Skynet is a real thing since the 1960s, that James Cameron happened to refer to in a movie script
… apparently people think he made it up
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Protect the children!
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I think the overarching danger here is that it joins other recent cases where small town justice feels like they are the final word and above the law. 
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What also concerns me about the coverage is the misogyny is secondary. That abuse of power when cops access supposedly private information about citizens to track, stalk, and harass women is chilling.
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How the Internet Archive faces potential destruction at the hands of Big Four publishers
On Monday four of the largest book publishers asked a New York court to grant summary judgment in a copyright lawsuit seeking to shut down the Internet Archive’s online library and hold the non-profit organization liable for damages.
The lawsuit was filed back June 1, 2020, by the Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, John Wiley & Sons and Penguin Random House. In the complaint [PDF], the publishers ask for an injunction that orders “all unlawful copies be destroyed” in the online archive.
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The internet archive is an incredibly resource that I often use in my work…
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Copyright law is so outdated, it wasn’t even up to last century’s needs.
Creators should be compensated for their work, but the vast majority of the rewards for creative works go to the industry and not to the creators. These are industries that grew when physical objects were needed to record and distribute content, and were difficult. Now both of those things are trivial.
We’ve seen glimpses of how the system should be structured in the music industry, television, and books. It’ time to flip the script on those industries, bring content creators and their audiences closer together, and dump the gatekeepers & middlemen.
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… ironically, the nineteenth-century version was pretty good—it got worse during the twentieth century and is now stuck that way
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Have we tried turning it off and turning it on again?
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Just like the punks said… 
They were right all along…
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WOOD CHIPS?
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