Today's links Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from saying mean things about Meta: It's one thing to hire an ex-Meta lobbyist, another entirely if she's signed a non-disparagement contract. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Cus...
Today's links (Digital) Elbows Up: How Canada Can Become a Nation of Jailbreakers, Reclaim Our Digital Sovereignty, Win the Trade-War, and Disenshittify Our Technology. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Workaholic Goethe; Prehistory of the Sony rootk...
Today's links Normie diffusion and technophilia: Who will seize the means of computation? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Centaur teddybears; Vaginal yeast sourdough; Snoopers Charter rebuttal; "The Paradox"; Bossware is unfair. Upcoming appearance...
Today's links O(N^2) nationalism: Trumpism can only be defeated throuh international nationalism. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Paywall kremlinology; How to fix everything; Office365 is spyware; State-owned Amazon. Upcoming appearances: Where to ...
Today's links Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance" : An enshittified search monopolist meets the worst health care system imaginable. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Disaster fantasies; "Sea to Sea"; Veronica Belmon...
Today's links Cooking in Maximum Security: A companion volume to "Prisoners' Inventions." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Cursed house; Randall Munroe's stick figures; Reverse engineering a gig work platform; Barbie surveillance toy teardown; Labor...
Today's links Boss preppers: What does a captain of industry have to offer after the shit hits the fan? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Yahoo blocks webmail for adblockers; Badly forgiving student debt. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recen...
Today's links The long game: Breaking up Big Tech is a long-run project. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: ARRRRR!; Watching paint dry; CEOs are tall, lucky, men; Harpercollins demands authors' AI rights; Victorian bumwipe; Ted Koppel's stupid book; ...
Today's links Disney has lost Roger Rabbit: Termination of Transfer is the most pro-artist form of copyright. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Why didn't AV apps block Sony's rootkit? Surveillance doesn't stop terror attacks; The last Pratchett; The...
Today's links The games industry's self-induced traumatic brain injury: Amnesia is video games' default state. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Sony DRM nonpology; Misprinted prefab houses; Canada's repair law can't be fixed; BNL's USB-stick release...
Today's links Zohran Mamdani's world-class photocopier-kicker: Lina Khan has plans for New York City. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Pirate code in Sony rootkit; Tim Wu on "New Monopolists"; Supersonic chirps in ads; Fordite; Sony's rootkit uninst...
Today's links For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity: Competition can't to solve the hospice problem. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Inner-tube laces; NZ MPs ejected for talking about sexual assault; Snowden's opsec advice...
Today's links A tale of three customer service chatbots: Two were worse than useless, one betrayed its masters. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: General strike; We won't fly; Green tea doesn't promote weight-loss. Upcoming appearances: Where to find...
Today's links Theodora Goss's 'Letters From an Imaginary Country': Short stories so expertly spun you'll hardly know you've been ensnared. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Agent To the Stars"; Smart TV spying; 3D printing and the law; Google open s...
Today's links "Flexible labor" is a euphemism for "derisking capital": It's a zero-sum game. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Corrupt CDs; 10,000 wax cylinders; EU wants copyright on links; Sony rootkit; Humbling math-papers; Chelsea Manning on Aaro...
Today's links Facebook's fraud files: 10% of gross ad revenue coming from fraudulent ads. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: FOIA for Theresa May; Paid patriotism; Antiusurpation. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've ...
Today's links The enshittification of labor: Pavlina Tcherneva, getting her peanut butter in my chocolate. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 3D printing with tape-guns; TPP is the worst; HP ends customers' lives. Upcoming appearances: Where to find m...
Today's links The 40-year economic mistake that let Google conquer (and enshittify) the world: If reality doesn't fit the theory, ignore reality. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: The Master Switch; Dueling useless machines; Chrome delists Symantec; ...
Today's links "Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware Works": Steampunk dinosaurs scratch-build a pressurized air-based, Turing complete, universal von Neumann machine. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Google Print vs Great Ormond; Lincolnbo...
Today's links There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech: The path to a post-American internet. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: D2020; Sony rootkit; Public Enemy vs the internet; NYC plute Hallowe'en. Upcoming appearances: Where t...
Today's links The internet was made for privacy: And unmade by regulators. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Materialist conspiratorialism; TSA ball-fondlers; Anonymous to dox 1,000 Klansmen; Amazon hates private property; The Great Firewall of Camer...
Today's links When AI prophecy fails: Hating workers is a hell of a drug. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: SCOTUS lets the FBI kidnap Americans; Inequality perverts justice; Free the McFlurry! Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearanc...
Today's links Raymond Beisinger's "9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off": A self-defense guide for creative workers. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Gingerbread Phantom Manor; Orwell estate censors 1984; The Abbadon; Ferris wheel fine dining. Upcomi...
Today's links Shake Shack wants you to shit yourself to death: The bifurcation of justice is always and ever a prelude to fascism. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: CCTV botnets; CEOs and random chance; Foxconn v Trump. Upcoming appearances: Where to...
Today's links Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs: When your shitty boss is a shitty app and you're not even allowed to call yourself an employee. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Correcting the Disneyland Railroad's Mo...
Today's links Carl Hiaasen's 'Fever Beach': If you didn't laugh, you'd have to cry. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Scary Godmother; Nightvale novel; The war on Worker's Comp; Cadillac's murdermobiles. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent...
Today's links The mad king's digital killswitch: Every accusation is a confession. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Use RSS; Lifehackers in the NYT; Banned Verminous Dickens cake; Fake CIA Fox guy; Ferris wheel offices; EFF finds printer snitch-dots...
Today's links The AI that we'll have after AI: Cheap GPUs, unemployed engineers, and open source models. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: FBI confuses KISS and Dr Who; How the NSA breaks crypto: Bricked Ferrari; Taxing billionaires. Upcoming appeara...
Today's links Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall! What the Eurostack is missing. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Giga pudding; What Technology Wants; Blue Screens of Death; Bernie outperforming Obama; DRM in JPEGs; Dirty words are politically potent; F...
Today's links How to fix the UK housing crisis: Reconverting homes to human rights, rather than assets. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Theme park privacy; 3 strikes dead in Eire; HK ghost posters; Hotel wifi sucks; Facebook pays no UK tax; Econ re...
