Today's links
- LaserWriter II: Tamara Shopsin's celebration of the heroic era of the Mac.
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Tag: apple
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
Pluralistic: 26 May 2021
Today's links
- Monopolists are winning the repair wars: Again.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
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
Pluralistic: 22 Mar 2021
Today's links
- Patent troll IP is more powerful than Apple's: Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
- Podcasting "Free Markets": Taxation without representation.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 11 Feb 2021
Today's links
- Dependency Confusion: A completely wild supply-chain hack.
- Adam Curtis on criti-hype: Big Tech as an epiphenomenon of sociopathic mediocrity, not supergenius.
- Catalytic converter theft: Rhodium at $21,900/oz.
- Apple puts North Dakota on blast: Stop thinking different!
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 02 Feb 2021
Today's links
- Criti-Hype: Tech bros will settle for "evil genius."
- Right to Repair is back for 2021: Will Apple sabotage this one too?
- The free market and rent-seeking: Unauthorized bread and poor doors.
- This day in history: 2011, 2016
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 03 Dec 2020
Today's links
- Monopolies made America vulnerable to covid: Pharma, hospitals and other health industries were weak before the pandemic.
- The Ministry For the Future: Kim Stanley Robinson's final (?) novel.
- Graffitists hit dozens of NYC subway cars: Party like it's 1984.
- Breathtaking Iphone hack: Zero-click wireless worms.
- This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
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
Pluralistic: 12 Sep 2020
Today's links
- Bill Gates's monopolistic mask-off moment: "What's a murder?"
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading