John Goerzen: How To Join the Fediverse and Cast Off the Attention Economy Planet Debian

Dec 162020
 

In a recent post, I wrote about how the attention economy in use at big social networks hurts you. In this post, I’m going to suggest what to do about it. Mastodon and the Fediverse When you use email, you can send a message from an account at Google to one at Yahoo, Microsoft, or any of millions of businesses and organizations running their own mail server. Unlike, say, Facebook, email isn’t a single service,…

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January 1st brings public domain riches from 1925 Internet Archive Blogs

Dec 152020
 

On January 1st, 2021, many books, movies and other media from 1925 will enter the public domain in the United States. Some of them are quite famous — jump ahead to see lists of those well known books and movies that you can enjoy on the Internet Archive — or take the scenic route with me. What does this all mean? Essentially, many items created in 1925 in the US that are still under copyright…

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Replace the Electoral College with a Ranked-Choice National Popular Vote for President Howie Hawkins for President | Angela Walker for Vice President

Dec 152020
 

By Howie Hawkins Democratic principles demand that the president should be elected by the people on the basis of one-person, one-vote. But today the Electoral College will elect the president based on an anachronistic anti-democratic 18th century system where some people’s votes count a lot more than others. For example, Wyoming has a population of 579,759 and three electoral votes. California has a population of 39,512,223 and 55 electoral votes. Do the math and you…

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Longest photo exposure of all time Boing Boing

Dec 152020
 

In 2012, photographer Regina Valkenborgh, then a student at the University of Hertfordshire in England, created a series of makeshift pinhole cameras by lining drink cans with photographic paper. She forgot about some of them and one remained in place for 8 years before someone found it. — Read the rest

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After searching for a decade, Legendary Hollywood Research Library Finds a New Home Internet Archive Blogs

Dec 142020
 

Over more than 50 years, Lillian Michelson built one of Hollywood’s most famous libraries for film research. Need to know what an Igloo really looks like? How about a Siberian hut? Or the inside of a 15th Century jail?  For 50 years in Hollywood, generations of filmmakers would beat a path to the Michelson Cinema Research Library, where renowned film researcher Lillian Michelson could hunt down the answer to just about any question. She was…

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Don’t give up on Planet Nine yet: Hubble ‘scope finds just such a world a mere 336 light-years away The Register

Dec 142020
 

Massive planets at far out distances from their stars are possible after all The Hubble Space Telescope has spied a previously unknown exoplanet with similar properties as our Solar System’s hypothetical object Planet Nine. This newly spotted body is living on the outskirts of another solar system 336 light-years away.…

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Socialist Architect Josef Frank’s Modernism Was All About Freedom Jacobin

Dec 142020
 

The Austrian socialist architect Josef Frank resisted modernists who wanted to make homes look like workplaces — an idea with new resonance in an age when so many of us are working from home and feel like we can’t escape from our work. Josef Frank design, 1932. (Photograph by Martin Gerlach / courtesy of Wien Museum) In 2020, millions of people have unexpectedly been forced to turn their homes into their workplaces. Not only have…

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Morning Coffee – 14 December 2020 The Digital Reader

Dec 142020
 

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. I am not the only one who thinks Bookshop.org is a false savior. It’s not just book publishing – the pandemic is also accelerating the death of print news media. Amazon may finally sell their ebooks to libraries.  The bad sex in fiction award will not be given out this year. Apparently the judges decided that bad sex is better than no sex. Google Play…

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Medicare for All could be cheaper than the existing US medical system Richard Stallman’s Political Notes

Dec 142020
 

The Congressional Budget Office studied the costs of Medicare for All and determined that it could cover everyone and cost $650 billion less annually than the existing US medical system.

