Announcing EFF's Public Resource Fellowship It is with deep gratitude and humility that EFF is announcing a partnership with Public Resource to create a Public Resource Legal Fellowship. Longtime ally in the fight for digital rights, Public Res...

Big news from @eff.org - Big news from EFF. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Also, their computers don’t have IP addresses.

I remember that meeting. Lots of fun.

Are you a techie and a musician? If so, you'll love our new series on Optical Music Recognition for Creatives. Available on @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org at archive.org/details/Publ... and YouTube at www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... ht @holovaty.com @brewster.kahle.org

Very happy with wonderful opinion from the 3rd Circuit. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... Philadelphia incorporated by reference the ICC code, in it's entirety, which in turn incorporated by reference 10 ASTM standards in their entirety. Incorporation by law is recursive.

No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In

It is Friday night, was looking for some light entertainment, and I stumbled across Waffle Gate. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u... Please pass the popcorn.

We are trying to do more documentation and have a new page on how to scrape PACER using Juriscraper. It has a number of hard-won lessons from the field: wiki.free.law/c/pacer/how-...

Pete Hegseth Replaces Top General With Horse That Drinks Beer

Pete Hegseth Replaces Top General With Horse That Drinks Beer theonion.com/pete-hegseth-replaces-to...

Yes, adding another variable does certainly add an order of magnitude to the equation. (I can say these things to you as we're having a nice conversation, but of course this wisdom totally slips my mind when I'm in the field actually working.)

This is a testament to the power of the Shirley Temple. The downstream effects last for months.

If it’s good enough for you, it’s good enough for me. :) I will commence the onboarding process.

Masto.host - Fully Managed Mastodon Hosting Masto.host was built from the ground up to make running a Mastodon instance easy.

My mastodon install is kerfuffled. We did an install on top of AWS, so it's a diy job, but fixing this is clearly beyond my current capabilities.

Does anybody has any experience with the mastodon hosting companies, such as masto.host? Any recommendations? (I'd post this on mastodon but ...)

Trump Stupid

Public Laws, Private Paywalls: The Case Against the Pro Codes Act - R Street Institute The old adage “ignorance of the law is no excuse” makes clear that no one avoids legal liability by claiming to be unaware of the law. Yet many important public laws remain locked behind paywalls erec...

Nice analysis of the PRO Codes Act. www.rstreet.org/commentary/p...

Very slick. Cutting edge.

Well, it was surprisingly short.

Also, he gave you 102 minutes to answer 7 interrogatories. Given that each of his questions had multiple sub-parts, it seems like it would be impossible to comply with this subpoena.

I’m EFF’s next Executive Director! So proud to take the torch from Cindy Cohn and lead @eff.org forward in its next chapter. Here’s the link to the EFF announcement – www.eff.org/press/releas...
Together, we can meet the challenges and keep building a future where technology works for the people.

Maybe the aspiring cheerleaders can cheer the ICE agents? “Hey, ho, those immigrants really got to go.”

Which is why you can spell words like schadenfreude!

The full 2025 California Building Code now available. archive.org/details/publ... Electric code still deriving. I was able to get all volumes from the state as a public records request except Electric, which was scanned from paper because NFPA is playing "hide the code."

Journal retracts nearly 150 articles for compromised peer review A journal published by an organization that develops technical standards is retracting 147 papers for problematic peer review — and the publisher expects more to follow. The American Society F…

ASTM continuing their long tradition of excellence. retractionwatch.com/2026/01/29/j...

France is sending troops to Greenland. Already on their way.

I have literally never been so proud to hold a French passport

European Copyright Society opinion on access to the law and court court case. europeancopyrightsociety.org/wp-content/u... They are in favor of the proposition.

Plato is too woke to be taught in the philosophy department at Texas A&M under the new Texas academic censorship laws

Computer Chronicles Re-digitization Project: 1107 Internet : Stewart Cheifet : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive These episodes of the Computer Chronicles were digitized by The Computer Chronicles Re-digitization Project.This is cassette CCRP-1107A-BS, containing:1107...

For a brief moment 33 years ago, radio was the hot new thing on the Internet. archive.org/details/CCRP... But then, as the saying goes, video killed the radio star.

Also, they all have health care.

you being the shrinking violet of social media who is afraid to speak your mind and need encouragement to try harder.