Today's links "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing": When Big Content makes the paid version *worse* than the free one. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2018, 2022. Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, curr … | Continue reading
Today's links An adversarial iMessage client for Android: Beeper Mini preserves end-to-end encryption and doesn't require an Apple ID. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, … | Continue reading
Today's links Privacy first: A powerful principle with a vast constituency. 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 Privacy first (pe … | Continue reading
Today's links Pedophiles for Purdue Pharma: With amici like these… 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 Pedophiles for Purdue Phar … | Continue reading
Today's links Francis Spufford's "Cahokia Jazz": A stunning alternate history that fires on every cylinder. 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 Stinkpump Linkdump: With a bonus jarring shift in tone. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Stinkpump Linkdump (permalink) Once again, I greet the wee … | Continue reading
Today's links All the books I reviewed in 2023: Plus three of my own. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading All the books I reviewe … | Continue reading
Today's links Sponsored listings are a ripoff…for sellers: Welcome to the age of danegeld. 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 Sp … | Continue reading
Today's links Insurance companies are making climate risk worse: How to break the climate insurance doom-loop. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects … | Continue reading
Today's links The real AI fight: Effective Accelerationists and Effective Altruists are both in vigorous agreement about something genuinely stupid. 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 The moral injury of having your work enshittified: I missed my mother's funeral for this? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading T … | Continue reading
Today's links Thankful for class consciousness: Eggs, Teslas, airlines, turkeys, and the roof over your head. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, curre … | Continue reading
Today's links The FTC has Big Pharma's number: The sleazy game of Orange Book evergreening. 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 The FTC … | Continue reading
Today's links Don't Be Evil: My new Locus Column. 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 Don't Be Evil (permalink) My latest Locus M … | Continue reading
Today's links Naomi Kritzer's "Liberty's Daughter": The market authoritarianism of a seastead childhood. 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 Larry Summers' inflation scare-talk incinerated climate action: Now can we please stop listening to this ghoul? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current w … | Continue reading
Today's links Pinkdrunk Linkdump: Your semi-regular weekend declaration of link bankruptcy. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Pinkdrunk Linkdump (permalink) Happy Satur … | Continue reading
Today's links Red-teaming the SCOTUS code of conduct: Let's take a look at what it *actually* prohibits. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, curr … | Continue reading
Today's links Big Train managers earn bonuses for greenlighting unsafe cars: The blood-curdling near-misses we don't hear about. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, curren … | Continue reading
Today's links The conservative movement is cracking up: It's not just Trumpism – antitrust is an emerging fracture line. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writin … | Continue reading
Today's links The (open) web is good, actually: Recall has always been a power dynamic. 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 "Brand safety" killed Jezebel: Reality isn't brand-safe. 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 "Brand safety" k … | Continue reading
Today's links Big Telco's fury over FCC plan to infuse telecoms policy with facts: Dickey Amendments for everything. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing pr … | Continue reading
Today's links The enshittification of garage-door openers reveals a vast and deadly rot: Firms undisciplined by competition, regulation, or self-help measures. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications … | Continue reading
Today's links Biden wants to ban ripoff "financial advisors": Big gubmint wants to take away your freedom to starve to death in old age. Announcing The Lost Cause Tour: LA, Stratford, Concord, Simsbury, Toronto, New York and Chapel Hill! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. T … | Continue reading
Today's links Naomi Alderman's 'The Future': Billionaire preppers vs the end of the human race. 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 readi … | Continue reading
Today's links Amazon is a ripoff: New Amazon paradox just dropped. 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 Amazon is a ripoff (permal … | Continue reading
Today's links A link-clump demands a linkdump: Fit the ninth. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading A link-clump demands a linkdump (permalink) Cometh the weekend, cometh t … | Continue reading
Today's links Big Tech's "attention rents": Enshittification comes out of the barrel of an algorithm. 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 … | Continue reading
Today's links Social Security is class war, not intergenerational conflict: If conservatives were really interested in millennial life-chances, they'd demand inheritance taxes, not Social Security cuts. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2013, 2018, 202 … | Continue reading
Today's links The impoverished imagination of neoliberal climate "solutions": "All of the above" is a highly selective proposition. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, cur … | Continue reading
Today's links Zuck's gravity-defying metaverse money-pit: $46.5 billion incinerated and he's richer than ever. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects … | Continue reading
Today's links A media literacy handbook for Israel-Gaza: A new "breaking news consumer handbook" from On The Media. 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 A taxonomy of corporate bullshit: The six lies they've always told. 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 A taxonomy … | Continue reading
Today's links Amazon Alexa is a graduate of the Darth Vader MBA: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current wri … | Continue reading
Today's links Bad King Richard got rich by exploiting workers at King's Faire: Creative workers are workers. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018. Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, curre … | Continue reading
Today's links Podcasting "Microincentives and Enshittification": They’ve run out of lands to conquer and they’re taking it out on you. 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 In defense of bureaucratic competence: The nine most uplifting words in the English language: "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, u … | Continue reading
Today's links An interoperability rule for your money: The CFPB will force banks to make it easy for you to leave. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing proj … | Continue reading
Today's links Amazon's bestselling "bitter lemon" energy drink was bottled delivery driver piss: Amazon immediately spotted an undercover reported but missed that the bestselling 'Release Energy' was its drivers' urine. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history … | Continue reading
Today's links Uncle Sam paid to develop a cancer drug and now one guy will get to charge whatever he wants for it: Making billionaires, one patent at a time. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/rec … | Continue reading
Today's links What Americans want: Term limits for Congress, pack the Supreme Court, abolish the Electoral College, get money out of politics. 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 Deb Chachra's "How Infrastructure Works": Mutual aid, the built environment, the climate, and a future of comfort and abundance. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: None Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current wr … | Continue reading
Today's links One of America's most corporate-crime-friendly bankruptcy judges forced to recuse himself: Judge David Jones rigged the 'Texas Two-Step' cases his secret girlfriend argued in his court. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, … | Continue reading
Today's links Leaving Twitter had no effect of NPR's traffic: The brittle equilibrium of stage three enshittification. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projec … | Continue reading
Today's links Microsoft put their tax-evasion in writing and now they owe $29 billion: The process is the punishment. The Lost Cause prologue, part 6: Big finish! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, u … | Continue reading
Today's links Stellantis wants to make scabbing woke: The real DEI was the collective bargaining unit we formed along the way. The Lost Cause prologue, Part V: Fuck around, find out. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Coloph … | Continue reading
Today's links Underground Empire: Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman's must-read account of "How America Weaponized the World Economy." The Lost Cause prologue part IV: "Commies, agitators, traitors, and climate bed wetters." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in his … | Continue reading