The Core

I thought this was posted earlier but couldn't find it.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/20/microplastics-human-testicles-study-sperm-counts

Microplastics found in every human testicle in (small) study | Plastics | The Guardian

I've heard him say that on podcasts. It's a good argument. I don't think I could possibly even access my Master's thesis.

It was always the footnotes that kept me from going plain text for a lot of things. There are some things that are hard to do well in plain text.

There are format-rich "plain text" formats though like RTF, which has all the formatting you could want, but you can also open up the file in any text editor and read it and, if need be, extract what you want with a series of regex search and replace.

Just based on the title and source, I was pretty sure who I would find in the byline.

On the one hand, I agree with you and think the Pay or Okay model is okay. You have to keep the lights on. On the other hand, I do not think that Okay means okay to completely unfettered deep surveillance of all aspects of my life and relationships with almost no guardrails or transparency.

In the US, as permissive and aggressively applied as the first two Amendements are, they actually have a lot of limitations. That seems like a model - Okay means you can gather some data, but there are limits to what you can gather and especially to how you can use it.