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Thoughts about Twitter
nolan caudill's internet house
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Statement on 4 Years of GDPR
When the GDPR became applicable on 25 May 2018, it was perceived as a watershed moment. The past 4 years have shown that a law alone does not change business models.
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There are too many video games
Let's marinate in some hard truths. Dissect what is in front of our eyes.
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The Peking Duck Exemption
Most food safety regulations say that Peking duck should be illegal. But it's not, so what gives?
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Is macOS Look Up Destined for CSAM?
Remember Apple’s failed attempt to detect CSAM in images? Would that have been similar to the way that Visual Look Up works? Is this the thin end of the wedge?
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A short introduction to the undeciphered Aegean writing systems
Every so often a news article will make the rounds of the internet – or, for that matter, a paper will be published in an academic journal – presenting a new ‘decipherment’ …
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Welcoming Recorded Music to the Public Domain
Every January we feature works that are entering the public domain. And this year the big story is in recorded music. Recorded Music from 1922 and earlier Approximately 400,000 sound recordings made before 1923 will join the public domain in the U.S. for the first time due to the Music Modernization Act (read more at
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OSI to the European Commission: make space for patent-free standards too
One of the biggest hidden challenges facing the software and technology world is the evolving conflict between old electronics vendors and the new software-defined universe. It’s arising because of…
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Too Much Internet
I consider myself fairly “up” with popular trends. Perhaps I don’t know every celebrity crush, or every new thing that every TikTok…
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The Penguin Random House trial
The Penguin Random House trial is ripping the lid off publishing
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A CIA website was out of date about who runs the UK
A guest post from Tony Bowden about his efforts to build an open source dataset of world leaders inside of Wikidata, the structured-data version of Wikipedia.
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What happens when the public lose confidence in academic findings?
In an important new paper, Rafael Ahlskog and Sven Oskarsson show that half of the effect size in observational studies, even in conservative estimates, is composed of confounding.
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Tradition is Smarter (2018)
The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to [a fence] and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If…
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That’s how it works when you’re a woman on the internet
Aubrey Hirsch on harassment and existing as a woman online
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The fine art of Italian hand gestures: A vintage visual dictionary (2012)
A pocket guide to Neapolitan nonverbal communication.
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Wiley’s removal of hundreds of titles from ebook collections
Irish Librarians and library-related organisations wish to express our grave dissatisfaction at the sudden withdrawal by Wiley publishers of over one thousand titles from key ebook collections to which many academic libraries subscribe. On 31st of August 2022 Wiley abruptly removed more than 1,300 ebooks, many of…
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VideoLAN has issued a legal notice to Indian Gov for banning their website
VideoLAN’s URL from which users download the VLC Media Player appears to have been banned by the DoT in India since March 2021. This was done without any prior notice, or affording VideoLAN an opportunity of hearing, which is contrary to the Indian law.
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Lawsuit against Meta invokes modern portfolio theory to protect shareholders
New Lawsuit Argues that Directors Failed to Consider Portfolio Impacts of Corporate Decisions On Monday, October 3, a class action was filed in the ...
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Whales dying from consuming plastics
Blame Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, the world’s worst plastic polluters, according to a new study
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A Request to Terminate ENOG
This archive is retained to ensure existing URLs remain functional. It will not contain any emails sent to this mailing list after July 1, 2024. For all messages, including those sent before and after this date, please visit the new location of the archive at…
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