It’s the holidays, and you know what that means: an endless stream of wishlists, gift guides, and splashy sales of products competing for our cash. Since this is the 21st century, so many of those are...
12.07.2023 Latimes.com and 2 sitesPalantir Technologies Inc PLTR shares are trading lower Wednesday, adding to losses of nearly 8% over the last week. Here's a look at what's going on . What To Know: The recent pullback in Palantir sh...
12.06.2023 Tradingview.com and 1 sitesI recently posted a five-hour version of "The Song That Doesn't End, " and in the discussion boards, atteSmythe was kind enough to point me to an adjacent idea called the "Eternal Jukebox"–an applicat...
12.07.2023 Boingboing.netHoliday shopping for all of your family and friends is never easy, but the ideologically committed can present unique challenges. If you need to buy a gift for a would-be smasher of patriarchy, white ...
12.06.2023 Newsbreak.com and 2 sitesThis is a review of Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back , by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow. What is chokepoint capitalism? Giblin and Doctorow explain: “Anticompetitive flywheels vary by industry, each chokepoint capitalist seeks to do the same thing: lock in users, lock in suppliers, make markets hostile to new entrants, and, ultimately, use the lack of choice to force workers and suppliers to accept unsustainably lo...
12.07.2023 Ipkitten.blogspot.comNnedi Okorafor and Cory Doctorow both released new novels in November and, though both writers set their books in n ear-future dystopias , they could hardly be more different. Where Doctorow set his i...
12.04.2023 Bookandfilmglobe.comThe term was coined by journalist Cory Doctorow to explain the fatal drift of major Internet platforms: if they were ever useful and user-friendly, they will inevitably end up being odious.
12.02.2023 Worldcrunch.com and 2 sites‣ Candice Breitz speaks to Philip Poltermann at the Guardian about her German exhibition being canceled because of her positions on Gaza: What were the reasons the museum gave for the cancellation? Wh...
12.08.2023 Hyperallergic.com