


In February, I wrote about a Fourth Circuit decision in Doe v. Sidar, which discusses one-sided pseudonymity. On Wednesday, Google received a request that it remove that post from its indexes—and thus vanish it from search results—on the theory that the post violated the copyright in a blog post, https://europeannewschannels.blogspot.com/2024/01/fourth-circuit-on-one-sided.html: Re: Unknown NOTICE TYPE: DMCA Copyright […]

Most Hollywood screenplays tell the story of someone who has an ordinary, stable life, and then—and then!—something happens. A bus blows up. A single woman meets a cute stranger. A bus blows up, and then, on another bus that is also rigged with a bomb, a single woman meets a cute stranger. You get the […]

ZKasino and the Big Bust In a significant crackdown, Dutch authorities have apprehended a 26-year-old suspect linked to the ZKasino scam, marking a pivotal moment in the case. The arrest was part of a larger operation where over $12.2 million in crypto, real estate, and luxury vehicles were seized. This incident sheds light on the […]

It’s still happening! I regret to inform that the college students are still somehow at it. But their protests are getting progressively further from the plot. Take, for example, this University of Chicago supplies list, which seems to think dental dams and plan B are needed in order to *checks notes* help the Gazans? UChicago encampment requests […]

There’s a new proposal on Capitol Hill to improve air travel. On the one hand, it will slow down passenger screening and lengthen checkpoint lines. On the other hand, it will make you a little less safe. Remarkably, the idea of combining slower TSA wait times with weaker security has bipartisan support from fourteen Senators, […]

London, United Kingdom, May 2nd, 2024, Chainwire AI-powered Telegram trading bot, Bitbot, has surged past the $3M mark in its presale after outlining its updated product offering. Bitbot now includes a layer of AI development on its blockchain analysis tool, Gem Scanner. The project has hurtled into stage 12 of its short 15-stage presale due […]

Modern public-education history is littered with novel education theories that have failed so spectacularly that the terms are now used as pejoratives. For instance, when I was in elementary school in the 1960s, the “New Math” focused on teaching abstractions rather than fundamentals. You can find reams of research documenting its failure decades later, but the […]