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14 Aug

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Provocateur copyrights a Magic: The Gathering Deck; and more!

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Provocateur copyrights a Magic: The Gathering Deck: Come for the compilation copyright, stay for the free IP Law Casebook.

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#20yrsago Russian mafia recruits hackers to raid ecommerce sites web.archive.org/web/2001121720…

#15yrsago TSA wins the war on lipstick web.archive.org/web/2006083110…

#10yrsago David Cameron’s net-censorship proposal earns kudos from Chinese state media web.archive.org/web/2011101703…

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14 Aug

Copyright does not protect the fruits of your hard work. It just doesn't. No matter what you've heard, the legal basis for copyright - in US law and in international treaties - is to protect CREATIVITY, not EFFORT.

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If you labor for five years to create a faithful catalog of all the houses in a city or all the books in a library, with the goal of creating as faithful, logical and linear resource as possible, copyright holds no protection for you.

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14 Aug

The Witch’s Mirror (1962) starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/659448732…

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13 Aug

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Smart cities are neither, 2021 edition; End of the line for Reaganomics; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/08/13/pos…

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I'm a guest of honor and keynote speaker at Salt Lake City's Quills Conference on writing, Aug 12-15:

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Smart cities are neither, 2021 edition: "Whose Streets? Our Streets! (Tech Edition)."

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13 Aug

Reagan turned the country upside-down, in a very bad way. The "Reagan revolution" was indeed revolutionary (or, rather, COUNTER-revolutionary), reversing a half-century of progress on social safety nets, workers' rights, and environmental protections.

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When we take stock of the Reagan years, we tend to focus on the actions that had immediate effect, like dismantling labor protections or the racist, homophobic refusal to confront the AIDS pandemic.

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13 Aug

The lockdown was a chaotic time for "smart cities." On the one hand, the most prominent smart city project in the world - Google's Sidewalk Labs project in Toronto - collapsed thanks to the company's lies about privacy and land use coming to light.

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On the other hand, the standalone vendors that promise smart city SERVICES that you can graft onto your "dumb" city saw their fortunes surge, as the world's great metropolises sleepwalked into a surveillance nightmare.

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From license plate cameras to facial recognition to fake cellphone towers to location data harvested from vehicles and mobile devices, city governments shoveled billions into the coffers of private-sector snoops in the name of crimefighting and technocratic management.

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