Whitney Kimball

  • Wait, Are NFTs the New Creative Commons?

    Wait, Are NFTs the New Creative Commons?

    Cryptocurrency has entered the culture wars, and everyone’s picking sides. Administrators at Creative Commons recently discovered that many of their supporters can’t fucking stand NFTs. The squabble raises questions about the future of ownership, sharing, and the philosophical outlook of techno-utopians everywhere.


  • Citizen’s Crime Watchers Vote to Unionize

    Citizen’s Crime Watchers Vote to Unionize

    The neighbourhood vigilante app Citizen is on the verge of getting a union, an outcome Citizen’s chaotic leadership very much preferred to avoid. According to the Communications Workers of America, a supermajority of analysts in Citizen’s intelligence agency-evoking “central operations department” voted to join the CWA. Those roughly 70 employees listen in on police scanners…


  • Two Men Allegedly Stole $29 Million in Music Royalties From YouTube

    Two Men Allegedly Stole $29 Million in Music Royalties From YouTube

    Two men have been accused of a $US20 (A$29) million, years-long music royalties heist from a certain company identified as “Y.T.” Federal prosecutors do not explicitly name “YouTube.” We can glean from court documents, however, that “Y.T.” is a website that hosts uploads and uses the exact same monetisation and content ID mechanisms as YouTube.…


  • Don’t Cross the Wirecutter Picket Line

    Don’t Cross the Wirecutter Picket Line

    Wirecutter employees are asking us to resist the temptation of their own excellent deals this Black Friday weekend and boycott the site. The Wirecutter union announced today that every member of its unit has agreed to walk out from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday in protest of the New York Times management’s alleged foot-dragging on contract…