cyber

• Is AI eating all the energy? Part 2/2

  • Milja Moss, “LLM Water And Energy Use”
  • Asianometry, “The Big Data Center Water Problem” (video)
  • Jaime Sevilla and Edu Roldán, “Training Compute of Frontier AI Models Grows by 4-5x per Year | EpochAI”
  • Ed Zitron, “How Does OpenAI Survive?”
  • U.S. Chamber of Commerce Technology Engagement Center, “Data Centers: Jobs and Opportunities in Communities Nationwide”
  • Data centres & networks | IEA
  • Andrew R Chow, “Inside the 'Nightmare' Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town” | TIME
  • Sebastian Moss, “Texas could add 5,000MW of cryptocurrency mining data centers by 2023, even as ERCOT warns of grid vulnerability”
  • “Why Texas Republicans are souring on crypto” | The Economist
  • Kyle Orland, “Google’s AI Overviews misunderstand why people use Google” | Ars Technica
  • Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) Dashboard | iea
  • Karen Hao, “AI Is Taking Water From the Desert | The Atlantic
  • Reece Rogers, “AI's Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet's Hyper-Consumption Era”

• Is AI eating all the energy? Part 1/2

  • Kyle Orland, “Taking a closer look at AI’s supposed energy apocalypse” | Ars Technica
  • Brian Potter, “How to Build an AI Data Center”
  • Nicholas Carlini, “How I use “AI”“
  • Casey Crownhartarchive page, “AI is an energy hog. This is what it means for climate change.” | MIT Technology Review
  • International Energy Agency, “Electricity 2024 — Analysis and forecast to 2026”
  • Chris Stokel-Walker, “The Generative AI Race Has a Dirty Secret” | WIRED

• Fake Twitter Accounts

  • Masnick’s Impossibility Theorem: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible To Do Well
  • Innuendo Studios, “Who Shot Guybrush Threepwood? | Genre and the Adventure Game”
  • CYBERGEM, “Raiden Warned About AI Censorship - MGS2 Codec Call (2023 Version)”
  • Identity Woman, “Google+ and my "real" name: Yes, I'm Identity Woman”
  • Devin Coldewey, “Misinformation works, and a handful of social ‘supersharers’ sent 80% of it in 2020” | TechCrunch

• Reddit: Your API *IS* Your Product

  • Tom Scott, “This Video has %s Views”, video
  • The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok | WIRED
  • Jon Porter, “Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps”
  • Snazzy Labs, “How Reddit Became the Enemy - w/ Apollo Developer Christian Selig” (video)
  • Jay Peters, “Reddit won’t budge on the API changes that are shutting down apps like Apollo”

• So you want to write an AI art license

  • Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow, “Chokepoint Capitalism”
  • AWAY AI Art Collective
  • Stable Attribution
  • EFF, How We Think About Copyright and AI Art
  • Cory Doctorow, “A Lever Without a Fulcrum Is Just a Stick”
  • Class Action Filed Against Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt for DMCA Violations, Right of Publicity Violations, Unlawful Competition, Breach of TOS
  • Cory Doctorow, “Copyright won’t solve creators’ Generative AI problem (09 Feb 2023)”

• Replika: Your Money or Your Wife

  • Replika: My Whirlwind Relationship With My Imaginary Friend and The People Who Broke Her
  • Tabi Jensen, “An AI ‘Sexbot’ Fed My Hidden Desires—and Then Refused to Play”
  • Samantha Cole, Replika CEO Says AI Companions Were Not Meant to Be Horny. Users Aren't Buying It
  • /u/derptato, “Replika “Update” Saga”
  • Abigail Catone, “Replika: The Fall. How "Ai Friend" App Exploited, Destroyed Thousands” - YouTube
  • Abigail Catone, “Replika: It Gets So Much Worse. Investigating Exploitation, Cover-ups by 'Ai Friend' App” - YouTube
  • Sarah Z, “The Rise and Fall of Replika” - YouTube
  • Replika: Tale of the AI Company Who Doesn't Give a Sh*t - YouTube (watch)

