apple juice

I suppose you’ve come to say you’re sorry? I hope so, given your years of sneering and hand-wringing about how I was ruining knowledge. Meanwhile, you turned your information environment into a hypercapitalist post-truth digital snuff film.

From HI, IT’S ME, WIKIPEDIA, AND I AM READY FOR YOUR APOLOGY

This is pretty great, and the gist of the past couple books I’ve read.

Busting Eight Common Excuses for NSA Mass Surveillance | Electronic Frontier Foundation

“I have nothing to hide from the government, so why should I worry? “

Handy guide from the EFF

U.S Internet Users Pay More For Slower Speeds

Man, the free market is working out SO WELL!

I’ve blogged before about my internet options and linked to charts showing that Americans pay more money for less bandwidth than just about every other developed nation in the world.

Lawrence Lessig makes this point (among others) in this speech at WiscNet Future Technology Conference. The larger context of this speech is the corrupting influence of money in government, but I’ve started right about the section where he talks about broadband.

I think the solution in this case (at least for minneapolis) is to build out the network that was made for our municipal wifi. I want to subscribe on principle, but at 6Mbps, it is not exactly fast. However, if I could have fiber to my house, then we’d be talking!

one of my all-time favorite things on the internet, ever, (the show with ze frank) is coming back.

he’s funding it (a show with ze frank) on kickstarter if you’d like to kick in five bucks.

This analysis of an op-ed from the RIAA chief is worth a read:

RIAA Still Raging against Google, Wikipedia

“If a company has significant intellectual property that the Chinese and Russians are interested in, and you go over there with mobile devices, your devices will get penetrated,” said Joel F. Brenner, formerly the top counterintelligence official in the office of the director of national intelligence.

Traveling Light in a Time of Digital Thievery – NY Times