody lineage of private equity's looting: Or, if you prefer, "plundering." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, cu … | Continue reading
Today's links To save the news, ban surveillance ads: No publisher will ever beat ad-tech at spying, but no tech company will ever understand a publisher's content better than they do. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colo … | Continue reading
Today's links Ian McDonald's "Hopeland": A novel so eerily good it almost made me angry. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Ian McDona … | Continue reading
Today's links Monopolizing turds: The FDA granted a pharma company a literal monopoly on shit. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Mono … | Continue reading
Today's links Steven Brust's "Tsalmoth": Swords, sorcery and swooning romance, in a series that is tantalyzingly close to completion. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearan … | Continue reading