• Lies, Damned Lies, and Subscriptions

  • Victoria Song, “In the Future, You Won’t Own Any Gadgets”
  • Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz, “The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy”
  • Cory Doctorow, “The battle for Ring Zero”
  • Dan Greene, “The erosion of personal ownership”
  • Ida Auken, “Welcome To 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy And Life Has Never Been Better”
  • Simon Caine, “How did everything become a monthly fee?”
  • Cory Doctorow, “Autoenshittification (24 July 2023)”
  • Crippleware - Wikipedia
  • Total cost of ownership - Wikipedia
  • Bruno Latour, “Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory”
  • Muniesa, F. (2015). Actor-Network Theory. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 80–84.
  • WIPO, About the Nice Classification
  • Kara Novac, “EU Court: When You Buy Software You Own It”
  • The Economist, “Take back control: How Digital Devices Challenge the Nature of Ownership”
  • University of Arizona, “Decoding digital ownership: Why your e-book might not feel like ‘yours’“
  • Brian W. Carver, “Why License Agreements Do Not Control Copy Ownership: First Sales and Essential Copies.”
  • Cory Doctorow, “Did Congress Really Expect Us to Whittle Our Own Personal Jailbreaking Tools? | Electronic Frontier Foundation”
  • Jason Torchinsky, “BMW’s New Feature Subscription Plan Idea Needs To Be Stopped Before It Starts”
  • Theo Wayt, “Auto giants like BMW, GM and Toyota make drivers ‘subscribe’ for basic features”
  • James Vincent, “BMW starts selling heated seat subscriptions for $18 a month”
  • Victor Tangermann, “BMW Now Selling Drivers Access to Their Cars' Heating Systems for $18 Per Month: Welcome to Microtransaction Hell”
  • Ekaterina Kachalova, “As more automakers put factory features behind paywall, we’re racing towards a bleak future”
  • Spite’s Corner, “KTM's Demo Mode Is A SCAM! | 2023 KTM 890 Adventure”
  • Alex Hern, “Revolv devices bricked as Google’s Nest shuts down smart home company” (2016)
  • Arlo Gilbert, “The time that Tony Fadell sold me a container of hummus”
  • Karl Bode, “Anker Tries To Bullshit The Verge About Security Problems In Its Eufy ‘Smart’ Camera”
  • Cory Doctorow, “Peloton bricks its treadmills — Your kids are dead because you didn’t buy the subscription”
  • “Clip Studio Paint announces move to subscription service for updates going forward” ResetEra thread
  • James Stephanie Sterling, “Subscriptions For Car Seats!?” (Video)
  • Stephen Shankland, “Adobe kills Creative Suite, goes subscription-only”
  • Kate “ghost malone” Stears, “Fuck the Adobe Suite: Use These Instead”
  • Kate “ghost malone” Stears, “Stop Using Photoshop You Broke, Beautiful Bastard”
  • Mel Martin, “I’m Falling out of Love With Adobe and the Creative Cloud”
  • Economic rent - Wikipedia
  • Kamilla Pope, “Understanding Planned Obsolescence: Unsustainability Through Production, Consumption and Waste Generation”
  • Cory Doctorow, “Felony Contempt of Business Model: Lexmark’s Anti-Competitive Legacy”
  • Cory Doctorow, “Radicalized” ($14)
  • Karl Bode, “Kia, Subaru Disable Useful Car Features, Blames Mass. Right To Repair Law”
  • Yugopnik, “Capitalism makes sh!t products”
  • Simon Caine, “How did everything become a monthly fee?” Video
  • Janica Bunales, “Spotify Lowers Artist Royalties Despite Subscription Price Hike”
  • CaptainKrull, “[Guide] iOS Subscription Time Travel or how to buy subscription-based apps before they turn to the dark side : sideloaded”
  • Thoughtslime, “The Grift Economy: Everything is a scam, always.” (video)
  • Rick Broida, “FCC asks Apple to activate the iPhone’s hidden FM radio to aid public safety”
  • Dan Singer and Enrico D’Angelo, “Why subscription video-game services face an uphill battle”

• The Failure of Account Verification

  • Nitasha Tiku, “Twitter’s Authentication Policy Is a Verified Mess”, 2017
  • Content Moderation Case Study: Twitter Removes 'Verified' Badge In Response To Policy Violations (2017) | Techdirt
  • Dan Phiffer, “How We Verified Ourselves on Mastodon — and How You Can Too”
  • Geoffrey A. Fowler, “Twitter said it fixed ‘verification.’ So I impersonated a senator (again)”
  • Sara Fischer Rebecca Falconer, “Verified” becomes a badge of dishonor (2023)
  • Matt Blinder, “Dril and other Twitter power users begin campaign to ‘Block the Blue’ paid checkmarks” (April 2023)
  • Matthew Sheffield, “Elon Musk is humiliating himself and all we can do is watch in horror”
  • Mike Masnick, “Hey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run The Content Moderation Learning Curve”
  • Paris Marx, “Elon Musk's Flawed Vision and the Dangers of Trusting Billionaires”
  • Elon Musk, Under Financial Pressure, Pushes to Make Money From Twitter
  • Nilay Patel, “Welcome to Hell, Elon”
  • John Bull on the “Trust Thermocline” (thread)
  • Bak-Coleman, J. B. et al, E. U. (2021). Stewardship of global collective behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(27).
  • Justin Jackson, “Is Twitter Done?”
  • Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast, “Twitter’s Elon Musk Era with Kara Swisher”
  • Ed Zitron, “The Fradulent King”
  • Christia Peterson, “twitter blue screenshot storyline”

