Today's links
- Daniel Pinkwater wrote a new novel! Yippee for "ADVENTURES OF A DWERGISH GIRL!"
- Warner Chappel discoved a new form of copyright fuckery so dense it blew a wormhole into another dimension: From the people who fraudulently claimed to own "Happy Birthday" for decades.
- RIP, Jim Tyre: The free internet just lost one of its most dedicated defenders.
- Decentralizing the web is a human problem: The web needs stewards, not owners.
- Right to Repair is the right to resilience: Independent repair is how we keep things going during emergencies.
- Keyless car fobs can be defeated with a cheap RFID cloner: Car manufacturers wontfix a showstopper bug. Again.
- Bookstores, libraries, human thriving and mental health: Books are great, even if the science behind their greatness is thin.
- Copyright experts' panel on fair use removed from Youtube: A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
- Radicalized is out in paperback: Just hit every one of Canada's national bestseller lists, too!
- African Whatsapp modders are outcompeting Facebook: Adversarial Interoperability is how you beat digital colonialism.
- This day in history: 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading
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