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RELEASE: Abolish the Death Penalty Howie Hawkins for President | Angela Walker for Vice President

Dec 132020
 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 11, 2020 For Further Information: Virginia Rodino, Press Secretary, virginia@howiehawkins.us Robert Smith, Deputy Press Secretary, robert@howiehawkins.us RELEASE: Abolish the Death Penalty Lame duck President Donald Trump is rushing through five federal death-penalty executions before he leaves office. Trump’s killing spree breaks a 130-year-old tradition of not executing prisoners during a presidential transition. In 2019, Trump began resuming executions in federal death penalty cases, which had not been carried out since 2003. With these…

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NLRB says Google illegally spied on and fired workers in 2019 World Socialist Web Site (en)

Dec 132020
 

A complaint filed by the San Francisco office of the NLRB has charged Google with violating the National Labor Relations Act by interfering with, disciplining and firing employees who were engaged in legally protected organizing activities.

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Unfiltered: How YouTube’s ‘Content ID’ Helps Shape What We See Online Deeplinks

Dec 102020
 

San Francisco –YouTube is supposed to be a vibrant space for new creativity, but in practice creators are sharply hampered by the site’s “Content ID” system. A new whitepaper from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) takes a deep dive into the confusing process of getting a video past YouTube’s copyright filters, and what the system means for free speech and creativity on the Internet. “YouTube dominates the online video market, and Content ID dominates video…

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Tillis Release Details Of His Felony Streaming Bill; A Weird Gift To Hollywood At The Expense Of Taxpayers Techdirt.

Dec 102020
 

Earlier today, we wrote about reports detailing the latest attempt to push through a bill to make streaming copyright-covered works online a possible felony, this time being pushed by Senator Thom Tillis, who wanted to attach it to the federal spending omnibus bill. As we noted, Tillis was pushing back on some of the criticism, saying that the bill is very narrowly tailored and wouldn’t be used to criminalize random people. Of course, the response…

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No Matter The Candidate Who Wins, Americans Lose With Winner-Take-All What’s New – Fairvote

Dec 102020
 

Caption: Based on FairVote research, this is a state-by-state breakdown of all campaign events by the major-party presidential and vice presidential nominees from the end of both party conventions through Election Day.  With a campaign season fought tooth and nail into the final day, Election Day has finally passed. More than 158 million Americans cast a ballot in the 2020 election, a record-breaking number that represents the highest turnout percentage of voting-age Americans in our…

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Discogs Thank You! A commercial community site with bulk data access Internet Archive Blogs

Dec 062020
 

https://thequietus.com/articles/24529-discogs-more-than-200-million-dollars Discogs has cracked the nut, struck the right balance, and is therefore an absolute Internet treasure– Thank you. If you don’t know them, Discogs is a central resource for the LP/78/CD music communities, and as Wikipedia said “As of 28 August 2019 Discogs contained over 11.6 million releases, by over 6 million artists, across over 1.3 million labels, contributed from over 456,000 contributor user accounts—with these figures constantly growing…” When I met the founder,…

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Pluralistic: 06 Dec 2020 Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Dec 062020
 

Today’s links Ad-tech as a bubble overdue for a bursting: Upton Sinclair was an optimist. The largest strike in human history: The Shock Doctrine’s breaking-point. Soviet computing graveyard: Recovering a Saratov-2 from presumed extinction. This day in history: 2015, 2019 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading Ad-tech as a bubble overdue for a bursting (permalink) In my book “How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism” I point out that the claims for Big…

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Spotify’s Anti-Plagiarism Tool To Protect Copyright is Too Black Mirror TorrentFreak

Dec 062020
 

When I started writing music in in my teens, I didn’t even think about how to begin. I just did what every other starting writer does – I copied, emulated, plagiarized and otherwise ripped-off everything I’d enjoyed from the music I’d listened to thus far. Badly. Deprived of divine inspiration, it wouldn’t have been possible any other way. Show me a composer who hasn’t committed at least one of the above at some point and…

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Losing Jobless Benefits Is Not Only Stressful PopularResistance.Org

Dec 062020
 

The coronavirus pandemic has thrown millions of Americans out of work — and over the past nine months, up to 20 million have filed for unemployment. Supplemental federal unemployment benefits of $600 per week — a lifeline for many — expired in July and more are set to go away at the end of the year if Congress doesn’t act. But beyond the economic consequences, not having that financial safety net can lead to serious health…

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