• You can Google it

  • Safiya Umoja Noble, “Algorithms of Oppression - How Search Engines Reinforce Racism”
  • Ax Sharma, “Amazon Alexa slammed for giving lethal challenge to 10-year-old girl”
  • Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to touch live plug with penny - BBC News
  • Alexis Hancock, “Google’s AMP, the Canonical Web, and the Importance of Web Standards”
  • Tobie Langel, re: Alexa bbc article
  • Jon Porter, “Zelda recipe appears in serious novel by serious author after rushed Google search”
  • Breaking911, “VP Kamala Harris to Americans who can’t find a COVID test: “Google It””
  • Reddit, “Do food bloggers realize how awful their recipe pages are?”
  • Cory Doctorow, “Backdooring a summarizerbot to shape opinion”
  • Microsoft, “Microsoft’s New Search at Bing.com Helps People Make Better Decisions”
  • Russell Foltz-Smith, “Reactions to Wolfram|Alpha from around the Web”
  • Nick Slater, “How SEO Is Gentrifying the Internet”
  • Ed Z, “The Rot Economy”
  • Google, “YouTube Misinformation - How YouTube Works”
  • Google, “Our approach to Search”
  • Google, “Responses”
  • Google, “How Google’s featured snippets work”

• Client CSAM scanning: a disaster already

  • Apple, Child Safety (Feature Announcement)
  • Bugs in our Pockets: The Risks of Client-Side Scanning
  • Mack DeGurin, “Infrastructure Bill’s Drunk Driving Tech Mandate Leaves Some Privacy Advocates Nervous”
  • Brian Doherty, “Secret Police”
  • Edward Snowden, “The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy”
  • Kashmir Hill, “A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal.” (2022)
  • jwz, “Apple Has Begun Scanning Your Local Image Files Without Consent” (2023)
  • Jeffrey Paul, “Apple Has Begun Scanning Your Local Image Files Without Consent”
  • Group Attacking Apple Encryption Linked to Dark-Money Network
  • Qingying Hao, Licheng Luo, Steve T.K. Jan, Gang Wang, “It’s Not What It Looks Like: Manipulating Perceptual Hashing based Applications”
  • Nick Locascio, “Black-Box Attacks on Perceptual Image Hashes with GANs”
  • Chaim Gartenberg, “‘Sideloading is a cyber criminal’s best friend,’ according to Apple’s software chief”
  • Patrick Howell O’Neill, “Apple says researchers can vet its child safety features. But it’s suing a startup that does just that.”“
  • Joseph Menn, “Apple appeals against security research firm while touting researchers”
  • Jordy Zomer, “A story about an Apple and two fetches”
  • Riana Pfefferkorn, “The Earn It Act: How To Ban End-to-end Encryption Without Actually Banning It”
  • Andi Wilson Thompson, “Separating the Fact from Fiction - Attorney General Barr is Wrong About Encryption”
  • Ellen Nakashima, “Apple vows to resist FBI demand to crack iPhone linked to San Bernardino attacks”
  • Tim Cook, “A Message to Our Customers”
  • DOJ, Open Letter to Facebook
  • Ina Fried, “DOJ and Apple reignite dispute over encryption”
  • EFF, “Ninth Circuit: Surveillance Company Not Immune from International Lawsuit”
  • Facebook’s Public Response To Open Letter On Private Messaging
  • Mike Masnick, “Senate’s New EARN IT Bill Will Make Child Exploitation Problem Worse, Not Better, And Still Attacks Encryption”
  • Mack DeGeurin, EARN IT Act Passes Senate Judiciary Committee (2022)
  • Diksha Madhok, “Indian police visit Twitter after it labels a tweet from Narendra Modi’s party”
  • Selina Cheng, “Google handed user data to Hong Kong authorities despite pledge after security law was enacted”
  • nytimes, “Censorship, Surveillance and Profits: A Hard Bargain for Apple in China”
  • EFF, “NSA Spying Timeline”
  • ACLU, “Surveillance under the USA/Patriot Act”
  • Joseph Cox, “China Is Forcing Tourists to Install Text-Stealing Malware at its Border”
  • Reuters, “Apple moves to store iCloud keys in China, raising human rights fears”
  • Diksha Madhok, “Twitter is a mess in India. Here’s how it got there”
  • Manish Singh, “Twitter restricts accounts in India to comply with government legal request”
  • Diksha Madhok, “Silicon Valley is in a high-stakes standoff with India”
  • Joanna Chiu, “A Chinese student in Canada had two followers on Twitter. He still didn’t escape Beijing’s threats over online activity”
  • Reuters, “Putin signs law forcing foreign social media giants to open Russian offices”
  • EFF, “Mass Surveillance Technologies”
  • Maureen E. Brady, “The Lost “Effects” of the Fourth Amendment: Giving Personal Property Due Protection”
  • CNN, “Trump’s DOJ Secretly Subpoenaed Records of 2 Dem Lawmakers”
  • Carrie Johnson, “Barr Blasts His Own Prosecutors: ‘All Power Is Vested In The Attorney General’“
  • Matthew Green Twitter thread
  • Paul Rosenzweig, “The Apple Client-Side Scanning System”
  • Apple’s child protection features spark concern within its own ranks
  • Kurt Opsahl, “If You Build It, They Will Come: Apple Has Opened The Backdoor”
  • AccessNow Amicus Brief
  • Apple Holic, “Apple’s botched CSAM plan shows need for digital rights”
  • EFF, “Apple’s Plan to “Think Different” About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life”
  • Zach Whittaker, “Apple confirms it will begin scanning iCloud Photos for child abuse images”
  • WSJ, “Apple Executive Defends Tools to Fight Child Porn, Acknowledges Privacy Backlash”
  • Zach Whittaker, “Apple delays plans to roll out CSAM detection in iOS 15 after privacy backlash”

