John Levine✅

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Grumpy old spam fighter
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Have LLMs broken fair use?
https://jl.ly/2025/06/29#fairwhat
Internet and e-mail policy and practice

Internet and e-mail policy and practice

Is Verisign a monopoly? Does it matter?
https://jl.ly/2024/11/23#vermonop
Internet and e-mail policy and practice

Today in the Journal of the American Medical Association: "Potential Health Hazards of Cryptocurrency Mining"
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2824114
Potential Health Hazards of Cryptocurrency Mining

This Viewpoint discusses the need for research on and mitigation strategies for the potential community and population health effects of cryptocurrency mining, an energy-intensive and noise-producing industry.

Internet Archive loses their CDL appeal
https://jl.ly/2024/09/05#archappeal
Internet and e-mail policy and practice

Layers and Gateways, a historical view
https://jl.ly/2024/04/15#gauge
Canada’s law to help news outlets is harming them instead
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/05/16/canadas-law-to-help-news-outlets-is-harming-them-instead
The Economist confirms what we all know, shaking down tech companies is not how you help your newspapers.
Canada’s law to help news outlets is harming them instead

Funding journalism with cash from big tech has become a fiasco

The Economist
Layers and Gateways, a historical view
https://jl.ly/2024/04/15#gauge
Internet and e-mail policy and practice

You don't need a license to look for spam
https://jl.ly/2024/03/23#finkwin
Internet and e-mail policy and practice