Today's links
- LaserWriter II: Tamara Shopsin's celebration of the heroic era of the Mac.
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Tag: right to repair
Pluralistic: 10 Jul 2021
Today's links
- Biden's Right to Repair will include electronics, too: Part of a broad antimonopoly agenda.
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 07 Jul 2021
Today's links
- Technological self-determination: Competition is a means, not an end.
- Biden delivers Right to Repair via executive order: End of the line for John Deere's asshole lobbyists.
- Comic book store files comic-book lawsuit: Third Planet Comics has already won its case…in my heart.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 26 May 2021
Today's links
- Monopolists are winning the repair wars: Again.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 20 Apr 2021
Today's links
- Real penalties for covid evicters: The CFPB is set to euthanize some rentiers – and their lawyers.
- McDonald's corporate wages war on ice-cream hackers: All the pasteurization in the world won't detoxify the mix of franchise agreements and rent-extraction.
- This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 02 Feb 2021
Today's links
- Criti-Hype: Tech bros will settle for "evil genius."
- Right to Repair is back for 2021: Will Apple sabotage this one too?
- The free market and rent-seeking: Unauthorized bread and poor doors.
- This day in history: 2011, 2016
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 13 Nov 2020
Today's links
- Big Car wants to pump the brakes on Right to Repair: Automotive makers v 76% of Massachusetts.
- How to Fix the Internet: EFF has a podcast!
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 03 Sep 2020
Today's links
- Big Car says Right to Repair will MURDER YOU: You wouldn't download a car.
- Algorithmic grading: Another weapon of math destruction.
- Snowden vindicated: NSA spying was illegal.
- Coronavirus is over (if we want it): All we have to do is reform our entire health-care system.
- Rest in Power, David Graeber: Occupy, Debt, Utopia of Rules, Bullshit Jobs.
- Hedge fund managers trouser 64%: 2-and-20 is a fiction.
- Corporate spooks track you "to your door": SDKs are trojan horses.
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 03 Aug 2020
Today's links
- A universal remote for killing people: It's really time to trade in your Medtronic Minimed insulin pump. Really.
- New podcast episode: Part 12 of my reading of "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town.
- The sordid tale of We Charity: Black Hat SEO, investigating critical journalist's children, and more.
- NSO Group cyberweapons targeted Togo's opposition: Another dictator for NSO's reference customer list.
- This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 31 Jul 2020
Today's links
- 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