Deeplinks – Some Answers to Questions About the State of Copyright in 2021

Feb 072021
 

In all the madness that made up the last month of 2020, a number of copyright bills and proposals popped up—some even became law before most people had any chance to review them. So now that the dust has settled a little and we have some better idea what the landscape is going to look like, it is time to answer a few frequently asked questions.
What Happened?
In December 2020, Congress was rushing to pass a massive spending bill and coronavirus relief package. This was “must-pass” legislation, in the sense that if it didn’t pass there would be no money to do things like fund the government. Passing the package was further complicated by a couple of…

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Phoronix – seL4 Micro-Kernel Working Towards A General-Purpose, Multi-Server OS

Feb 072021
 

The seL4 micro-kernel that has been in development for over a decade saw the creation of the seL4 Foundation last year to further the project’s goals. In 2020 the seL4 micro-kernel also added RISC-V as one of its primary CPU architectures… …

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PopularResistance.Org – Nevada Bill Would Allow Tech Companies To Create Governments

Feb 072021
 

Carson City, NV – Planned legislation to establish new business areas in Nevada would allow technology companies to effectively form separate local governments.
Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak announced a plan to launch so-called Innovation Zones in Nevada to jumpstart the state’s economy by attracting technology firms, Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Wednesday.
The zones would permit companies with large areas of land to form governments carrying the same authority as counties, including the ability to impose taxes, form school districts and courts and provide government services.
The measure to further economic development with the “alternative form of local government” has not yet been introduced in the Legislature.
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Boing Boing – Super Mario World soundtrack “restored” with original samples

Feb 072021
 

The music in the SNES game Super Mario World uses heavily-compressed samples to fit within the constraints of early 1990s’ hardware. Fans exploring the Nintendo leak were able to figure out the sample libraries that composer Koji Kondo used and “restore” the sountrack as it sounded on the hardware he presumably created it with. — Read the rest …

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PopularResistance.Org – ICC Clears Way For War Crimes Probe Of Israeli Actions

Feb 072021
 

Jerusalem – The International Criminal Court said Friday that its jurisdiction extends to territories occupied by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, potentially clearing the way for its chief prosecutor to open a war crimes probe into Israeli military actions.
The decision was welcomed by the Palestinians and decried by Israel’s prime minister, who vowed to fight “this perversion of justice.” The U.S., Israel’s closest ally, said it opposed the decision.
The ICC’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, said in 2019 that there was a “reasonable basis” to open a war crimes probe into Israeli military actions in the Gaza Strip as well as Israeli settlement activity in the occupied West Bank.
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jwz – DNA Lounge: Wherein we dream of day when parklet drinking becomes permanent.

Feb 072021
 

Scott Wiener is taking another shot at ABC. This bill would be great for everybody, and I wish him luck. California liquor bill aims to make restaurant parklets permanent, plus zones for open containers “As we start to see the light at the end of the tunnel with this vaccine, we need to help these small businesses recover,” Wiener said in an interview. “Now’s the time to make common-sense changes to our alcohol rules that…

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If You’re Worried About Misinformation, Focus on For-Profit TV News Jacobin

Feb 052021
 

Believe it or not, the data all point to television, not social media, as the most powerful reality-warping medium for most Americans. Unsurprisingly, that is not the impression you’d get from listening to the cable news–driven discourse on the subject. Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. (Flickr) Question: What is the most powerful news medium in the world today? If you’ve even casually followed the news the past four years, the answer…

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Amazon Is Forcing Its Warehouse Workers Into Brutal ‘Megacycle’ Shifts Motherboard

Feb 042021
 

On January 25, hundreds of workers at an Amazon warehouse in Chicago were presented with a baffling choice: sign up for a ten-and-a-half-hour graveyard shift, or lose your job. Management informed workers that their warehouse, known as DCH1, would be shut down, and they were being offered a shift that runs from 1:20am to 11:50am, which is known as “megacycle,” at a new Chicago warehouse.  DCH1 has been the target of protests, walkouts, and petitions…

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Just four titans share almost two thirds of global cloud infrastructure spend, with AWS and Microsoft dominant The Register

Feb 042021
 

Google and Alibaba playing catchup Sixty five per cent of all the money customers spent globally on infrastructure clouds in Q4 went into the pocket of AWS, Microsoft, Google and Alibaba, according to the latest research by analyst house Canalys.…

