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28 Oct

Mad Monster Party? (1967) dir. Jules Bass wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/666307581…

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28 Oct

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The new DRM-breaking exemptions just dropped; All of science gets a general index; Europe's trustbusters lose the plot; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/10/28/cli…

#Pluralistic 1/

This is (probably) the last installment of Pluralistic in all its form until mid-Nov; I'm leaving for an overseas family holiday to see our relatives in a few hours and unless something really urgent happens, I'll probably not be back until we return and shake off the jetlag. 2/

The paperback for Attack Surface - a standalone Little Brother book for adults - is out!

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Signed copies:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co…

One-month only audiobook sale with Little Brother and Homeland:

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28 Oct

Last year, the EU introduced the #DigitalServicesAct as part of a package of anti-monopoly measures aimed at US-based Big Tech. EU regulators could lead here, since - unlike US regulators - they don't have to worry about Big Tech as a source of national "soft power." 1/

If you'd like an unrolled version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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That's why the EU gave us the #GDPR, a serious and far-reaching privacy law. 2/

Unfortunately, the GDPR has been hamstrung by its enforcement problems. Under the GDPR, enforcement is delegated to each country's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). 3/

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28 Oct

It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientific publishing is. 1/

It's run by an oligopoly of wildly profitable companies that coerce academics into working for free for them, and then sell the product of their labors back to the academics' employers (often public institutions) for eye-popping sums. 2/

Here's how that works: a publicly funded researcher (often working for a public institution) does some research. In order to progress up the career ladder and secure more funding, they need to publish their research in a prestigious journal. 3/

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28 Oct

The DMCA was signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1998. It has a weird history. Its inception came from Bruce Lehmann, Microsoft's chief copyright enforcer, whom Clinton tapped to serve as his Copyright Czar. 1/

This was back in the "Information Superhighway" days, when Al Gore was holding hearings on the demilitarization and commercialization of the internet. 2/

Lehmann presented Gore with a proposal that was so utterly bonkers that it made subsequent net.lunacy ("series of tubes," etc) look reasonable by comparison.

eff.org/files/filenode… 3/

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27 Oct

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Hospital rings up $2755 upcharge by sending pregnant woman to ER; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/10/27/cro…

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Hospital rings up $2755 upcharge by sending pregnant woman to ER: Poudre Valley Hospital is a clip-joint. 3/

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