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Wendy M. Grossman

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<p>Freelance writer specializing in computers, freedom, and privacy, aka &quot;net.wars&quot;, published every Friday at netwars.pelicancrossing.net. (<a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/NetWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NetWars</span></a>). Contributing editor, Plutopia News Network podcast. Regular visitor to the Tech Grumps podcast. Founder The Skeptic (UK). Folksinger. See <a href="https://www.pelicancrossing.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">pelicancrossing.net</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> for more. also <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/@wendyg" class="u-url mention">@<span>wendyg</span></a></span> on Bluesky. New folk music CD 2024: The Last

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    This week&#39;s net.wars, &quot;Change of plan&quot; notes the abandonment of the world&#39;s largest data center-in-waiting, the tale of the Waymo and two 15-year-old boys, and the I-can&#39;t-believe-it&#39;s-still-alive 2003 case of SCO v. IBM: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/07/10/change-of-plan/ #NetWars

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    This week&amp;#39;s net.wars, &amp;quot;Long Island AI&amp;quot;, calls the peak of AI mania: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/04/17/long-island-ai/ #NetWars #AI #StupidFinanceTricks

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    At Gathering4Gardner&amp;#39;s YouTube channel, @ColinTheMathmo and I talk about skepticism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktPuBFIdQDE @TheSkeptic

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    Can anyone advance a theory as to why a Berlin hotel uses a TV channel to play, over and over in an &amp;quot;eternal loop&amp;quot;, The Big Lebowski?

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    This week&amp;#39;s net.wars, &amp;quot;Intimacy capitalism&amp;quot;, goes to the We Robot 2026 workshop day, and finds new things to worry about: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/04/24/intimacy-capitalism/ #NetWars #WeRobot #AI #robots

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    @neil I&amp;#39;ve gone off musicals over time. As a child I was lucky enough to see original productions of Camelot (julie Andrews!&amp;quot;), My Fair Lady, and The Sound of Music on Broadway. These days...I still like the movies of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Among recnet ones the only one that stands out is The Book of Mormon.

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    This week&amp;#39;s net.wars, &amp;quot;The railway and the balloon&amp;quot;, goes to We Robot 2026, where law, culture, and robotics try to find common ground: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/05/01/the-railway-and-the-balloon/ #NetWars #WeRobot #robots #AI #law

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    This week&amp;#39;s net.wars, &amp;quot;The soul in the machine&amp;quot;, considers Richard Dawkins&amp;#39; expressed belief that his interactions with Anthropic&amp;#39;s Claude show that the chatbot is conscious: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/05/08/the-soul-in-the-machine/ #NetWArs #AI

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    This week&amp;#39;s net.wars, &amp;quot;Saving no one&amp;quot;, finds that 3D printing is enabling puzzle-making and ponders the mess of the Information Commissioner Office&amp;#39;s fine against Reddit: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/02/27/saving-no-one/ #NetWars #OnlineSafetyAct