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Works in higher education in the San Francisco Bay Area. Art, astronomy, films, pop culture, privacy and infosec. Header photo is of one of the telescopes on the observation deck the Eiffel Tower
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PBS News notes this Sunday will be “PBS News Weekend’s” last due to federal budget cuts
January 10, 2026 at 1:46 AM
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ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social
A team of scholars including Professor Jonah B. Gelbach is one of two recipients of the 2026 Civil Justice Scholarship Award from the National Civil Justice Institute for an article published in the University of Chicago Law Review last year: https://bit.ly/4jS6DlL #BerkeleyLaw
‘Secret Settlements’ Study Wins Civil Justice Award
A team of scholars including Professor Jonah B. Gelbach is one of two recipients of the 2026 Civil Justice Scholarship Award for an article published in the University of Chicago Law Review last year.
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January 9, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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The tool uses commercially sourced location data from smartphones. Typically this is collected through code in normal apps, or the online advertising process. Data then provided to ICE via the Webloc tool where users can search specific areas for phones www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
January 8, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant

“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
www.404media.co
January 8, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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unlawfulentries.bsky.social
I talked with Charles Davis about my forthcoming book.
January 6, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
“Recordings captured by the Vocci rings are saved to the cloud, so you may not want to wear the ring when you're discussing sensitive content.” 🤷🏿‍♂️
This AI Smart Ring Can Listen In on Your Meetings
The Vocci AI smart ring feels like an Oura ring designed to act as a personal assistant at work.
www.cnet.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Do you have an idle cluster? Can you spare a couple core-years?

Help me bruteforce some test vectors for RSA key generation edge cases!

Here are the instructions, it's just a matter of running a single self-contained cross-compilable Go binary that will report the results autonomously.
RSA test vector crowdsourcing instructions
gist.github.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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nilsgilman.bsky.social
The paper that justified $1,000,000,000,000/year expenditure
arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361
Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
We study empirical scaling laws for language model performance on the cross-entropy loss. The loss scales as a power-law with model size, dataset size, and the amount of compute used for training, wit...
arxiv.org
January 5, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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unlawfulentries.bsky.social
Still have to feed myself dinner in the face of unlawful imperial expansion. Huli huli style chicken, a crowd fave in grad school b/c it has no exotic ingredients. My cook time was 7 mins per side, monitor carefully that skin doesn't burn.

Recipe: www.hawaiianelectric.com/recipes/find...
a shallow blue bowl with quadrants of white rice, roasted delicata squash half moons, and two pieces of bronzed chix thighs topped with green onions.
January 4, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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theoldinternet.bsky.social
In 1995, Sandra Bullock was the first person ever to buy movie theater tickets online, in promotion for her new film THE NET.
January 3, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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juniebmoon.bsky.social
It's my favorite day of the year: happy public domain day!
web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...

Including an Agatha Christie, King of Jazz, an assortment of sound recordings, AND one of my all time favorite paintings. ♥️💙💛
Public Domain Day 2026 | Duke University School of Law
January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US l...
web.law.duke.edu
January 1, 2026 at 5:47 AM
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archive.org
Welcome to the Public Domain, THE MALTESE FALCON (1930) 🦅💎

🕵️ Sam Spade is on the Case of the Disappearing Copyright as The Maltese Falcon novel joins the public domain.

Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...

#PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree
January 1, 2026 at 5:25 AM
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archive.org
Welcome to the Public Domain, ANIMAL CRACKERS (1930) 🎭

😂 Nothing to do with soup. The Marx Brothers return in this 1930 adaptation of their stage musical. Laughs abound in the public domain.

Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...

#PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree
January 1, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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I thought you might like this:

Large Irish Folklore Collection

National Folklore Collection UCD Digitization Project
765,821 manuscript pages, 13,899 photographs and 329 hours of audio are available here

www.duchas.ie/en
dúchas.ie
A project to digitize the Irish National Folklore Collection, one of the largest folklore collections in the world
www.duchas.ie
January 1, 2026 at 6:18 AM
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aliciak2010.bsky.social
We’ve got 5.5 hours left until midnight, and we’re still 28 new donors away from hitting our goal!

I know there are at least 28 of you who follow me who can spare $5 to support independent local news in Riverside County!

Don’t wait! Donate now: riverside-record.fundjournalism.org/newsmatch/
January 1, 2026 at 2:31 AM
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The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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aliciak2010.bsky.social
Today is the *final* day of our year-end fundraising campaign.

If just half of my followers donated $7, we’d blow our goal out of the water (and secure an additional $15K in the process thanks to NewsMatch)!

You can donate here: riverside-record.fundjournalism.org/newsmatch/
Join | The Riverside Record
The Riverside Record is supported by people like you. Support The Riverside Record today.
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December 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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All donations up to $1K are doubled until midnight tonight, meaning your support goes twice as far!

With that money we’ll be able to pay more writers to cover more stories throughout the county and keep you more informed.

Donate here: riverside-record.fundjournalism.org/newsmatch/
December 31, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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gwenda.bsky.social
Honestly, a lot of people are reading -- more than pre-pandemic -- and maybe publishing houses should stop panicking and just be allowed to focus on cultivating authors AND readers, feeding and growing that audience. Wild concept, I know.
December 31, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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⏰ 12 HOURS TO GO 👀

When the new year begins, so does #PublicDomainDay2026.

At 12:00 a.m. ET, iconic books, films, and music move into the public domain—and we’ll be sharing highlights #here all night long.

🔔 Set your reminder ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
Original 1930 illustrated cover of The Little Engine That Could: a small blue steam engine pulls a curved train uphill through snowy mountains, hauling brightly colored red and yellow cars filled with toys and animals—including a giraffe, elephant, and teddy bear—under the bold title text “THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD” at the top.
December 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Cool stuff entering public domain:
Betty Boop
Nancy Drew + her first 5 novels
The Maltese Falcon novel
Disney's first iteration of Pluto as "Rover"
The first fully voiced Academy Best Picture: All Quiet on the Western Front
The Marx Brothers' Animal Crackers
Dream a Little Dream of Me
I Got Rhythm
archive.org Internet Archive @archive.org · 10d
🕛 At midnight, new creative works enter the public domain in the US.

🎙️ In the latest Future Knowledge podcast, James Boyle (The Public Domain) explains why the public domain matters & how digital enclosures are quietly fencing it off.

🎧 Listen now ➡️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...
Future Knowledge - Episode #18 The Public Domain with James Boyle & Molly Shaffer Van Houweling
December 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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You can also use the map in the story to look up vaccination rates in your local schools! This was a HUGE data lift: we reviewed and mapped tens of thousands of individual schools’ data, assembling the most comprehensive public database. And we published this data here: github.com/washingtonpo...
Screenshot of interactive look-up tool map where you can see the vaccination rates of individual schools as well as county and statewide rates
December 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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dougellison.bsky.social
Kudos to our project scientist who helps advocate for these every ~year when I think the view might work and we've got a little bit of energy and time spare in a plan. Doing the science on the day to day is important. Taking a moment now and again to do something just for art is important as well.
ridingrobots.bsky.social Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 11d
From NASA –
Swiftly flow the days: As we approach the end of one year and the beginning of another on Earth, the Curiosity rover paused to send a postcard from Mars. The image combines one panorama taken after sunrise and another taken before sunset. images.nasa.gov/details/PIA2...
A panoramic image of a desert landscape. The robotic Curiosity rover is visible in the immediate foreground at the bottom center of the frame. In the background, a rocky desert floor is dominated by long, linear ridges, with hills of layered stone in the distance. Wheel tracks appear in the dust near the rover.
December 31, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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This article is excellent, but the Cartoon Art Museum shouldn't be under the radar. People should constantly be talking about the Cartoon Art Museum. Whenever people aren't at the Cartoon Art Museum, they should be saying, "Why aren't we at the Cartoon Art Museum?"
www.sfexaminer.com/culture/muse...
SF's niche museums are somehow thriving
Cable cars, comic strips and an old-school arcade — SF’s best under-the-radar museums are unusually popular
www.sfexaminer.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Agree the Cartoon Art Museum is incredible and you should go there if you can. Plus Square Guys Pizza is right there so boom perfect date.
shaenon.bsky.social Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 11d
This article is excellent, but the Cartoon Art Museum shouldn't be under the radar. People should constantly be talking about the Cartoon Art Museum. Whenever people aren't at the Cartoon Art Museum, they should be saying, "Why aren't we at the Cartoon Art Museum?"
www.sfexaminer.com/culture/muse...
SF's niche museums are somehow thriving
Cable cars, comic strips and an old-school arcade — SF’s best under-the-radar museums are unusually popular
www.sfexaminer.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:59 AM