We Demand More Information on How Marin Cops Illegally Shared Flock ALPR Data
The Marin County Sheriff’s Office is the latest California law enforcement agency to get caught sharing automated license plate reader (ALPR) data from their Flock…
Tech and Internet
Challengers Approach: Third Party App Stores Arrive to Google Play
If you are an Android user, you may have noticed it already: Google has begun allowing rival, third-party app stores to be distributed through the…
Court Agrees with EFF: Utah’s VPN Law Demands a Technical Impossibility
When state lawmakers attempt to rewrite how the internet works, users rely on courts to recognize that laws can’t make technical impossibilities a reality. That’s…
Happy Opt Out October! Let’s Find Real Alternatives to the Tech Giants
Over the years, the major tech companies have found all sorts of ways to embed themselves into our lives. We often use their software, their…
Pluralistic: Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts (01 Oct 2026)
Today’s links Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts: The big P only matters if the small p is in play. Hey look…
The Rot at the Top
As elections loom, Democrats must connect the dots between higher prices and the corruption of the Trump regime and its Republican enablers.
The post The Rot…
Why Trump Opted for Existential AI Risks
By treating American technological primacy as a national-security imperative, the administration can oppose the slowing of American AI development as strategically dangerous.
The post Why Trump…
Taking Social Relations as the Basic Unit of Analysis
In capitalism, social relations of production exert outsized force on all other domains, distorting and warping relations of reproduction, protection, and meaning-making without fully annihilating…
Victory! California Appeals Court Refuses to Revive Surveillance Tech CEO’s Meritless Lawsuit Against Journalist
When the rich and powerful try to use the court to silence negative reporting about themselves, it’s worth calling out that behavior for what it…