Pluralistic: How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store (21 Dec 2022) Today's links How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store: …and what we should do about it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Continue reading "Pluralistic: How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store (21 Dec 2022)"
Pluralistic: 28 Jul 2022 Today's links Your computer is tormented by a wicked god: Bootkits are why we can't have nice things. Peter Thiel's evil, but he's not an "evil genius": How to criticize self-mythologizing villains. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Continue reading "Pluralistic: 28 Jul 2022"
Pluralistic: 08 Jun 2021 Today's links Rabbits: PK Dick meets Qanon: Terry Miles's debut novel of conspiratorial madness. Apple's manorial security: Works well, fails badly – think different? Billionaires don't pay tax: Leona Helmsley was an unrecognized genius. Google and France agree on ad-tech interop: Not the kind of competition we want. This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Continue reading "Pluralistic: 08 Jun 2021"
Pluralistic: 03 May 2021 Today's links Dishwashers have become Iphones: Meet the Bob Cassette Rewinder. Part 5 of How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: This week on my podcast! This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Continue reading "Pluralistic: 03 May 2021"
Pluralistic: 02 Oct 2020 Today's links Call center workers pay for the privilege: Propublica breaks open the massive, secretive abuser Arise, fronted by Disney, Airbnb, Intuit, Comcast, Carnival and more. Dan Hillier's Six Women/Six Men: New "box sets" from the spooky, brilliant collagist. Apple kills RSS readers in China: Chekhov's Law for DRM strikes again. This day in history: 2015, 2019 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading Continue reading "Pluralistic: 02 Oct 2020"
Pluralistic: 19 Jun 2020 Today's links Trump wants to dismantle the OTF: Replacing open, auditable tech freedom tools with closed, untrustable ones. Algonuts: A bottomless, mutated machine learning Peanuts strip. Trump's covid "test-tubes" are contaminated miniature soda bottles: The Art of the Deal. Avia, c'est mort: France kills a catastrophic "anti-terror" censorship law. Austerity in disrepute: Vast majority of Americans favor continued or expanded unemployment benefits. Microsoft criticizes Apple's monopolism: They're the experts, after all. This day in history: 2019 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading Continue reading "Pluralistic: 19 Jun 2020"