How Does This End?
The acceleration of institutional breakdown in America has reached a point where we must confront a sobering reality: the constitutional system, as designed, may no longer possess the internal mechani...
A Win For Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor Mandate
In a moment of clarity after initially moving forward a deeply flawed piece of legislation, the French National Assembly has done the right thing: it rejected a dangerous proposal that would have gutt...
Daily Deal: Linux/UNIX Training Bundle
Linux and UNIX operating systems have become increasingly popular in commercial computing environments. Due to their rapid growth in today’s businesses, Linux/UNIX administrators have also become ve...
Contempt Of Court
I think lots of people know the kind of person who thinks they’re more clever than they really are. The kind of person who thinks that they can outwit the system by playing stupid games. The kind of...
Max Streaming ‘Enshittifies’ Further, Removes Classic Looney Tunes
Now that subscriber growth has slowed, streaming TV giants have taken the predictable turn of making their services shittier and more expensive to deliver Wall Street (impossibly) unlimited quarterly ...
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Bloof with a response to the latest accusation that Bluesky is a liberal echo chamber:
Sorry republicans, you don’t get to use the N-word...
This Week In Techdirt History: March 16th – 22nd
Five Years Ago
This week in 2020… oh, right. The COVID-19 pandemic dominated our coverage, as it sparked a huge variety of news: patent lawsuits to block testing that morphed into claims of royalty-...
Pentagon Anti-DEI Purge Leads To More Erasure Of Our Shared History
The only silver lining in just how stupid this supposed anti-DEI purge of government records has become is that it appears the stupids doing the stupid are now finally starting to realize just how stu...
