| PRONOUNS | She/Her |
| LINKIES | https://brianna.org/ |
TOMORROW the ebook re-release of my 2010 #YA #SF debut The Unidentified will be available at your favorite online retailer, unless your favorite online retailer is Amazon, because it won’t be there!
https://books2read.com/b/bpJdnq
It’s an experiment in putting out this story as I always intended, revisioned and redesigned (still including THE BEST blurb ever. Thanks @pluralistic !)
The behind-the-scenes saga:
https://raemariz.com/the-unidentified/#intro
(I’ll include full text below for people who hate clicking links)
ETA: GOOD NEWS!
https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/114709820512537821
In reading an important discussion of the IP assignment in the new Mastodon.social ToS:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/35086
I was GOBSMACKED to discover the new ToS has a "binding arbitration waiver," which takes away your right to sue, no matter how badly the service abuses you.
These are profoundly unethical, terrible clauses. They should never, ever appear in "adhesion contracts" (that is, contracts that you merely click through, rather than negotiating.)
Summary Since it first opened, mastodon.social has operated without any sort of explicit IP grant from the users to the service, which is unusual for a social networking service. Today Mastodon ann...
No one, and I do mean NO ONE, should ever, ever, EVER agree to a binding arbitration waiver.
These are the most grotesquely unfair contractual terms in routine use today. The potential for abuse is literally unlimited.
Remember when a Disney World visitor died of an allergic reaction after being assured that her food order was allergen-free? Disney argued that her family couldn't sue because her husband had clicked through an arbitration waiver when signing up for a free trial of Disney Plus.
Join the Solid movement to play a part in building a better Web and global data infrastructure.
Apply for a role on the Solid Advisory Committee below ⬇️ @ODIHQ
https://theodi.org/news-and-events/news/solid-advisory-committee/
IT’S HAPPENING!
France and Germany are the bullwarks of the EU. how they go, so does the rest of the union. #degoogle needed to happen 20 years ago, after the Brazil/Microsoft incident.
❝ Govs ❤️ Open Source.
You can easily self-hosted Docs … Docs is the result of a joint effort lead by the French 🇫🇷🥖(DINUM) and German 🇩🇪🥨 governments (ZenDiS). We are always looking for new public partners (we are currently onboarding the Netherlands 🇳🇱🧀). Feel free to reach out ❞
Because the news has never been so anxiety-provoking, let's take a look at pictures celebrating one of my favorite Discworld characters, the witch Tiffany Aching (Tiphaine Patraque in FR). Following the books' description, with her "midnight outfit" (I loved tooling leather constellations) and a blue hat for her "hat full of sky", she is an excellent reminder to fight against obscurantism.
Did you know her ?
#cosplay #fantasy #witch #artist #pratchett #discworld #art #mosstodon
Photo:Synelune
kottke.org
Jonathan Hogg
rae mariz
The Public Domain Review
Cory Doctorow
Benjamin Hickethier
Tim Berners-Lee
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
Inkdustrielle