What a bland article. Just when it starts to become insightful, it ends:
These events are all signs of a gig economy that might just be falling apart, not because of any one CEO decision but because companies that find success by framing themselves as a DIY alternative to an established industry can only grow in the same direction as the very thing they wanted to replace. The original sin, it seems, is when they try to be both.
Noscript extension on Firefox still works.
Though if you want to support quality reporting, paying for a nytimes account is not a bad idea.
You can’t remain unlinked to your real identity as seen by the government because you need to provide your id when buying a new SIM
This varies by country. In the US you can buy a prepaid mobile phone with cash and supply it with prepaid cards, all without showing ID:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepaid_mobile_phone#Privacy_rights
(but obviously they can figure out who you are by tracking your signal and seeing where you spend your time.)
It used to be really tough to unsubscribe from Prime, but Amazon was getting sued for that so they made it easier to unsubscribe.
what little ever existed of the plot
The plot isn't really the point.
hadn’t cracked a smile in over a hundred pages.
Apparently one of the reasons for the historic rivalry between France and England was their different senses of humor, with the French wit considered much classier. Anyway, plenty of people would agree with you, though I think the books are hilarious.
Fascinating information. Here's a direct link to the newspaper article cited by the linked blog post, if you read Spanish: https://www.lavanguardia.com/historiayvida/edad-moderna/20220118/7967285/tapadas-limenas-mujeres-libres-anonimato.html
What?! You mean he already gave up on NFTs?
Coming from Wired, I’d hope the article would have a more technology focused approach,
Wired is for people who want to talk about technology without actually taking about technology.
we have basically no way at all of influencing or thwarting them.
Maybe. The Spanish conquistadors, and the British in India, all found that it was easier to "divide and conquer" by picking local allies.
But surely no human would sell out their own species... right?
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