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In the first successful US prosecution of a spyware operator in 10 years, pcTattletale founder pleads guilty to promoting surveillance apps for unlawful uses (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/06/foun

Founder of spyware maker pcTattletale pleads guilty to hacking and advertising surveillance software | TechCrunch
Bryan Fleming, the founder of hacked stalkerware company pcTattletale, pleaded guilty to federal charges linked to the running of his now-defunct Michigan-based spyware company.

A US House committee votes to subpoena a journalist after he posted a biography of the alleged Delta Force leader who led the Caracas operation in Venezuela (The Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/3NzELX8

House votes to subpoena journalist over report on Delta Force commander
A lawmaker accused Seth Harp of “leaking classified intel” after he posted a photograph of a person he identified as the head of the elite unit responsible for the Venezuela operation.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
Pas de Deux:
🎵 Cardiocleptomanie
#PasdeDeux
https://minimalwave.bandcamp.com/track/pas-de-deux-cardiocleptomanie
https://open.spotify.com/track/3y3AYzmj8DSmExl3DTzMBb

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
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#ScotPol
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25833572.john-curtice-verdict-anas-sarwar-chances-leading-scotland/

Laurie Penny is very near the top of my list of favorite living writers. She has started a how-to-write-well series, entitled (for obvious reasons) “How to Write Like A Person”; intro here: https://open.substack.com/pub/lauriepenny/p/ho…

How to Write Like A Person
Announcing a new seminar for 2026.

I think a lot about this tweet from like 16 years ago this gal posted who was an early mutual of mine on Twitter. She was like 'Girls, don't date rich guys. Get a job and make your own money so you can fuck poor, hot guys.'

internet_as: Internet AS graph (2006)
A symmetrized snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from BGP tables posted by the University of Oregon Route Views Project. This snapshot was created on 22 July 2006.
This network has 22963 nodes and 48436 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted

Tailwind CSS lays off 75% of its engineers after Google traffic to its documentation fell 40% since early 2023 due to AI, leading to an 80% decrease in revenue (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
https://www.seroundtable.com/tailwind-css-google-drop-40725.html

Tailwind CSS Lets Go 75% Of Engineers After 40% Traffic Drop From Google
Adam Wathan the creator of Tailwind CSS posted that he had to let go of 75% (from 4 people now down to 1) of his engineering team because of AI. He said traffic to the Tailwind help documentation is d

How some candidates for the midterms are using social media posts and niche buzzwords on their websites to signal for support from crypto and AI super PACs (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/us/poli

How Candidates Are Using Winks and Posts to Seek Crypto and A.I. Cash
All across America, congressional candidates are finding creative — and critics say cynical — ways to signal support for two deep-pocketed industries, A.I. and crypto.