Michael Fleming

Ditto. My age may be showing. But warm is good.

Boston University is building a database of datasets that have been scrubbed from agency's sites: findlostdata.org

U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts Secret order requires blanket access to protected cloud backups around the world, which if implemented would undermine Apple’s privacy pledge to its users.

Extraordinarly bad for everyone’s privacy and security. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

It is refreshing to see these kinds of questions, since they suggest these questioners come to the bar with plenty of fundamental tech skills (so we can move to higher value questions as a result). No longer can we accept the raised eyebrow reaction from legal leaders (“that’s too techie…”)…

#lawlibrarians

Fair enough. But is this delegation clear and unambiguous? Seems to be trying to hide that it’s telling FedReg to go online. And future archivists will now need to depend on the only 2(!) printed paper copies kept in DC to absolutely prove something (as who would really trust the online?)

“‘publish’ means to circulate for sale or distribution to the public, as determined by the Administrative Committee of the Federal Register; “

Which means the agency CAN choose to go fully online?

And is this even allowed after Chevron was eliminated?

the Tobin Unit is the unit of minimal forward progress on a project. if you do a Tobin Unit on your thing, you moved it forward and are good. feeling anxious and avoidant about a project? open that sucker up and do a Tobin Unit. maybe you moved a comma. great! now you are in good standing

Uber Eats notification with text “It’s time to meet JESUS”

Well, it’s been nice knowing y’all 💀

2001 Space Odyssey. Keep Douglas Rains.

On the site that tweeted too close to the sun I was briefly admired/reviled for my threads of dad jokes. Unfortunately, I have decided to restart the tradition here:

#dadjokes #dadjoke #badjokes #badjoke #groaner #groaners #humor #humour #joke #jokes #pun #puns #punny #funny #notfunny #histoftech

Paul Wellstone would have reminded us that the first step is to #organize. But yes. What you said.

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Officially cut the X out today.

Prospective college students: the new FAFSA form is open to all students and families as it enters the last phase of beta testing. Your input is valuable and will help prevent the kind of errors that affected last year’s FAFSA rollout.

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Not one but I married one. Does that count?

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