Issue 90: When Machine Learning Goes Wrong
The People of Ukraine are not forgotten. The Tufts University newspaper published an article this week about a multinational effort to preserve the digita...
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Issue 89: Ukraine’s Libraries, Russia’s Internet, and the Big Deal
The first story below is one from National Public Radio on Ukraine libraries’ efforts are undertaking. Let’s not forget the terror they are facing, the peop...
Issue 88: Battling Censorship, Considering the Right to be Forgotten
For this week’s newsletter introduction, I searched the Flikr service for photographs of libraries in Ukraine. I thought that putting a picture here at the ...
Sanctioning Governments on the Internet
What a strange article title to type: Sanctioning Governments on the Internet. What does that even mean? Who would decide? Who would implement the decisio...
Issue 87: Ukraine War, Artificial Intelligence Art
We are one week into Russia’s war against Ukraine. From here in America, it is hard to understand the reality of a country whose citizens seemed to be going...
Five Years and Ten Months
I reached a new milestone this month. A minor one in the grand scheme of things, but one worthy of a few remarks nonetheless. This month marks my longest t...
Issue 86: Tracking Media Provenance, Digital Classroom Surveillance, Don’t Pixelate to Redact, Android In-App Advertising
I’ve deleted what I originally had here as newsletter-opening-banter. These are serious times. I think the world has radically changed overnight, and roughly...
Issue 85: Privacy-busting Journal Article Fingerprints, Fraud in NFTs, Improve Your Life
The middle of February already. Time is flying; I hope you are having fun. The threads this week: Privacy-busting Fingerprints in Journal Articles Fr...
You’re getting "Invalid request provided: AWS::CloudFront::PublicKey" because CloudFront Public Keys are immutable
This is the web page I wish I had found when I spent the afternoon sorting through why AWS CloudFormation kept telling me: Resource handler returned mess...
Issue 84: Chips Go Bad, Learn From Our Cyber Mistakes, Automation at the USPS
The invoice is in. This reengineered blog and the reinvigorated Thursday Threads newsletter cost just US$2.51 last month. All of that cost is in the blog co...
Starting a Python-oriented Serverless-dot-com Project
In the past few months, I’ve created about a half-dozen projects using “serverless” infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS). (And I’m about to start ano...
Issue 83: Author’s CDL Thoughts, WWE’s Monopsony, Child’s Library Book
Greetings from the wintery mix that is central Ohio. The local school district called off school yesterday afternoon in preparation for what came today. Al...