2026 Week 41 Links

Links on politics, DRM-free ebooks, science fiction, privacy, and gambling. I got the job!! I am still waiting for HR onboarding stuff to fully be employed, but I've signed a contract, which they sent at 11:04pm EST Friday. It's likely I won't really start work until around the 21st so I still have some time to rest and recover. And read RSS feeds. Even though I haven't worked in a week I'm still very low energy and low motivation. The ultimate list of DRM-free ebookshops Ancient Âsowanânihk crossing reveals millennia of Indigenous use as communities seek protection by Aaron Walker (Windspeaker.com) Twitch is using AI to decide which streamers can make money off of ads by Nathan Grayson (Aftermath) The most eyebrow-raising part of this article for me is not that Twitch is deciding who is brand-safe and who isn't, it's that they keep an audio transcript of every single word spoken in every single stream. Do people who primarily stream to small groups of friends realize any personal…