The Scopes "Monkey Trial" started on this day 100 years ago. Clarence Darrow won, right? No he did not. He lost and then lost on appeal — all four challenges rejected. The case was dismissed on a technicality, and the law it was fighting existed for another 40 years

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Why Substack shouldn’t be the future of online publishing:

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Why Substack shouldn’t be the future of online publishing

I’d like to apologize in advance for the topic of this week’s newsletter, which I fear may not interest all (or perhaps even most) of y...

Mozilla shutting down Pocket pisses me off. I know that things can't last forever but they said they bought it to keep it operating, and I have about 100,000 bookmarks saved in it

The ankle monitor was inspired by a Spiderman comic strip:

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The ankle monitor was inspired by a Spiderman comic strip

From Public Seminar: “Electronic monitoring came into the criminal justice system not as a result of extensive research, but in part because ...

We Visited Rumeysa Ozturk in Detention. What We Saw Was a Warning to Us All

Opinion | We Visited Rumeysa Ozturk in Detention. What We Saw Was a Warning to Us All.

The Constitution is only as strong as our willingness to defend it.

This week in The Torment Nexus, why you should be careful what you post on social media part two:

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Be careful what you say on social media, part 2

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post for The Torment Nexus that was titled "Be careful what you post on social media, they are listening," which was tri...

Ghost — the open-source platform I use to publish my daily "When The Going Gets Weird" and weekly "The Torment Nexus" newsletters — has integrated with the fediverse through ActivityPub. So you can follow the daily one through @npub15xg7...7u62 and the weekly one by following @The Torment Nexus

So the incoming president of the United States is promoting a crypto coin named after himself. I guess I shouldn’t be shocked, but I confess I didn’t expect things to get this stupid this quickly. My bad! https://decrypt.co/301691/donald-trump-drops-solana-meme-coin