Mastodawn

3D Print-blocking laws hand monopolistic power to manufacturers and can criminalize open source alternatives. We need to reject these onerous restraints on creation. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/print-blocking-anti-consumer-permission-print-part-1

Print Blocking is Anti-Consumer - Permission to Print Part 1

When legislators give companies an excuse to write untouchable code, it’s a disaster for everyone. This time, 3D printers are in the crosshairs across a growing number of states. Even if you’ve never used one, you’ve benefited from the open commons these devices have created—which is now under threat. We need to roundly reject these onerous restraints on creation.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Peter Burkholder Mar 24

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petersuber Mar 24

Update. Also see the 2026 Update to the Academic Freedom Index (#AFI).
https://academic-freedom-index.net/research/Academic_Freedom_Index_Update_2026.pdf

Extracts from University World News:
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20260320155848399

"Academic freedom has declined more quickly in the United States than any other country in the past year…[Measuring academic freedom on a scale from 0 to 1, the worldwide average] between 2015 and 2025 fell 22%, from 0.49 to 0.38, a decline of 25%…One year into the second presidency of Donald J Trump, the United States registered a steep and unprecedented decline in its academic freedom score, dropping from 0.68 to 0.4. This decline…leaves the US’ level of academic freedom just below that of Mozambique (0.41) and just above Thailand (0.38), where the law of llèse-majesté, forbidding insult of the monarchy, is the strictest in the world."

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

Peter Burkholder Mar 21

Grickle Mar 20

Look out. #grickledoodle #dragon #angry #rage #cartoon #art #drawing #humor #funny

Peter Burkholder Mar 16

Randahl Fink Mar 16

The man who did not care about the war in Ukraine because this was Europe's war, now wants Europe to join the war he started with Iran, while he is lifting sanctions on Russia, so Putin can scale up the Ukraine war.

Trump is not playing chess. He is just eating the pieces.

Peter Burkholder Mar 9

Ben Lockwood (broadly defined)Mar 8

Peter Burkholder Mar 8

Alice Stollmeyer Mar 8

"Never forget that a political, economical or religious crisis is enough to cast doubt on women's rights. These rights will never be vested. You have to stay vigilant your whole life."

Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

#WomensDay #IWD2026 #8M

Peter Burkholder Mar 5

Danielle Foré Mar 4

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116171375908468879

Using ai is not punk rock. Bring back calling people posers

Peter Burkholder Mar 3

tomate 🍅Mar 3

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Peter Burkholder Mar 3

Heidi Li Feldman Mar 2

Spain, showing some actual leadership by refusing to permit U.S. to use Spanish bases”for operations outside previously agreed-upon terms or contrary to the United Nations Charter.” Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez condemns the U.S.-Israeli unilateral attack on Iran. https://www.novinite.com/articles/237274/Spain+Forces+U.S.+Jets+Out+After+Blocking+Bases+for+Iran+Strikes

Spain Forces U.S. Jets Out After Blocking Bases for Iran Strikes - Novinite.com - Sofia News Agency

Spain has barred the use of its military bases for strikes on Iranian targets, prompting the immediate departure of U.S.

Peter Burkholder Mar 1

Paris Marx Mar 1

Every month the United States provides even more reason to boycott its products and companies — the strikes on Iran being just the latest.

In light of that, it’s a great time to ditch the products and services of US tech companies. I made a comprehensive guide to help you that I’ve been regularly updating for months.

https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/

#tech #digitalsovereignty #iran #politics #geopolitics

Getting off US tech: a guide

I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

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