Cory DoctorowDec 20, 2022

40 years ago, giant entertainment companies embarked on a slow-moving act of arson. The fuel for this arson was #copyright #TermExtension (making copyrights last longer), including *retrospective* copyright term extensions that took works out of the #PublicDomain and put them back into copyright for decades. Vast swathes of culture became off-limits, pseudo-property with absentee landlords, with much of it crumbling into dust.

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Show threadMike Taylor 🦕
@pluralistic My only problem with this is that Agatha Christie's "The Big Four" is a terrible, terrible book. Possible the worst she ever wrote.
Dec 20, 2022 at 10:49pmWeb
Show threadCory DoctorowDec 20, 2022
@mike Great! You can rewrite it now!
Show threadMike Taylor 🦕Dec 21, 2022
@pluralistic That is an excellent point! Alas, some works are beyond redemption, and The Big Four is solidly in that sector.
Show threadLilly IDec 22, 2022
@mike @pluralistic Small mastodon comment -- hiding your short tweet length toots behind the "Long thread" and expando button kind of hurts my already repetitively stressed hand and your toots are so bite sized, the do not overtake the feed anyways!
Show threadCory DoctorowDec 22, 2022

@gleemie @mike
Here's a bookmarklet to open all CW posts in a thread with a single click.

https://mamot.fr/@proximacentauri@mstdn.social/109446641864950446

Proxima Centauri (@[email protected])

Attached: 3 images @[email protected] Sorry, you sound like someone has complained about this before. I made an bookmarklet, that opens all the CWs with single click: javascript:document.querySelectorAll(".status__content__spoiler-link--show-more").forEach(el => el.click()); 1. Add it to Bookmark bar 2. Thread before 3. Thread after Maybe you can give this to someone who next complains about this.

Mastodon 🐘
Show threadLilly IDec 22, 2022
@pluralistic @mike thank you for that generous and patient reply. I read up the thread and saw the CW (learning the terminology) has been contentious with a few of us n00bs. I'll use this bookmarklet!
Show threadCory DoctorowDec 22, 2022
@gleemie HTH!
Show threadPlebs TribuneDec 22, 2022

@pluralistic @gleemie @mike

If a reader is willing to dispense with CWs altogether, there's also an option in Preferences:

"Always expand posts marked with content warnings"

Show threadSahar MassachiDec 22, 2022
@mike @Plebs_Tribune @gleemie @pluralistic now that is helpful!
Show thread猫好きな人Dec 22, 2022
@gleemie @pluralistic @Plebs_Tribune @mike
The problem is that the CWs I see used range from “soz it’s from Twitter” to full NSFW nor particularly welcome nudity.
Show threadGravediggerDec 22, 2022
@Plebs_Tribune @pluralistic @gleemie @mike which can be combined with a filter to remove things entirely, making it less risky, as I understand it.
Show threadHealth Data AbacusDec 22, 2022
@gleemie @mike @pluralistic just one more note - for Tusky on Android there's a 'expand all CWs in this thread' button (the eye) in the top right corner.
Afraid I don't know if any other clients do that....
Show threadzephyrDec 22, 2022
@health_data_abacus
You're a life saver! I've been trying to figure out what that button did! (And I've been using Tusky for a couple years now.)
Show threadmarkDec 22, 2022
@health_data_abacus @gleemie @mike @pluralistic this is huge. Thanks for the tip