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- Pluralistic is two: Still at it!
- This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2021
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 18 Feb 2022
Today's links
- Tech platforms' playbook inevitably produces dumpster-fires: Anil Dash's amazing "broken tech/content culture cycle."
- This day in history: 2002, 2012, 2021
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 17 Feb 2022
Today's links
- The last days of Myspace: Facebook is following the steep decline playbook.
- The child labor story hidden by the Great Resignation: Bosses want to turn kids into scabs.
- This day in history: 2012, 2017, 2021
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 16 Feb 2022
Today's links
- The extremely shady "educational integrity" industry: From Proctorio to Honorlock.
- Oh great, there's DRM in printer PAPER now: Dymo was so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
- This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 15 Feb 2022
Today's links
- McKinsey For Kids (no, really): Give us a child when they are seven and they are ours for life.
- Outing German spy agencies by mailing them Airtags: A threat-model parable.
- This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 13 Feb 2022
Today's links
- Podcasting Part II of "The Internet Heist": Big Content wants to plug your A-Hole!
- Comprehensive synthesis of the technological, ecological and political critique of blockchainism: It's all about the externalities.
- Eating invasive species: How to structure an invasivorism that doesn't hunger for more invaders.
- This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
An Open Letter to Pixsy CEO Kain Jones, Who Keeps Sending Me Legal Threats
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
Background
In January, I published an article describing how a company called Pixsy sent me repeated legal threats in a bid to get me to pay $600 for a Creative Commons image I’d used. Pixsy falsely claimed that I had violated the Creative Commons license by failing to correctly attribute it to its creator, the photographer Nenad Stojkovic. After I challenged them on this, they apologized and withdrew the threats, but refused to answer any of my questions about how this happened or how their business operates (Stojkovic also failed to answer multiple messages seeking clarification).
Continue reading "An Open Letter to Pixsy CEO Kain Jones, Who Keeps Sending Me Legal Threats"
Pluralistic: 11 Feb 2022
Today's links
- The Big Lie that keeps the Uber bezzle alive: A credulous press continues to report massive losses as profitability.
- This day in history: 2017, 2021
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 10 Feb 2022
Today's links
- Welcome to the Palmerverse: Ada Palmer's Renaissance-informed science fictional futurism.
- SEC vs private equity ripoffs: Personnel really are policy.
- Neuromancer today: Eileen Gunn on the enduring significance and wonder of William Gibson.
- Gators and Amazon tag-team small sellers: Amazon's bad conduct is good for (a certain kind of) business.
- This day in history: 2012, 2017, 2021
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 09 Feb 2022
Today's links
- Litigation finance pits greed against greed: There was a late-stage captialism that swallowed a fly…
- Occupy the SEC on bank mergers: The Herfindahl-Hirschman Index considered harmful.
- This day in history: 2012, 2017, 2021
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading