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Compared to mail, prison staff might be a much more common source of contraband in prisons [1].

Reading can reduce recidivism [2]. Taking inspiration from John F. Kennedy [3], I'd say that those who make prison rehabilitation impossible will make preventable recidivism inevitable.

[1] https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/10/18/prison-drugs-o...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changing_Lives_Through_Literat...

[3] https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-the-first-...


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> Arkansas inmates restricted from receiving physical books, other media directly under new policy

The article is from December 2025, and the policy takes effect on February 1, 2026.


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> Rand Paul Only Wants Google To Be The Arbiter Of Truth When The Videos Are About Him


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> Report Says AI That Hallucinated A Cop Into A Frog Is Making Utah Streets 'Safer'


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> State Department Threatens UK Over Grok Investigation, Because Only The US Is Allowed To Ban Foreign Apps


EFF explains a few differences between showing your ID in person and verifying your age online [1]. With respect to transmission, storage, and sharing of user data by the verifier/website, the risks of age estimation overlap with those of age verification.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/why-isnt-online-age-ve...


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Copyright Takedown Notices Don't Require Services to Find and Remove Other Identical Copies–Athos v. YouTube


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> Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation.


I can confirm that 500Kbps is not pretty. But when I'm sending screen recordings where text doesn't have to be readable (or isn't present), I try to approach 500K from above.


> The courts say.

Do you have an example of a court saying that violating robots.txt violates an existing law?

In Ziff Davis v. OpenAI [1], the District Court for the Southern District of New York found that violating robots.txt does not violate DMCA section 1201(a) (formally 17 U.S. Code § 1201(a), which prohibits circumvention of technological protection measures of copyrighted content [2]).

It's my understanding that robots.txt started as a socially-enforced rule and that it remains legally voluntary.

[1] https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/12/are-robots-txt...

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201


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