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You Should Read This: Building A Delusional Panopticon

arkady2025-05-01Culture Law Read This Technology

Today’s links come via Schneier on Security. It’s time to look at what the coup has been doing with government data. TLDR: it’s not good. You should read these two articles: While both of them are absurdly uncritical about whether…

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You Should Read This: Ed Zitron Gets A Little Rude About The Generative AI Bubble

arkady2025-04-29Read This Technology

And “a little” is far less than the topic deserves. We should be getting a lot more rude about this nonsense. He opens his latest epic post on the topic with: I’m sick and god-damn tired of this! I have…

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You Should Read This: The Fucking News

arkady2025-04-22Read This

You really should read “The Fucking News“. For one thing, he’s a better writer than I am. I know I’m not a particularly awesome writer. I don’t do it to be awesome; I do this because the alternative is climbing…

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You Should Read This: Kevin Drum Has Died

arkady2025-03-11Culture Politics Read This

You can find out more at his Mother Jones author page, his Wikipedia page or his personal blog. His contribution to our civil society will be sorely missed now, when it is needed most. He was a keen observer of…

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You Should Read This: The Generative AI Con

arkady2025-02-19Culture Read This Technology

I’ve made no secret here of my, let’s say disdain, for all the generative A.I. hype. Ed Zitron (at Where’s Your Ed At) is also no fan, which is very clear in his latest post: The Generative AI Con. We…

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You Should Read This: In These Times, Losing the Plot

arkady2023-12-15Read This

In These Times is doing a feature issue on “The Right-Wing”, and the essay about former leftists moving rightward (Losing the Plot: The “Leftists” Who Turn Right) is getting a lot of traction. Fair enough; it’s quite good and you…

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You Should Read This: Your Stuff Is Actually Worse Now

arkady2023-07-07Read This

From a few months ago by Vox’ Izzie Ramirez, you should read Your stuff is actually worse now. If you’ve been wondering why the same make/model of thing you’ve been buying for years keeps not being quite the same each…

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You Should Read This: In Defense Of Free Speech Pedantry

arkady2022-12-21Culture Law Read This

You should read this small diatribe from Ken White (aka PopeHat): In Defense Of Free Speech Pedantry. Yeah, it’s Substack, but the Internet’s in turmoil right now and sometimes even smart people make bad hosting decisions. The important part is…

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You Should Read This: Authoritarian Nightmare

arkady2020-10-07Read This

Back in February I posted You Need To Read This: The Authoritarians, where I suggested that book as absolutely necessary to understanding politics in the U.S. today. Today, I think you should read Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers. This…

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You Should Read This: SC2 Is Still Spreading In Most of America

arkady2020-05-12Read This

You should put a few minutes into reading Here’s the US Death Toll From COVID-19 Not Counting New York at Mother Jones. It’s … not good. They present a graph of the 7-day rolling average (a stat that’s good for…

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