I canceled my Washington Post subscription. Spending money is voting.

He’s probably got the Pinkertons on speed dial

“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed

A photo of Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) when he was 19.

Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of millions of pirated books. But details around the torrenting were murky until yesterday, when Meta's unredacted emails were made public for the first time. The new evidence showed that Meta torrented "at least 81.7 terabytes of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive, including at least 35.7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and LibGen," the authors' court filing said. And "Meta also previously torrented 80.6 terabytes of data from LibGen."

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.

In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

Another stellar Amazon book critic:

Super thicc

Worth any price asked

That’s a cool cover

Gangstalking is a belief system where people believe they are being followed, stalked, and harassed by a large group of people. People who identify as victims are “targeted individuals" (TIs). TIs believe they are being monitored by government agents who use physical and electronic surveillance

Gubmint taking their paychecks

A welcome visitor

Charlie Chaplin’s son wrote a memoir. “Pot, girls and swingers in London’s Ultra-Mod set.”

I’ll probably change my mind in a week! Lol. I listened to Give ‘Em Enough Rope and only liked the first song. Then I listened to Singles Going Steady and like them all

The Magnet 098: Chaos Out of Order Procedurally generated randomness

"Even though Rule 30 is completely deterministic, meaning there's nothing random about how the cells turn on or off, the pattern of black and white cells in this middle column appears totally random. It never settles into a repeating pattern.

Crime report from a 1959 issue of Jet magazine

Thank you Ethan! I appreciate the kind words.

TV for cats

It’s only taken me about 40 years to realize I like listening to the Buzzcocks more than the Clash.

Just made a NATO phonetic alphabet converter because I was tired of spelling my airline reservation code three times over bad phone connections. Turns BQTW425 into 'BRAVO QUEBEC TANGO WHISKEY FOUR TWO FIVE' - no more confusion! Try it here: coconutlampshade.github.io/phonetic-alp...

Drawn with Procreate and a Logitech Crayon because I lost my Apple Pencil. The Crayon doesn't have pressure sensitivity, which I thought would be a big negative, but for the kinds of sketches I do, it doesn't matter. When I lose the Crayon, I'll buy another refurbished one for $20.