Today's links Trump and the unmighty dollar: "Flipping the table over in a poker game rigged in your favor because you resent having to pretend to play the game at all." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: H2G2 v BBC; Anti-capitalist bank rave; Narrati...
Today's links The petty (but undeniable) delights of cultivating ungovernability as a habit: Get good at being on hold. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Ventus"; Woody Guthrie v Trump's dad; Tory MP v poppers. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me...
Today's links Google's AI pricing plan: From each according to their ability (to pay). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Disney buys Pixar; Bruces on "vernacular video"; Hickey paralysis; RIP David Hartwell; Personalized pricing; They were warned. Up...
Today's links AI is how bosses wage war on "professions": The only people *required* to tell their bosses to fuck off. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Enshittification v VC; Byrne v DRM; Forger does it for the exposure; Beach trash hotel; Mafia nic...
Today's links Social media without socializing: For Zuck, your friends are a problem to be solved. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Among Others"; Vagina tea-balls; MLK was a socialist; Planet Money's free Gatsby audiobook; Bounty for wiretapping l...
Today's links The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification: Regulatory arbitrage isn't just for tax cheats. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Fledgling"; Magnetic forest rings; Electable Mr Sanders; "Terrorists" were just blind guys. Upcoming ...
Today's links Catch this! Email is good, actually. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: LDS excommunication; King Foundation v "I Have a Dream"; "Lat-stage capitalism" v "Christ, what an asshole"; Pelosi v Porter. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me....
Today's links How the Light Gets In: The door is open a crack! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Poitras v First Look; Aaronsw's "Against School"; I was investigated by the FBI. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've b...
Today's links It's not normal: Remember when you owned stuff? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Telco rats out protesters; Rogers v Net Neutrality; Jailhouse lawyer v Stingrays; Black Panther self-care. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent ...
Today's links Sorry, eh: I sincerely regret that all my ideas will not lose billions of dollars, destroy jobs or make your country more dependent on American tech. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 20 years a blogger; Woz on Network Neutrality; Moveo...
Today's links A winning trade war strategy for Canada: Tech giants are also the enemy of American businesses. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Wikipedia v The Register; Jeff Koons v balloon dogs; Brewster Kahle on aaronsw; Chelsea Manning on aaronsw...
Today's links Predistribution vs redistribution (Big Tech edition): A thing that governments can do with 100% reliability. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Oral B lockpicks; Ipod Levi's; Sue Townsend on Adrian Mole; RIAA must pay $45m to Canadian mu...
Today's links bunnie's piggyback hack: An actual "one weird trick" that's pretty fucking spectacular. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Keyboard Practice"; Sam Bulte says she's no dirtier than other MPs; Gene Luen Yang's Amabassador for Young People...
Today's links Where did the money go? Turning a mountain of (their) money into a pile of (your) money. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Revolutionary Colossus; T-Mobile CEO v EFF; Broadband isn't gasoline. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Rec...
Today's links Writing vs AI: If you wouldn't ask an AI to eat a delicious pizza for you, why would you ask it to write a college essay? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: WELL State of the World; A poem in 30m logfiles; Weapons of Math Destruction; Th...
Today's links Code is a liability (not an asset): AI psychosis, tech boss edition. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Coldplay CD DRM; Star Wars Wars; Digital manorialism vs neofeudalism; Transvaginal foetal sonic bombardment: woo-tunes for your hoo-h...
Today's links A world without people: AI is a promise to wire the boss's toy steering wheel directly into the company's drive-train. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Adding exclusive rights make economies weaker; Bloggers after the collapse; Why the...
Today's links A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance: A final thought for the yule. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Droidflake; Spy Skymall; Malthus is a dope; Happy Public Domain Day 2025. Upcoming appearances: Where to find m...
Today's links Happy Public Domain Day 2026! The best way to cut through the hellishly complex thicket and bring our culture back to life. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Weird D&D advice; Email sabbaticals. Upcoming appearances: Where to find m...
Today's links America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity: America's loss is the post-American internet's gain. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: DanKam; Backyard M*A*S*H; Blockchain voting is bullshit. Upcoming ap...
Today's links Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses: Labor should be fixed, capital should be vanquished. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Star Island"; "Mediactive"; Afraid of solar; Well-Armed Peasants; Dumpster fire exits; Wikipedia v...
Today's links Federal Wallet Inspectors: Does tech *really* move too fast to regulate? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Soda can Van de Graff; Amazon rents a copy of the web; Boardgame Remix Kit; No furniture photos please we're British; Youtube vs ...
Today's links Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars: A/B splitting your way into doing a total fucking racism. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Predicting the present; Caller eye-deer; RIP Robert Sheckley; Student prot...
Today's links Big Tech joins the race to build the world's heaviest airplane: Die as Microsoft, or live to become the IBM you overthrew. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Bean-sprouting keyboard; Ink rant; FBI wanted to deport John Lennon; "Concrete ...
Today's links Elon Musk's Blue Tick scam: The EU bans giant teddybears. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Denver bomb squad vs 8" toy robot; Iceland's atheist religion; Largest strike in human history; Ad-tech is a bubble; Battery rationality; Pasta ...
Today's links Metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism": How many $TRUMP coins should your company buy? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: NZ doesn't want US-style copyright; Tron: Reloaded; Mass shootings and gun profits; Descartes God has fa...
Today's links The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI: My speech for U Washington's Neuroscience, AI and Society lecture series. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Pac Man ghost algorithms; The US wrote Spain's copyright law; Illinois makes pris...
Today's links A year in illustration (2025 edition): I think I'm getting the hang of this? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: HADOPI is born; Tea Party wants to disenfranchise renters; How to kill TPP; Mozilla ejects Thunderbird; Rosa Parks was a life...
Today's links All the books I reviewed in 2025: A year in books. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: David Byrne v RIAA; Sam Buck vs Starbucks; Eek-A-Trad; Mesopotamian DRM; Distanced stage plays. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearan...
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