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last week i wrote the wikipedia article on Tenrei Ōta, a Japanese physician and inventor of one of the first intrauterine devices

today i think i will work on shadow library

not sure what's worse about the DOGE site: unsecured databases, leaking of classified information, or these chart crimes

pretty sure i could smell the panic coming off the cluster of men huddled around the empty Hallmark card display in the grocery store at 5:30pm on Valentine's Day

if i was a true entrepreneur i would be printing out some shitty cards on my inkjet right now and going back to sell them in the parking lot for $10 apiece

I recently helped the New York Times with blockchain analysis for this story on the Trump memecoin, where more than 800,000 wallets lost money.

Although early reporting suggested the SEC would likely look to “potentially freeze some litigation that does not involve allegations of fraud”, the first case the SEC has proposed freezing is SEC v. Binance: a case alleging serious fraud and knowing violation of US securities laws.

Update on the arm I bought to hold my e-reader for me: have just discovered this enables me to knit (simple patterns) while I read

Last night I finished The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and half a sock

“We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.” Harvard Library Innovation Lab (via BlueSky)

was pretty jazzed to hear bookshop.org started selling e-books, but that DRM is a bummer 😞

kind of sucks that the best way to "buy" digital books at the moment is typically to pirate the book, then buy some shitty DRM-locked e-book you never open

today seems like a good day to do some wikipedia editing