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DOG in MAD MAX 2 (1981) dir. George Miller wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/637631626…
DOG in MAD MAX 2 (1981) dir. George Miller wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/637631626…
DOG in MAD MAX 2 (1981) dir. George Miller wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/637631626…
DOG in MAD MAX 2 (1981) dir. George Miller wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/637631626…
DOG in MAD MAX 2 (1981) dir. George Miller wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/637631626…

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if you will not be turned.. you will be destroyed. wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/637698830…
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16 Dec
Today's Twitter threads (a thread).

Inside: Email sabbaticals; Chaos Communications Congress; Landmark US financial transparency law; Rogues' Galleries and facial recognition; Jan 1 is Public Domain Day for 1925; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/12/16/fra…

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Email sabbaticals: I'm going offline until next year.



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Chaos Communications Congress: Finally a way to do CCC without making your family furious.



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16 Dec
1998's Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act extended US copyrights by 20 years to life-plus-70 for human authors and 95 years total for corporate authors. The extension was retrospective, so works in the public domain went back into copyright.

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This was a wanton act of violence that doomed much of our culture to disappear entirely before its copyright expired, allowing it to be used and revitalized, rewoven into our cultural fabric.

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It was undertaken to extract extra revenues for the minuscule fraction of works by long-dead authors that were still generating revenues. It also froze the US public domain for two decades, with no work re-entering our public domain until Jan 1 2018.

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16 Dec
Cities - and even states - across the USA have passed laws banning the use of facial recognition technology by governments; the most-often cited concern is surveillance and its ability to chill lawful conduct like protests.

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But as my @EFF colleague @mguariglia writes for @FutureTenseNow, the risks run deeper than that, as historic debates have shown us. The early 20th century saw debates over "rogues galleries" (police files of photos of criminals and suspects).

slate.com/technology/202…

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As Guariglia writes, "Suspicion is a circular process." In theory you got put into a Rogues Gallery because you were suspicious. In practice, being in a Rogues Gallery MADE YOU suspicious. A single photo taken after a single police encounter turned into an eternal accusation.

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16 Dec
The Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers, Swissleaks, Lichtenstein Leaks, the Fincen Files - the past decade has been filled with financial secrecy scandals wherein we learned how the world's worst people hide the world's dirtiest money.

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Governments have fallen as a result of these leaks. Journalists have been murdered for reporting them, whistleblowers have been imprisoned for telling the truth. These are a high-stakes window on the corruption, self-dealing and viciousness of the 1% and their criminal pals.

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One critical revelation is the role that "onshort-offshore" plays in money-laundering: rich countries with a reputation for a strong rule of law and good governance are the lynchpin of global financial secrecy, thanks to lax corporate enforcement.

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