Peter J. Maurits

My book, the 𝘔𝘰𝘻𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘎𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺, has been published @PeterLangOxford! It's argument is simple: A) I show the genre exists and what it looks like. B) I argue it registers primitive accumulation. Let me unpack (🧵1/17). tinyurl.com/Mozghost

BREAKING: THE STRAVA FILES & SHARE AURA > On August 22nd, Strava emailed @zachpogrob to add a Strava watermark to all shares from Share Aura, 10 days after they launched, or they would cap new users permanently. > Zach says NO and removes Strava as a new integration to Share Aura after 10,000 Strava connects in 4 days > On July 1st, Garmin asks Strava to put their watermark on Strava data/shares, or lose API access on Nov 1st (not resolved yet) > Strava responds by suing Garmin on Sept 30 for patent infringement on heatmaps and segments as a retaliation against Garmin API/watermark demands. HERE IS THE MASSIVE STRAVA HYPOCRISY INVOLVING THE SHARE AURA APP @zachpogrob (a new personal running app- built around aesthetic/easier sharing) On October 2nd, Strava's Chief of Product posted on Reddit, that: > We consider this [Garmin’s watermark] blatant advertising. - Meanwhile, they are forcing their advertising onto 3rd party apps like Share Aura, blatantly. > We consider this [Garmin’s run data in Strava] to be your data - Meanwhile, Strava tightly guards user data and restricts third-party access to its API even when that data originates from wearables and is merely synced into Strava. LOOKING BACK: @zachpogrob launched the Share Aura beta in February using Strava’s API, two months before Strava copied Aura’s transparent sharing concept. THE DEEPER TRUTH (VERIFIED VIA ZACH): > 85% of Share Aura users were syncing from Strava through a Garmin watch or other wearable. The data was never tracked on Strava, only uploaded to Strava via third-party APIs. If Strava’s valuation depends on repackaging Garmin data through its own API and taking credit by requiring Strava branding despite Garmin being the original source, that directly contradicts Strava’s own statement on Reddit. And, how can Strava’s CPO claim that user data belongs to the customer, while simultaneously blocking those same customers from using the Share Aura app with Strava’s API? Unlike Garmin, which encourages third parties to build on its API and create apps that enhance the Garmin user experience. Strava is trying to monopolize the fitness ecosystem while providing limited value and blocking third-party success, while treating Garmin and other device data as its own. @zachpogrob is on a mission to build the next great running/tracking app on opposite principles. Focused on simplicity, personal use vs. social network, creativity/sharing vs. unnecessary data, and actually listening to what users want. Share Aura already syncs with Garmin, Coros, and Apple, and is launching in-app tracking next month. Since Strava tried to cap Aura's growth, the app 10x'd the userbase Welcome to the David vs Goliath of fitness apps Long Aura Short Strava

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/germ…

This is, without exaggerating, one of the most extraordinary things a US Treasury Secretary ever said. It should be mandatory viewing for all citizens of US "allies", Europeans first and foremost. What Bessent is saying is that the US will now treat US allies' wealth as an American "sovereign wealth fund" (his words), "directing" them, "largely at the [US] president's discretion", how to use their money in order to build American factories and reshore American industries. Even the Fox News host can't believe it, calling it "offshore appropriation", another word for theft. That's exactly what it is: straight up unabashed colonial plunder. That's the pattern we see emerge: unable to extract wealth or win wars against an increasingly strong Global South, the US has turned inward to feast on its own "allies" - who can't resist precisely because they depend on their exploiter for military "protection". They're as defenseless against American wealth extraction as any 19th-century colony was against its colonial "protector." That's exactly what I wrote in my latest article on "Europe's colonial moment": open.substack.com/pub/arnaudbert…

I'm looking for a #PhD candidate for a funded 3-year position at Tampere to join a research project on utopia, Eastern Europe and world literature: tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_RJ…