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Will Cox Jan 20, 2023

Electronic Frontier Foundation Jan 19, 2023

In a world ruled Big Entertainment and #BigTech, giving artists more #copyright is like giving bullied kids more lunch money - no matter how much lunch money you hand out, the kids are still going hungry. We have to neutralize the bully:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/have-you-tried-turning-it-and-again-rethinking-tech-regulation-and-creative-labor

Have You Tried Turning It Off and On Again: Rethinking Tech Regulation and Creative Labor

The Internet Copyright Wars are in their third decade, and despite the billions of dollars and trillions of phosphors spilled on its battlegrounds around the world, precious little progress has been made. A quarter of a century after Napster’s founding, we’re still haunted by the same false binaries that have deadlocked us since the era of 56k modem

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Will Cox Dec 7, 2022

Robert McNees Dec 7, 2022

Today is the 50th anniversary of the last time humans went to the Moon.

Apollo 17, the final mission of the Apollo program and the last time we ventured beyond low Earth orbit, launched from Kennedy Space Center #OTD in 1972.

Images: NASA https://flic.kr/s/aHskm64ger
#Apollo50

Apollo 17 Magazine 148/NN

(Color) Earth, LM Inspection, Orbital; NASA photographs; unprocessed 1800 dpi Hasselblad film scans by Johnson Space Center, circa 2005

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Will Cox Nov 29, 2022

Electronic Frontier Foundation Nov 28, 2022

This is not a joke: San Francisco Police want to arm robots for use against the public. You can help stop them. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/red-alert-sfpd-want-power-kill-robots

Red Alert: The SFPD Want the Power to Kill with Robots

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote soon on a policy that would allow the San Francisco Police Department to use deadly force by arming its many robots. This is a spectacularly dangerous idea and EFF’s stance is clear: police should not arm robots.TAKE ACTIONEMAIL YOUR SUPERVISOR: don'...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Will Cox Nov 24, 2022

Could we please stop using the word “interrogate” in contexts that do not involve the police?

Will Cox Nov 22, 2022

https://doctorow.medium.com/anything-that-cant-go-on-forever-will-eventually-stop-110ba9711133 “The idea that we could strip-mine useful and productive businesses forever has an obvious flaw: eventually you will run out of productive businesses. But there’s another, slightly less obvious flaw: long before the entire productive economy grinds to a halt, everyone who relies on it will get very, very angry.”

Anything That Can’t Go On Forever Will Eventually Stop

A lot of regulations went up in flames in the Reagan/Thatcher era: labor laws, environmental rules, finance frameworks. But the most consequential shift of the age was the change in antitrust law…

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Will Cox Nov 19, 2022

Why vi displays them with different amounts of vacant space, I have no idea.

Will Cox Nov 19, 2022

No decent self-respecting programming language should care whether there are five spaces or one tab. Those are mechanical relics of a particular kind of typesetting, syntactically equivalent to the reader, of meaning only to the compositor.

Will Cox Nov 19, 2022

Ok so no edit button here either. What a world what a world!