Today's links
- The zombie economy and digital arm-breakers: Debts that can't be paid won't be paid, but still…
- This day in history: 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Tag: mobile
Pluralistic: 15 Mar 2021
Today's links
- Making Hay: My new "Lost Cause" story in MIT Tech Review's "Make Shift."
- Free markets: My latest Locus column on rent-seeking and audiobooks.
- STREAMLINER: Vantablack noir French hotrod comics for the win.
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 10 Nov 2020
Today's links
- Microchip "dark matter": An unpatchable, ecosystem-shattering security break.
- Reset: Ron Deibert's Massey Lectures.
- Rights of Nature and legal standing: Give precedence to humans and nature, not corporations.
- Broadband wins the 2020 election: First, Denver and Chicago – now, the nation!
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 02 Oct 2020
Today's links
- 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
Pluralistic: 19 Sep 2020
Today's links
- Attack Surface vs Audible: My Publishers Weekly op-ed.
- Foodcrime: The tech predators destroying America's restaurants.
- We Are Beautiful: 3D printable anatomical models of real bodies.
- Precursor: Andrew "bunnie" Huang's new open source hardware mobile platform.
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 25 May 2020
Today's links
- 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
Pluralistic: 13 Mar 2020
Today's links
- Announcing the third Little Brother book, Attack Surface: And a new Little Brother/Homeland reissue, with an intro by Ed Snowden!
- Where I Write: A column for the CBC that's really about how I write.
- Stream 200+ global news channels: Each hand-picked, no registration required.
- AT&T's CEO fired 23,000 workers and gave himself a 10% raise: Life on the easiest setting.
- Chelsea Manning is free: But she's been fined $256K for refusing to testify to the Grand Jury.
- Rep Katie Porter forces CDC boss to commit to free testing: Literally the most effective questioner in Congress.
- Trump's unfitness in a plague: It's not because he's an ignoramus, it's because he's a nihilist.
- Malware that hides behind a realtime Covid-19 map: Peter Watts' prophecy comes true.
- Locked-down Siennese sing their city's hymn: A cause for hope in the dark.
- This day in history: 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading