[ Update: I’m old enough that I should have known it, but Russ Nelson points out in the comments that there is a jargon file entry for this: Yak-Shaving ] There’s a concept I’ve been trying to articulate for some time. The problem is during the episodes where I want to articulate it, I’m so […]
Of Interest
Unassailable: The book that protects you from Cancel-Culture and Deplatform Attacks
UPDATE April 23,2020: I’ve decided to make the ebook version of my latest book: Unassailable Protect Yourself from Deplatform Attacks, Cancel-Culture and other Online Disasters available for free, follow this link. You can read why here. Originally, this was supposed to be a 15 or 20 page ebook / report we were going to give […]
Bitcoin Cash is out. Litecoin is in.
Belatedly, and perhaps proving the point… we stopped accepting Bitcoin Cash at some point over the holidays and I’m only remembering to write about it now. What prompted the decision was the Bitcoin Cash fork into Bitcoin SV and Bitcoin ABC. We were ok supporting a fork from Bitcoin Core, believing this was an example of […]
A Heretic’s Guide to Deplatforming
[Update: Ironically, after ascending rapidly and fostering vigorous commentary over on Hackernews, this article has been “flagged” there . Update #2: A few hours later it was unflagged and is currently on the first page of HN ] The phenomenon of deplatforming in the internet age, which includes the component of publicly expressed outrage that impels companies to […]
Lessons Learned from the Namejuice/DROA/DROC Outage
Last week an ICANN registrar, Namejuice, went off the air for the better part of the day – disappearing off the internet at approximately 8:30am, taking all domains delegated to its nameservers with it, and did not come back online until close to 11pm ET. That was a full business day and more of complete […]
Escape from the BUMMER machine
(A long overdue review of Jaron Laniers’ “10 Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now“) In 1978 a former public relations and advertising exec, Jerry Mander wrote “Four Arguments For the Elimination of Television”. Mander in essence argued that “the problems with television are inherent in the medium and technology itself, and thus […]
