Object permanence
Polostan; New Zealand’s 3 strikes law; Open Kinekt drivers; Co-op platforms vs Uber; Chelsea Manning’s surveillance reform bill.
I’m on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller Enshittification. Catch me next in Miami, Burbank, and Lisbon! Full schedule with dates and links here.
#15yrsago New Zealand proposes “guilty until proven innocent” copyright law to punish accused infringers https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/11/new-zealand-p2p-proposal-guilty-until-proven-innocent/
#15yrsago Toronto cops who removed their name-tags during the G20 to avoid identification will be docked a day’s pay https://web.archive.org/web/20101107144339/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/nearly-100-toronto-officers-to-be-disciplined-over-summit-conduct/article1784884/ /
#15yrsago $2K bounty for free/open Kinect drivers (Microsoft thinks this is illegal!) https://blog.adafruit.com/2010/11/04/the-open-kinect-project-the-ok-prize-get-1000-bounty-for-kinect-for-xbox-360-open-source-drivers/
#15yrsago TSA official slipped white powder into fliers’ bags, told them they’d been caught with coke and were under arrest https://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/stupid/memos-detail-tsa-officers-cocaine-pranks
#10yrsago Firefox’s new privacy mode also blocks tracking ads https://web.archive.org/web/20151104081611/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/mozilla-ships-tracking-protection-firefox
#10yrsago Predatory lenders trick Google into serving ads to desperate, broke searchers https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/google-searches-privacy-danger/413614/
#10yrsago Fighting Uber’s Death Star with a Rebel Alliance of co-op platforms https://web.archive.org/web/20151107021010/http://www.shareable.net/blog/how-platform-coops-can-beat-death-stars-like-uber-to-create-a-real-sharing-economy
#10yrsago If the Kochs want criminal justice reform, why do they fund tough-on-crime GOP candidates? https://theintercept.com/2015/11/03/soft-on-crime-ads/
#10yrsago Chelsea Manning publishes a 129-page surveillance reform bill from her cell in Leavenworth https://web.archive.org/web/20151103175813/https://s3.amazonaws.com/fftf-cms/media/medialibrary/2015/11/manning-memo.pdf
#1yrago Neal Stephenson’s “Polostan” https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/04/bomb-light/#nukular
