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28 Oct

Trumpism is an incompetent death cult. While the movement's incompetence (embodied by the inability of many of its worst monsters to keep their jobs long enough to enact their key policies) finally met its match with the pandemic, though.

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When the plague started, Trumpism's thought-leaders rushed to advise the elderly voters who constitute its base that they should engage in high-risk conduct:

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They insisted that the answer to the plague was for the "free market" to decide which countermeasures would save our lives:

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28 Oct

@RIAA

Late last week, the @RIAA sent a legal threat to @github, claiming that the popular (and absolutely lawful) tool #youtubedl (which allows users to download Youtube videos for offline viewing, editing and archiving) violated Section 1201 of the #DMCA.

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Even by the heavy-handed standards of the RIAA - a monopolist's "association" dominated by only three members - this was extraordinary. The law in question derives much of its efficacy from its vagueness, which chills software developers from risking its severe penalties.

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#DMCA1201 is an "anti-circumvention" law, banning the distribution of tools that bypass "effective means of access control" for copyrighted work, with a $500k fine and a 5-year sentence for a first violation.

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28 Oct

Island of the Fishmen (1979) gameraboy1.tumblr.com/post/633226948…

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28 Oct

@roseveleth

Very excited to pre-order @roseveleth's debut book,

Flash Forward: An Illustrated Guide to Possible (and Not So Possible) Tomorrows

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Flash Forward: An Illustrated Guide to Possible (And Not So Possible) Tomorrows takes readers on a journey from speculative fiction to speculative “fact.”

Producer and host of the podcast Flash Forward, Rose Eveleth poses provocative questions about our future, which are brought to life by 12 of the most imaginative comics and graphic artists at work, including Matt Lubchanksy, Sophie Goldstein, Ben Passmore, and Box Brown.

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27 Oct

70’s Monster Cereal commercials bonniegrrl.tumblr.com/post/633161633…

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27 Oct

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Ferris wheel fine dining; Monopolies Suck; The president's extraordinary powers; Comcast v Comcast; Surveillance startup protected sexual harassers; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/10/27/pea…

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I'm giving a talk at Privacyweek Austria today!

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Ferris wheel fine dining: First the Budapest Eye, next, the world!

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