Three AI insights for hard-charging, future-oriented smartypantses (permalink) Living in the age of AI hype makes demands on all of us to come up with smartypants prognostications about how AI is about to change everything […]
2600’s amazing Hackers on Planet Earth con may go down due to enshittification (permalink) It’s been 40 years since Emmanuel Goldstein launched the seminal, essential, world-changing 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. 2600 wasn’t the first phreak/hacker […]
Kickstarting “The Bezzle” audiobook, sequel to Red Team Blues (permalink) I’m kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, the sequel to last year’s Red Team Blues, featuring Marty Hench, a hard-charging, two-fisted forensic accountant who spent […]
\ Kickstarting the audiobook of The Lost Cause, my novel of environmental hope (permalink) The Lost Cause is my next novel. It’s about the climate emergency. It’s hopeful. Library Journal called it “a message […]
Today’s links Naomi Klein’s “Doppelganger”: On late capitalism’s double-vision and double trouble. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading […]
Have you ever read a novel that was so good you almost felt angry at it? I mean, maybe that’s just me, but there is one author who consistently triggers my literary pleasure centers so […]
The media spectacle of generative AI (in which AI companies’ breathless claims of their software’s sorcerous powers are endlessly repeated) has understandably alarmed many creative workers, a group that’s already traumatized by extractive abuse by […]
Today’s links What the fediverse (does/n’t) solve: We can protect our communities from commodification, but it takes work. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 Colophon: Recent […]
Why copyright alone can’t unrig creative labor markets. Chokepoint Capitalism is my next book, co-written with the brilliant copyright scholar Rebecca Giblin. It’s a book about how the markets for creative labor were rigged, and how […]
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