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The district courtroom really is one of the last spaces left in American public life where there’s a serious possibility that a strategy built on the denial of reality just won‘t fly.
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Maybe 5 people out there will appreciate this, but I am trying to parse a huge database dump of a foreign government's trademark registration data. I've just discovered that one of the trademarks is recorded as "<<<(Cf. xkcd.com/327/)
Exploits of a Mom
xkcd.com
July 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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we should all chip in on a shared system of resources and services
July 8, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Newsletter: The real threat isn't AI using open knowledge — it's AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free. The future of free and open access isn't saying “wait, not like that” — it’s saying "yes, like that, but under fair terms”.

www.citationneeded.news/free-and-ope...
“Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI
The real threat isn't AI using open knowledge — it's AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free
www.citationneeded.news
March 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Every 4 years, a team of libraries & research organizations work together to preserve material from U.S. government websites during the transition of administrations. 🗳️

Get the latest on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive @eotarchive.org ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/02/06/u...
February 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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August 2, 2024 at 3:56 AM
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TUESDAY @ 12:30 PM ET: Want to see @RonWyden, @Axios’ @ashleyrgold, @politico’s @rebeccamkern, @internetarchive’s Peter Routhier, @Wikimedia’s @rmack, @fuzheado & @ARLpolicy’s Katherine Klosek talk #Section230? Sign up for @OTI & Wikimedia’s #OTI230 event: https://bit.ly/3X443NT
Section 230 and the Public Interest: Proceed with Caution
Join New America’s Open Technology Institute and Wikimedia for an examination of the Section 230 reform debate.
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June 16, 2023 at 7:46 PM