Pluralistic: The (other) problem with automatic conversion of free software to proprietary software (23 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
The Plain, the Line, & the Gap: Russia’s Western Front
Geopolitics is the analysis of geographic influences on power relationships in international relations, a succinct enough sentence for one of the primary factors affecting how states interact with …
H.P. Lovecraft's Cat refers to the cat named Nigger-Man owned by the family of the American horror fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft during his childhood. Onli
Authentic Brands Group: The $20B Empire That Makes Nothing
Authentic Brands Group owns Brooks Brothers, Eddie Bauer, Champion, Dockers, Forever 21, Billabong, Sports Illustrated, and 40+ other brands. It makes none of them. Inside the $20B licensing model.
The war in Iran, and the subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz, has unfortunately made us all familiar with details of the petroleum supply chain that we could formerly happily ignore.
Antonio G. Di Benedetto for The Verge: I tested three Windows laptops in the MacBook Neo’s price range — there’s no contest
Each has an eight-core processor (versus six on the Neo), 16GB of RAM instead of 8GB, and between 256GB and 1TB of storage — the slowest of which
Frontier M&A paths diverge, OpenAI pushes policy amid chaos, Mythos proved too dangerous to ship, Meta gets back in the game, Anthropic goes all-in on agents