#15yrsago #Olympic logo cops enforce stupid rules with masking tape https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121885240984946511

#15yrsago #HowardZinn’s “A People’s History of American Empire” graphic novel https://memex.craphound.com/2008/08/18/howard-zinns-a-peoples-history-of-american-empire-graphic-novel/

#5yrsago #SpiderRobinson’s joke https://memex.craphound.com/2018/08/18/spider-robinsons-joke/

#5yrsago #Antivirus maker #Sentinelone uses #copyright claims to censor video of security research that revealed defects in its products https://www.theregister.com/2018/08/18/sentinelone_bsides_copyright_takedown/

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All that's it's accomplished is to make it harder to create without taking terms from a giant corporation, whose terms inevitably include forcing you to trade all your IP away to them. That's something that #SpiderRobinson prophesied in his Hugo-winning 1982 story, #MelancholyElephants:

http://www.spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html

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I’m pretty sure the people who like the vibe on #Mastodon would also really like reading #SpiderRobinson books. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_Robinson

Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased - thus do we refute entropy
#SpiderRobinson