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For nearly 30 years, journalists have relied on the Internet Archive to see how stories were originally published, before edits, removals, or changes. We need to safeguard that. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/blocking-internet-archive-wont-stop-ai-it-will-erase-webs-historical-record

Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record

Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s....

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Ed Bott 2d ago

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116263102360687966

Microsoft finally started paying attention to what its customers are saying about Windows 11. Good news: You will soon be able to move the taskbar to the top or side of the display again!

Ed Bott Mar 1

Nonya Bidniss Feb 28

Journalists, editors: One small thing you can do to push back on this criminal regime is use the Department of Defense's actual name, not the sham name the fascists made up outside the law. And that includes the actual title of Pete Hegseth's job, not the one he made up for himself. Until Congress decides those are the proper titles in the law, the made up fascist names should not be promulgated by U.S. news rooms. #journalism #media

p.s. I noticed a story from ABC News did this yesterday and I was glad to see it.

Ed Bott Mar 1

Dwight Silverman Mar 1

Head's up, Mastodon users: There appears to be a coordinated effort to impersonate relatively high-profile people who have accounts on various instances but who have not used them in a while.

I've gotten several follow notifications - and a couple of DMs - from impersonators of people I know. The bogus accounts have lots of underscores in the handles, and they repost items from the past, sometimes years old. If you spot this, please report, do not engage, and then block.

Pls boost.

Ed Bott Feb 28

Anil Dash Feb 28

Everybody is (understandably) very excited that Anthropic isn't selling their AI for Hegseth to use to automate his war crimes. But I would gently suggest that we not accept setting the bar quite so low. https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/27/a-cookie-for-dario/

A Cookie for Dario? — Anthropic and selling death

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Anil Dash

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Ed Bott Feb 27

If you ever want to confirm that I am who I appear to be, just check my profile. It will have a green checkmark for my personal domain, edbott dot com. If you don't see that, it's a fake.

Ed Bott Feb 27

Oh look! The asshole trying to impersonate me has created another profile, this time with TWO underscores! Obviously a technically sophisticated troll.

Anyway, please report and block @Ed_Bott_ and I thank you in advance.

Ed Bott Feb 27

I've done a deep dive on Windows telemetry. Spoiler: There's one switch you probably want to turn off.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-spying-windows-telemetry/

Is Microsoft really spying on you with Windows telemetry?

Some Windows customers are convinced that Microsoft's diagnostic data collection for Windows is a secret spy network. I've been investigating this topic for a decade. Here's what you need to know.

ZDNET

Ed Bott Feb 22

RE: https://mastodon.social/@edbott/116115174857655438

Ah, good. The account has been suspended,

Thanks to everyone who contributed to reporting and blocking this loser.

Ed Bott Feb 22

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116115070748764416

This would be hilarious if it were not so mind-blowingly stupid.

At least it doesn't have the WTF level of the "FAA closes El Paso airspace, then reverses itself the next day" incident from a few weeks ago.

Anyway, I miss having a competent government.

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