Medium – Book of Jen

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SwordTember -2022

SwordTember was a fun list of prompts for artists who would create a series of swords. I’m not sure how many people participated in this, but I had a lot of fun creating the swords.

Day One – Crystal Sword

Day Two – Candle Sword

Day Three – Gears Sword

Day Four – Elemental Sword

Day Five – Edible Sword

Day Six – Liquid Sword

Day Seven – Mirror Sword

Day Eight – Veined Sword

Day Nine – Floral Sword

Day Ten – Snake Sword

Day Eleven – Neon Sword

Day 12 – Woven Sword

Day 13 – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Sword

Day 14 – Witch Sword

Day 15 – Duel Purpose Sword

Day 16 – Shell Sword

Day 17 – Smoke Sword

Day 18 – Glass Sword

Day 19 – Family Heirloom

Day 20 – Leaf Sword

Day 21 – Lantern

Day 22 – Antler Sword

Day 23 – Chain Sword

Day 24 – Coral Sword

Day 25 – Spider Sword

Day 26 – Wooden Sword

Day 27 – Pattern Sword

Day 28 – Asymetrical Sword

Day 29 – Crown Sword

Day 30 – Skull Sword

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WeirdTober – An Eldritch Aesthetic Inktober

Several years ago, I started creating artwork for WeirdTober. It was a whole lot of fun to do. There was total of 31 prompts.

Day 1 – Forbidden Knowledge

Day 2 – Made of the Void

Day 3 – A Strange and Ancient Statue

Day 4 – Something Pretending To Be Human

Day 5 – Parasite and Host – Puppet and Puppeteer

Day 6 – It watches from above

Day 7 – A Glitch In Reality

Day 8 – I’ve seen too much

Day 9 – Eldritch Corruption – Human

Day 10 – Eldritch Corruption – Animal

Day 11 – Eldritch Corruption – Environment

Day 12 – A Creature From The Deep

Day – 13 Eldritch Circuitry – What Lives In The Wires

Day – 14 Maddening Music

Day 15 – Humanities Smallness

Day 16 – Too Many Eyes

Day 17 – Too Many Teeth

Day 18 – Non-Euclidean Geometry

Day 19 – Swarm or Hive Mind

Day 20 – Something In The Walls

Day 21 – Unearthly Arthropod

Day 22 – Fungal Plant Takeover

Day 23 – Mirrors, Reflections, and Doubling

Day 24 – Vampiric Entity

Day 25 – Ritual Circle

Day 26 – Anatomy / Body Horror

Day 27 – Eldritch and Fey

Day 28 – Horse Farm / Animal Horror

Day 29 – Something On An Old VHS Tape

Day 30 – Fear of Pollen

Day 31 – Tentacles

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A Jury Orders Tesla To Pay More Than $240 Million in the Autopilot Crash

A Miami jury decided that Elon Musk’s car company Tesla was partly responsible for a deadly crash in Florida involving its Autopilot driver assist technology and must pay the victims more than $240 million in damages.

The Federal jury held that Tesla bore significant responsibility because its technology failed and that not all the blame can be put on a reckless driver, even one who admitted he was distracted by his cellphone before hitting a young couple gazing at the stars. The decision comes as Musk seeks to convince Americans his cars are safe enough to drive on their own as he plans to roll out a driverless taxi service in several cities in the coming months.

The decision ends a four-year long case remarkable not just in its outcome but that it even made it to trial, NPR reported. Many similar cases against Tesla have been dismissed and, when that didn’t happen, settled by the company to avoid the spotlight of a trial.

Tesla ha previously faced criticism that it is slow to cough up crucial data by relatives of other victims in Tesla crashes, accusations that the car company has denied. In this case, the plaintiffs showed Tesla had the evidence all along, despite its repeated denials, by hiring a forensic data expert who dug it up.

The auto industry has been watching the case closely because a finding of Tesla liability despite a driver’s admission of reckless behavior would pose significant legal risks for every company as they develop cars that increasingly drive themselves.

In my opinion, it appears that Elon Musk does not seem to care about the safety of its Tesla vehicles – or the people who drive them. It sounds like Elon Musk wants to make this court case disappear. I’m hoping that a court will assess some sort of fine on Elon Musk. It is likely that the billionaire will find a way to wiggle out of this particular case.