• Ethical Source is a Crock of Hot Garbage

  • Mastodon’s statement regarding Gab
  • Darragh Roche, “Donald Trump’s TRUTH Social Prohibits ‘Excessive Use of Capital Letters’“
  • Joseph Cox, “Mastodon’s Founder Says Trump’s New Social Network Is Just Mastodon”
  • Kyle Morris, “Trump announces ‘TRUTH Social’ network will be rolled out first quarter of 2022” (Fox News)
  • Adi Robertson, “Trump’s social network has 30 days to stop breaking the rules of its software license”
  • Robert Morgus and Justin Sherman, “How U.S. surveillance technology is propping up authoritarian regimes”
  • Klint Finley, “A Developer Deletes His Code to Protest Its Use by ICE”
  • Daniel Sieradski, “Microsoft: Drop ICE!”
  • Colin Lecher, “GitHub will keep selling software to ICE, leaked email says”
  • Johana Bhuiyan, “GitHub is trying to quell employee anger over its ICE contract. It’s not going well”
  • Russell Brandom, “It’s not just Microsoft: lots of tech companies are quietly helping ICE”
  • Camilo Montoya-Galvez, “New pictures show “dangerous overcrowding” at Border Patrol facilities in Texas”
  • Douglas MacMillan, “The war inside Palantir”
  • April Glaser, “Microsoft Workers Say the Company Is War Profiteering, and They’ve Timed Their Protest to Hurt”
  • “Advancing Human-Rights-By-Design In The Dual-Use Technology Industry”
  • Michael Tiemann, “What I Learned from the Libertarians”
  • Technodrone, “Thoughts on Ethics and Open Source”
  • Brett Watson, “Philosophies of Free Software and Intellectual Property”
  • The Ruby Community Conduct Guideline
  • debian, “jsonevil“
  • gnu, “What is Free Software?”
  • mjr (Marcus J. Ranum), “The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security”
  • W3C TAG Ethical Web Principles
  • Andrew C. Oliver, “Should open source be ethical?”
  • Tatum Hunter, “Is Your Open-Source Code Fueling Human Rights Abuses?”
  • Don Goodman-Wilson, “Open Source is Broken”
  • RandomErrorMessage, “TypeScript, JavaScript, Homophobia and Brendan Eich” (this is possibly a deliberate false flag?)
  • Coraline Ada Ehmke, “A Six-Month Retrospective on Ethical Open Source”
  • rubytogether, “a vision for ethics in open source software”
  • The Hippocratic License
  • The Contributor Covenant
  • The Organization for Ethical Source

• Is (git) master a dirty word?

  • sfc, Regarding Git and Branch Naming
  • Mallory Knodel, Terminology, Power, and Inclusive Language in Internet-Drafts and RFCs
  • NISTIR 8366, Guidance for NIST Staff on Using Inclusive Language in Documentary Standards
  • Python Issue 34605: Avoid master/slave terminology
  • GitLab, The new Git default branch name
  • On Redis master-slave terminology
  • Catalin Climpanu, GitHub to replace ‘master’ with ‘main’ starting next month
  • Carolyn Heinze, Why GitHub renamed its master branch to main
  • Master/Slave terminology concerns on Wikipedia
  • Linus Torvalds banishes masters, slaves and blacklists from the Linux kernel, starting now
  • an old twitter thread in which I point out that GitHub making git changes while it still actively enables ICE is bad

• YouTube broke links and other life lessons

  • Luke Plunkett, “Please Stop Closing Forums And Moving People To Discord”

• Twitter Blue is a late-stage symptom

  • Cory Doctorow, “Why it’s easier to move country than switch social media”
  • “Twitter API updates: more authentication, fewer tweets, more rules, certification, and … talk to the hand”
  • Tom Scott, “This Video has %s Views”, video
  • Failory, “What Was Google Reader”
  • Yahoo! Pipes on Wikipedia
  • Twitter, “About Twitter Blue”
  • RSS Bridge on github
  • Create a Problem, Sell a Solution meme
  • Mihir Patkar, “5 Free Apps to Improve Twitter Without Subscribing to Twitter Blue”

• How Apple Destroyed Mobile Freeware

  • Riley Testut, “Thoughts on the App Store”
  • Quora thread, “Can you make money on a free app without advertising?”
  • Forbes, “‘Malicious’ Subscriptions”
  • Doctorow’s example of the App Store as “felony contempt of business model”

dev

• Jinja2 as a Pico-8 Preprocessor

  • seleb / PICO-8-Token-Optimizations | github.com
  • drakeblue, “Saving Tokens” bbs thread
  • Awesome PICO-8

• How we made Befriendus Ludicrously Accessible

  • “Structured programming” on Wikipedia

• Tabs or Spaces?