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The Washington Post Deserves 324 Billion Pinocchios for Its Attacks on Bernie Sanders Jacobin

Feb 042021
 

For years now, fact-checking has been wielded by mainstream journalists against Bernie Sanders’s left agenda. Case in point: Jeff Bezos’s newspaper’s recent attacks on Sanders for telling the truth about how the Republican tax cuts benefited the rich like Bezos. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post, in National Harbor, Maryland, 2018. (Alex Wong / Getty Images) Jeff Bezos this week announced that he is stepping down from his job running Amazon in…

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Huge collection of Demoscene bitmap fonts, converted to PNG Boing Boing

Feb 042021
 

Amazing work from Ian Hanschen, who uploaded a vast collection of PNG-formatted bitmap fonts to Github. From gigantic demoscene monstrosities to the finest body-text pixel fonts, it’s all in. (more, more, via Hacker News) My collection of bitmap fonts pulled from various demoscene archives over the years. — Read the rest

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2021 Already Showing Promise for RCV Reforms What’s New – Fairvote

Feb 042021
 

Ranked choice voting (RCV) is gaining momentum across the country as a staggering number of state legislatures are considering reforming their local and statewide election methods. So far, 30 RCV bills have already been proposed across the country. With bipartisan support for these reforms, there is a unique ability to make future changes to the current U.S. election system. Many proposed bills seek to implement RCV, with legislators and their constituents coming together to demand…

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No More Anti-Protest Laws CounterPunch.org

Feb 042021
 

The right to peaceful assembly is enshrined in the Bill of Rights because it is critically important. Indeed, research has shown that peaceful protests and nonviolent tactics are the most effective tools in making social change, even including overthrowing dictators. To date, 43 states have considered and 26 have enacted some type of anti-protest law. Such laws are often clearly targeted and certain kinds of protest, such as those that were enacted in Kentucky, Louisiana,…

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No Secret Evidence in Our Courts Deeplinks

Feb 042021
 

If you’re accused of a crime, you have a right to examine and challenge the evidence used against you. In an important victory, an appeals court in New Jersey agreed with EFF and the ACLU of NJ that a defendant is entitled to see the source code of software that’s used to generate evidence against them. The case of New Jersey v. Pickett involves complex DNA analysis using TrueAllele software. The software analyzed a DNA…

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v3dv status update 2021-02-03 Planet GNOME

Feb 042021
 

So some months have passed since our last update, when we announced that v3dv became Vulkan 1.0 conformant. The main reason for not publishing so many posts is that we saw the 1.0 checkpoint as a good moment to hold on adding new big features, and focus on improving the codebase (refactor, clean-ups, etc.) and the already existing features. For the latter we did a lot of work on performance. That alone would deserve a…

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Internet Archive’s Modern Book Collection Now Tops 2 Million Volumes Internet Archive Blogs

Feb 042021
 

The Internet Archive has reached a new milestone: 2 million. That’s how many modern books are now in its lending collection—available free to the public to borrow at any time, even from home. “We are going strong,” said Chris Freeland, a librarian at the Internet Archive and director of the Open Libraries program. “We are making books available that people need access to online, and our patrons are really invested. We are doing a library’s…

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New York City Holds First Ranked Choice Voting Election Since 1945 Ballot Access News

Feb 042021
 

On February 2, New York city used ranked choice voting to fill the vacancy in the city council, 24th district. There were eight candidates on the ballot. However, one candidate, James Gennaro, polled almost 60% of the first-choice votes, so … Continue reading →

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U.S. Supreme Court Puts North Carolina Ballot Access Case on February 19 Conference Ballot Access News

Feb 042021
 

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether to hear Kopitke v Bell, 20-897, at its February 19 conference. This is the challenge to the North Carolina petition deadline for independent presidential candidates, which was moved to March 3 in 2018. … Continue reading →

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Anime Conventions Changed Culture Forever. COVID Could End Them Motherboard

Feb 042021
 

After more than25 years of bringing together anime fans in the DC area and beyond, the future of seminal anime and comic book convention Otakon is in jeopardy because of COVID-19. Today, anime is as mainstream as it gets. We live in a world where acclaimed and extremely popular rapper Megan Thee Stallion raps about watching anime while getting eaten out, and even collaborated with Crunchyroll, a streaming service dedicated to anime, on a clothing…

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