Notices by Marcia MacDonald (marcia@spore.social)

Advice wanted: I'm looking for tips on a good instance for a grassroots org to join to help us grow our community outside of Meta. (We've stopped using X but still have a profile there.)

The ideal instance would have the following:
- a good proportion of folks who live in Canada
- a good proportion of frontline folks involved in climate and environmental justice
...

#FediTips

@IP_policy
@richardgold.bsky.social
Do you have any suggestions of how to stimulate more public discussion on the policy proposed in Cory Doctorow's blog post from yesterday? Would you or another IP expert from academia possibly be willing to write something similar, maybe expanding with some ideas on IP in biotech/pharma?

Canada shouldn't retaliate with US tariffs
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/#its-the-only-war-the-yankees-lost-except-for-vietnam-and-also-the-alamo-and-the-bay-of-ham

@534n
And we've done it on land stolen from Indigenous peoples.

@pluralistic

@sn0wbl1nd @pluralistic

Would definitely be a bold move, but maybe we could convince someone to announce their candidacy for Liberal leader and get media attention highlighting this policy. They'd have a week to push it before the first (refundable) $50K is due, but then a non-refundable $50K is due Jan.30.

Any strategic ideas about who might be readily influenced or who might fund this?

Other ideas for a rapid campaign?

I find these suggestions from @pluralistic to be super intriguing and would like to see others run with them, including possibly expanding to IP in the biotech/pharma industry. So many science and tech workers could potentially benefit, along with all the other folks facing tech enshittification, who can't get people's vaccines, etc.

Is there already a movement behind this? Anyone want to organize one with me?

Canada shouldn't retaliate with US tariffs
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/#its-the-only-war-the-yankees-lost-except-for-vietnam-and-also-the-alamo-and-the-bay-of-ham

#tariffs #IP

@HeavenlyPossum
I found some hope for a future for that region in Lost Cause, the #solarpunk novel set in Burbank by @pluralistic

https://craphound.com/lostcause/

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