Today's links How labor rights rescued Ultima from a monopolist : If you care about labor justice and artists' rights, stop focusing on copyright. Hey look at this : Delights to delectate. Object permanence : China unblocks Wikipedia; CCC cracks the Bundestrojaner; "Children of the Sky"; "Messy"; Every top Icelandic banker is guilty; Climate activism x digital activism; Gene Kan on P2P's future; L

Today's links Thwarted : Behold the awesome destructive power of a fully operational billionaire. Hey look at this : Delights to delectate. Object permanence : Anthrax v National Inquirer; Grey goo v Second Life; Predictive policing v actual crime; Spooky cookies; California v algorithmic price-fixing; Tivo self-destructs; Disney exec endorses piracy; TSA v geologists; Handheld printer; Mandatory

Today's links Disloyalty : Air Canada's frequent flier fuckery. Hey look at this : Delights to delectate. Object permanence : Indie booksellers v internet; Coke pays dieticians to astroturf soda taxes; Voting in a voter-suppression state; Facebook v your use of Facebook. Upcoming appearances : Hudson, Calgary, Winnipeg, Paris, Vancouver, Victoria, Ottawa, Kilkenny, Sheffield, Oxford, Montreal. Rec

Today's links Swapping money for expertise : Money can't buy me love. Hey look at this : Delights to delectate. Object permanence : "Tempo"; Yahoo censors MEP's torture debate video; Scotland's money-laundry; A textbook scam; DOS the IRS then charge for access; Just trying to make a buck. Upcoming appearances : Virtual, South Bend, Hudson, Calgary, Winnipeg, Paris, Vancouver, Victoria, Ottawa, Kil

Today's links Scrutinized : Pervert glasses vs the authentic self. Hey look at this : Delights to delectate. Object permanence : DRM-free in the UK; Maple-leaf roses; Italian Wikipedia shuts down; Vancouver's property speculator tax works; Ex-Soviet leftists launch "September"; "The Every"; Nielsen x Chinese internet; Get-a-cluevog; Cat EULA; Heart carafe; Millennials screwed; Apple's unlawful evi

Today's links Economic probabilities for our grandchildren : If only data centers would stop hogging all the copper. Hey look at this : Delights to delectate. Object permanence : RIAA v P2P; Infoseek's anti-terror brain-scanner; Copyrighting every phone number; Carving pumpkins with cookie-cutters; Polish women go on strike; Latent labor in material world; Hitler's meth; "Flying Saucers Are Real!"

Today's links Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts : The big P only matters if the small p is in play. Hey look at this : Delights to delectate. Object permanence : Gilberto Gil v WIPO; Censored Apple wifi hacker talk; Wells Fargo crime-spree started in 1998; Stencils "may not be reproduced"; DVD Jon v Apple DRM; Unpaid diplomatic parking tickets as index of corruption; Tortured Canadi

Today's links Lindsay Owens's "Gouged" : The end of a fair price and what that means for your wallet. Hey look at this : Delights to delectate. Object permanence : Doonesbury on 9/11; Suspicious Looking Device; Elephant-shit paper; The Onion x TSA liquid rules; Borders goodbye letter; Voting machines suck; EFF v DRM; Matt Furie on the hijacking of Pepe; Austerity v last steam-loom; Facebook x "dis

Today's links Priceful : So worthless we can tell you what it's worth. Hey look at this : Delights to delectate. Object permanence : Nasdaq allows post-9/11 penny stocks; USAF can shoot down civilian aircraft; TSA bans calling Kip Hawley an idiot; Wells Fargo sued for firing fraud-refusing tellers; The real AI apocalypse; Encryption didn't cause 9/11; Bat-person costume; British Library on DRM and

Today's links Itch scratching : Love, care and self-actualization. Hey look at this : Delights to delectate. Object permanence : 9/11 x Viridians; Announcing Wikipedia; Infinite Copyright Mickey; Floppy shoulder bag; Wells Fargo's long sleaze; Corbyn wins Labour leadership; Interop v internet monopolies; The billionaires aren't all right; RIP Mike Ford; PGP didn't cause 9/11; Flying Solaris boxen;

Today's links Bonta sold us out to Trump's oligarchs : A "settlement" that promises less than nothing. Hey look at this : Delights to delectate. Object permanence : Warren on taxing the rich and class warfare; Psychology v reproducibility; Copyright troll sentenced for beating Uber driver; "Halloween Moon"; Enshittification of solar. Upcoming appearances : Berkeley, Edmonton, Boston, Brighton, Sou

Today's links The Claude Delusion : What if we're the ones having hallucinations? Hey look at this : Delights to delectate. Object permanence : 9/11 v sex; 9/11 v flags; US customs v diplomatic Vegemite; CIA torture survivors speak; HP's inky timebomb; "The Raven" pop-up; Forex v Zimbabwe's internet; Shirky v "expert Wikipedia": McSweeney's v RIAA; Italy's internet disconnection law; Facehugger ma

Today's links Textured : The surprises are what matter. Hey look at this : Delights to delectate. Object permanence : RIP Mr Dressup; Oligarch sucker-punch; ICC v CEOs. Upcoming appearances : Berkeley, Edmonton, Boston, South Bend, Hudson, Calgary, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Victoria, Ottawa, Kilkenny, Montreal. Recent appearances : Where I've been. Latest books : You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin'

Today's links On the sincerity of AI bosses : Fascism is always an incoherent bundle. Hey look at this : Delights to delectate. Object permanence : 9/11 v spam; PalmOS x WTC collapse; Wifi x WTC rubble; Berlusconi sex rings; Tesco bans writing down prices; AI psychosis and the warped mirror; Conspiratorialism's causal chain. Upcoming appearances : Budapest, Berkeley, Edmonton, Boston, South Bend,

Today's links How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses : If you can't impose switching costs, just eliminate the competition. Hey look at this : Delights to delectate. Object permanence : Flash Worms; This Film is Not Yet Rated; Libdem copyright sabotage; Religion worth more than Big Tech; Geographic tubemap; Selective censorship resistance. Upcoming appearances : Budapest, Edmonton, Boston, South

Today's links Everybody pees : Even Jeff Bezos. Hey look at this : Delights to delectate. Object permanence : Zune won't play Microsoft files; Papercraft 1:1 Mustang; Third gender for Aussie passports; France hacked Canada; EC v links; Welcome to Night Vale; University spends librarian's bequest on football scoreboard; Everything is always broken. Upcoming appearances : Budapest, Edmonton, Boston,

Today's links But do you use keyboard shortcuts? : AI people are WEIRD. Hey look at this : Delights to delectate. Object permanence : "Changeling"; Sony Rootkit vs CD drives; Google's scumbag lobbyists; NJ's e-voting coverup; Spying sex toys; Scott Walker dark money leak; "REAMDE"; Snowden's pardon. Upcoming appearances : Budapest, Edmonton, South Bend, Hudson, Calgary, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Victor

Today's links LLMs are real, AI is fake : No, it didn't "go rogue." Hey look at this : Delights to delectate. Object permanence : Why 9/11 Means We Must Support My Politics; Blogs x 9/11; Jimmy Wales v Britannica's EiC; Hollywood astroturfs Australia; Agents v queer YA; Soft landings for dirty cops; Leaked Stingray manual. Upcoming appearances : Budapest, Edmonton, South Bend, Hudson, Calgary, Win

Today's links Inefficiency is bad, actually : Now, "resiliency" on the other hand… Hey look at this : Delights to delectate. Object permanence : Canada's DMCA; Socialism x Pledge of Allegiance; Hate the player and the game; Making Light's 9/11; 9/11 survivor registry; Secure email caused 9/11; German Pirates; Hollywood's Canadian MP; Reverse Centaurs resolve the AI paradox. Upcoming appearances :

Today's links Anti-vax/anti-trust : Remembering saves lives. Hey look at this : Delights to delectate. Object permanence : Disneyland prisoner; HOAs v xeriscaping; Copyright Office x regulatory capture; The women held a vote; Open licenses v uncopyrightable subjects; Largest prison strike in history; Largest strike in history; Fingerspitzengefühl; CDT v DRM; BNL v DRM; Sugar v logos; Knit a Prince