Remember software UIs before minimalism?

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Growing up on Saipan, Professor Eun Hee Han, L’07, saw cross-cultural communication up close. At Georgetown Law, she applies the same lens to her scholarship, which focuses on the intersections between language, law, culture, citizenship and identity: https://bit.ly/3XqK0KG

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Whaaaaat are we doing here: scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2544/ techcrunch.com/2025/12/28/f...

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Just did this: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/o...

Warm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 16-color EGA #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required. Thanks to software preservation, it's still crackling on the Internet Archive. ✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️ archive.org/details/sier...

for your holiday reading pleasure: i wrote about why i’m getting back into tapes, and what we’ve lost by letting ourselves get addicted to platforms built around surveillance and instant gratification. 🎶 @404media.co

Now is not the time to have a piece about redaction aesthetics for the February cycle.

@eduardorferrer.bsky.social's De/Reconstructing Delinquency shows juvenile courts were built on faulty principles & must be altered to reduce harm to marginalized communities & decriminalize developmentally appropriate behavior, proposing MPC updates & removing misdemeanors/status offenses.

Betcha a shiny nickel this is because they told their LLM to redact all the initials used to identify minor victims and so it also redacted S.D.N.Y.

Ahem: scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2544/

Oof, @newyorker.com is using AI to summarize its articles 😬

Holiday Lights 2.0 (1995)

jenny holzer (2012)

As the former Google Associate General Counsel for web search -- a product built on scraping third party content without permission -- I'm having a lot of trouble processing Google's new lawsuit against someone else for scraping search results. storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

I have issued two changes to my book regarding the water footprint of data centers. I've detailed the changes and the context behind them here: karendhao.com/20251217/emp.... Given the nature of book changes, I wanted to make sure anyone who has an existing copy of the book is aware.

Just came upon this totally normal poster from the now-defunct Metropolitan Police in eastern Massachusetts. (The department was subsumed by the Massachusetts State Police by act of the legislature in 1992.)

Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules that there are no 4th Amendment rights in your Google search terms. When you search on Google, you tell them your search terms; the government can get those queries without a warrant. The third-party doctrine applies. www.pacourts.us/assets/opini...

that’s a skill issue, pal. i had like four good ideas already today.

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My second post about researchers’ rights to scrape data under DSA Article 40.12 is up! This is dense with legal arguments for researchers to use if they get sued. Or to show their lawyers before that. www.techpolicy.press/how-the-mean... verfassungsblog.de/dsa-fine-x-r...

Pope Leo XIV criticized prison overcrowding and insufficient inmate rehabilitation programs on Sunday as he celebrated a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families in the final event of the Vatican’s 2025 Holy Year. https://to.pbs.org/4q2FvlE

Or, put differently, read @tepski.tech! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Radical serving of Friday fish from the 1st colour publication on fish (1754). As the top specimen (with smiling sun) indicates, some of the offerings in the book lean perhaps a little too heavily on the imagination than today's ichthyologists may allow: https://t.co/NlpbLs4X5