No one’s gonna buy enterprise AI licenses if they can’t fire their workers. — Tomorrow (October 2), I’ll be in Boise to host an event with VE Schwab. October 7–8, I’m in Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest. After a grinding, 148-day strike, the Writers Guild of America ran the table, conceding virtually nothing and winning virtually everything. The most consequential outcome will be data…

2013, 2018, 2022. — Monday (October 2), I’ll be in Boise to host an event with VE Schwab. October 7–8, I’m in Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest. #10yrsago Asteroid named after Randall “XKCD” Munroe https://blog.xkcd.com/2013/09/30/asteroid-4942-munroe/ #10yrsago HOWTO make $200,000 off of the above-inflation USPS postage hike https://qz.com/128329/a-step-by-step-guide-to-profiting-off-the-3-cent-hike-on-us-postage-stamps

It’s a series of totally tubular links. — Monday (October 2), I’ll be in Boise to host an event with VE Schwab. October 7–8, I’m in Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest. The second decade of the 21st century is truly a bounteous time. My backyard has produced a bumper crop of an invasive species of mosquito that is…

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018. — Monday (October 2), I’ll be in Boise to host an event with VE Schwab. October 7–8, I’m in Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest. #20yrsago Bruce Sterling’s 10 technologies that deserve to die https://web.archive.org/web/20031002013533/https://www.technologyreview.com/articles/print_version/Sterling1003.asp #15yrsago Adventurer’s Club at Disney World closes https://attractionsmagazine.com/huge-crowd-gives-heartfelt-send-off-to-adventurers-club/

Finding suckers is the one thing ad-targeting is good at. — Monday (October 2), I’ll be in Boise to host an event with VE Schwab. October 7–8, I’m in Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest. Being watched sucks. Of all the parenting mistakes I’ve made, none haunt me more than the times my daughter caught me watching her while she was learning…

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022. — #20yrsago Accenture puts Verisign in charge of US Internet voting https://web.archive.org/web/20031008122745/http://rss.com.com/2100-1029_3-5083772.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news #15yrsago Olympics reach a new low: trademarking the Canadian national anthem and threatening lawsuits over competing uses https://web.archive.org/web/20080928162742/http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/09/25/bc-vancouver-olympics-trademark-o-canada.html

Socialism or barbarism. — Monday (October 2), I’ll be in Boise to host an event with VE Schwab. October 7–8, I’m in Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest. Socialists have been hotly anticipating the end of capitalism since at least 1848, when Marx and Engels published The Communist Manifesto — but the Manifesto also reminds…

2013, 2018, 2022. — Monday (October 2), I’ll be in Boise to host an event with VE Schwab. On October 7–8, I’m in Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest. #10yrsago FBI: We know you’re innocent, but you’re not getting off the No-Fly list unless you rat out your friends https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/no-fly-list-where-fbi-goes-fishing-informants #10yrsago EFF racks up another…

Apparently, ripping off Black people with the Freefile scam is a form of reparations. — Tonight (September 27), I’ll be at Chevalier’s Books in Los Angeles with Brian Merchant for a joint launch for my new book The Internet Con and his new book, Blood in the Machine. On October 2, I’ll be in Boise to host an event with VE Schwab. Today’s key concept…