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October, 2024

Where Open Access Has Failed To Reform Academic Publishing, Perhaps Antitrust Law Will Succeed
The open access movement has been trying for over 20 years to promote the widest access to knowledge. Sadly, as numerous Walled Culture posts have chronicled, what should be a matter of social justic...
Gun Detection Tech The Gun Detection Tech Firm Said Wouldn’t Work In NYC Subways Doesn’t Work In NYC Subways
What are the odds. Evolv, a gun detection tech firm contracted by the city of New York to handle fare jumping by scanning for guns, told everyone — including its investors — that deploying its te...
Daily Deal: The Speed Reading Mastery Bundle
The Speed Reading Mastery Bundle has 6 courses to help you learn to absorb new information faster by learning speed reading methods used by top universities and Guinness World Record holders. These sk...
A Win For Press Freedom: Court Allows Reuters To Republish Story On Shady Indian Firm
You may recall last December when we wrote about the somewhat shocking news that an Indian court had ordered Reuters to take down an entire article investigating a company, Appin and its founder Rajat...
Donald Trump And Joe Rogan Think Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Akin To Magic Pixie Dust
To be very clear: SpaceX’s Starlink service can be a game changer for those completely out of range of broadband access. Getting several hundred megabits per second in the middle of nowhere is a dec...
Trademark Relinquished After Backlash From Trademark Bullying A Decade Ago By Pho Restaurant
It’s that time of the year in the Midwest, when the skies darken early and the temperature drops. And that means it’s pho season. As a lover of pho, allow me to educate anyone that hasn’t heard ...
Texas Board Decides It Will Stop Treating Nonfiction Book As Fiction After Nationwide Blowback
Well, a wrong has been righted. Kind of. And for how long, no one really knows. Texas is on the leading edge of book censorship in the United States — you know, the land most famous for its freedom...
The American Privacy Rights Act’s Hidden AI Ban
The release of a bipartisan draft of the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) reinvigorated the effort to pass a federal consumer privacy law, only to sputter and stall amid concerns raised from across ...
Some (Slightly Biased) Thoughts On The State Of Decentralized Social Media
Last week, Bluesky, where I am on the board (so feel free to consider this as biased as can be), announced that it had raised a $15 million seed round, and with it announced some plans for building ou...
Data Shows ‘Progressive’ Prosecution Policies Don’t Lead To Higher Crime Rates
Donald Trump and the politicians that either think like him, or think saying things like this might make him like them, continue to pretend major US cities are besieged by violent criminals. While the...
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