  • /u/ChaseMoskal, Nobody talks about the real reason to use Tabs over Spaces
  • Alexander Sandberg, Tabs for Accessibility
  • Jamie Zawinski, Tabs versus Spaces: An Eternal Holy War.

fandom

• Psycholonials Commentary, selections

  • Victoria (@arachonteur), “Psycholonials – Part 1: A Post-Homestuck World”
  • Victoria (@arachonteur), “Psycholonials – Part 2: Text and Subtext”
  • Victoria (@arachonteur), “Psycholonials – Part 3: Sword and Crown”

• Post-Ch2 Deltarune Theories

  • suzyundertale, “How we know the person in the intro of Deltarune is almost certainly Gaster”
  • inbarfink on the lack of consequences in the Weird Route
  • inbarfink on Ralsei’s knowledge and characterization
  • agnesmontague possible isolated vocals in Big Shot “Please Knight, answer the phone, pleaaaase–ha ha ha, all the suspense is making me wait, to tell you how much it’s ringing! Please Knight, answer the phone, pleaaaase–ha ha ha, all the suspense is, all the suspense is, tell me what you’re really selling!”

• The Sarah Z Video Fallout

  • hbomberguy, “PewDiePie Is A Nazi”

• Trouble a-brewin' at Redbubble

  • Eevee, “Copyright is broken”
  • Tom Scott, “YouTube’s Copyright System Isn’t Broken. The World’s Is.”, video
  • Katharine Trendacosta, “Why Is It So Hard to Figure Out What to Do When You Lose Your Account?”

• More on the Hiveswap Odd Gentlemen Debacle

  • Sarah Z, “A Brief History of Homestuck”, a video essay about the Homestuck fandom that includes a summary of my Hiveswap work

• The Hiveswap Fiasco

  • GiovanH, “More on the Hiveswap Odd Gentlemen Debacle”
  • Shadok, “HIVESWAPQUEST” (video)
  • everythinghiveswap.tumblr.com is a blog that has a large historical backlog of Hiveswap news and rumors
  • Sarah Z, “A Brief History of Homestuck”, a video essay about the Homestuck fandom that includes a summary of my Hiveswap work
  • Fredrik Knudsen, “Star Citizen - Down the Rabbit Hole” (video)
  • Jason Schreier, “12 Successful Kickstarters That Never Delivered”
  • posts tagged #hiveswap on thewebcomicsreview.tumblr.com
  • Funk McLovin, “What PR? A response to Sarah Z”, a video response about the aftermath of Sarah Z’s video and What Pumpkin’s PR in general
  • A much briefer recap, but only up until 2017.

gaming

• Notes on the VRC Creator Economy

  • Partin, W. C. (2020). Bit by (Twitch) Bit: “Platform Capture” and the Evolution of Digital Platforms.
  • Chris Coyier, “What does it look like for the web to lose?”
  • Cory Doctorow, “Social Quitting”
  • Microsoft is shutting down its metaverse | PC Gamer
  • Cory Doctorow, “Why it’s easier to move country than switch social media”

• Events in games bother me

  • Chris Suellentrop, “Nintendo Dev On Working With Kojima,’Splatoon 2,’ Rise of Japanese Games”
  • Folding Ideas, “Manufactured Discontent and Fortnite”
  • Michael McWhertor, “The death of Super Mario: Is Mario really dying on March 31?” - Polygon

• Hack 'n' Slash is awe inspiring

  • “The Hack 'n' Slash Puzzle Collection”, Guillaume Fortin-Debigar
  • “Making It to Break It: Designing Hack ‘n’ Slash”, Brandon Dillon (GDC Video)
  • Secret room - Hack ‘n’ Slash - Double Fine Action Forums
  • Double Fine’s ‘heartfelt and personal’ Hack ‘n’ Slash: A postmortem

• 20 Absolutely True Things about Sonic '06

  • Andrea Ritsu, Just How Did Sonic 2006 Happen?

• VR First Thoughts

  • “Leaked Zuckerberg Email Reveals Facebook’s XR Strategy, ‘Our goal is not only to win, but to accelerate its arrival’” Ben Lang on roadtovr, 2019
  • You Will Lose All Your Oculus Games If You Delete Your Linked Facebook Account” Adam Bankhurst on IGN, 2020
  • “Oculus co-founder is leaving Facebook after cancellation of ‘Rift 2’ headset” Lucas Matney on Techcrunch, 2018
  • “The Design of the Portal Locomotion”, Freya Holmér

