Object permanence
Android can’t stop phoning home; FBI wants its bug back; Bikram can’t copyright yoga; Prison debaters trounce Harvard.
I’m on a tour with my new book Enshittification: Catch me next in Brooklyn, New Orleans and Los Angeles! Full schedule with dates and links here. Tune into tonight’s event with former FTC chair LINA KHAN at 19hET via the Brooklyn Public Library’s livestream.
#15yrsago Student finds GPS bug on car, uploads photo, FBI demands to have their warrantless bug back https://web.archive.org/web/20101009211920/https://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/fbi-tracking-device/
#15yrsago THE UNIDENTIFIED: dystopian YA about education transformed into a giant, heavily sponsored game https://memex.craphound.com/2010/10/08/the-unidentified-dystopian-ya-about-education-transformed-into-a-giant-heavily-sponsored-game/
#10yrsago Court tells millionaire yoga troll Bikram Choudhury that poses can’t be copyrighted https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2015/10/08/13-55763.pdf
#10yrsago Jimmy Wales calls UK’s proposed crypto ban “moronic” https://web.archive.org/web/20151009011752/https://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/e-regulation/jimmy-wales-wikipedia-encryption-178365
#10yrsago Prisoners’ debate team trounces national champs from Harvard — Cory Doctorow’s MEMEX https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/oct/07/harvards-prestigious-debate-team-loses-to-new-york-prison-inmates
#5yrsago Good Intentions, Bad Inventions https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/08/hype-beast/#moral-panics
#1yrago Google’s new phones can’t stop phoning home https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/08/water-thats-not-wet/#pixelated
