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  1. Breaking Rocks, then Breaking Out: On \u201cFreedomville: The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt\u201d<\/a>
    \n“When we remove violence as a legitimate response to oppression, we condone the notion that the state has the only legitimate right to use force, and we exonerate those non-state elite actors who disregard that notion themselves and enact violence with impunity nonetheless.”<\/li>\n
  2. Free Returns Are Complicated, Laborious, and Gross – The Atlantic<\/a>
    \nWithout really giving it any thought, I’d always supposed that returned stuff that’s basically new is resold as new. Nope.<\/li>\n
  3. Facebook banned me for life because I created a tool that lets people control what they see on Facebook.<\/a>
    \nThey also used a lawsuit threat to force him to take his tool – a browser plug-in – off the web. Horrifying.<\/li>\n
  4. Bring on the Publicity Trolls: Federal Appeal Court Ruling Drastically Undermines Online Speech | Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a>
    \nThe ruling in effect means that social media companies can be sued if their users post something violating someone’s “right of publicity” under any state law.<\/li>\n
  5. Artist tattoos over 70 people to recreate scene from Betty Boop film | SWNS – YouTube<\/a>
    \nThis is just super cool. Thanks to my niece Sydney (who I’m sure does not read this blog) for pointing it out to me.<\/li>\n
  6. Opinion | The \u2018New York Times of the right\u2019 is \u2026 the New York Times – The Washington Post<\/a>
    \n“Carlson, for instance, isn\u2019t going to send an investigative team to probe a drone strike in some far-off land; he has no such team, so he relies on the Times.”<\/li>\n
  7. The Methods of Moral Panic Journalism – by Michael Hobbes<\/a>
    \nReally well-done debunking of the “cancel culture crisis” genre of article.<\/li>\n
  8. Elephants born without tusks in \u2018evolutionary response\u2019 to violent poachers<\/a>
    \n“However, it is not all good news. The trait [tusklessness] is only seen in female elephants and researchers said that genetic sequencing shows that the trait is linked to a mutation in the X chromosome, which can be fatal to male elephants in the womb.”<\/li>\n
  9. Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech | Knight First Amendment Institute<\/a>
    \nI’m a little suspicious of “magic bullet” solutions – they generally don’t work as completely as their advocates expect. But I think there are some good ideas here. Less power for Twitter and Facebook and more competition to create better interfaces both sound good. I do think having a thousand different moderation schemes that people can choose between is the best way to go, from a maximizing free speech perspective.<\/li>\n
  10. Why Japan Looks the Way it Does: Zoning – YouTube<\/a>
    \nMulti-use zoning doesn’t mean no-rules zoning. Interesting, I mean, I found it interesting, anyway, if someone else says “objectively that’s boring” I’m not sure I’d have a good counterargument.<\/li>\n
  11. Why is the idea of \u2018gender\u2019 provoking backlash the world over? | Judith Butler | The Guardian<\/a>
    \n“… there is no one concept of gender, and gender studies is a complex and internally diverse field that includes a wide range of scholars. It does not deny sex, but it does tend to ask about how sex is established, through what medical and legal frameworks, how that has changed through time, and what difference it makes to the social organization of our world to disconnect the sex assigned at birth from the life that follows…”<\/li>\n
  12. Photos in this post are by Patrick Boucher<\/a> and Ksenia Yakovleva<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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