Today's links What's wrong with tariffs: Trump's mirror-world policies fill the vacuum left by neoliberal gaslighting. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2020 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent app … | Continue reading
Today's links Anyone who trusts an AI therapist needs their head examined: Same goes for trusting an AI with your trade secrets. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Upcoming appearances: Where … | Continue reading
Today's links Private-sector Trumpism: Monopoly, facial recognition and property rights all add up to a private system of government. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2010, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Upcoming appearances: Where t … | Continue reading
Today's links #RedForEd rides again in LA: Rest in power, Jane McAlevey. 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 books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep wr … | Continue reading
Today's links Big Tech and "captive audience venues": The digital equivalent of baseball stadiums and airport concourses. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I'v … | Continue reading
Today's links Reality-Based Communities: Anything that can't go on forever eventually stops. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep read … | Continue reading
Today's links The AOC-Sanders anti-oligarch tour is all about organizing: The courage to govern WITH, not OVER. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2015, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: … | Continue reading
Today's links Why I don't like AI art: I think I've figured it out. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 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' … | Continue reading
Today's links Trump loves Big Tech: So much for the "Khanservatives." 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. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep … | Continue reading
Today's links Twinkump Linkdump: Loose ends for the weekend. Object permanence: 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 ke … | Continue reading
Today's links Ray Nayler's "Where the Axe Is Buried": Escape from the Larry Ellison future. 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. Latest books: You keep … | Continue reading
Today's links You can't save an institution by betraying its mission: Supporters will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no supporters. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2015, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appea … | Continue reading
Today's links AI can't do your job: But an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with a chatbot that can't do your job. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appea … | Continue reading
Today's links David Enrich's "Murder the Truth": Making powerful people look bad isn't a crime – yet. 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 books: You … | Continue reading
Today's links Amazon annihilates Alexa privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading: "The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object perma … | Continue reading
Today's links The future of Amazon coders is the present of Amazon warehouse workers: It's here, it's just not evenly distributed. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2015, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where … | Continue reading
Today's links Firing the refs doesn't end the game: It just means there aren't any rules. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2015, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' … | Continue reading
Today's links Daniel Pinkwater's "Jules, Penny and the Rooster": Klong! We are ALL pickles. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readi … | Continue reading
Today's links Eggflation is excuseflation: We don’t have egg companies in the business of making eggs anymore, we have egg companies in the business of exploiting egg shortages. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020 Upcoming appearance … | Continue reading
Today's links Gandersauce: Disruption for thee, but not for me. 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. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writi … | Continue reading
Today's links Two weak spots in Big Tech economics: Kick 'em in the dongle. 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. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'l … | Continue reading
Today's links Brother makes a demon-haunted printer: The internet is a portal to hell. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2015, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em … | Continue reading
Today's links There Were Always Enshittifiers: My March, 2025 Locus Magazine column. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2015, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll k … | Continue reading
Today's links Ideas Lying Around: Trumpism is our oil crisis. 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 books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. … | Continue reading
Today's links Zincchump Linkdump: Some links from the road. Object permanence: 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 With Great Power Came No Responsibility: My Ursula Franklin Lecture on enshittification in the Trump age. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2015, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. … | Continue reading
Today's links Apple's encryption capitulation: They put the gun on the mantelpiece in Act One, they don't get to be surprised now. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where … | Continue reading
Today's links How an obscure advisory board lets utilities steal $50b/year from ratepayers: The Society of Utility and Regulatory Financial Analysts is a hell of a henhouse fox. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015 Upcoming appearances: Whe … | Continue reading
Today's links We bullied HP into a minor act of disenshittification: Score one for the ink-stained wretches. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest book … | Continue reading
Today's links Ad-tech targeting is an existential threat: Targeting people with chronic illnesses, parents of sick kids, military personnel with gambling problems, seniors with dementia, and national security decisionmakers. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permane … | Continue reading
Today's links Pluralistic is five: Blogging as a way of clawing back your attention. 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. Latest books: You keep readin … | Continue reading
Today's links America and "national capitalism": How the EU should respond to Trumpism. 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'l … | Continue reading
Today's links Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces: The Gilded Age has entered the chat. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appe … | Continue reading
Today's links Skinnamarinkstump Linkdump: Mostly lighthearted links from the road. 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' 'em. Upcoming books: Like … | Continue reading
Today's links Premature Internet Activists: The retconning of tech rights. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2015, 2024 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 Trump's Tiktok two-step is a lesson for future presidents: Deference to corrupt institutions didn't get Democrats re-elected. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Whe … | Continue reading
Today's links Musk steals a billion dollars from low-income Americans and sends it to Intuit: Forcing you to pay Turbotax to send data to the IRS that it already has is the DEFINITION of government inefficiency. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 20 … | Continue reading
Today's links Hugh D'Andrade's "The Murder Next Door": A graphic memoir. 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 writin' … | Continue reading
Today's links Dinkscrump Linkdump: A bushel of links before I leap into the void. 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' 'em. Upcoming books: Like … | Continue reading
Today's links "The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets": Maureen Tkacik on the monstrous corporate raider running DOGE. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to f … | Continue reading
Today's links "The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets": Maureen Tkacik on the monstrous corporate raider running DOGE. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to f … | Continue reading
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