The full article by Zachary Crockett is available here.
If you have ever wondered what is the most famous (or infamous) crime that was committed in each one of our 50 States, check out this list compiled by NYT contributors Tina Jordan and
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Michael Huemer poses an important legal question in this blog post: Are Internet giants like Google and Facebook and popular websites like Twitter and Instagram “publishers” or “platforms”? In other words, should these Internet firms be legally liable for user-generated content? Here is Huemer’s argument (link in the original): Continue reading
Although I have taught college and graduate-level courses in Constitutional Law since 1998, I had never thought about this question until now. Check out this footnote (pictured below) on pp. 87-88 of Cecilia Watson’s beautiful book on the history of the semi-colon:
This entertaining video poses an important question: should governments ban cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, regulate them, or just leave them alone? Hat tip: @ATabarrok
Does WordPress (the platform I use to blog) count as social media? If so, then Jaron Lanier has written an entire book explaining why you should delete this blog as well as your other social media accounts. (Pictured below is the back cover of his book outlining his arguments.) I guess “Digital Puritanism” is a thing!
Note: 1 is neither prime nor composite.
What does the future hold for us? Pictured below is one of Mike “Beeple” Winkelmann’s artistic renderings of a future digital dystopia. Beeple is a graphic designer from Charleston, South Carolina, who does a variety of digital artwork including short films. You can check out Beeple’s website here and his haunting series of Digital Dystopias here. (Hat tip: phoenixabovesky11, via Imgur.)
Artist Credit: Beeple
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