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Two swordsmen cross blades while standing on the pages of an open book, an inkpot between them. The swords are antique pen-nibs. — **Reasonable Agreement: On the Crapification of Literary Contracts** Jun 27, 2022
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This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, Reasonable Agreement: On the Crapification of Literary Contracts, about the growing trend of standard, non-negotiable contract terms in freelance writing contracts that are outrageous in their unfairness.

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Monopolists Want to Create Human Inkjet Printers Jun 20, 2022

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This week on my podcast, I read a recent blog post, Monopolists Want to Create Human Inkjet Printers, exploring the way that med-tech mergers are bringing the ghastly inkjet printer business-model to artificial pancreases.

(Image: Cryteria, CC BY 3.0; Björn Heller, CC BY 2.0 (German); modified)

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A Soviet editorial cartoon featuring an ogrish capitalist in top hat and tails yanking a dollar-sign-shaped lever that ejects a tiny bureaucrat from a seat; ranks of bureaucrats behind him wait their turns, grinning idiot grins. — **Regulatory Capture: Beyond Revolving Doors and Against Regulatory Nihilism** Jun 12, 2022
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Regulatory Capture: Beyond Revolving Doors and Against Regulatory Nihilism.

This week on my podcast, I read a recent *Medium* column, Regulatory Capture: Beyond Revolving Doors and Against Regulatory Nihilism., about the origins of the theory of regulatory capture, and the all-important, but rarely discussed difference between right and left theories of regulatory capture.

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A lush lawn and garden hedge wall; through the gate and over the hedge, we see a smouldering, apocalyptic landscape. Desperate hands reach over the wall. In the foreground is a No Trespassing sign. — **Against Cozy Catastrophies** Jun 05, 2022
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This week on my podcast, I read a recent *Medium* column, Against Cozy Catastrophies, about the how the changeover from universal, state- or employer-provided pensions to market-based pensions like the 401(k) have created an inescapable, slow motion catastrophe, where the only thing worse than being one of the lucky few with retirement savings is being part of the vast majority who do not.

(Image: Djuradj Vujcic, CC BY 2.0; Gerald England, CC BY-SA 2.0; modified)

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Apple’s Cement Overshoes May 30, 2022

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A polluted, plastic-strewn ocean-bottom; prominent in the foreground is a smashed iPhone; overhead is Apple's Think Different wordmark.

This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, Apple’s Cement Overshoes, about the malicious compliance in Apple’s “home repair kits.”

(Image: Conall, CC BY 2.0, modified)

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A vintage John Deere tractor whose wheel hubs have been replaced with HAL 9000 eyes, matted over a background of the cyber-waterfall image from The Matrix. — **About Those Killswitched Ukrainian Tractors** May 19, 2022
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This week on my podcast, I read a recent *Medium* column, About those kill-switched Ukrainian tractors, suggesting that what John Deere did to Russian looters, anyone can do to farmers, anywhere.

(Image: Cryteria, CC BY 3.0, modified)

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A horse-headed — **Revenge Of The Chickenized Reverse Centaurs** May 01, 2022
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This week on my podcast, I read a recent *Medium* column, Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs, about the relationship between algorithms, interoperability and worker power.

(Image: Cryteria, CC BY 3.0, modified)

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A row of newspaper boxes on a lonely sidewalk; their windows are filled with the 'falling binary' Matrix waterfall effect. — **Big Tech Isn’t Stealing News Publishers’ Content** Apr 17, 2022
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This week on my podcast, I read a recent *Medium* column, Big Tech Isn’t Stealing News Publishers’ Content, about the calls from the news industry for tech companies to pay licensing fees for quoted news-snippets, and why this both ignores and worsens the real problem: ad-fraud.

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A break-glass-style fire-alarm box; it has been altered to read OVERRIDE: BREAK GLASS, and the space behind the words has been filled with a Matrix waterfall effect. — **When Automation Becomes Enforcement** Apr 10, 2022
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This week on my podcast, I read a recent *Medium* column, When Automation Becomes Enforcement, about the debate of interoperability and end-to-end encryption in the EU’s Digital Markets Act, and how that relates to the long-running battle over who’s in charge: you, or your computer?

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A medieval engraving of a prisoner being tortured on a rack; in the background is a waterfall effect from The Matrix. — **The Best Defense Against Rubber-Hose Cryptanalysis** Apr 03, 2022
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This week on my podcast, I read a recent *Medium* column, The Best Defense Against Rubber-Hose Cryptanalysis, which explores the contradiction at the heart of Bitcoin advocacy.

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