Suuuper Meth!
Pithy article on the way The War on Drugs always says this year's variant is so much more powerful and dangerous than, in this case, your granny's meth.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/26/super-meth-isnt-the-hero-we-want-but-its-the-hero-we-deserve/
Court to DOGE: Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?' Is Not Proper Legal Process
Back in early 2025, DOGE bros Justin Fox and Nate Cavanaugh were handed multiple government roles with a simple mandate: go find the woke stuff and kill it. Fox and Cavanaugh had zero relevant expe…
Interesting read on #Techdirt about #AI generated code, #copyright, and a possible future for #FLOSS.
Like with regular text content, I'm confused about the copyright status of computer code, computer binaries, and exactly how much human effort is needed.
That said, the idea of FLOSS turning into shared #GenerativeAI prompts seems unlikely but not impossible. Maybe we should do this defensively before hedge funds do it offensively?
Most of the discussions about the impact of the latest generative AI systems on copyright have centered on text, images and video. That’s no surprise, since writers, artists and film-makers feel ve…
Sens Ask Gabbard to Tell Americans That VPN Use Subjects Them to Surveillance
Some news organizations are restricting access to the #WaybackMachine over fears of AI scraping. Mark Graham @mark, director of the Wayback Machine, explains why these concerns are unfounded and that blocking archives risks harming the public record.
Get the story on Techdirt 🔗
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/
Maybe we'll get #JohnOliver to cover it. There wound up being two days of coverage over at #TechDirt that kept me giggling. 
Here's the second, which links to the first, and that one has embedded videos of some of the testimony:
DOGE Didn't Cut Government Waste. It Was Government Waste
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/17/doge-didnt-cut-government-waste-it-was-government-waste/
Turns Out the DOGE Bros Who Killed Humanities Grants Are Sensitive About It
The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing
The Government Told Courts It Could Easily Refund Tariffs. Now It Says It Can't
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