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The Foilies are here! For the fifth #SunshineWeek in a row, we’re recognizing the agencies and officials who went that extra mile to stand in the way of government transparency. Here are just a few of our 17 award winners. eff.org/deeplinks/2019…
The winner of our “Scanner Darkly” Award: St. Joseph County Superior Court, who sent ProPublica reporter @JessicaHuseman a scanned collection of files related to the child welfare system, including this scanned image of a CD-ROM—and not its contents.
eff.org/deeplinks/2019… A scanned image of a CD-ROM
Our “Intern Art Project” award: in response to a FOIA request, the Vermont governor’s office had 5 interns work six hours each to cut and paste emails from printed copies—instead of, you know, exporting the data using a computer. eff.org/deeplinks/2019… A drawing of a woman with scissors and glue
Each year The Foilies recognizes an agency for demanding exorbitant fees to provide records. This year’s winner: the City of Seattle, which asked civic hacker Matt Chapman for $33,000,000 to cover a records request.
After review, it charged $1.25 instead. eff.org/deeplinks/2019…
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Under #Article13, "Independent creators will be stuck behind three
gatekeepers: the platforms, the collecting societies and the filtering
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EFF and @wtfpod joined forces in the fight to save podcasting from a patent troll. Hear the story from @marcmaron's perspective in his historic 1000th episode (around 1:55:00). wtfpod.com/podcast/episod…
But the fight's not over. Armed with stupid patents, patent trolls can still put small businesses in danger. eff.org/deeplinks/2019…
Marc knows that firsthand. That's why he stood with entrepreneurs from all over the country to urge the @USPTO to take trolling seriously. eff.org/deeplinks/2019…
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We've only got days to go before the final vote on the #CopyrightDirective and we're still hearing assurances from its apologists that #Article13 will only force copyright filters on "the largest Internet platforms"—but that's not true.

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Kevin Rector
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Hey MD lawmakers and @GovLarryHogan: Remember how the @mtamaryland refused a series of extremely reasonable requests for me to (not even share but) review footage (or still)s from Mondawmin during the unrest? It's #SunshineWeek - care to revisit the issue? baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/…
.@mtamaryland's reason for not releasing footage is that doing so would divulge its cameras' locations & how they pan & zoom. That's despite:

1. many of the cameras already being in CLEAR view;

2. my agreeing to not release the footage;

3. my agreeing to even just view stills.
The above reason only came after I came up with solutions to all their previous concerns, or reasons why they no longer applied years later. Basically, the agency kept finding new reasons to refuse my request, until they just dug in on the one above even though it makes no sense.
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On MSNBC Right Now... As Always, Much More to Say than I Could...](bradford-delong.com/2019/03/on-msn…

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### TALKING POINTS 1/
**Greetings**:

I bring you greetings from Laura Tyson, whose office I was hanging out here for an hour or so this morning.

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Let’s walk this #InspirationPorn out.

It’s common for loved ones to push us disableds to hide or “overcome” disability, esp for milestones. It’s not safe or healthy. He likely suffered doing this. His choice.

But why do ableds think standing is better? What are your tears for?
Years ago, an ex told their boss (w/ me present) “This is the woman I’m going to marry.” We were at his work on a date. I was too sick to dance. I was “lesser” for it. He controlled, isolated, abused me when I was too sick to pass, only loved me when I could. Common story.
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A few weeks ago when I heard the old Walter Reed Army Medical Center in DC was being torn down I casually put out on Twitter that if anyone was nearby I would greatly appreciate it if they could score a piece of the building for me. I figured it was a longshot, but why not try?
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This is a story about my finances that does NOT end with me putting my PayPal information out for you.

Just an interesting look into millennial financial nihilism and how the financial difficulties millennials face are making us a pretty fucking resillient generation.
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The preschool called me to collect on that $ Y,yyy this week, so I got the lay of the land before calling them back this morning. The person in the Kindercare billing department was very sweet and very kind and just doing her job.
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Jérôme Petazzoni
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Let's have a conversation about bad managers and how to get rid of them!

I recently heard multiple stories that had a similar substance: an engineer is working hard and doing a great job, but their manager doesn't recognize their achievements and tries to fire that engineer.
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