Pluralistic: 30 Oct 2020

Today's links

Facebook loses users, makes more money: It's good to be king.
DRM horror-stories needed: Your chance to change the law.
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Amazon says only corporations own property: Everyone else is a licensor.
Violent cops' deadly victim complex: Murderers hiding behind victims' rights laws.
Sue your medical bully: A recipe for small-claims victory.
This day in history: 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Davis Haunters rise from the grave: Oregon's Hallowe'en is saved.
RIAA kills youtube-dl: Everything not forbidden is mandatory.
This day in history: 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Dystopia as clickbait: Chris Brown on uncozy apocalypses.
Trail of Mars: New, lyrically gifted science fictional music from John McDaid.
Bride of Frankenstein and the Monster: New, limited Brian Ewing prints for Hallowe'en 2020.
The Passenger Pigeon Manifesto: "Liberate and upload all digitised photographs and artworks."
Bricked Ferrari: DRM and the accommodation of corner-cases.
The Dennis Ball Show: Dad jokes and Haunted Mansion trivia with djBC's alter-ego.
This day in history: None
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Squeeze Me: Carl Hiaasen's Trump-as-Florida-man masterpiece.
The Internet is for End-Users: IETF on "user agents."
Ad-tech is a bubble: Subprime Attention Crisis.
Schools! Libraries! Classrooms! Get free Attack Surface hardcovers: An imperfect solution to a thorny problem.
Facebook's living will: Leaks reveal the company's idiotic plans to stave off breakup.
Part 17 of Someone Comes to Town Someone Leaves Town: This week on the podcast: a murder most foul.
Seeking home call-center workers: Propublica wants your story.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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

I'm being inducted into the Canadian SF/F hall of fame: A club that would have me as a member!
Mexico's copyright vs self-determination and national sovereignty: Colonialism 2.0.
Self-bricking medical device: "Once EXOGEN delivers 343 treatments, it will not provide further treatment."
Apple's internal Right to Repair fight: Ifixit got leaked receipts.
Challenge questions suck: Your favorite food is pizza.
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Break 'Em Up: Zephyr Teachout's trustbusting program for the 21st century.
Unauthorized Meat: Mellow Sous Vide journeys to the Internet of Shit.
Let's force Big Tech to interoperate: Here's why…and how.
No consequences for police violence at BLM actions: Propublica followed up on viral videos showing gross misconduct and found…crickets.
The Internet Archive defends online libraries: First filings from the Hachette lawsuit.
Bitcoin is not a socialist's ally: Yanis Varoufakis responds to Ben Arc.
Where "software" comes from: "In October, 1953, I coined the word 'software.'"
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Working as intended: My upcoming free lecture on the role monopoly plays in distorting our discourse and creating conspiracies.
Buying (not licensing) my ebooks: The best way to get my ebooks and audiobooks.
Scihub boosts cites: Public sphere vs Elsevier.
Topple monuments…with science: Popular Mechanics is here for you.
Privacy Analyzer: What does the web know about you?
Frederick Douglass's descendants read his July 4 speech: "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Crowdfunding an open access jewelry course: Elise Matheson wants to preserve her "wandering wire" methodology.
Bahamas Company Registry leaked: Another service of the Distributed Denial of Secrets project.
Mafia logic and conservative ideology: There is a difference.
Podcast: Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Part 4: Enter Kurt.
Google's free/open multilingual font: Banishing tofu with Noto.
Soviet Signs and Relics: A book of sovkitsch sourced from Google Street View.
Rogue UK civil service tweet damns "truth-twisters": Impunity rage.
A jailbreak for every version of Ios: Attacking is easier than defending.
Texas Instruments locks down its hackable calculators: Designed to control the user.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading