Martin Paul Eve
@mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
Tech Lead @ Knowledge Commons, MESH, Michigan State University | Lit Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
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wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
One of my resolutions for the year is to keep in better touch with friends, colleagues, and heroes. Every kidney failure appointment that I attend is a memento mori and nobody can tell me how much time I have left. You can survive quite a while on dialysis, but it is life support. Carpe diem.
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hcommons.social
January 13, 2026 at 9:02 AM
One of my resolutions for the year is to keep in better touch with friends, colleagues, and heroes. Every kidney failure appointment that I attend is a memento mori and nobody can tell me how much time I have left. You can survive quite a while on dialysis, but it is life support. Carpe diem.
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How Markdown took over the world https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/
Markdown如何席卷全球
How Markdown took over the world (www.anildash.com)
01:52 ↑ 102 HN Points
www.anildash.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:47 AM
How Markdown took over the world https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/
This looks a really interesting article. I can't speak to the legal accuracy, but two legal scholars argue that AI scrapers might have a unilateral contract with the sites they are scraping. (Or, at least, have been given notice.)
The liabilities of robots.txt […]
The liabilities of robots.txt […]
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hcommons.social
January 12, 2026 at 8:46 AM
This looks a really interesting article. I can't speak to the legal accuracy, but two legal scholars argue that AI scrapers might have a unilateral contract with the sites they are scraping. (Or, at least, have been given notice.)
The liabilities of robots.txt […]
The liabilities of robots.txt […]
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The scraping of Spotify by the shadow library, Anna's Archive, has made it into Private Eye, where the hypocrisy of Spotify - which originally was a pirate scraper site - is brought to light.
January 11, 2026 at 5:47 PM
The scraping of Spotify by the shadow library, Anna's Archive, has made it into Private Eye, where the hypocrisy of Spotify - which originally was a pirate scraper site - is brought to light.
Had an x-ray recently. It showed multiple healed pelvic and rib fractures and patchy sclerosis throughout the axial skeleton in keeping with a renal osteodystrophy.
Kidney failure. The illness that keeps on giving. My bones are withering and fracturing inside me.
Kidney failure. The illness that keeps on giving. My bones are withering and fracturing inside me.
January 12, 2026 at 7:23 AM
Had an x-ray recently. It showed multiple healed pelvic and rib fractures and patchy sclerosis throughout the axial skeleton in keeping with a renal osteodystrophy.
Kidney failure. The illness that keeps on giving. My bones are withering and fracturing inside me.
Kidney failure. The illness that keeps on giving. My bones are withering and fracturing inside me.
The scraping of Spotify by the shadow library, Anna's Archive, has made it into Private Eye, where the hypocrisy of Spotify - which originally was a pirate scraper site - is brought to light.
January 11, 2026 at 5:47 PM
The scraping of Spotify by the shadow library, Anna's Archive, has made it into Private Eye, where the hypocrisy of Spotify - which originally was a pirate scraper site - is brought to light.
In a fit of rashness, I bought the domain scriven.ing this morning as an additional access point for my web writing/blog (which turns 20 years old next year!) The only problem is that now I "prefer not to".
January 5, 2026 at 8:21 AM
In a fit of rashness, I bought the domain scriven.ing this morning as an additional access point for my web writing/blog (which turns 20 years old next year!) The only problem is that now I "prefer not to".
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A post about pirate book archives, their inevitable demises, and continuity and complexity of catalogues as new sites emerge. (As well as musings on the challenge of resourcing and financing such illegal [in many jurisdictions] operations at the scale that is needed.) […]
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hcommons.social
January 1, 2026 at 4:58 PM
A post about pirate book archives, their inevitable demises, and continuity and complexity of catalogues as new sites emerge. (As well as musings on the challenge of resourcing and financing such illegal [in many jurisdictions] operations at the scale that is needed.) […]
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Just saw a review of Windows 11 that rated it last of all recent Windows OSes. One of the failing criteria was that it used up much more RAM and this site immediately sprang to mind. Free memory is wasted memory and all modern operating systems pre-cache many things for speed.
www.linuxatemyram.com
www.linuxatemyram.com
Help! Linux ate my RAM!
www.linuxatemyram.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:33 AM
Just saw a review of Windows 11 that rated it last of all recent Windows OSes. One of the failing criteria was that it used up much more RAM and this site immediately sprang to mind. Free memory is wasted memory and all modern operating systems pre-cache many things for speed.
www.linuxatemyram.com
www.linuxatemyram.com
Also, Home Assistant is so excellent. I've got it hooked up, now, to my Octopus Mini smart meter and it can measure our electricity and gas usage and then look at the local grid to work out low-carbon use.
January 5, 2026 at 7:42 AM
Also, Home Assistant is so excellent. I've got it hooked up, now, to my Octopus Mini smart meter and it can measure our electricity and gas usage and then look at the local grid to work out low-carbon use.
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Great piece by @mpe about shadow libraries like Anna's Archive, their metadata and what it means for creating successors after takedowns: «The Lineages and Inheritances of Shadow Libraries and their Documentation» […]
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scholar.social
January 2, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Great piece by @mpe about shadow libraries like Anna's Archive, their metadata and what it means for creating successors after takedowns: «The Lineages and Inheritances of Shadow Libraries and their Documentation» […]
How much time did I spend on email last year? How much time did I spend reading for pleasure?
https://eve.gd/2026/01/02/who-knows-where-the-time-goes/
https://eve.gd/2026/01/02/who-knows-where-the-time-goes/
January 2, 2026 at 3:16 PM
How much time did I spend on email last year? How much time did I spend reading for pleasure?
https://eve.gd/2026/01/02/who-knows-where-the-time-goes/
https://eve.gd/2026/01/02/who-knows-where-the-time-goes/
A post about pirate book archives, their inevitable demises, and continuity and complexity of catalogues as new sites emerge. (As well as musings on the challenge of resourcing and financing such illegal [in many jurisdictions] operations at the scale that is needed.) […]
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hcommons.social
January 1, 2026 at 4:58 PM
A post about pirate book archives, their inevitable demises, and continuity and complexity of catalogues as new sites emerge. (As well as musings on the challenge of resourcing and financing such illegal [in many jurisdictions] operations at the scale that is needed.) […]
"we need to conceive of these “publishing beyond the market” enterprises as immanent utopias, spaces that show possibility within a system that they cannot overthrow, but that they can nonetheless structure through critique"
Further thoughts on
@Samuelmoore 's book […]
Further thoughts on
@Samuelmoore 's book […]
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hcommons.social
December 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
"we need to conceive of these “publishing beyond the market” enterprises as immanent utopias, spaces that show possibility within a system that they cannot overthrow, but that they can nonetheless structure through critique"
Further thoughts on
@Samuelmoore 's book […]
Further thoughts on
@Samuelmoore 's book […]
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Exciting! I have just signed a contract for an Essential Knowledge series book with The MIT Press called "The Dark Web".
I'm also making good progress on the Star Trek book revisions. Being most thorough with them and hope it will be much improved as a result.
I'm also making good progress on the Star Trek book revisions. Being most thorough with them and hope it will be much improved as a result.
December 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Exciting! I have just signed a contract for an Essential Knowledge series book with The MIT Press called "The Dark Web".
I'm also making good progress on the Star Trek book revisions. Being most thorough with them and hope it will be much improved as a result.
I'm also making good progress on the Star Trek book revisions. Being most thorough with them and hope it will be much improved as a result.
