Pluralistic: Autodoxing (02 Nov 2026)

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Autodoxing: The road to hell is paved with badly thought-through tech policy.
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Object permanence: Shakespeare programming language; DeCSS is "pure speech"; Blue Coat sold surveillance tools to Syrian secret police; "Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions"; Cable prices rose at double the rate of inflation for 20 years; Supercuts; Antivax x Trump.
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Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid: First they came for the VPNs.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Object permanence: RIP Darwin's tortoise; ISPs conspire to create copyright jail; Waxy v fair use; Broken Windows is BS; Google is a machine-learning company; "Writing the Other"; Canadian wealth-tax.
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Google's AI pricing plan: From each according to their ability (to pay).
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Object permanence: Disney buys Pixar; Bruces on "vernacular video"; Hickey paralysis; RIP David Hartwell; Personalized pricing; They were warned.
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Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars: A/B splitting your way into doing a total fucking racism.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Object permanence: Predicting the present; Caller eye-deer; RIP Robert Sheckley; Student protesters and Google Maps vs kettling; If your kids like computers, they're criminals; A billion CC licenses; The moral character of cryptographic work; EC resurrects link-taxes.
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Tech monopolists use their market power to invade your privacy: The FTC shows that privacy is a competition issue.
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Surveillance pricing: They spy on you for many reasons, but also to rip you off.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2013, 2019, 2023
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Your car spies on you and rats you out to insurance companies: Even if you're paying for the product, you're still the product.
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This day in history: 2004, 2014, 2019
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This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023
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The surveillance advertising to financial fraud pipeline: Finding suckers is the one thing ad-targeting is good at.
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Linkty Dumpty: Things I thought about when I was supposed to be on holidays.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018
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