- Boing Boing, Finnish police confiscate 9-y-o’s laptop after she downloads a song from the Pirate Bay
- Medical Daily, (via, slashdot)
- Mat Taibbi finds One Interesting Thing About Paula Broadwell’s Petraeus Biography (via Leiter)
- Man arrested for theft of “9 million files” said to comprise identity data for roughly 2/3 of the Greek population (via RISKS)
- Naked Capitalism, An Inconvenient Truth About Lincoln (That You Won’t Hear from Hollywood)
- Jon Huntsman continues his strategy of positioning himself as the sane alternative for the GOP. Fortunately, there’s no sign at present that this can work.
- U.S. Deficit Shrinking At Fastest Pace Since WWII, Before Fiscal Cliff & Your helpful Thanksgiving charts about the deficit (via Maddow Blog) … partial corrective at Kevin Drum, The Federal Deficit Is Shrinking Already, But That’s Not Really a Good Thing
Recent Bluessky Posts- Today's efficiency: ignoring the super bowl and the winter Olympics at the same time. February 8, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Florida is not traditionally a place where protests that don't target a Castro tend to happen. That we're seeing this in Florida high schools tells you just how deep the opposition runs. February 8, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Do the people pushing this crazed rule think the students may refer to themselves using the B word? February 8, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Dave Farber. He was a true pioneer who had major influence on the architecture of the Internet and tech policy. Rest in peace to one of the most "Interesting People" our field has ever known. mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/iet... February 8, 2026 Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD
- Pritzker (with Warnock) February 7, 2026 Michael Froomkin
