Musk tarnishing the #fediverse brand via spurious association with wrongdoing is EXACTLY the kind of "reputational anti-halo" that @tstruett, @rwg, @paufder and I warn about in our new article (currently on SSRN):
The people of #Israel have been on the streets for over a year, double digit percentages of the population, week after week, demanding Netanyahu's resignation and raging against his #Gaza policy, but you wouldn't know it by looking at US media. All we get to see is how the war is bad for Biden.
Wow! After spending most of the past 17 years working as a university professor, my remaining student loans have officially been forgiven under the #PSLF program.
It's time for us professors who study #data#surveillance#infosec#internetgovernance#privacy to start hassling our university IT departments whenever they integrate extractive platforms into our professional workflow.
Feel free to repurpose my verbiage in your own emails.
I published empirical research back in the year 2000 showing that if you give consumers a safe, easy way to access a giant library of content without ads, they'll happily pay a fair market price.
The streaming successes of 2013-2020 proved this to be true.
Now, siloization, surveillance, advertising, price-gouging, and shitty algorithms are going to send everyone back to "piracy."
I've had a number of non-Jewish friends reach out to me over the past week to see if I'm okay.
No, I'm not okay. But neither is anyone.
Tribes are bullshit. Race is bullshit. Religion is bullshit if you kill in the name of God. Murder is murder. Cruelty is cruelty. Injustice is injustice. Dead children are dead children.
The planet is being devoured by the insatiable greed of a handful of people and the rest of us are fighting over scraps. It only gets worse from here unless we learn to love.
In previous years, I've invited undergrads to post to Tw*tter during my class sessions, as an alternate way to participate & as a shared (public) backchannel adding extra digital materials to our conversations.
This year, for obvious reasons, that's impossible, so I'm asking them to do so via Mastodon (which none of my students have used before).
It'll be a little experiement. Let's see whether #SOCccc23 gets any use from my #copyright students.
TLDR: If a tech standard becomes part of a legal standard, you can share it freely online without fear of liability for infringement.
“Many private organizations develop and copyright suggested technical standards ... We hold that the non-commercial dissemination of such standards, as incorporated by reference into law, constitutes fair use and thus cannot support liability for copyright infringement.
Writer, professor, musician.The lesser ½ of Dunia & Aram.The lesser ½ of @RASinn.The lesser ⅛ of Comm Studies @ AU.New book from @themitpress: THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA