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Over and over and over, Flavor Flav just does the damn thing. This is how you /actually/ support female athletes.

Bye

NOTICE AND TAKEDOWN Every day, thousands of removal requests flow into the Lumen Database — the public archive where the internet's most powerful actors are forced to show their work. Most requests are routine. Some are weapons. When copyright attorney Marcus Vega files a takedown notice targeting Clearwire, a scrappy digital rights nonprofit, he expects the usual: compliance, a form letter, maybe a sternly worded reply. What he gets instead is Eli Marsh - Clearwire's counternotice specialist, former EFF researcher, and the most infuriating person Marcus has ever had the professional misfortune of opposing. Eli knows the law. He also knows Marcus - knows his firm's clients, his win rate, the pattern of industries he protects. What Eli can't account for is what happens when the two of them end up at the same internet governance conference in Geneva, arguing in bad faith over cocktails until they're not arguing at all.

The notices keep coming. So do the counternotices. So do the emails that start as legal correspondence and become something neither of them can quite name. Marcus has spent his career making inconvenient things disappear. Eli has spent his making sure they can't. Between them sits every question the internet has failed to answer about who gets to control what's public, what's private, and who decides. Some things, it turns out, can't be taken down. For readers of Heated Rivalry, Better Than People, and anyone who has ever found themselves deeply, inconveniently attracted to someone who sends documents with tracked changes turned on.

I asked Claude to generate a book jacket blurb for a novel inspired by Heated Rivalry and the Lumen database, and, umm…

Would

Oh, I'm so sorry. Sometimes the greatest thing you can do is give a creature some love and comfort in its last moments, as hard as it is.

He doesn't care about the protocol, he's just Big Mad that people are using it for something other than lauding him as the visionary god he clearly is.

I'm losing the ability to contrive law school exam hypotheticals that are more absurd than the actual news

Historians looking back on the 2026 midterms and trying to explain how the Democrats managed to thrash Republicans will point to many causes—but let me suggest that they should pay attention to these two words right here:

"I guess."

I've got two:

I was fired from my job as a librarian for hacking the library's database.

I was fired from my job at a tanning salon because I wouldn't get a tan.

(If we ever play Two Truths And A Lie, now you know.)

Accurate

Long-COVID Sufferer Awarded Nearly $1M After Employer Refused to Let Her Work From Home | Law.com A jury in Nassau County awarded $954,000 to a longtime employee of Stony Brook University Hospital Blood Bank.

A woman with Long Covid won almost one million dollars in a lawsuit against her employer who refused to allow her work from home accommodations.

May this set a precedent.

Remote work should be accessible to all who need it.

It’s a game changer for people with disabilities.

A children's hospital is renamed for Dolly Parton and hopes to transform pediatric care in Tennessee Dolly Parton’s name might inspire full-throated sing-a-longs to her working woman’s anthem “9 to 5,” or evoke memories of thrilling days spent at her Dollywood theme park.

“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’”

GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON

Mostly Pritzker lately. And AOC, but the rest of this stupid party keeps sidelining her.

Agreed. I use the hell out of Claude and have found it to be much more pleasant to use than OpenAI (and less obsequious in tone, which sets my teeth on edge).

This is a bombshell: "the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data"

This kind of agenda echoes the defunded Total Information Awareness effort, post-9/11

Thank you for donating to the Well Done Foundation!

Happy birthday, my friend! Enjoy the shorts weather, and let's hope for colder birthdays to come.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

Accurate.

Not me, man, I would eat two tacos and have a nap

Yeah, I definitely am not making any of that bank

Interesting point there at the end — I haven't heard that, and I'd like to know more. I'm not arguing; I'd like to learn why.

Earlier this year, I was teaching my mom how to use AI, and she teased me for my politeness to it. I suggested to her that as she gets started using the tool, she should do the same, because it reinforces the habit of speaking politely no matter who the audience is. /She/ is the beneficiary, not it.

The thing that the "should you be polite to AI" discourse generally leaves out (this article mostly included) is that there are reasons to be polite totally unrelated /to/ /the/ /AI/.

I am polite to my AI because I don't want to get into the habit of speaking to people online like they're robots.

Absolutely

Thankyew

a man in a cape is flying through the air Alt: Neo dodging bullets

Me lately

(Not gonna explain, just pat me on the back for the dodging)

I appreciate you for giving practical and thoughtful guidance here!

Ahead of Survivor 50: Why I Can’t Stay Silent YouTube video by Eliza Orlins

I was on Survivor twice, and I’ll never be on Survivor again. And I don’t care. I’m going on the record.

youtu.be/JF8yn95-B-8

My friend Jen is in the latest Scientific American talking about how educators can use AI to enhance the learning experience for students...complete with /good/ privacy advice (way to go Jen)!

@jmiers230.bsky.social, you'd like this.

THIS IS THE WAY