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Tuesday, June 14, 2024

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  • All Lawyered Up…

    by Frank Paynter on June 14, 2024

    Donna Wentworth moves us.  The Tutor, the CBO and that Joho fellow… all putting in a big plug for the EFF’s legal guide for bloggers.  Naturally Denise Howell has put in a good word too.   And Iggy.  And Paula O., my favorite lesbian crip writer… and hetero-Halley…  where will it end?

    Oh, and it’s free.

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    Monkey Bits

    by Frank Paynter on June 14, 2024

    Language Log writes about the first time monkeys exchanged money for sex.  Blog antecedents include this post from SavageMinds.  SavageMinds pulls the following quote (now behind the NYT firewall)…

    When taught to use money, a group of capuchin monkeys
    responded quite rationally to simple incentives; responded irrationally
    to risky gambles; failed to save; stole when they could; used money for
    food and, on occasion, sex. In other words, they behaved a good bit
    like the creature that most of Chen’s more traditional colleagues
    study: Homo sapiens.

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