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Smackdown: Open Source or Closed Doors? (click here to listen) The director of Sita Sings the Blues, Nina Paley, had to pay $50,000 to use old songs in her animation movie. She then put the movie...
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Correction, again
I’m reposting this (originally posted July 2009) because misinformation continues to spread all over the interwebs. Maybe I’ll post it every month. Dear Journalists Dear Journalists, bloggers,...
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An Open Letter to Lincoln Center
Dear Lincoln Center, On Friday, May 28, I attended a NY Philharmonic performance of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre. All patrons were required to pass through long “security” lines and have our bags searched...
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Mimi and Eunice: the challenge continues
So I missed my whole trip to California due to a badly-timed cold. Which means I have lots of time on my hands to bang my head into the wall that is the Mimi & Eunice web site. I hired a developer...
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It seems the same people who can’t tell the difference between fraud and copying, also can’t tell the difference between anti-social disregard for authors and copyright reform. Folks invoking my name...
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Authoritarian update
crossposted from Mimi & Eunice I’m re-posting this cartoon today because the US Department of Homeland Security seized more than 70 web sites over the weekend (while sites like arstechnica.com and...
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RANTIFESTO
Adapted from a talk and slide show I presented at the Open Knowledge Conference in Berlin on July 1, 2011. –NP Why are the Freedoms guaranteed for Free Software not guaranteed for Free Culture? Free...
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GEMA issues fraudulent takedown of Sita Sings the Blues in Germany
Apparently it’s been blocked there for over a year, but without lawyers there’s not much I can do about it from the US….so I made this video. Please share, especially if you’re in Germany.
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Youtube’s Content ID abuse is out of control
Today I received not one but two fraudulent copyright claims on my Free and Copyleft work (instances of Sita Sings the Blues and All Creative Work is Derivative). I’ve also received fraudulent claims...
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“Congratulations on Reproducing!”
This piece of perfection comes from Dinsoaur Comics. Posted here because I love it.
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This Land Is Mine is yours
Due to horrific recent events, This Land Is Mine has gone viral again. Here’s a reminder that you don’t need permission to copy, share, broadcast, post, embed, subtitle, etc. Copying is an act of love,...
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Über Alles
An image representing “domestic coupledom,” inspired by Against Love: A Polemic by Laura Kipnis, which I have really been enjoying lately. Share/Bookmark
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Dvorak Diary #1: Airport
On a recent trip to Trivandrum, India, I decided to try learning to touch-type in Dvorak (after decades of hunt-and-peck in QWERTY). Here I share some excerpts of my “Dvorak Diary”. December...
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Dvorak Diary #2: Offline
On a recent trip to Trivandrum, India, I decided to try learning to touch-type in Dvorak (after decades of hunt-and-peck in QWERTY). Here I share some excerpts of my “Dvorak Diary”. Tuesday, December...
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Day at the Creation Museum
Moishe ‘n’ me The Creation Museum in Kentucky is really a marvelous testament to what money can buy. A temple of Mammon, if you will. Designers and craftspeople work for money, not ideology, and the...
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Circumcision! NSFW
This is Not Safe For Work, so gif is under the fold. And here’s Aharon again mass-slaughtering sheep per divine instruction, for comparison. Yay Exodus! UPDATE: Facebook censored my link to that...
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Modern Ten Commandments
I was recently asked what the Ten Commandments would say if they were written today. I suggested these: Thou shalt go to college and acquire at least a Bachelor’s degree. Thou shalt root for at least...
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The Banality of Stupid
Dear Future, Greetings from 2017, when we’re having Peak Trans. In 5-8 years this will be over. A generation of children currently being treated with hormones and surgery for being “born in the wrong...
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Is There A Doctor In The House?
Note: updated below I NEED HELP. I have an orange-sized fibroid in my cervix, among other problems. The local hospital system is dysfunctional and corrupt – doctors don’t communicate with each other,...
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