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
Today's links How (and why) Biden should overcome the Supreme Court to end the debt showdown: Bonus: it'll also kill Trump's alarmingly good chances for a second term. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publicatio … | Continue reading
Today's links To save the news, shatter ad-tech: Structural separation will help the news claim their fair share. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing … | Continue reading
Today's links Justice Warriors: Matt Bors', Ben Clarkson's and Felipe Sobriero's scorchingly brilliant, viciously funny, dystopian sf graphic novel. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent … | Continue reading
Today's links Dumping links like Galileo dumped the orange: Creatively destroying your weekend like Joseph Dumpeter. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Dumping links lik … | Continue reading
Today's links Venture predation: A pile of shit this big MUST have a pony underneath it! 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 readin … | Continue reading
Today's links How to save the news from Big Tech: Four prescriptions from EFF. 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 How to save the news … | Continue reading
Today's links The IRS will do your taxes for you (if that's what you prefer): After years of expensively purchased delay, Turbotax and its fellow tax-profiteers are losing the fight to make you pay them to tell the government what it already knows. Hey look at this: Delights to d … | Continue reading
Today's links Rent control works: 30-year, federally guaranteed fixed-rate mortgages = rent control for homeowners. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writi … | Continue reading
Today's links Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher: Dublin is a made town. 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 read … | Continue reading
Today's links Revenge of the Linkdumps: Something for the weekend, sir? This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Revenge of the Linkdumps (permalink) If you've followed … | Continue reading
Today's links 'We buy ugly houses' is code for 'we steal vulnerable peoples' homes': The pervasive, predatory sleaze of Homevestor, "the #1 homebuyer in the USA." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, u … | Continue reading
Today's links Two principles to protect internet users from decaying platforms: Don't just try to make platforms better – make them less important. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appear … | Continue reading
Today's links KPMG audits the nursing homes it advises on how to beat audits: Too big to fail, too big to jail, and an existential risk to civilization. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/re … | Continue reading
Today's links California to smash prison e-profiteers: The Public Utility Commission to the rescue! 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, cur … | Continue reading
Today's links Hollywood is the single best example of mature labor power in America: Unions don't just improve wages, they create stable careers. On the Media on the enshittification (pt 1): The power of a great interlocutor. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in h … | Continue reading
Today's links Look at all the great stuff we lost because of inflation scare-talk: We swapped pandemic aid, new spending and minimum wage hikes for wage suppression and mass layoffs. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Re … | Continue reading
Today's links Ostromizing democracy: To counter antidemocratic libertarians, we need an analytical assessment of group problem-solving. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, curre … | Continue reading
Today's links Oops! All linkdump!: The old ways are best. This day in history: 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Oops! All linkdump! (permalink) In 1997, Jorn Barger coined the term "web-log" to … | Continue reading
Today's links When you hear "fintech," think "unlicensed bank": "…with a computer." 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 Whe … | Continue reading
Today's links The seductive, science fictional power of spreadsheets: Maybe the map IS the territory? 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, c … | Continue reading
Today's links Convicted monopolist prevented from re-offending: Microsoft won't be allowed to buy Activision. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, … | Continue reading
Today's links Private equity finally delivered Sarah Palin's death panels: Hospices are unregulated, heavily subsidized charnel houses. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, curre … | Continue reading
Today's links How Amazon makes everything you buy more expensive, no matter where you buy it: Most Favored Nation is my least favorite scam. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2103, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent a … | Continue reading
Today's links How Goldman Sachs's "tax-loss harvesting" lets the ultra-rich rake in billions tax-free: "Generating a tax loss without a substantial change in the investment." Happy Independent Bookstore Day: It lasts a week! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in hi … | Continue reading
Today's links Company that makes millions spying on students will get to sue a whistleblower: The BC Appeals Court drops a *terrible* decision in Ian Linkletter's anti-SLAPP against Proctorio. Red Team Blues Chapter One, part four: "I was pickpocketed, guv'nah!" Hey look at this: … | Continue reading
Today's links Iowa's starvation strategy: Maybe the cruelty IS the point? The Red Team Blues tour: LA, San Diego, Burbank, San Francisco, PDX, Mountain View, Berkeley, Vancouver, Calgary, Gaithersburg, DC, Toronto, Hay, Nottingham, Manchester, Edinburgh, London, Berlin. Red Team … | Continue reading
Today's links How tech does regulatory capture: An extremely frank and open look inside the ugliest of sausage-factories. Red Team Blues Chapter One, part two: How Danny Lazer came back from the brink. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018 … | Continue reading
Today's links Podcasting "How To Make a Child-Safe TikTok": My Medium column on a surveillance-free internet. Serializing the first chapter of Red Team Blues: Meet Marty Hench and his "foolish and ungainly and luxurious tour bus." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day … | Continue reading
Today's links SVB bailouts for everyone – except affordable housing projects: Even the shareholders got billions. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing proje … | Continue reading
Today's links Is antitrust anti-labor?: tl;dr: no. 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 Is antitrust anti-labor? (permalink) … | Continue reading
Today's links Gig apps trap reverse centaurs in wage-stealing Skinner boxes: Twiddled to death through algorithmic wage discrimination. 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 Alissa Quart's 'Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream': Divided we fall. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, c … | Continue reading
Today's links Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk: Ad targeting isn't "efficient." 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