Pluralistic: Podcasting "How To Think About Scraping" (25 Sept 2023)

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Podcasting "How To Think About Scraping": How to preserve the benefits of web-scraping while targeting the real harms.
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This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
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Pluralistic: Bill Willingham puts his graphic novel series "Fables" into the public domain (15 Sept 2023)

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Bill Willingham puts his graphic novel series "Fables" into the public domain: A magnificent table flip (but the devil is in the details).
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This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
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Pluralistic: Linkty Dumpty (15 July 2023)

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Linkty Dumpty: Things I thought about when I was supposed to be on holidays.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018
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Pluralistic: Saving the news from Big Tech with end-to-end social media (13 June 2023)

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Saving the news from Big Tech with end-to-end social media: The final installment in my EFF series on saving the news.
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This day in history: 2013, 2018, 2022
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Pluralistic: To save the news, repeal the app tax (07 June 2023)

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To save the news, repeal the app tax: The latest in "saving the news from Big Tech."
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This day in history: 2013, 2022
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Pluralistic: How tech does regulatory capture; Part 2 of the Red Team Blues serial (18 Apr 2023)

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How tech does regulatory capture: An extremely frank and open look inside the ugliest of sausage-factories.
Red Team Blues Chapter One, part two: How Danny Lazer came back from the brink.
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Pluralistic: Copyright won't solve creators' Generative AI problem (09 Feb 2023)

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Copyright won't solve creators' Generative AI problem: The machine-learning monkey's paw.
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This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018, 2021
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Pluralistic: 2023's public domain is a banger (20 Dec 2022)

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2023's public domain is a banger: Hemingway! Holmes! Woolf! Pooh! Christie! Metropolis! Gershwin!
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This day in history: 2002, 2012, 2017
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Pluralistic: Monopoly's event-horizon (05 Dec 2022)

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Monopoly's event-horizon: The true capitalist singularity.
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This day in history: 2012
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Poe vs. Property

A detective story of shifting rationalizations.

A bookstore aisle with most of the section signs blurred out; the Mystery sign is not blurred, and is backed with a halo of light. In the foreground are the head of Edgar Allan Poe and a No Trespassing sign with a raven perched atop it. Both Poe and the raven have red laser eyes. — Ran Allen/Manuel M.V./Djuradj Vujcic, CC BY 2.0, modified

In 1841, Graham’s Magazine published Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” and, in so doing, created the modern detective story genre.

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