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Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.

Elie Mystal, justice correspondent at the Nation, assesses the Supreme Court's term (First) | Atlantic staff writer Rose Horowitch considers the question: are we in a 'postliterate' age? (Starts at 49:05) | The many insects of NYC (Starts at 1:17:25)

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I’ve been consistent in my dislike of non-competes. Vincent built his own blog hosting that competed with Micro.blog while I was paying him as a contractor! It’s fine. It makes the web better. As I told him, if I’m not paying a full-time salary, I don’t have the right to tell him what to work on.

The more I read of the Apple filing last night, the less sympathetic I was to Apple. Theft of “trade secrets” can mean almost anything, from the serious to the silly. Information is not the same thing as real property. Big companies use contracts and lawyers to protect themselves from competition.

The instance I started is for my friends, people I work with, it’s not something people can test. It will be possible to start your own server, quite soon. And then you can do whatever you want. It’s MIT licensed. Kick ass and have fun, but remember don’t fuck with the interop. It’s there so […]

The instance I started is for my friends, people I work with, it's not something people can test. It will be possible to start your own server, quite soon. And then you can do whatever you want. It's MIT licensed. Kick ass and have fun, but remember don't fuck with the interop. It's there so users have choice.

“Would they cheer so loudly if it was a white kid shot? I don’t think so. Would he have shot four white kids? I don’t think so.…  Is there a racial edge to this? That’s all there is. Somebody asked me, ‘Is it beneath the surface a racial thing?’ Beneath the surface?! I mean, it’s […]

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