Awesome skull Thursday.

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Should we lament all the “lost jobs”?

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Jerry Brito - Surprisingly Free - The 100th Episode

In case you didn’t know, every week I host a podcast on tech, economics, and policy called Surprisingly Free. Today we reached our 100th episode and, of course, it’s a clip show. It has some of the best from the last 99 shows. Give it a listen, subscribe in iTunes, reblog this, and Tweet about it. Thanks!

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Why We Won’t See Many Protests like the SOPA Blackout

Me at TIME.com: “The SOPA blackout protest last week was an unprecedented event. Its massive success — with dozens of members of Congress switching their stance in one day under the withering intensity of thousands of phone calls — surprised even the activists who spurred the protest. So does this mean that we are entering the much-heralded era of Internet-powered citizen democracy?”

Today is not my day, apparently.

Add to that a family that speaks little English and it’s the story of my life.

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Shit People in DC Say.

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[A] very broad law that gives the government the power to start saying who can pass what to whom, I say no and I am standing for freedom.

My friend Tate is spending a month in Haiti and regularly posting on Tumblr. You should follow him.

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Purple haze sunset, Kenscoff

Back when search wasn’t personalized, Google could defensibly say that one service was better than another because it got more traffic, was linked to more (better PageRank), and so on. Back when everyone got the same results and the web was one homogenous glob of HTML, well, you could claim “this is the best result for the general population.” But personalized search has broken that framework[.]

At the Top of Congress’ New Year Agenda? Regulate the Net

This week in TIME I recap the latest on SOPA and PIPA and look at what’s ahead once Congress reconvenes. I also address the argument that the piracy bills don’t amount to censorship since they’re aimed at unprotected speech.

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Newt Gingrich feeding a tiger on Larry King.

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