Today's links
- Experian doxes the world (again): And the breach is still ongoing.
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Tag: monopoly
Pluralistic: 25 Mar 2021
Today's links
- Zuckerpunch: Don't trust Mark Zuckerberg to solve the Facebook problem.
- Good news about news co-ops: Save journalism, not media monopolies.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 18 Feb 2021
Today's links
- Planet Money on HP's myriad ripoffs: Ink-stained wretches of the world, unite!
- Strength in numbers: The crisis in accounting.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 11 Feb 2021
Today's links
- Dependency Confusion: A completely wild supply-chain hack.
- Adam Curtis on criti-hype: Big Tech as an epiphenomenon of sociopathic mediocrity, not supergenius.
- Catalytic converter theft: Rhodium at $21,900/oz.
- Apple puts North Dakota on blast: Stop thinking different!
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 23 Jan 2021
Today's links
- Stop saying "it's not censorship if it's not the government": I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
- Trump's swamp gators find corporate refuge: The Swamped project.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 17 Jan 2021
Today's links
- Fighting fiber was the right's dumbest self-own: "We don't have to care. We're the [phone company|social media monopolist]."
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 12 Dec 2020
Today's links
- Youtube, fair use, competition, and the death of the artist: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
- Carbon offsets are bullshit: And the "Nature" "Conservancy" is neither.
- Outgoing Facebookers blast the company: "Embarrassing to work here."
- This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 07 Dec 2020
Today's links
- China’s war on big data backstabbing: China's antimonopoly, grounded in price discrimination.
- Someone Comes to Town Part 25: This week on my podcast.
- This day in history: 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 15 Sep 2020
Today's links
- A new Little Brother short story collection: Inspired by your generosity.
- EFF's 2020 Pioneer Awards: Livestreaming Oct 15.
- Tax havens and monopolies: It's a system.
- Obscure Texas election could change the world: Chrysta Castañeda for the Railroad Commission of Texas!
- Motorcycle-part animals: New assemblage sculptures from Jud Turner.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2109
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 20 May 2020
Today's links
- Hackers on Planet Earth, in the cloud: HOPE will not be cancelled.
- Climate and machine learning: Machine learning is roasting the planet.
- Seeking Fitbit owners' stories: Help EFF explain why the Google takeover is wrong.
- Software secrecy: Code is (bad) law.
- Grocer won't show employees results from mandatory temp-checks: Coronavirus theater, class war edition.
- Bill Clinton sings "Baby Got Back": Speech synthesis is just sublimely weird.
- Webinar on Controlled Digital Lending and the pandemic: Talking about the Internet Archive, this Friday.
- Google vows no custom AI for oil and gas: Reversing its 2018 position, which was garbage.
- Re-positive coronavirus cases are not infectious: Finally, we catch a break.
- Ifixit's medtech repair manual trove is full to bursting: Right to Repair, pandemic edition.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading