"I like to add � and ’ any time I submit online forms because I know that some developer is going to see it and wonder if they have a bug"
https://twitter.com/tenderlove/status/722565868719177729
New housemate moved in yesterday! Another chapter begins in the chronicles of meatspace. Sasha approves of his luggage.
THIS IS IMPORTANT!
We need people to call their MEPs. Most importantly:
- Romanian S&D:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search.html?country=RO&politicalGroup=4280
- Romanian EPP:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search.html?country=RO&politicalGroup=4269
- British S&D:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search.html?country=GB&politicalGroup=4280
- British ECR:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search.html?country=GB&politicalGroup=4271
- Italian S&D:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search.html?country=IT&politicalGroup=4280
- Polish EPP:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search.html?country=PL&politicalGroup=4269
Please report back (in a private message, preferably) what they say! This would help us a LOT!
If you cannot call, if you feel uncomfortable calling, this is understandable, please do not feel bad! And apologies for putting you under pressure in case you felt that way.
I hate calling people. I am lucky enough to be able to overcome this, and I try. But if you can't or won't that's entirely fine!
Any support counts. Support Wikimedia, EDRi, Panoptykon Foundation, Mozilla. Many, many others.
The calling needs to continue. Additional group to focus on -- Portuguese S&D: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search.html?country=PT&politicalGroup=4280
More groups in the parent toot.
What they need to hear is:
- Copyright Directive's Articles 11 and 13 are a danger to the free Internet
- Copyright needs fixing, but this is not the way to go
- Please vote AGAINST THE MANDATE tomorrow.
Be polite. Say your name, and who you are. Be respectful.
And #SaveYourInternet from #Art11 #Art13! We can win this!
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Place de la Bourse has basically turned into b-boy central and everything about that is awesome. Brussels has always been good for diegetic music, but lately it's kind of like living in a musical comedy.
There's a Reddit AMA with a copyright expert on #Art11 #Art13 today: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/8ugrow/eu_copyright_ama_we_are_professors_lionel_bently/
If you're unsure what's it all about, join in and read on.
Bike trip was quite successful, about 80km in total. I took the train to Kortrijk, biked to the coast at Oostende, and camped at a campground.
Probably could have just put down any random place outside of town -- my 1-person tent is dark green and blends in well with foliage -- but there's something pleasantly decadent about stumbling out of one's tent in the morning and ambling 200m over to a cafe for coffee.
tired: gender binary
wired: building gender from source
Seems like it's working, kinda.
This week, the EU voted to destroy the Internet as we know it, and on Sunday, Berliners are taking to the streets. Tell your friends! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/wednesday-eu-committee-voted-break-internet-sunday-berliners-take-streets-say-no
Tomorrow I'm starting my summer off with a solo bike camping trip.
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MEP Zwiefka voted for Art13 (the copyright upload filters).
I do not think MEP Zwiefka had the explicit license from the publisher of Polityka to publish a reproduction of their article on birdsite:
https://twitter.com/TadeuszZwiefka/status/464020422221389824
Perhaps somebody should point that out to MEP Zwiefka.
So folks, the #article13 and #linktax proposals will be going soon to the EU parlaiment, and if they pass they will become a serious problem for the #Fediverse:
* To automatically filter copyrighted materials, even badly, you need a way to reference those materials. Even our largest instances probably can't afford access!
* Our instances will not be able to afford licenses to link to news sites under the new #LinkTax rules.
Go make some noise at: https://saveyourinternet.eu/
(@gargron)
Had a huddled conversation in the European Parliament with a colleague after the JURI vote trying to work out what #article13 would mean for federated/decentralized services like #mastodon and #ipfs . We’ll need to see the final text which may not be available until next week.
So I've managed to finagle a pass to the European Parliament vote on #article11 and #article13 tomorrow, and with some luck, I will be livetweeting it for EFF. It'll be at 10:30AM CET at @EFFlive@twitter.com. I'm sorry I didn't set up a Mastodon feed, but it's 3AM here now, and I've been kind of busy 😴
Current status: making a memorial video from imagemagick, ffmpeg, audacity, and piracy