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Ex-Illustra, Sleepycat, Cloudera. Currently: Board member at Cityside. Working on: Climate. Politics.

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This is a great story on the origins of one of the very first ISPs in the world:

https://www.sensitiveresearch.com/Archive/TLG/TLG.html

I miss the days.

Came my way via @pluralistic's most recent occasional linkdump.

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Just finished @pluralistic's new book, The Bezzle. It's his second Marty Hench story. I liked the first one, Red Team Blues, a lot, but I like the new one better. It's really great.

If you enjoy forensic accounting, some modest computer nerditry, recreational drug use and a story that clips along at a pretty good pace, you'll probably like it, too. Recommended!

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@mikeolson @pluralistic saw this on the new releases shelf at the library today and almost picked it up, then decided to actually stick to what I went there to get for once. Does it help to have read Red Team first, or does this one stand alone?

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@sam @pluralistic you can read them independently, any order.

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"The Bezzle," @pluralistic's new book, is out today. My local independent bookseller will get a visit this afternoon.

By coincidence, yesterday was the 4th anniversary of his self-hosted, self-published blog. He's written an interesting retrospective on that project. This is the open web many of us thought we were building in the 1990s:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/20/fore/#synthesis

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This still makes me smile

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I don't burn books. I share reviews.

Here's @pluralistic on Chris Dixon's Read Write OhPleaseGiveMeYourMoney:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/15/your-new-first-name/#that-dagger-tho

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