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New DigiPres.org request for feedback: Supporting local practitioner groups https://github.com/orgs/digipres/discussions/62 #digipres
Supporting local digital preservation practitioner groups · digipres · Discussion #62
As part of this set of proposed changes, while working on the Registries of Good Practice project, I am looking at using the digipres.org site to provide simple discoverable 'home pages' for local ...
github.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
New DigiPres.org request for feedback: Supporting local practitioner groups https://github.com/orgs/digipres/discussions/62 #digipres
Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/11/24/creative-commons-licenses-and-copyright-may-not-stop-academic-work-being-used-to-train-ai/
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/11/24/creative-commons-licenses-and-copyright-may-not-stop-academic-work-being-used-to-train-ai/
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/11/24/creative-commons-licenses-and-copyright-may-not-stop-academic-work-being-used-to-train-ai/
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/11/24/creative-commons-licenses-and-copyright-may-not-stop-academic-work-being-used-to-train-ai/
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Just appalling. Nurses and teachers do far more valuable jobs than almost anyone earning £125k.
Shabana Mahmood's Indefinite Leave To Remain Culture War
3 years - if you're earning £125k+
15 years - if you're e.g. a nurse, or a teacher
Labour's two tier system which rewards high earners and insults those who work just as hard but don't earn as much - really sad to see Labour fall
3 years - if you're earning £125k+
15 years - if you're e.g. a nurse, or a teacher
Labour's two tier system which rewards high earners and insults those who work just as hard but don't earn as much - really sad to see Labour fall
November 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Just appalling. Nurses and teachers do far more valuable jobs than almost anyone earning £125k.
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The new features are still in alpha—but @djevans.bsky.social's contextual tools for Viral Texts data are live clusters.viraltexts.org
Click "View witness in context" to see a given reprint on the newspaper page, alongside other reprints on that page—click a cluster ID here to see its other reprints
Click "View witness in context" to see a given reprint on the newspaper page, alongside other reprints on that page—click a cluster ID here to see its other reprints
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The new features are still in alpha—but @djevans.bsky.social's contextual tools for Viral Texts data are live clusters.viraltexts.org
Click "View witness in context" to see a given reprint on the newspaper page, alongside other reprints on that page—click a cluster ID here to see its other reprints
Click "View witness in context" to see a given reprint on the newspaper page, alongside other reprints on that page—click a cluster ID here to see its other reprints
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British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium that produces another drug, methylenomycin A. This molecule however, is 100 times more potent than methylenomycin A and kills drug-resistant […]
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wandering.shop
November 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium that produces another drug, methylenomycin A. This molecule however, is 100 times more potent than methylenomycin A and kills drug-resistant […]
A lot of my posting is now coming via @eve.gd - because before I was literally copying and pasting to Mastodon. I will still check in here and read the feed, but most new content will be on that acc.
November 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
A lot of my posting is now coming via @eve.gd - because before I was literally copying and pasting to Mastodon. I will still check in here and read the feed, but most new content will be on that acc.
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I think this is *the* licensing issue of our time.
Whether it's prohibiting fascist uses or stopping AI training, liberal open licenses are falling down.
I still like CC BY-SA, forcing to share derivatives, but am not sure a license change is the technical solution to this social problem.
Whether it's prohibiting fascist uses or stopping AI training, liberal open licenses are falling down.
I still like CC BY-SA, forcing to share derivatives, but am not sure a license change is the technical solution to this social problem.
"That's a problem for me. You see, I wanna make my software freely available to everyone in the world except those guys specifically. That very particular bunch of autocratic corpo-states are actively destroying the world I'm trying to pro-socially enrich as a commoner."
Open Source Power
We have to talk about open source licensing.
blog.muni.town
November 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I think this is *the* licensing issue of our time.
Whether it's prohibiting fascist uses or stopping AI training, liberal open licenses are falling down.
I still like CC BY-SA, forcing to share derivatives, but am not sure a license change is the technical solution to this social problem.
Whether it's prohibiting fascist uses or stopping AI training, liberal open licenses are falling down.
I still like CC BY-SA, forcing to share derivatives, but am not sure a license change is the technical solution to this social problem.