Pluralistic: Why Millenials aren't leaving Tiktok (21 Mar 2024)

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Why Millennials aren't leaving Tiktok: It's the same reason that Boomers can't leave Facebook.
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Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR's traffic: The brittle equilibrium of stage three enshittification.
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Saving the news from Big Tech with end-to-end social media: The final installment in my EFF series on saving the news.
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This day in history: 2013, 2018, 2022
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Justice Warriors: Matt Bors', Ben Clarkson's and Felipe Sobriero's scorchingly brilliant, viciously funny, dystopian sf graphic novel.
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This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018
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Social Quitting: How social media barons squandered their lock-in and made themselves obsolete.
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This day in history: None
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What the fediverse (does/n't) solve: We can protect our communities from commodification, but it takes work.
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This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017
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Better failure for social media: The right of exit, freedom of reach, and technological self-determination.
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This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017
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Podcasting How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: Part one of five(ish).
The real cancel culture: Multiple-choice union-busting.
Ad-tech's algorithmic cruelty: What technology does isn't as important as who it does it TO.
Folio Society publishes Philip K Dick's short fiction: Books as artifacts.
This day in history: 2011, 2016
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Homebrew dongles let hospitals fix ventilators: You forgot Poland.
Teddy Ruxpin and the Haunted Mansion: Ken Forsse's miniature Sid and Marty Krofft haunted house.
Dataminr helped cops spy on protesters with Twitter: And then they split the most idiotic hairs imaginable over it.
Police militarization has a business-model: The unstoppable force of excess rents and Beltway Bandits.
How Finspy protects itself from security researchers: Despots' malware, wrapped in spaghetti code and VMs.
Clamshell currency: Pismo Beach's solution to the bank holiday of 1933.
Macron demands national database of porn preferences: Comment dit kompromat en Français?
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
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Al Jaffee has retired: MAD's tribute to a 99-year-old legend.
Raffi on radical politics: The more we get together the happier we'll be.
Podcast: Part 6 of "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town": Young love, strange love.
Force Multiplier: Free Little Brother story for Attack Surface pre-orders, UK edition.
Socializing with spreadsheets: Party in a shared doc.
Red state pandemic rising: Pools can't have pissing and non-pissing ends.
US cyberdefense is AWOL: US "cyber" spending is all offense, no defense.
Scraping traffic-cams to capture police violence: NY activists are archiving public camera footage.
Huge trove of unprotected dating-app data: 845GB of pics, chat and PII hanging out in unprotected Amazon buckets.
This day in history: 2010, 2015
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading