Pluralistic: How to design a tech regulation (20 Jun 2024)


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Pluralistic: The Cult of Mac (12 Jan 2024)


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  • The Cult of Mac: You cannot reason a person out of a position they did not reason themself into in the first place.
  • Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
  • This day in history: 2014, 2019, 2023
  • Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: Linkdump Minkchump (16 Dec 2023)


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Pluralistic: An adversarial iMessage client for Android (07 Dec 2023)


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Pluralistic: The enshittification of garage-door openers reveals a vast and deadly rot (09 Nov 2023)


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Pluralistic: Autoenshittification (24 July 2023)


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Pluralistic: Netflix wants to chop down your family tree (02 Feb 2023)


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Pluralistic: 08 Nov 2022 Tech a la carte


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How to Fix Cars* By Breaking “Felony Contempt of Business Model”

(*Also Wheeelchairs, Tractors, iPhones, Toasters and Printers)

A hackeneyed “hacker in a hoodie” image; in place of a face is a BMW steering wheel. Behind the figure is a three-tier stack of crushed cars.

On the origin of anti-features

They’re called “anti-features”: artificial limitations built onto the products we buy. These are limitations no customer asked for — and indeed, they’re limitations customers would pay to remove — if only they could.

The first anti-features were “DRM” (Digital Rights Management), like the “region-locks” on DVD players that stopped you from using a player you bought in one country to play back a disc you bought somewhere else.

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Pluralistic: 01 Aug 2022


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