Pluralistic: 22 Jun 2021

Today's links

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
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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

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
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

A machine learning wrecking ball: Even if you fix training data, you still have to reckon with underspecification.
Nintendo vs Nintendees: Super Smash Bros Melee is a case study in spiteful corporate fuckery.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

RIAA's war on youtube-dl: The rise of the resistance.
Trump abandons supporters to freeze: More death cult shit.
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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.
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Sterilizer company vs Right to Repair: Steris wants Ifixit to stop distributing repair manuals.
Intro to cybersecurity: The Open University's MOOC.
This is the EU's interoperability moment: The Digital Services Act could challenge Big Tech — but will it?
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Covid apps and false positives: The real killer app is public confidence.
Casio censors calculator modder's Github project: The modder says it's copyfraud.
Penguin poop turns into laughing gas: Researchers figured it out when they started getting buzzed.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

I'm teaching a teen writing class: "Stories are Super Weird. Here’s Why They Work."
Trump will deliver killing blow to the USPS: The murder's been underway since 2006.
Fighting the EU Copyright Directive in court: Former MEP Julia Reda has a new gig doing impact litigation.
Virginia's election-day holiday: They also eliminated Lee-Jackson Day.
Quantifying Boris Johnson's body-count: Ireland makes for a natural experiment.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

The Public Domain Review Coloring Book: Hokusai, Albrecht Dürer, Harry Clarke, Virginia Frances Sterrett, etc.
Amazon's leaked anti-worker smear plan: They put it in writing.
Wikipedia vs patent troll: No, you didn't invent autocomplete.
Bug bounty programs as catch-and-kills: Companies are not good stewards of their own bad news.
The Tea Party killed pandemic preparedness: "No one warned us" -Congressman who was warned repeatedly.
This day in history: 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading