break the rules not the laws
Today’s links Mark Zuckerberg announces mind-control ray (again): The business model for AI is the same as the business model for Big Data – bilking credulous advertisers. Hey look at…
Continue Reading Pluralistic: Mark Zuckerberg announces mind-control ray (again) (07 May 2025)
Today’s links Tariffs and monopolies: As American as eating all the apple pie. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2010, 2020 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me.…
Today’s links “The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets”: Maureen Tkacik on the monstrous corporate raider running DOGE. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.…
Today’s links “The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets”: Maureen Tkacik on the monstrous corporate raider running DOGE. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.…
Today’s links Kickstarting a new Martin Hench novel about the dawn of enshittification: A crime thriller of pyramid schemes, faith scams, weird PCs, Reaganomics, punk rock, and San Francisco during…
Today’s links A year in illustration (2024): Call me immodest, but I really think I’ve upped my game. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009,…
Today’s links Antiusurpation and the road to disenshittification: We’ve got the wrong kind of middlemen. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019,…
Today’s links China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI’s backdoor: There’s no such thing as a backdoor that only works when ‘good guys’ use it. Hey look at…
Today’s links The Google antitrust remedy should extinguish surveillance, not democratize it: “People like relevant ads” is a lie, and “attribution” is an abomination. Hey look at this: Delights to…
Today’s links The airlines were patient zero in the junk-fee plague: “Convenience fees” that aren’t convenient and “service fees” without any service. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This…