Pluralistic: Blue Bonds (04 Oct 2025)

Today's links

When your ISP pays you: The New Deal keeps on giving.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Object permanence: Internet Archive scans books; Europe's Broadcast Flag; Three middle-finger salute; The enshittification of Prime.
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Recent appearances: Where I've been.
Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Colophon: All the rest.

Decarbonization at a distance: A post-American century that runs on sunshine.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Object permanence: Human shields for Internet of Shit slumlords; Tubemap with one-bedroom flat prices; Years of Repair; Internet of Lying Things; Dieselgate for TVs; Apple kills Chinese RSS readers.
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 keep writin' 'em.
Colophon: All the rest.

Announcing the Enshittification tour: Come say hi, why dontcha?
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Object permanence: HP defeat device; It Gets Better; OPM hack endangers CIA in Beijing; Self-driving cars crash.
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 keep writin' 'em.
Colophon: All the rest.

Plenty of room at the bottom (of the tech stack): Apple is out of low-hanging fruit.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Object permanence: "Julia," HP DRM talk; Atheists know more theology than "Christians"; D&D v MMORPGs; Scandanavia's CSAM filter-creep; Snowden's on Twitter; Limbaugh says Martian water is a leftist plot.
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 keep writin' 'em.
Colophon: All the rest.

The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh: Sweating (the assets) to the oldies.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Object permanence: Dying on the job; Google audiocomplete blacklist; Lockheed Martin v. 'gathering information.'
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 keep writin' 'em.
Colophon: All the rest.

Apple threatens to stop selling iPhones in the EU: Yeah, right.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Object permanence: Thomas Ligotti's anhedonic philosophy; Catalan elections; Molly Crabapple's Syria.
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 keep writin' 'em.
Colophon: All the rest.

Rage Against the (Algorithmic Management) Machine: What unions could (must!) do about app-based work.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Object permanence: Dieselgate for everything; Roca Labs stops gagging, Adventures of a Dwergish Girl; the Batmobile is a copyrighted character.
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 keep writin' 'em.
Colophon: All the rest.

The billionaires aren't OK: They're going to give us all Howard Hughes disease.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Object permanence: KY Republican says the First Amendment protects bribes; Walt Disney's FBI; "The Sapling Cage."
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 keep writin' 'em.
Colophon: All the rest.

The enshittification of solar (and how to stop it): Red-teaming the fossil fuel death cult's next move.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Object permanence: Contrastive reduplication; Happy Birthday is free; What the fuck is a PBM?
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 keep writin' 'em.
Colophon: All the rest.