Pluralistic: Tesla's Dieselgate (28 July 2023)

Today's links

Tesla's Dieselgate: How DRM let Tesla defraud every one of its customers.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
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Epson boobytrapped its printers: "For your protection."
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2002, 2012, 2017, 2021
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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
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Github pledges legal aid for interoperators: Youtube-dl's legacy.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Improving the ACCESS Act: Six ways to make the most important tech law of the legislative season even better.
Juul's junk science: Reporting bias makes vaping's safety is a hazy mess.
Peloton bricks its treadmills: Your kids are dead because you didn't buy the subscription.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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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
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Robot Artists & Black Swans: The fantascienza of "Bruno Argento" (AKA Bruce Sterling).
Klobuchar on trustbusting: She's just published "Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age."
Pharma's anti-generic-vaccine lobbying blitz: A civilization-ending delusion about pools with "no-pissing" ends.
Unpack the court with judicial overrides: Consumer Protection and Recovery Act and beyond.
Lexmark's toxic printer-ink: Every pirate wants to be an admiral.
This day in history: 2011, 2020
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Laundering torturers' reputations with copyfraud: Eliminalia, where "we erase your past and help you build your future."
Foxconn's Wisconsin death-rattle: Imagine losing your family home for a GOP media op.
John Deere's dismal infosec: Paternalistic security works well, fails badly.
This day in history: 2020
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Podcasting chapter one of Attack Surface: A three hour preview of the audio, currently up on Kickstarter!
Crad Kilodney documentary: Kickstarting "Putrid Scum."
DRM versus human rights: Helping Mexico learn from 22 years of bitter US experience.
Germany's amazing new competition proposal: Putting interop front and center.
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Jesse Jackson endorses Sanders: "I stand with him because he stands with you."
Choose Your Own Adventure was Milton Friedman for Kids: There Is No Alternative.
Woman sues TSA over "pat-down" that penetrated her vagina: Las Vegas airport's finest.
Shat-out pig pedometer sparks farm-fire: Beyond Thunderdome, free range
UCSC strike prompts systemwide student and faculty solidarity strikes: Meanwhile, the regents are deporting striking TAs.
An open syllabus on "housing struggles": Detailed resources from the Pirate Care collective.
Yanis Varoufakis on how austerity leads to fascism: And how "constructive disobedience" can win support for alternatives.
John Deere is Right to Repair's archnemesis: Digital feudalism has reinvented the tenant farmer.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
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