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
Today's links How Google's trial secrecy lets it control the coverage: You got it wrong, but we won't tell you how. The Lost Cause prologue, part III: Going viral in the free world. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colopho … | Continue reading
Today's links The Lost Cause prologue (part 2): It's a small world, after all. 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 The Lost … | Continue reading
Today's links Serializing the opening of "The Lost Cause": My novel of climate hope, out on November 14. 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 Union pensions are funding private equity attacks on workers: When your pension fund comes for your job, your home, and your funeral. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, … | Continue reading
Today's links For 40 years, Big Meat has openly colluded to rig prices: A long-overdue antitrust beatdown for Agri Stats. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, … | Continue reading
Today's links Google's enshittification memos: Truly, Big Tech can't stop telling on itself. 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 Kickstarting the audiobook of The Lost Cause, my novel of environmental hope: And another one that Amazon won't sell. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, cur … | Continue reading
Today's links The internet is not a (link)dump truck: It's a series of totally tubular links. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading The internet is not a (link)dump truck ( … | Continue reading
Today's links The surveillance advertising to financial fraud pipeline: Finding suckers is the one thing ad-targeting is good at. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, … | Continue reading
Today's links Yanis Varoufakis's "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?": Socialism or barbarism. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current readin … | Continue reading
Today's links Intuit: "Our fraud fights racism": Apparently, ripping off Black people with the Freefile scam is a form of reparations. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2028, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, … | Continue reading
Today's links Brian Merchant's "Blood In the Machine": Reclaiming the Luddites from the victors' history. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, cur … | Continue reading
Today's links Podcasting "How To Think About Scraping": How to preserve the benefits of web-scraping while targeting the real harms. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearanc … | Continue reading
Today's links Down in the (link)dumps: A link sundae for a fall Saturday. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Down in the (link)dumps (permalink) Back when I was writing on Boi … | Continue reading
Today's links "Efficiency" left the Big Three vulnerable to smart UAW tactics: A system without slack is easily disrupted. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writ … | Continue reading
Today's links Kashmir Hill's "Your Face Belongs to Us": A candid, whistleblower-informed history of Clearview AI. 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 Justin C Key's "The World Wasn't Ready For You": Black horror that cuts with a surgical scalpel. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing pr … | Continue reading
Today's links Biden should support the UAW: Get the Democratic Party's mind right. 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 Biden shou … | Continue reading
Today's links Greenwashing set Canada on fire: A generation of idealistic Canadian kids broke their backs every summer "planting thousands of blowtorches a day." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, up … | Continue reading
Today's links Bill Willingham puts his graphic novel series "Fables" into the public domain: A magnificent table flip (but the devil is in the details). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcom … | Continue reading
Today's links How unions won a 30% raise for every fast food worker in California: Hot labor summer was just for openers. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, … | Continue reading
Today's links Portraits of Queen West: Kevin Steele's "sequential art" book of the glory days of Queen Street West. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing pro … | Continue reading
Today's links The Tamakis' "Roaming": Ah, to be young and Canadian in New York City. 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 Th … | Continue reading
Today's links Saturday linkdump, part the sixth: The new digital disorder. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Saturday linkdump, part the sixth (permalink) I usual … | Continue reading
Today's links How plausible sentence generators are changing the bullshit wars: My September column in Locus Magazine. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projec … | Continue reading
Today's links NLRB rules that any union busting means automatic union recognition: Biden's photocopier-kickers will give American workers the unions they desperately desire. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recen … | Continue reading
Today's links Naomi Klein's "Doppelganger": On late capitalism's double-vision and double trouble. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Naomi … | Continue reading
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