Today's links Clarence Thomas and the generosity of a far-right dark-money billionaire: Harlan Crow showered the judge with millions in off-the-books, illegal "gifts." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publicatio … | Continue reading
Today's links Elizabeth Warren on weaponized budget models: We could have nice things, but computer says 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 proj … | Continue reading
Today's links The problem with economic models: Ideology disguised as math. 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 problem with … | Continue reading
Today's links Flickr to copyleft trolls: drop dead: Pixsy's predators no longer welcome. 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 Flic … | Continue reading
Today's links We should ban TikTok('s surveillance): And Google's, Apple's, and Facebook's surveillance, too. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing pro … | Continue reading
Today's links Naomi Novik's Scholomance trilogy: When Rousseau comes to Hobbeswarts. 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 Naomi No … | Continue reading
Today's links What comes after neoliberalism? "There is no alternative" is really a demand, namely, "Stop trying to think of an alternative!" Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent … | Continue reading
Today's links Rural towns and poor urban neighborhoods are being devoured by dollar stores: Walmart's jackals, picking over the remains. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appea … | Continue reading
Today's links The Golden Rule (them what has the gold makes the rules): Dobbs, SVB, the Internet Archive, antitrust and the law's foundation in norms, not consistency. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, up … | Continue reading
Today's links The "small nonprofit school" saved in the SVB bailout charges more than Harvard: It's got a private ski-hill! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing p … | Continue reading
Today's links Kickstarting the Red Team Blues audiobook, which Amazon won't sell: Narrated by Wil Wheaton! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projec … | Continue reading
Today's links Mass tech worker layoffs and the soft landing: Finally, the non-tech sector can hire technical workers. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing p … | Continue reading
Today's links Podcasting "Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk": Why today's Luddites should be smashing apps. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing p … | Continue reading
Today's links SVB's investors will get $2b in public bailout money: Also, Silicon Valley is apparently a neighborhood in Manhattan? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearance … | Continue reading
Today's links Big Business can't stop its illegal, fantastically lucrative gossiping: Everybody knows that the dice are loaded. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, c … | Continue reading
Today's links Learning from Silicon Valley Bank's apologists: What they think we think. 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 Spirit warned investors that merging with Jetblue would be illegal: Exhibit A for the prosecution. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projec … | Continue reading
Today's links Excuseflation: Monopolists will never let a good emergency go to waste. 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 E … | Continue reading
Today's links The Right accuses their critics of the conspiracy they themselves engage in: Teneo works exactly like their claims about the nonexistent Vast Leftist Conspiracy. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2018. Colophon: Recent publica … | Continue reading
Today's links The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble: Someday, we're gonna feel pretty silly about our autocomplete worship. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appeara … | Continue reading
Today's links End to End: Willing speakers should reach willing listeners. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading > End to End (permalink) … | Continue reading
Today's links Biden set to appoint mass foreclosure cheerleader to the Fed: Janice Eberly provided cover for Tim Geithner's policy of No Banker Left Behind. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcomin … | Continue reading
Today's links Solving the Moderator's Trilemma with Federation: You CAN please all of the people all of the time (sorta). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current … | Continue reading
Today's links VW wouldn't help find kidnapped child because his mother wasn't paying for find-my-car subscription: All the harms of surveillance, none of the benefits. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publicatio … | Continue reading
Today's links Podcasting "Twiddler": What makes digital platforms so enshittification prone? 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 … | Continue reading
Today's links Dow promised to turn sneakers into playground surfaces, then dumped them in Indonesia: Corporate "recycling" programs are just obfuscated landfills. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, u … | Continue reading
Today's links This is your brain on fraud apologetics: The curious comfort of victim-blaming. 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 r … | Continue reading
Today's links Fighting the privacy wars, state by state: Treating Congress as damage and routing around it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, c … | Continue reading
Today's links Matt Ruff's "Destroyer of Worlds": A return to "Lovecraft Country." This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Matt Ruff's "Destroyer of Worlds" (permalink) … | Continue reading
Today's links Turbotax is blitzing Congress for the right to tax YOU: Why do Americans have to pay Intuit to tell the IRS things it already knows? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent a … | Continue reading
Today's links Pluralistic is three: Time flies when you're writing blogs. 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 Pluralistic i … | Continue reading
Today's links Google's chatbot panic: On the infinite insecurities of a self-styled creative genius who really just buys other people's ideas. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appea … | Continue reading
Today's links Nathan J. Robinson's "Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments": A seriously good look at some seriously bad arguments. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent … | Continue reading
Today's links Obama's turncoat antitrust enforcer is angry about the Google breakup: You know you're doing something right when… Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2013 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects … | Continue reading
Today's links After Ohio rail disaster, Buttigieg is silent on restoring the safety standards Trump repealed: Civil War-era brake systems were good enough for General Sherman… Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent pu … | Continue reading
Today's links Poor people pay higher time tax: The rich truly do get more hours in the day. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading P … | Continue reading
Today's links Copyright won't solve creators' Generative AI problem: The machine-learning monkey's paw. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, curre … | Continue reading
Today's links The Collective Intelligence Institute: Asking more than 'what technology does' and demanding to know who it does it FOR and who it does it TO. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent app … | Continue reading
Today's links Bruce Schneier's "A Hacker's Mind": Thinking about tactics AND power. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Bruce Schneier's "A Hacker's Mind" (permalink) A H … | Continue reading
Today's links When Facebook came for your battery, feudal security failed: A tale of whistleblowers, security through obscurity, and binding arbitration. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/r … | Continue reading
Today's links Higher interest rates increase both the monetary supply and inflation: It takes a lot of motivated reasoning to believe otherwise. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2018, 2022. Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearan … | Continue reading
Today's links Netflix wants to chop down your family tree: The enshittification cycle comes for your most private domain. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writi … | Continue reading
Today's links Johnson and Johnson's bankruptcy gambit fails: A key defeat in J&J's War On Vulvas. 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, curre … | Continue reading
Today's links Canada's privatised shadow civil service: Tories claim governments are incompetent, Liberals prove it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writ … | Continue reading
Today's links The real scandal is overclassification: I'd explain it, but I'd have to kill you. The Australian Chokepoint Capitalism Tour: Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra (twice!). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2021 … | Continue reading
Today's links Podcasts are hearteningly enshittification resistant: Walled gardens considered harmful (to performers and audiences). Red Team Blues excerpt: The final adventure of Marty Hench. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2 … | Continue reading
Today's links The public paid for "Moderna's" vaccine, and now we're going to pay again (and again and again): Herd immunity is incompatible with shareholder capitalism. How Facebook's Real Names policy helps Cambodia's thin-skinned dictator terrorize dissenters: "Yes, our beache … | Continue reading
Today's links David Graeber's "Pirate Enlightenment": The true, swashbuckling lives of matriarchs, anarchists, and pirates at the crossroads of the world. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent … | Continue reading