Not only does the DMCA place no limits on the number of identities revealed per subpoena, the Judge explained, there are no requirements for supporting evidence or an individualized showing of infringement. Tamaris’ notification to GoDaddy was sufficient so the DMCA subpoena was issued accordingly.

Very cool system

Based on the vague description they gave, I wouldn’t be surprised if it were a simple IDOR attack—it was my first guess before I even read the article. IDOR is something so basic that it’s something moderately interested tech savvy people figure out intuitively without ever trying to learn about hacking…literally day 1 of security class shit. Hope we’ll get a more detailed exploit write-up at some point.

Gonna keep track of my progress here (🔄 = in progress). Unless otherwise noted, I’ll be opting to read rather than listen to audiobooks.

1. A. Einstein’s Why Socialism? ☑
2. R. Day’s Why Marxism? ☑
3. M. Parenti’s “Yellow Parenti” Speech ☑ (I’ve watched it before but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to watch some Parenti!)
4. M. Parenti’s Blackshirts and Reds ☑ (2025-12-27→2025-12-30)
5. Ho Chi Minh’s Why Do We Have to Study Theory? ☑ (2025-12-30)
6. N. Krupskaya’s General Rules for Independent Study (2025-12-30) ☑
7. V. I. Lenin’s The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (2025-12-30) ☑
8. F. Engels’ Principles of Communism (2025-12-31)☑
9. V. I. Lenin’s Karl Marx: A Brief Biographical Sketch with an Exposition of Marxism (2025-01-01→?) 🔄

mfw I can’t even read the introduction to the post where you clearly explain that it’s reading time and not listening time

Chat, am I cooked?

In all seriousness, I think I ought to read these rather than listen to them, anyway. I enjoy listening to audiobooks as a way to keep my mind occupied while I’m doing other tasks and learn things while I’m at it, but my retention of them is terrible. It’s fine if I’m just listening for pure pleasure or to get a general sense of familiarity, but if I actually want to internalize the information to improve my understanding of socialism that ain’t gonna cut it. I’ve heard that Blackshirts and Reds is quite digestible, and I didn’t realize it was so short, so it seems like a natural place to start.

If I really stick with getting through this, maybe I’ll have trained my long-atrophied reading muscle enough to actually keep up with the Capital reading group next year (I washed out on week 2…forgive me, sensei). For what it’s worth, I did find the tiny morsel of Capital that I made it through really interesting and enlightening by itself, so I can only imagine what it’ll be like to read a whole volume!

Think you’ve got a typo there on the duration of the Blackshirts and Reds audiobook—should be 5 hr 29 min. I only wish the audiobook could have been read by Parenti with his beautiful Eyetalian accent and righteous anger But nevertheless, I shall read it!

Thanks for your hard work in creating and refining this list. Seeing it all laid out makes it a lot more manageable, since there’s such an incredible volume of literature out there that even deciding what to read can be overwhelming to the point that it becomes a barrier to actually reading anything.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/1999/aug/24/spaceexploration

The late astronomer and author Carl Sagan was a secret but avid marijuana smoker, crediting it with inspiring essays and scientific insight, according to Sagan’s biographer.

Using the pseudonym ‘Mr. X’, Sagan wrote about his pot smoking in an essay published in the 1971 book Reconsidering Marijuana. The book’s editor, Lester Grinspoon, recently disclosed the secret to Sagan’s biographer, Keay Davidson.

Davidson, a writer for the San Francisco Examiner, revealed the marijuana use in an article published in the newspaper’s magazine Sunday. Carl Sagan: A Life is due out in October.

“I find that today a single joint is enough to get me high… in one movie theater recently I found I could get high just by inhaling the cannabis smoke which permeated the theatre,” wrote Sagan, who authored popular science books such as Cosmos, Contact, and The Dragons of Eden.

In the essay, Sagan said marijuana inspired some of his intellectual work.

“I can remember one occasion, taking a shower with my wife while high, in which I had an idea on the origins and invalidities of racism in terms of gaussian distribution curves,” wrote the former Cornell University professor. “I wrote the curves in soap on the shower wall, and went to write the idea down.”

Sagan also wrote that pot enhanced his experience of food, particularly potatoes, as well as music and sex.

Grinspoon, Sagan’s closest friend for 30 years, said Sagan’s marijuana use is evidence against the notion that marijuana makes people less ambitious.

“He was certainly highly motivated to work, to contribute,” said Grinspoon, a psychiatry professor at Harvard University.

Grinspoon is an advocate of decriminalizing marijuana.

Ann Druyan, Sagan’s former wife, is a director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. The nonprofit group promotes legalization of marijuana.

Sagan died of pneumonia in 1996. He was 62.

THEY’RE COMING FOR YOU NEXT YOU DUMB MOTHERFUCKERS. AAAAAAAAAAAGH

Don’t forget the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism

From 2008 to 2011, Li made CRACK99 a reliable black-market marketplace, one that netted an estimated $100 million in sales. His inventory, investigators later said, was valued at over $1 billion.

Since it’s not clear from this write-up, those eye-popping figures (the ones concocted by the Department of Justice) are derived from the prices that the licenses were being sold for by the original companies, so it’s not $100 million in sales but $100 million in “value” (the idea of calculating a $1 billion valuation for the digital “inventory” is even more ridiculous). If you look on the actual crack99 website, you’ll see that most of the cracked software was being sold for anywhere from twenty bucks to maybe a few hundred dollars—this guy was not making millions from this. The government’s sentencing memorandum has the details; this includes the absurd figure of $3,812,241.57 for a single software license of some CAD software called “Catia VR520”, which Li sold to at least one other customer for the princely sum of $100.

Shoutout to my dumbass relatives for sending their DNA to this company—thanks for nothing!

TIL that the Holy Hand Grenade from Monty Python and the Holy Grail was based on a real item from the British Coronation regalia

Thank you for sharing–that was a really neat demonstration, and I enjoyed seeing all the troubleshooting as well. Will definitely be subscribing and checking out more of their videos!

My girlfriend has not been seen for several weeks after going back to Canada

Thanks for sharing! I also had the same misconception that RGB values would map neatly to subtitles, so it was cool to learn about the more complex reality as well as the world of non-striped subpixel geometries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

Just explain your problem to your teddy bear or your cat or w/e, works 9/10 times and you don’t need to ravage the ecosystem to do it

I feel like there’s not much to fight about. I can understand the latter perspective, but from a practical point of view it just makes sense to consistently assign it to AM/PM rather than creating an unnecessary edge case (lord knows there are enough of those with date/time systems). Also this is all made moot by the superior system: the 24-hour clock (now THERE’S something I bet you could have a good argument about!).

I can’t remember the specifics (both because it was dumb and because it’s so embarrassing I think my brain is trying to protect me), but from what I recall I got into a heated argument on the internet with someone because I felt that fans weren’t cheering hard enough for a band I liked at a concert.

…yeah, I know. I’m grateful, though, because it was so colossally stupid and pointless that I had a come-to-Jesus moment and swore off internet arguments entirely. I can only imagine the countless hours of my life it’s saved me in the intervening years.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40583721/print-to-console-log-with-color

out-of-order

https://twitter.com/Hidet0shi1/status/1863353364706111601