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  • Cory Doctorow
    11:32 pm Wed, Jan 1, 2020
    Public Domain Game Jam: what games can you design with the bounty of 1924?

    Randy Lubin (previously) writes, "New work is entering the public domain and Mike Masnick and I are hosting a game jam to celebrate. Designers have all of January to design… Read the rest of the article: Public Domain Game Jam: what games can you design with the bounty of 1924?

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  • Cory Doctorow
    11:26 am Wed, Jan 1, 2020
    Using Stylegan to age everyone in 1985's hit video "Cry"

    Shardcore (previously) writes, "I took Godley & Creme's seminal 1985 video and sent it through a StyleGAN network."

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  • Cory Doctorow
    11:33 pm Tue, Dec 31, 2019
    VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica)

    Six months ago, Propublica began beating the drum about "Free File," a bizarre, corrupt arrangement between the IRS and the country's largest tax-prep firms that ended up costing the poorest… Read the rest of the article: VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica)

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  • Cory Doctorow
    10:15 pm Mon, Dec 30, 2019
    Happy Public Domain Day 2020!

    Jennifer Jenkins from the Duke Center for the Public Domain writes, "January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day! Works published in 1924 are entering the US public domain. They include… Read the rest of the article: Happy Public Domain Day 2020!

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  • Cory Doctorow
    1:39 am Sun, Dec 29, 2019
    Science fiction, Canada and the 2020s: my look at the decade ahead for the Globe and Mail

    The editors of Canada's Globe and Mail asked me to reflect on what science fiction can tell us about the 2020s for their end-of-the-decade package; I wrote about how science… Read the rest of the article: Science fiction, Canada and the 2020s: my look at the decade ahead for the Globe and Mail

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  • Cory Doctorow
    1:32 am Sun, Dec 29, 2019
    2019: EFF enters the competition fray

    None of us signed up for an Internet composed of "a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four", but here we are, watching… Read the rest of the article: 2019: EFF enters the competition fray

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  • Cory Doctorow
    1:29 am Sun, Dec 29, 2019
    Donald Knuth's Christmas pi surprise

    Jon Cog writes, "For Christmas, mathematician Donald Knuth shared some great geeky fun. He revealed how for the last 57 years, he's been incorporating the digits of pi into the… Read the rest of the article: Donald Knuth's Christmas pi surprise

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  • Cory Doctorow
    6:05 am Fri, Dec 27, 2019
    One of the world's largest private equity firms just bought one of the world's largest library ebook companies

    KKR is one of the largest private equity funds in the world. Overdrive is one of the largest e-lending suppliers to the world's libraries, supplying 43,000 libraries in 75 countries.

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  • Cory Doctorow
    5:56 am Fri, Dec 27, 2019
    Youtube declares John Lennon's classic "Happy Xmas" to be "offensive content"

    Robbo sez, "As is my wont, I post on social media at this time of year John Lennon & Yoko Ono's Happy Xmas (War Is Over) official YouTube video. It… Read the rest of the article: Youtube declares John Lennon's classic "Happy Xmas" to be "offensive content"

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  • Cory Doctorow
    1:38 pm Sat, Dec 21, 2019
    Party Discipline, a Walkaway story (Part 4 — the final part!)

    In my latest podcast (MP3), I conclude my serial reading of my novella Party Discipline, which I wrote while on a 35-city, 45-day tour for my novel Walkaway in 2017;… Read the rest of the article: Party Discipline, a Walkaway story (Part 4 — the final part!)

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  • Cory Doctorow
    6:41 am Sat, Dec 21, 2019
    The 2010s were the decade of Citizens United

    Slate has dubbed the 2010s as the decade of Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision that paved the way for unlimited, anonymous corporate election spending. In 2010, the year of… Read the rest of the article: The 2010s were the decade of Citizens United

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  • Cory Doctorow
    2:08 pm Fri, Dec 20, 2019
    Doctors who take pharma industry freebies prescribe more of their benefactors' drugs

    Doctors who accept pharma industry gifts (which can range from free coffees to lavish dinners to six-figure speaking fees) claim that they're not influenced by these bribes/gifts, which is possibly… Read the rest of the article: Doctors who take pharma industry freebies prescribe more of their benefactors' drugs

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  • Cory Doctorow
    1:59 pm Fri, Dec 20, 2019
    New York Times analyzes a leaked set of location data from a private broker, sounds the alarm

    In 2017, a string of reports revealed that data-brokers were acquiring and linking titanic sets of location data from apps and mobile carriers and mining that data (and sometimes selling… Read the rest of the article: New York Times analyzes a leaked set of location data from a private broker, sounds the alarm

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  • Cory Doctorow
    1:30 pm Fri, Dec 20, 2019
    Meet Jackie Fielder, the recently homeless indigenous woman who's primarying a San Francisco Democrat in a state senate race

    Until recently, Jackie Fielder was living in her van. At 25, the Stanford sociology grad couldn't afford rent in San Francisco.

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  • Cory Doctorow
    12:35 pm Fri, Dec 20, 2019
    Americans should definitely be worried about the EU's new copyright rules

    The passage — through MEPs erroneously pushing the wrong buttons! — of the new EU Copyright Directive last March means that online platforms operating in the EU will have to… Read the rest of the article: Americans should definitely be worried about the EU's new copyright rules

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  • Cory Doctorow
    11:52 am Fri, Dec 20, 2019
    Radicalized is one of the LA Public Library's books of the year!

    It's not just the CBC and the Wall Street Journal — I was delighted to see this morning that Radicalized, my 2019 book of four science fiction novellas made the… Read the rest of the article: Radicalized is one of the LA Public Library's books of the year!

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  • Cory Doctorow
    11:31 am Fri, Dec 20, 2019
    Illinois schools don't just lock special ed kids in solitary, they also restrain them

    Last month, Propublica published a characteristically blockbuster piece on the use of "quiet rooms" in Illinois schools, especially in special ed programs: these are a euphemism for solitary confinement, and… Read the rest of the article: Illinois schools don't just lock special ed kids in solitary, they also restrain them

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  • Cory Doctorow
    11:15 am Fri, Dec 20, 2019
    Codifying "Boomerspeak" and debating the ethics of poking fun at it

    Gretchen McCulloch is the internet's favorite linguist, whose outstanding 2019 book Because Internet explores how statistical methods can, for the first time, be applied to large amounts of informal communications,… Read the rest of the article: Codifying "Boomerspeak" and debating the ethics of poking fun at it

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  • Cory Doctorow
    9:53 am Fri, Dec 20, 2019
    Medicare for All would cut most Americans' taxes, creating the biggest American take-home pay raise in a generation

    When Americans get their paycheck every month, there are a ton of deductions from it — some represent money taken by state governments, some by the feds, but one of… Read the rest of the article: Medicare for All would cut most Americans' taxes, creating the biggest American take-home pay raise in a generation

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  • Cory Doctorow
    9:25 am Fri, Dec 20, 2019
    Alberta's tax-funded climate denial "war room" ripped off its logo from a US tech company

    The Canadian Energy Center (AKA "The War Room") is a taxpayer funded propaganda outlet that the Alberta government — dependent on the tar sands, the world's filthiest oil — funds… Read the rest of the article: Alberta's tax-funded climate denial "war room" ripped off its logo from a US tech company

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