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It’s not that computers are awful on some general axis, but that we spend more effort than necessary getting less out of them than we easily could out of myopia, greed, and laziness.

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Bad idea of the day: require a payment of a dollar (held in escrow by the copyright office) to send a DMCA takedown notice. The dollar goes to whoever is determined to be the legitimate owner, in case of a dispute. If there is no dispute, it goes into the federal education budget.

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Bad idea of the day: An ebook reader program in two columns, where the second column is specifically for recording personal marginal notes & is the same size as the book’s text itself – notes pinned to the paragraph, line, or sentence. Call it ‘MARGINAL’.

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If I resurrected my newsletter, would anybody subscribe? I’m thinking of modifying the format to have it contain the content I usually post on Medium, and then paywall the Medium essays for a month. (So, subscribers would be getting the free essays early.)

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We need tools that will encourage us to do what Jefferson did to his bible with razors and glue. These tools will be discouraged and limited for the same reason that these practices were discouraged on the bible.

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Steve Jobs has been dead for 10 years but Apple (& the rest of us too) still hasn’t recovered from poor decisions he made in 1981. Come on guys, get with the program.

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We don’t even live in a cyberpunk dystopia. We live in one of those early-90s cyberpunk ripoff stories by an author who half-read Neuromancer & missed the point.

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