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book (Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power)https://uncpress.org/book/9781469667249/rude-citizenship/
Online age verification harms the kids it's supposed to protect, pass it on. https://www.wired.com/story/the-age-checked-internet-has-arrived/
The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived

Starting today, UK adults will have to prove their age to access porn online. Experts warn that a global wave of age-check laws threatens to chill speech and ultimately harm children and adults alike.

WIRED

With Microsoft Office integrating AI into itself ANNNND charging subscription fees, I'm finding myself using LibreOffice for almost everything now.

LibreOffice is free. Period.

But! Nothing saying you can't take that MS subscription fee and do an annual recurring donation to LibreOffice 😅

Good way to increase LibreOffice's already great functionality.

https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/

Edit to Include: They're on Mastodon! @libreoffice

#FOSS #solarPunk

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Feds Make It a Crime to Give PPE to ICE Protesters

The Trump administration is targeting nonviolent acts like identifying masked agents and aiding LA’s anti-ICE protests.

The Intercept

Several years ago, my Swiss army knife went missing from checked luggage. When I mentioned it on social media, loads of people described things that went missing from their checked luggage. In this article, this woman not only found several items missing but things not belonging to her were added.
When my knife went missing, I contacted the transportation authority to say what had happened -- because I was concerned if something can be removed, something can be added to your luggage. Something I consider a security and safety risk.
Years ago a woman travelled from Melbourne Australia to Thailand. A luggage handler in Melbourne added a bag of dope into her luggage which a partner in Sydney was supposed to remove. He missed it. Thailand has zero tolerance for drugs -- and locked her up with a life sentence. They didn't care how it got into her luggage.
If people write this CBC reporter with their concerns about things being added or removed from luggage, maybe this topic will get the attention I think it deserves. Someday, it could be an explosive.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/air-canada-mystery-baggage-1.7592756

Air Canada returned her missing suitcase, but it came back with a knife, toiletries and ticket scanner inside | CBC News

Linda Royle got a shock when Air Canada returned her missing suitcase, only to find hundreds of dollars' worth of personal items missing — and things that didn’t belong to her inside instead, including a knife, two toiletry kits and a ticket scanning machine.

CBC

Microsoft: "Your data is safe in Europe."

Under oath, Microsoft's legal chief for France: "No, I cannot guarantee that."

The truth is Microsoft’s marketing is lying: The “sovereign cloud” is nothing but “sovereign washing”.

👉 Read our comment "Digital sovereignty - a trend in Europe, sparked by Microsoft": https://tuta.com/blog/digital-sovereignty-europe

See, like….., teaching digital media law in this context? What are we doing?
From: @arstechnica
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114914553431060377
Seeking recommendations for “law, ethics & digital media” undergrad course : readings, assignments, films, exercises.. not sure whats going to be useful to students in 2025 (if academia doesnt burn down first).
@blogdiva ...that time Thiel's partner died in an 'accident' after confronting him about his politics and how it effects Queer people....
Memorial murals in Italy for Carlo Giuliani, a 23 year-old anarchist who was shot dead by police on July 20, 2001 during the anti-G8 protests in Genoa, Italy