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This is an incomplete list of the shortform reading (and listening and watching) I've been doing lately.

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"What happens when the internet disappears?"
s.e. smith in The Verge.
Published . Read on .
The promise of the internet is that it would last forever. But that has proven to be largely untrue, as huge swaths of the web are vanishing, quickly and at random.
archival
"'Who are we to judge,' ask … judges, upholding TikTok ban".
Seth Stern and Caitlin Vogus in Freedom of the Press.
Published . Read on .
We warned that the TikTok ban forgets the lessons of the Pentagon Papers case. Last week's court decision upholding the law proved our point
free press, law, tiktok
"The critical window of shadow libraries".
Anna in Anna's Blog.
Published . Read on .
How can we claim to preserve our collections in perpetuity, when they are already approaching 1 PB?
archival
"Century-Scale Storage".
Maxwell Neely-Cohen in Library Innovation Lab.
Published . Read on .
If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?
archival
"Why So Few Matt Levines?"
Gwern Branwen in Gwern.net.
Published . Read on .
Why are popularizing educational newsletter-frequency writers of important fields like Matt Levine for finance so rare? Because most fields are too slow or ambiguous, and writers of the right combination of expertise, obsession, and persistence are also rare.
newsletter
"Diss Isn't RICO" (Podcast).
Josh Barro and Ken White in Serious Trouble.
Published . Listened on .
Drake files some truly embarrassing legal actions against Kendrick Lamar; Jack Smith seeks dismissal of Trump's January 6 case; Jussie Smollett's conviction is thrown out; Ken answers your questions.
law
"Matt Gaetz Pulls Out" (Podcast).
Josh Barro and Ken White in Serious Trouble.
Published . Listened on .
Pete Hegseth discloses he paid a settlement to his accuser; another John Doe celebrity sues to get ahead of a sexual abuse allegation; Ken wins some anti-SLAPP litigation.
law, SLAPP, US politics
"Trump Threatens New York Times, Penguin Random House over Critical Coverage".
Lachlan Cartwright in Columbia Journalism Review.
Published . Read on .
Legal letter follows complaints aimed at CBS News, the Washington Post, and the Daily Beast. 
extremism, free speech, journalism, SLAPP, US politics
"And Yet It Moves".
Ken White in The Popehat Report.
Published . Read on .
Thoughts The Day After
US politics
"Lost In The Future".
Edward Zitron in Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At.
Published . Read on .
Why wouldn't people crave change? Why wouldn't people be angry? Living in the current world can be absolutely fucking miserable, bereft of industry and filthy with manipulation, an undignified existence, a disrespectful existence that must be crushed if we want to escape the depressing world we've found ourselves in. Our media institutions are fully fucking capable of dealing with these problems, but it starts with actually evaluating them and aggressively interrogating them without fearing accusations of bias that will happen either way. The truth is that the media is more afraid of bias than they are of misleading their readers. And while that seems like a slippery slope, and may very well be one, there must be room to inject the writer’s voice back into their work, and a willingness to call out bad actors as such, no matter how rich they are, no matter how big their products are, and no matter how willing they are to bark and scream that things are unfair as they accumulate more power.
enshittification, tech industry