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Wayback Machine To Hit ‘Once In A Generation Milestone’ This October – One Trillion Web Pages Archived

This October, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived. That’s one trillion memories, movements, and movements, preserved for the public forever.

We’ll be commemorating this historic achievement on October 22, 2025, with a global event; a party at our San Francisco headquarters and a livestream for friends and supporters around the world. More than a celebration, it’s a tribute to what we’ve built together: a free and open digital library of the web.

Join us in marking this incredible milestone. Together, we’ve built the largest archive of web history ever assembled. Let’s celebrate this achievement – in San Francisco and around the world – on October 22.

Here are some of the things that are on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine:

Vanishing Culture: Why Preserve Flash?

At the Internet Archive we have a technical marvel: emulators running in the browser, allowing computer programs — after a fashion and with some limits — to play with a single click. Go here, and you’re battling aliens. Go there, and you’re experience what a spreadsheet program was like in 1981. It’s fast, fun and free.

We also encourage patrons to upload the software that affected their early lives, and then encourage others to play these programs with a single click. And so, they do – many, many people working through an admittedly odd set of instructions to make these programs live again.

But the dozens of machines and environments our system supports, one very specific one dwarfs the others in terms of user contributions: thousands and thousands of additions compared to the relative handful of others.

And what is that environment? Flash.

Flash flew across the mid-2000s internet sky in a blaze of glory and with unbridled creativity. It was the backbone of menus and programs and even critical applications for working with sites. But by 2009, bugs and compatibility issues, the introduction of HTML5 with many of the same features, and a declaration that Flash would no longer be welcome on Apple’s iOS devices, sent Flash into a spiral that it never recovered from.

Internet Archive Designated as a Federal Depository Library

Announced today, the Internet Archive has been designated as a federal depository library by Senator Alex Padilla. The detonation was made via letter to Scott Matheson, Superintendent of Documents at the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Senator Padilla explained the designation in a statement to KQED:

“The Archive’s digital-first approach makes it the perfect fit for a modern federal depository library, expanding access to federal government publications amid an increasingly digital landscape,” Padilla said in a statement to KQED. “The Internet Archive has broken down countless barriers to accessing information, and it is my honor to provide this designation to help further their mission of providing “Universal Access to All Knowledge.”

I am old enough to remember the “Badger Badger Badger – Mushroom Mushroom” from back in the day. It was a big hit in the 1990’s, when nearly everyone who had a computer watched the Badgers.

Know Your Meme reported: Badger Badger Badger is a Flash animation video created by Jonti Picking. The video consists of images of dancing badgers over an electronic song while the word ‘badger” for three measures and changes “mushroom” in the fourth. After about three loops of badgers and mushrooms a mini-chorus about a snake plays as animated snakes crawl across a desert, and the animation loops once again.

People who are much younger than I am might not understand why there are dancing badgers, mushrooms, and snakes. Back then, it was a fun little video that ran on Flash.

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Harvard Scientist Believes Comet Could Be An Alien Spacecraft

Scientists are watching a newly discovered object in space, and most of them agree it’s a comet, but not all of them. A Harvard scientist, who believes he’s seen proof of alien life before, suspects this object may instead have alien origins. CBS News reported.

Professor Avi Lobe said there are clear signs that the comet known as “31/ATLAS” could be an alien craft.

“We should put all possibilities on the table that it’s a rock, a comet, or something else until we get the evidence, the data that will tell us what it is,” Loeb said in an interview with WBZ-TV.

Professor Loeb and his team say the interstellar object is on a extremely unusual course for a comet, one that will take it close to Venus, Mars, and Jupiter.

Lobe said the object appears to be “intelligently” directed and if it is alien, the world should prepare.

“I think that when we have a blind date from a visitor from another star, all bets are off,” said Lobe. “We shouldn’t assume anything, and we should assess the risk given the data that we have.”

Loeb said the risk should be assessed using something like the Richter scale for earthquakes.

“Zero would be a natural object like a comet,” Loeb said. “Ten would be an object that maneuvers as if it has an engine that is definitely technological, and then there should be some policymaking deciding how to respond to that.”

BBC reported: Are we alone in the Universe? That’s the question scientists have been asking for centuries. And while its long gone unanswered, a new discovery could finally unlock the asteroid known as Bennu, over 60 million kilometer (40 million miles) from us. But OSIRUS didn’t just touch down on the astroid. It also collected samples of Bennu and brought them back to earth in 2023.

This isn’t just an impressive feat of engineering, but it meant scientists could examine a ‘one in a million’ asteroid. That’s because Bennu isn’t jut any piece of space rock, but due to its carbon-rich composition and close proximity to Earth, it’s effectively a time capsule of the early Solar System.

“We often talk about building blocks of life. As life seems to have originated on Earth, the question is how many of these building blocks for life came from processes on Earth and how many of them came from extraterrestrial material?”

I find it interesting when scientists zoom in on something that has caught their attention. For example, scientists found thousands of organic molecular compounds, including 14 of 20 protein amino acids present in lifeforms on Earth.

According to NASA, Comet 31/ATLAS poses no threat to Earth and will remain far away.

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People Like Extroverted Robots – But they Relate To The Neurotic Ones

While neurotic robots are a staple of science fiction – just think of C-3PO in Star Wars or Marvin in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — they haven’t really been a focus of research into how people react to robots’ personalities, NPR reported.

But one recent study found that highly neurotic robot provoked some interesting responses.

“A majority of participants actually mentioned how human-like they found the neurotic robot,” says Alex Wuqi Zhang, a researcher at the University of Chicago. “They found it to be a lot more relatable.

The experiment involved a human-shaped robot made of white plastic. People who were visiting a museum in Chicago were randomly invited to go into a room and interact with the robot, which was described as a restaurant greeter. The bot and the person had to sit together and just answer some simple questions.

“The first one is, ‘What are three things that you are grateful for?” Said Zhang.

When the robot had been given a highly extroverted personality, it spoke of being “super grateful” for the “amazing people” it got to meet each day. “It’s the best part of my job, hands down!,” the robot enthused.

But when the robot had ben given a highly neurotic personality, it spoke more tentatively, peppering its answer with filler words like “um.” It said it was grateful for having a job where it could keep things organized so it could stay focused and avoid “unexpected issues.”

Debate over the song of summer rages on, but if there were a contest for a word of the summer, one front-runner would surely be the onomatopoeic clanker.

In recent weeks, clanker has risen to viral levels on TikTok and Instagram. One popular video from July shows a delivery robot on wheels – the kind that looks like a mobile cooler with flashing lights that look like eyes — stopped a patch of grass on the side of a road. As a man and woman drive past it, they point and shout, “Filthy … Get these off the streets. Clanker! Clanker! Clanker!

Just last week, Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz, promoted his latest bill on X using the insult. “Sick of yelling “REPRESENTATIVE’ into the phone 10 times just to talk to a human being?” My new bill makes sure you don’t have to talk to a clanker if you don’t want to,” he wrote.

Personally, I find this extremely funny, considering how many people have watched movies (like Star Wars). People appear to have mixed thoughts about random robots delivering food to people’s doorsteps. Perhaps it scares them.

I cannot help but wonder why some people do not want to interact with a “clanker.” Some might be afraid of what a “clanker” might do. Do they think the “clanker” is suddenly go rogue and cause harm to people? Do they really think a robot will take over a Door-Dasher’s livelihood?

What does “clanker” mean? According to KnowYourMeme, In the Star Wars universe, a “clanker” is a slang term used in reference to droids. Presumably, its a reference to the way droids, who are made of metal, “clank” when they move The term has been used in numerous examples of Star Wars media over the the year, including in video games and TV series.

Notably, the term was first used in the 2005 video game Star Wars: Republic Commando by the character Sev. One of the character’s voice lines has him say, “lousy clanker,” in reaction to a droid. The term was then used in the first episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series in 2008, with the line, “Okay clankers, eat lasers.”

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Claire’s, The Ear Piercing Tween Mall Staple Is Bankrupt, Again

Claire’s – the ear-piercing tween mall staple – is once again on the brink of survival, NPR reported.

The chain on Wednesday filed for bankruptcy protection for the second time in seven years. It is struggling under the weight of new tariff costs just a year before an unwieldy loan of $500 million is due. The retailer says that its Canadian arm will pursue a similar bankruptcy proceeding but that North American stores will remain open during the process.

