Three Men In A Boat’s Comments

• Jun 4th, 2021 @ 10:59am

  It's the Rule Of Nobody

  on Corporations Are Being Forced To Take Consumer Complaints Back To Court After Arbitration Push Backfires Spectacularly

  Hannah Arendt called this the Rule Of Nobody back in 1969.

  In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless, we have a tyranny without a tyrant.

• Feb 6th, 2020 @ 5:54pm

  Filtering the 24hr cycle

  on How Reading Books Instead Of News Made Me A Better Citizen

  I've made my life easier by filtering all "news" that
  a) wargames stuff that hasn't yet happened
  b) forecasts the negative long term repercussions of what happened

  That way, when I'm reading a news site, I can focus on the actual news.

• Jan 15th, 2020 @ 11:49pm

  Tombstone cam

  on Company Sells Surveillance Cameras Hidden In Tombstones, Threatens Websites For Talking About Its Tombstone Cameras

  Dead drop? Drop dead!

• Jul 26th, 2017 @ 9:38am

  Roomba Vision Statement

  on Your Robot Vacuum Cleaner Will Soon Collect And Sell Data About You And Your Home
  All your baseboards are belong to us!
• Feb 17th, 2017 @ 4:06pm

  "Biglie"

  on Techdirt Survival Fund: I Support Journalism
  It's the latest incarnation of the Big Lie... the Bigly Lie, aka Biglie.