• Stanley and the Death of Sourcemods

  • “Making a Moddable Game?” Thread, 2015
  • “Mod Support comes to Robo Recall” Unreal Engine announcement
  • “Godot sandbox & modding support” github issue
  • “Safe multiplayer modding” reddit thread
  • “Allow to import and load external assets at run-time” godot proposal
  • “Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)” on .NET docs
  • Leadhead, “A Love Letter to The Source Engine” - YouTube

literature

• W.D. Gaster and fake depth

  • /u/Karibil_Watar, Further Stratifying Gaster and Sans Development
  • Folding Ideas, The Stanley Parable, Dark Souls, and Intended Play
  • hbomberguy, Perverted Sentimentality: An Analysis of UNDERTALE
  • Adam Millard, What Was Undertale Actually About?
  • The Unbearable Now: An Interpretation of The Witness
  • Jacob Geller, “The Decade-Long Quest For Shadow of the Colossus’ Last Secret”

• Why Act 6 Hits Different

  • Func McLovin, Slurs in Homestuck (Video)

politics

• The ambiguous "use"

  • Permission culture - Wikipedia

• Game Patent Grab Bag

  • Emanuel Maiberg, “‘Cold-Blooded Business’: Nintendo Is Patent Trolling Palworld Because It Got Too Big”

• Copyright Abusers Lost Their Claim

  • James Grimmelmann, “Patterns of Information Law”
  • Open Intellectual Property Casebook | Duke University School of Law
  • Ashley Belanger, “Netflix actor wields DMCA takedowns to block tweets sharing “rapey” clip”
  • Jacob Oller, “Destroying Movies for Fun and Profit”
  • Mike Masnick, “Copyright As Censorship: American Law Institute Uses Copyright To Stop Discussion Of Controversial Publication Prior To Vote”
  • Darius Rafieyan, “T-Mobile Has A Trademark On Magenta, Demands An Insurance Company Stop Using It”
  • Drew Taylor, “Coyote vs. Acme in Peril: Why Warner Bros Hasn’t Sold It”
  • Zack Whittaker, “Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets”

• CDL: Publishers Against Books

  • §
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  • Position Statement – Controlled Digital Lending (statement)
  • First Sale Doctrine - Copyright for Libraries - LibGuides at American Library Association
  • Fight for the Future, Battle for Libraries campaign
  • American Library Association, “Competition in Digital Markets”
  • Jennifer Jenkins, “Last sale?: Libraries’ rights in the digital age”
  • Maria Bustillos, “Sell This Book!”
  • Andrew Albanese, “Wyden, Eshoo Question Big Five Publishers Over Their Library E-book Practices”
  • §
  • Daniel A. Gross, “The Surprisingly Big Business of Library E-books”
  • Fremgen et al v. Amazon.com, Inc. (2021)
  • Yoyohanna, “Outrage as Pearson increase ebook prices by 500% in one week”
  • Sophie Inge, “Ebook campaigners rally against Pearson price increases”
  • Nate Anderson, “Copyright collective: free format and time-shifting never OK”
  • David Moore, “Publishing Giants Are Fighting Libraries on E-Books”
  • Gaby Del Valle, “Why are textbooks so expensive?”
  • §
  • Stephen Prager, Book Publishers Are Trying to Destroy Public E-Book Access in Order to Increase Profits
  • Reese, R. A. (2003). The First Sale Doctrine in the Era of Digital Networks.
  • Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria - The Atlantic (523320)
  • EFF Press Release, “Internet Archive Seeks Summary Judgment in Federal Lawsuit Filed By Publishing Companies”
  • §
  • Lia Holland and Jade Pfaefflin Bounds, “E-books are fast becoming tools of corporate surveillance”
  • SPARC Report Urges Action to Address Concerns with ScienceDirect Data Privacy Practices

• How Nintendo Misuses Copyright

  • Owen S. Good, “Despite the certainty of takedowns, fan developers still pursue Nintendo’s works”
  • David Sheff and Andy Eddy, “Game Over, Press Start to Continue: How Nintendo Conquered the World”
  • Drew Littrell, “That Super Mario Bros. C64 Port Was Too Good For This World”
  • Vincent Acovino, “‘Super Mario 35’ Evokes Nintendo’s Strained Relationship With Fan Developers”
  • Modern Vintage Gamer, “Secrets of the Nintendo Game Boy Boot Logo” (video)
  • Sega v. Accolade - Wikipedia
  • Annabelle Fleury, “Nintendo Strikes Back Against YouTubers, Demands Percentage of Video Profits”
  • Kevin Purdy, Nintendo, ticked by Zelda leaks, does a DMCA run on Switch emulation tools
  • ia
  • magnet
  • Nintendo Creators Program (guide)
  • Cory Doctorow, “The Internet Con”
  • Original position
  • Damien McFerran, “Nintendo Named And Shamed As Benefiting From The Use Of Chinese Forced Labour Camps”
  • CM30, “Is a Fake Nintendo Employee Taking Down Fan Works?”
  • Will Bedingfield, “Nintendo’s Copyright Strikes Push Away Its Biggest Fans” | WIRED

• Apple's Trademark Exploit

  • Van der Velden Maja, “Apple uses trademark law to strengthen its monopoly on repair”
  • Ryan Mac and Kellen Browning, “Apps and Oranges: Behind Apple’s ‘Bullying’ on Trademarks”
  • Aaron Tilley, “When Apple Comes Calling, ‘It’s the Kiss of Death’”
  • Cory Doctorow, “Patent troll IP is more powerful than Apple’s“
  • Medieval Times Sues Its Workers’ Union Alleging ‘Trademark Infringement’ | HuffPost Impact