Claire’s has blamed its declining sales on inflation and shoppers’ growing reluctance to spend on while like faux-gold bangles, cat-shaped lip gloss, Hello Kitty socks and Barbie purses. Most of the store’s items come from China, whose products face the highest tariffs in President Trump’s renegotiation of world trade that has added new costs for Claire’s as the importer.”

Claire’s has been piercing ears across America since the 1970s, over time gobbling up Japanese, British and American rivals selling jewelry accessories. By the peak of its popularity in the early 2000s, Claire’s had grown into a fixture of malls.

This made the chain attractive to private-equity firm Apollo, which in 2007 staged a leveraged buyout. The deal saw Clare’s take on extensive debt that it planned to pay off as the chain grew rapidly — until it didn’t. As malls began to contend with dropping traffic and mounting online competition, so did Claire’s.

I remember the the first time I got my ears pierced at Claire’s. One of the women working at Claire’s put me in a chair and used a device to pierce my earlobes. It didn’t hurt at all, was quick and easy, and I paid for it with my own money.

When I got home, my parents, who were really mean to me, eventually noticed that I got my ears pierced. Most of my friends had their ears pierced, and I thought it was normal for girls my age to have piercings. I spent my own money to get my ears pierced, and refused to take out my ear piercings.

Skipping ahead, I started dating a guy who turned out to be absolutely horrible. At the time, his parents allowed me to live with them. I accepted because desperately wanted to get away from my parents.

My terrible boyfriend turned out to be a narcissist. He cheated on me several times, couldn’t control is anger, and was mean. At the time, we were walking around in the mall, and – for some reason – ended up at Claire’s.

This time, I asked to have piercings in the upper lobe of my ears. Again, one of the women working at Claire’s put me in the chair again and pierced the top of my ears. It sort of hurt, but I have a high pain tolerance.

After leaving Claire’s, I started to feel some pain where the piercing went, and I stopped walking through the mall. A responsible boyfriend would have asked me if I was okay, but my narcissist boyfriend didn’t care what I was feeling.

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Corporation For Public Broadcasting Says It Will Shut Down After Congress Cut Money

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced that it will begin shutting down, weeks after Congress canceled previously approved funding for the nation’s steward of public media access, NBC News reported.

The CBP said in a statement that it will begin an “orderly wind-down” of its operations after nearly 60 years with the support of the federal government.

It said that most staff positions will conclude with the close of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. A small team of employees will remain through January 2026, it added. It did not specify how many people in total were being laid off.

“Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the reality of closing our operations,” the corporation’s president and CEO, Patricia Harrison, said in a statement. “CPB remains committed to fulfilling its fiduciary responsibilities and supporting our partners through this transition with transparency and care.

The announcement comes less than a month after Congress passed a package of spending cuts requested by President Donald Trump that included stripping $1.1 billion in funding for the CPB.

The administration has repeatedly accused NPR and PBS of liberal bias, which the organizations have repeatedly denied.

“Public media has been one of the most trusted institutions in American life, providing educational opportunity, emergency alerts, civil discourse, and cultural connection to every corner of the country,” Harrison said.

WYFI.org reported: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the conduit for federal funds to NPR and PBS announced that it is beginning to wind down its operations, given President Trump has signed a law clawing back $1.1 billion in funding for public broadcasting through fiscal year 2027.

The announcement follows a largely party-line vote last mont that approved the cuts to public broadcasting as part of a $9 billion recessions package requested by the White House that also included cuts to foreign aid. While public media officials had held a glimmer of hope that lawmakers would restore some of he money for the following budget year, the Senate Appropriations Committee declined to do that on Thursday.

“The ripple effects of this closure will be felt across every public media organization and, more importantly, in every community across the country that relies on public broadcasting,” NPR President and CEO Katherine Maher said in a statement.

KUAF reported: On July 18, 2025, Congress voted to rescind money already appropriated to fund public media via the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Roughly one week later, on July 24, the President singed the bill eliminating federal funding. This change will significantly impact public media stations such as ours that serve millions of listeners every day.

Federal Funding of Public Media is being eliminated — now we’re counting on you

For KUAF Public Radio, this funding amounts to approximately $193,000 annually, or about 17% of our budget. This loss in funding comes at an already financially challenging time for the station. That puts the music, news programming, Ozarks at Large, community events, and local reporting that you love and rely on from KUAF in jeopardy.

We’re moving into an uncharted future, but your commitment to you remains unwavering, and your support has never been more vital. We are committed to continuing to bring you rigorous journalism, courageous storytelling, inspired music discovery, and community connection.

The Daily Beast reported: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has provided funding for PBS and NPR, will begin winding down its operations after the non-profit had its funding cut.

For nearly 60 years, the corporation has been supporting public broadcasting, but it became a victim of the Trump administration’s effort to slash spending.

“CPB remains committed to fulfilling its fiduciary responsibilities and supporting our partners through this transition with transparency and care,” she added.

The corporation had its funding clawed back by Republicans in Congress through the recessions package passed earlier this month.

The CPB was created through Congress in 1967 and is responsible for helping provide non-commercial television and radio content, including support for educational content, emergency communications, and local journalism.

More than 70 percent of its funds were distributed to 1,500 locally owned public radio and television stations. Broadcasters supported by CPB last year alone delivered 11,000 life-saving emergency alerts.

Republicans passed the recessions package earlier this month, which included clawing back more than $ 1 billion for the CPB, which provides some funding to NPR and PBS.

This week, the Senate advanced a 2026 spending bill that provided no money for the CPB, further impacting its ability to keep the lights on.

In my opinion, I think it is absolutely ridiculous to pull funding away from The Corporation For Public Broadcasting. President Trump has initiated funding cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) once during his administration. This action was part of broader rescission packages approved by Congress.

Details of the Clawback

Date of Action: The funding clawback was finalized on July 18, 2025.

Amount Cut: Approximately $1.1 billion in federal funding was rescinded.

Impact: This cut eliminated federal support for NPR, PBS, and over 1,500 local public radio stations.

Context of the Decision

The decision to cut funding was framed as a response to claims of bias in public media.

The CPB has been receiving federal funds since its establishment, but the funding was deemed unnecessary in the current media landscape.

This single action represents a significant shift in federal support for public broadcasting, affecting many local stations, especially in rural areas.

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Illinois Legislators Passed A Law To Prevent Police From Ticketing Students

Illinois legislators on Wednesday passed a law to explicitly prevent police from ticketing and fining students for minor misbehavior at school, ending a practice that harmed students across the state. ProPublica reported.

The new law would apply to all public schools, including charters. It will require school districts, beginning in the 2027-28 school year, to report to the state how often they involve police in student matters each year and to separate the data by race, gender and disability. The state will be required to make the data public.

The legislation comes three years after a ProPublica and Chicago Tribune investigation, “The Price Kids Pay,” revealed that even though Illinois law bans school officials from fining students directly, districts skirted the law by calling on police to issue citations for local ordinances.

“The Price Kids Pay” found that thousands of Illinois students had been ticketed in recent years for adolescent behavior once handled by the principal’s office — things like littering, making loud noises, swearing, fighting or vaping in the bathroom. It also found that Black students were twice as likely to be ticketed at school than their white peers.

From the House floor, Rep. La Shawn Ford, a Democrat from Chicago, thanked the news organizations for exposing the practice and told legislators that the goal of the bill “is to make sure if there is a violation of school code, the school should use their discipline policies” rather than disciplining students through police-issued tickets.

State Sen. Karina Villa, a Democrat from suburban West Chicago and a sponsor of the measure, said in a statement that ticketing students failed to address the reasons for misbehavior. “This bill will once and for all prohibit monetary fines as a form of discipline for Illinois students,” she said.

The legislation would also prevent police from issuing tickets to students for behavior on school transportation or during school-related events of activities.

The Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police opposed the legislation. The group said in a statement that while school-based officers should not be responsible for disciplining students, they should have the option to issue citations for criminal conduct as one of “a variety of resolutions.” The group said it’s concerned that not having the opting to issue tickets could lead to students facing arrest and criminal charges instead.

The legislation makes clear that police can arrest students for crimes or violence they commit, but that they cannot ticket students for violating local ordinances prohibiting a range of minor infractions.

That distinction was not clear in previous versions of the legislation, which led to concern that schools would not be able to involve police in serious matters —and was a key reason legislation on ticketing foundered in previous legislative sessions. Students also may still be ordered to pay for lost, stolen or damaged property.

“This bill helps create an environment where students can learn from their mistakes without being unneearrily funneled into the justice system,” said Aimee Galvan, government affairs director with Stand for Children, one of the groups that have advocated for banning municipal tickets as school-based discipline.

The news investigation detailed how students were doubly penalized: when they were punished in school, with detention or a suspension, and then when they were ticketed by police for minor misbehavior. The investigation also revealed how, to resolve the tickets, children were thrown into a legal process designed for adults. Illinois law permits fines of up to $750 for municipal ordanice violations; it’s difficult to fight the charges, and students and families can be sent to collection if they don’t pay.

After the investigation was published, some school districts stopped asking police to ticket students. But the practice continued in many other districts.

In my opinion, bringing police officers into schools is a bad idea. Kids deserve better than being scared that the police might ticket them or take them to jail. There is no good reason for police officers to ticket students in schools. Fear doesn’t help anyone – especially kids. Police officers are doing it wrong, and should never be targeting children.

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Wikimedia Editors Adopt Speedy Deletion Policy For AI Slop Articles

Wikipedia editors just adopted a new policy to help them deal with the slew of AI-generated articles flooding the online encyclopedia. The new policy which gives an administrator the authority to quickly delete an AI -generated article that meets a certain criteria, isn’t only important to Wikipedia, but also an important example for how to deal with the growing AI slop problem from a platform that has so far managed to withstand various forms of enshittification that have plagued the rest of the internet, 4O4 Media reported.

Wikipedia is maintained by a global, collaborative community of volunteer contributors and editors, and part of the reason it remains a reliable source of information is that this community takes a lot of time to discuss, deliberate, and argue about everything that happens on the platform, be it changes to individual articles or the policies that govern how those changes are made.

It is normal for entire Wikipedia articles to be deleted, but the main process for deletion usually requires a week-long discussion phase which Wikipedia’s try to come to a consensus on whether to delete the article.

However, in order to deal with common problems that clearly violate Wikipedia’s policies, Wikipedia also has a “speedy deletion” process, where one person flags an article, an administration checks if it meets certain conditions, and then deletes the article without the discussion period.

At the moment, most articles that Wikipedia editors flag as being AI-generated fall into the latter category because editors can’t be absolutely certain they were AI-generated. IIyas Lebleu, a founding member of WikiProject AI Cleanup and an editor that contributed some critical language in the recently adopted policy on AI generated articles and speedy deletion, said this is why previous proposals on regulating AI generated articles on Wikipedia have struggled.

BBC reported: Wikipedia has lost a legal challenge to the new Online Safety Act rules it says could threaten the human rights and safety of its volunteer editors.

The Wikimedia Foundation – the non-profit which supports the online encyclopedia – wanted a judicial review of the regulations which could mean Wikipedia has to verify the identities of its users.

But it said despite the loss, the judgment “emphasized the responsibility of Ofcom and the UK government to ensure Wikipedia is protected.”

The government told the BBC it welcomed the High Court’s judgement, “which will help us continue to work implementing the Online Safety Act to create a safer online world for everyone.”

Judicial reviews challenge the lawfulness of the way a decision has been made by a public body.

In this case, the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikipedia editor tried to challenge the way in which the government decided to make regulations covering which sites should be classed as “Category 1” under the Online Safety Act – the strictest rules sites must follow.

It argued that the rules were logically flawed and too broad, meaning a policy intended to impost extra rules on large social media companies would instead apply to Wikipedia.

In particular the foundation is concerned the extra duties required – if Wikipedia was classed as Category 1 – it would mean it would have to verify the identity of its contributors, undermining privacy their privacy and safety.

The only way to cut the numbers of people in the UK who could access the online encyclopedia by three-quarters, or disable the key functions on the site.

Politico reported: The U.K. High Court dismissed the Wikimedia Foundation’s challenge to parts of the country’s Online Safety Act on Monday, but suggested the nonprofit could have grounds for legal action in the future.

The Wikimedia Foundations, which operates Wikipedia, sought a judicial review of the Online Safety Act’s Categorization Regulations in May, arguing the rules risked subjecting Wikipedia to the most stringent “Category 1” duties intended for social media platforms.

The nonprofit was particularly concerned that under the OSA’s “Category 1” duties it would be forced to verify the identity of users — undermining their privacy — or else allow “potentially malicious” users to block unverified users from changing content, leading to vandalism and disinformation going unchecked.