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30 Oct

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The @westendphoenix is home-delivered Toronto print newspaper published by Canadian music legend @hockeyesque (cofounder of The Rheostatics). The current issue is called "The Americans" and it tells the story of Americans who emigrated to Canada.

westendphoenix.com/the-americans

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It's a series of beautifully told stories about people whose love of the land of their birth was overshadowed by the terror and precarity of US racial and economic and gender warfare against its own people.

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They're love letters to the people these ex-Americans left behind, the family and friends they fear for, amid guns and conspiracies, health care gouging and unlimited economic cruelty. Their testimonials describe how much easier it is to live the American dream in Canada.

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30 Oct

Friday mood rare.tumblr.com/post/633415725…

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30 Oct

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Facebook loses users, makes more money; DRM horror-stories needed; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/10/30/rig…

#Pluralistic

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1322191050996289538

Facebook loses users, makes more money: It's good to be king.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1322191050996289538

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1322197191692226560

DRM horror-stories needed: Your chance to change the law.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1322197191692226560

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30 Oct

In 1998, Bill Clinton signed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act into law, including Section 1201, while felonizes the distribution of tools to bypass "access controls" (AKA DRM).

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Practically speaking, that means if your printer cartridge has a digital lock that stops you from refilling it, then anyone who makes a tool to unfuck your printer risks a 5-year prison sentence and a $500k fine.

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DMCA 1201 is an unmitigated disaster. Companies use this law to force you to sideline your own interests and instead conduct yourself to the sole benefit of their shareholders.

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30 Oct

In 2017, 15m 13-34-year-old US Facebook users left the service. These are Facebook's most valuable users, worldwide, and this was the largest-ever exodus from Facebook.

But all of those users simply shifted over the Instagram

marketplace.org/2019/03/06/tec…

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The theory of market economies is that the best companies with the best products and services attract the most customers. But when competition regulators allow large companies to gobble up little competitors to prevent them from growing into threats, markets become moneyball.

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The Instagram acquisition - like other FB acquisitions, eg Whatsapp and Oculus - were explictly predatory, designed to reduce competition in the market and preserve profits by depriving customers of choice.

theverge.com/2020/7/29/2134…

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