- boingboing, Intel + DRM: a crippled processor that you have to pay extra to unlock
- Fred Clark finds Jackie at the crossroads
- Juan Cole explains why in a certain foreign leader's mind Ahmadinejad resembles Cyrus the Great
- Greenwald savages Obama's tone-deafness to progressive concerns in Obama's view of liberal criticisms
- Grimmelmann, The Mufti of Constantinople
- Kos, Before you say the country is moving to the right… (look at all the evidence to the contrary)
- The ugly world of constant souseveillance takes a giant step forward with the introduction of the $199 Looxcie (smartphone required); see also the smartpen AKA “The Pen That Never Forgets”
- Reid Report, Herald Tribune on Rubio: public fiscal hawk, private spendthrift
- Steve Vladeck, The Graham Bill and Detention Authority: U.S. Citizens and Material Support
- David Weinberg, The Internet as a human right (not what you might guess from the title)
Recent Bluessky Posts- Pritzker (with Warnock) February 7, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- The only in any way good thing about this is that the vast majority of Americans are utterly disgusted by it. (Although not, polls tell us, a majority of Republicans who are thus revealed as either blissfully ignorant, willfully ignorant, or vicious.) But midterm election still feels too far away. February 7, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Minds think alike! bsky.app/profile/mfro... February 7, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Brownshirts are feeling their impunity. And since prosecutors are told to stand down, what do they have to worry about, at least in the medium term? This is why Schumer-style milquetoast ICE funding conditions are completely useless. Only defunding will stop this. February 7, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- More than somewhat worrying about how some commanders would react if push comes to shove--by which I mean the Insurrection Act. February 7, 2026 Michael Froomkin
