Lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living

New layout

Abasing myself before capitalism’s incessant demands for meaningless change, I have reworked the template of this blog, in a way that should look almost exactly the same. If something doesn’t work, please let me know: you can email me or tweet me.

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The internet is having one of its periodic freak-outs about a privacy policy change. Gawker posted a ridiculous, trolling article, which made its way onto Tumblr, and now is showing up in the Washington Post and on Democracy Now. The sentence causing all the concern is: In a radical privacy policy shift, Google announced today […]

I for one welcome our new panoptic overlords

Facebook’s recent decision to ask people to inform on any of their “friends” who aren’t using their real names on the site is faintly surprising to me, as I’m not really convinced by claims that social networks have much to gain financially from knowing the legal names of their users. Isn’t Facebook’s use of data […]

Ultraleft reformists

The curious thing about communism is how blandly realistic it is. It’s a straightforward reformist demand: “yes, go ahead and reform capitalism, but the only conceivable change at this point is towards communism.” Consider the demands for a social wage: it’s the only form of payment that makes any kind of sense given the contemporary […]