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Texas Justice and Facebook Injustice
After helping a local bookstore move to a larger home, I reflect on a writer friend's sudden Facebook account deletion and the importance of backing up digital memories. I also look at a remarkable Texas cold case arrest that finally brought justice to both a murder victim and a wrongly convicted man.

Texas Justice and Facebook Injustice – Bob Mueller
A bookstore move, a warning about Facebook data loss, and a Texas cold case solved decades later bring justice at last.

Incredibly annoyed that I'm going to be away at PLDI on the day the Tartan Army is holding a Scottish fan festival in Providence — and serving IRN-BRU. (I drink one every trip to Scotland, which is enough to fortify me until the next trip. <-;)

Unsere Schweizerreise hat jetzt so richtig begonnen!
#TourDuSud
#SonneTeilen

This is the *other* #asteroid visited by an Asian spacecraft this month: tiny (469219) Kamo`oalewa - the bar measures 10 meters - as seen by China's #Tianwen2 from 20 km distance ahead of a #SampleReturnMission: https://www.facebook.com/Spacewalk2021/posts/pfbid02JKYdMnWPGRxxShDj6U6d6M2vs5qUkVL55v97CBgAHJ6KTnCvM6TkSTyDVEFGqk23l (see also the paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24017 about JWST observations of the asteroid).

I miss Nicole Hollander, the cartoonist, and her cartoons. She died April 23, 2026. Her comic strip “Sylvia” was funny. Luckily she made a million of them, so they're still pretty easy to find on the web.
This one’s from her book, “The Whole Enchilada”, (1982)

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

KI-Modelle entwerfen lebensfähige Viren, Forscher warnen vor Missbrauch
Forscher nutzten KI, um lebensfähige Virusgenome zu entwerfen. Die Methode birgt Chancen gegen resistente Keime, aber auch Risiken für die Biosicherheit.

KI-Modelle entwerfen lebensfähige Viren, Forscher warnen vor Missbrauch
Forscher nutzten KI, um lebensfähige Virusgenome zu entwerfen. Die Methode birgt Chancen gegen resistente Keime, aber auch Risiken für die Biosicherheit.

Court filing: Meta says four US states seek $1.4T over claims it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict youth and misled the public; its market cap is ~$1.5T (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-says

Nearly five inches of rain, a bookstore relocation, a cautionary tale about losing years of Facebook memories without warning, and a Texas cold case solved nearly 40 years later.
This week, I reflect on digital permanence, wrongful convictions, and a rare case where justice eventually found its way to the right person.
#blogging

Texas Justice and Facebook Injustice – Bob Mueller
A bookstore move, a warning about Facebook data loss, and a Texas cold case solved decades later bring justice at last.

A profile of Rachel Whetstone, who has led comms for Google, Meta, Uber, Netflix, and now Sierra, as her husband Steve Hilton runs for California governor (Emily Shugerman/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2026/07/06/rachel-whetstone…

The hack and the flack: How Steve Hilton’s wife, Rachel Whetstone, conquered California
As comms chief for Google, Facebook, Uber, and Netflix, she helped write Silicon Valley’s political playbook. Does she want to help her husband rule the state?