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Entropy Arbitrage Newsletter Entropy Arbitrage Library Updates Next Today, South Africans celebrate Freedom Day, honoring the first post-apartheid elections in that country. Over time, it has attracted the counter-programming of UnFreedom Day to draw attention to the lack of freedom seen by the country’s poor. And with that, on to the week’s projects. Entropy Arbitrage Newsletter For those of you i

Can We Not Disclosure Sure, the Usual Not Much More Than Meets The Eye So What Next Slide, Please As a word of warning, this post exploded in size as I tried to zero in on what I wanted to say, so I’ll break it across three weeks, so that I don’t go dumping ten thousand words on people on a Sunday morning. Over the past few weeks, I have seen a surprising number of “Open Web” types—no, I won’t name names, but you can probably all figure out whose blogs I read, and they numbered at least three…

Avalon High What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club continues reading Avalon High, including Semester 2 from Live with Regis and Geddy Lee through Unnecessary Risk.

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Mini-Server, Part 24 Notoboto Entropy Arbitrage, the Code Library Updates Next Today, we celebrate Chinese itself in Chinese Language Day, piggybacking on an existing festival dedicated to the probably mythical (or at least heavily fictionalized) Cangjie, the four-eyed historian whose invention provoked crying among the spirits and gods, and produced cereal-based weather.

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This week sees a comic about a high school.

This week, we have surveillance salaries, food prices, war profiteers, AI liability, sexual violence in movements, right to repair, anti-Vatican tactics, creativity from art films, and Arab American Heritage.

For this episode, we need to talk about ethnocentrism, misogyny, treaties, and more, with a few tangents.

This week's projects include a likely social media update, the blog's code, my novel, Boring CSS, and some library updates.

Not quite eat-the-rich, but maybe make them more palatable for an eventual brunch.

This week sees a French cyberpunk novel.

This week, we have Reuters and ICE, customer service and sleep, wealth tax, postal workers, anti-trans attacks, AI making you worse, bee granola bars, war against humanity, and Asian American Heritage.

For this episode, we need to talk about terrible engineering, misogyny, education, and more.

This week's projects include the blog's code, the Ham newsletter generator, and some library updates.

Not another AI post exactly, but using AI as an entry into a different topic.

This week sees a French cyberpunk novel.

This week, we have secession troublemakers, food aid, Big Ag, Wikipedia's AI ban, attacking the open web, Lucy Parsons, evolution of talking, the Population Bomb, Women's History, and Asian American Heritage.

For this episode, we need to talk about labor law, violence, computer security, racism, and more.

This week's projects include the newsletter, a comic for Fodongo, a book-reader for my home server, the Ham newsletter generator, my Mastodon tool trunk, and a bunch of library updates for projects.

Let's look at the actual problem of programming and how to (start to) solve it.

This week sees a French cyberpunk novel.

This week, we have loneliness, Border Patrol, lobbying ethics, gender conformity, public schools, humpback whales, juvenile detention, women in the farmworker movement, and Women's History.

As someone who sits in a similar niche of “likes and includes Indie Web tools”—though I still haven’t worked out if/how I want to integrate WebSub/WebPub—but “posts often seem too long” for the “almost social media” aesthetic, hi! I started following your writing when you announced the license change over on Mastodon.

For this episode, we need to talk about management, replicators, and (a bit) more, with an extensive tangent drawing out the likely metaphor.

This week's projects include updates to the blog and some library updates.

Finally explaining Free Culture from the ground up, this time how it works mechanically

This week sees a short but clever animation from The Netherlands.