Ed Hasbrouck, aka the Practical Nomad, has taken his wonderful mailing list on travel and privacy issues and turned it into a blog. A must-read if you fly or if you care about privacy, and a double must if you fit both categories. There's also an online archive of the traffic from his mailing list.
Recent Bluessky Posts- Consider the possibility that instead of being stupid it's a ploy to destroy insurance pools and "prove" the ACA is "unaffordable". Usually one should not attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity, but this is *so* stupid that it might just be an exception. September 26, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- One of humanity's greatest heroes September 25, 2026 Brendan Nyhan
- If someone is both a Ph.D in political science and a law degree, does this mean they should do half as much, or that where they have their appointment controls? Asking for someone I know... September 25, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- All very well, but as an immunocompromised person what I want to know is how does a mask mandate work in a **bar**? People in bars drink things. If there is a lesbian secret to drinking whith a mask on, I think they owe to the rest of us to share it. www.mediaite.com/media/wild-l... September 25, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Can we expect to see French troops protecting Ukrainian grain shipments or trains? No? Why not? September 25, 2026 Michael Froomkin
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