Pluralistic: Canada's ground-breaking, hamstrung repair and interop laws (15 Nov 2024)

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Canada's ground-breaking, hamstrung repair and interop laws: It's time for the "radical extremists" to have their day.
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Pluralistic: Subprime gadgets (29 Mar 2024)

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Subprime gadgets: What a remote-brick app tells us about debt collection in the age of trusted computing.
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This day in history: 2004, 2014, 2019, 2023
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Pluralistic: How lock-in hurts design (24 Jan 2024)

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How lock-in hurts design: Felonizing the desire path.
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This day in history: 2004, 2014, 2019, 2024
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Pluralistic: Cloudburst (03 August 2023)

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Cloudburst: The timely surge of "local-first computing."
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This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018
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Pluralistic: Better failure for social media (19 Dec 2022)

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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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Pluralistic: 08 Jul 2021

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Indonesia's gig work tech resistance: Tuyul apps and the IT of the Road.
Owning a sports-team is a plute's get-out-of-tax-free card: Here's what to do about it.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 05 Apr 2021

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How Facebook will benefit from its massive breach: Creating a problem does not qualify you to solve the problem.
This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 07 May 2020

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The TSA is hoarding N95s: It doesn't even use 'em.
Look at this banana gondola.: Just look at it.
America is united: Turkeys skeptical about Christmas.
$3 router rebooter: If no_google then reboot.
EFF's Guide to Digital Rights During the Pandemic: Digital rights are human rights.
Wink will brick your smart home if you don't pay a monthly fee: How you act in bad times reveals your true character.
Helicopter flyover of deserted Disneyland: We find it delightfully unlivable here in this ghostly retreat.
EU: "Cookie walls violate the GDPR": Another blow to cookie consent theatre.
Unix and Adversarial Interoperability: The "one weird antitrust trick" that defined modern computing.
Sidewalk Labs pulls out of Toronto: Sic Semper Boondoggle.
Wechat spies on non-Chinese users for in-China censorship: Your dank memes, banned in realtime.
Hidden doors disguised as bookcases: No books harmed.
Vent dragons: Alas, you can't use them as working vent covers.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
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Pluralistic: 13 Mar 2020

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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
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Pluralistic: 05 Mar 2020

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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
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