yeah, cutting off mobile and internet connectivity is now one of the very first moves that invading forces often make when they take over a city. (the invading forces then rely upon Starlink for their own purposes).

we recently saw the RSF do exactly this in El Fasher in Sudan.

Several Israeli military reservists and a civilian were arrested after an investigation into the use of classified information to bet on military operations on an online prediction platform, prosecutors said on Thursday.

there's a reason the library of congress just literally prints out the internet and stores it away in boxes

very solid chance the early digital age will be a gigantic black hole of records for future historians

Back in college, which admittedly was a decade and change ago, almost all the papers I needed to read I had to ILL. And I'd get back scanned copies of physical journals, where you could sometimes see the librarian's hand in the image.

I can't imagine all the old stacks are digital now, either

It’s going to be a long time before we get the full scope of what occurred, and it’s probably even worse than what has been reported so far

damn you're telling me that sin taxes work to reduce consumption of socially harmful goods while keeping them legal and thus avoiding the problems of criminalization?

I mean, it’s not technically insider trading, since knowing what Bad Bunny’s first song is doesn’t involve trading. But convincing people to bet on something where people actually know the answer is bad, actually, an order of magnitude worse than just encouraging problematic gambling.