• You've Never Seen Copyright

  • Kirby Ferguson, “Everything is a Remix” (YouTube)
  • Shoshana Zuboff, “Digital Feudalism”
  • Cory Doctorow, “IP”
  • James Grimmelmann, “Patterns of Information Law”

• Netflix's Big Double-Dip

  • Paris Marx, “Netflix is Bringing Back Piracy”
  • Reed Alexander, “Millennials, Gen Z Cancel Streaming Subscriptions Amid Inflation”
  • Ryan Broderick, “More slop for the void”
  • Ed Zitron, “The Rot Economy”
  • Ed Zitron, “Absentee Capitalism”
  • Parsa Saljoughian, “Break Through the Subscription Wall: Know Your Company’s Growth Ceiling” (brain worm perspective)
  • Dan Greene, “The erosion of personal ownership”
  • Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz, “The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy”
  • S. J. Liebowitz (1985). Copying and Indirect Appropriability: Photocopying of Journals. Journal of Political Economy, 93(5), 945–957.
  • Jennings Brown, “The EU Suppressed a 300-Page Study That Found Piracy Doesn’t Harm Sales”
  • Danny Funt, “‘The last good website’“
  • Cory Doctorow, “Twiddler: Configurability for Me, but Not for Thee”
  • Alex N. Press, “TV Writers Say They’re Striking to Stop the Destruction of Their Profession”
  • WGA Negotiations—Status as of May 1, 2023
  • Zac Ntim, “‘Ghosted’ Filmmaker Dexter Fletcher On Directing For Streamers”
  • Noam Scheiber and John Koblin, “Will a Chatbot Write the Next ‘Succession’?”
  • Tom Power, “Netflix has cancelled Lockwood & Co – and fans are absolutely furious”
  • Rosie Knight, “HBO Max Is Reportedly Removing Content To Save Money: Heres What That Means For You”
  • Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi, “Dozens of TV shows are disappearing from streaming platforms like HBO Max. Here’s why”
  • Josef Adalian and Lane Brown, “TV’s Streaming Model Is Broken. It’s Also Not Going Away.”

• The Génocidaires: People

  • Ty Rushing, “What’s Happening With The Vinton Public Library”
  • Mimmymum, “Transphobia: How the trans-hostile media coverage began in the UK”
  • A National Epidemic: Fatal Anti-Transgender Violence in the United States in 2019 | Human Rights Campaign
  • Molly Amman and J. Reid Meloy, “Stochastic Terrorism: A Linguistic and Psychological Analysis”
  • Indiana AG eyes criminal prosecution of 10-year-old rape victim's abortion doc | POLITICO
  • Lizelle Herrera’s arrest in Texas is not unique — and could get much more common | Grid News
  • Monroe, K. R. (2008). Cracking the Code of Genocide: The Moral Psychology of Rescuers, Bystanders, and Nazis during the Holocaust. Political Psychology
  • Dismantling a Culture of Violence | HRC Digital Reports
  • Florence Ashley, “You can say woman and we can say person”
  • shaunvids, “Response to BBC transphobia”
  • Bongo Productions LLC et al v. Lawrence et al - Order Granting Preliminary Injunction | American Civil Liberties Union
  • Affidavit Of Special Agent Casey Anderson In Support Of a Criminal Complaint Against Jeremy David Hanson
  • Molly Amman and J. Reid Meloy, “Stochastic Terrorism: A Linguistic and Psychological Analysis”
  • Mimmymum, “Transphobia: How people are becoming radicalised online.”
  • Lee Leveille, “A New Era: Key Actors Behind Anti-Trans Conversion Therapy”

• The Génocidaires: Exterminationism

  • Julia Serano, “Origins of “Social Contagion” and “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria””
  • Julia Serano, “Transgender Agendas, Social Contagion, Peer Pressure, and Prevalence”
  • At Orlando Weekly, we say gay, and we also say lesbian, queer, bi, trans and intersex | Orlando Weekly
  • Miles Klee, “Unhinged ‘Transvestigators’ Think They’re the Only Cis People Left”
  • Jules Gill-Peterson, “A Trans History of Conversion Therapy”
  • Rose Lovell, “Abigail Shrier’s Irreversible Damage: A Wealth of Irreversible Misinformation”
  • Sarah Fonseca, “The Constitutional Conflationists: On Abigail Shrier’s “Irreversible Damage” and the Dangerous Absurdity of Anti-Trans Trolls”
  • AJ Eckert, “Irreversible Damage to the Trans Community: A Critical Review of Abigail Shrier’s Irreversible Damage”
  • Olson, K. R., Durwood, L., DeMeules, M., & McLaughlin, K. A. (2016). Mental Health of Transgender Children Who Are Supported in Their Identities
  • Connolly, M. D., Zervos, M. J., Barone, C. J., Johnson, C. C., & Joseph, C. L. M. (2016). The Mental Health of Transgender Youth: Advances in Understanding
  • Abigail Shrier | GLAAD Accountability Project
  • Rebecca Boone, “Right-wing extremists amp up anti-LGBTQ rhetoric online”
  • Fact Sheet: Anti-lgbt+ Mobilization On The Rise In The United States | The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project
  • Andrea Azzo, “Kiel School District ends Title IX investigation amid ongoing threats”
  • Kelsey Dickeson, “Kiel School District closes Title IX investigation”
  • Jason Zimmerman, “WILL responds to Kiel Area School District closing Title IX investigation”
  • Jack McCordick, “Figures of Speech” about William F. Buckley
  • Reddit thread, The terror of Pride Month 2022 on r/keep_track
  • Celestine Karoney, Wafcon 2022: Zambian Barbra Banda ruled out over ‘gender eligibility’ issues
  • Cass Eris, “Irreversible Damage from a cog psych perspective” - YouTube (playlist)
  • Parker Molloy, “The anti-LGBTQ right is going to get people killed”
  • Cassandra, “Everything’s Coming Up Nazis”
  • Jules Gill-Peterson, “Histories of the Transgender Child”
  • Anna Merlan, “The Conspiracy Singularity Has Arrived”
  • Mallory Moore, “Genspect exploit confusion over UK trans health reviews to spread misinformation globally”

• The Génocidaires: Laws

  • Florence Ashley, “Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis”
  • ACLU, “Texas Wants to Take Trans Kids From Their Supportive Parents. We’re Suing.”
  • Jade Jackson, “The realities of being transgender in Arkansas”
  • Kristin Lam, “National firestorm on horizon as states consider criminalizing transgender treatments for youths”
  • Past Legislation Affecting LGBT Rights Across the Country 2020 | American Civil Liberties Union
  • Ivana Saric, “Texas GOP goes full MAGA at 2022 convention”
  • Orion Rummler, “‘We don’t have other options’: Children’s hospital disbands gender-affirming care program”
  • Diana Ali, “The Rise and Fall of the Bathroom Bill: State Legislation Affecting Trans & Gender Non-Binary People”
  • Lenore Skenazy, “Don't Call Child Services on Families Who Take Their Kids to Drag Shows”
  • Melissa Block, “Teachers fear the chilling effect of Florida’s so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law”
  • Moira Warburton and Rose Horowitch, “Republicans in Congress lay groundwork for anti-transgender push”
  • The Catholic church is dictating reproductive health care — even in blue states | Salon.com
  • New Report Finds Rapid Growth of Catholic Health Systems | Community Catalyst
  • Jonathan Capehart, “Alito's abortion opinion is a warning to LGBTQ Americans”
  • Doe v. Abbott - ACLU Petition
  • Michael Daly, “Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Is as Vicious as It Sounds”
  • Amanda Marcotte, “Florida’s "don’t say gay" bill is just the beginning: Republicans want to claw back all gay rights”
  • Morgan Trau, “GOP passes bill aiming to root out ‘suspected’ transgender female athletes with genital inspection”
  • Reuters, “Ohio lawmakers advance trans sports ban with genital check”
  • Tordoff, D. M., Wanta, J. W., Collin, A., Stepney, C., Inwards-Breland, D. J., & Ahrens, K. (2022). “Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care”
  • David A. Graham, “The Right’s Total Loss of Proportion”

• The Génocidaires: Intro

  • Genocide Prevention at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Genocide Watch, The Ten Stages of Genocide
  • 1947 US War Department, “Don’t Be a Sucker”
  • Umberto Eco, “Ur-Fascism”
  • Shane Burley, “Fascism Today”
  • Bob Altemyer, “The Authoritarians”
  • Jason Stanley, “How Propaganda Works”
  • UCLA Williams Institute, “Transgender People” subpopulation page
  • HRC’s Brief Guide to Getting Transgender Coverage Right - Human Rights Campaign
  • Wikipedia, Anti-Gender Movement
  • Aisling McCrea, “The magical thinking of guys who love logic”
  • Steven K. Baum, “The psychology of genocide”
  • Simpson, K. E. (2012). Hitler’s Genocide. Teaching of Psychology, 39(2), 113–120.
  • Robert Jay Lifton, “Gazing Steadfastly at the Holocaust”
  • Kristen Monroe, “Cracking the Code of Genocide: The Moral Psychology of Rescuers, Bystanders, and Nazis during the Holocaust”
  • Woolf, L. M., & Hulsizer, M. R. (2005). “Psychosocial roots of genocide: risk, prevention, and intervention”
  • Morgan Trau, “GOP passes bill aiming to root out ‘suspected’ transgender female athletes with genital inspection”
  • Randall Balmer, “The Real Origins of the Religious Right”

• people who know more than me talk about Epic acquiring Bandcamp

  • “Our Incredible Journey”, a catalog of startup acquisitions and subsequent destructions
  • Cory Doctorow, “Private equity doesn’t create value, it destroys it”, 2020
  • Damon Krukowski, “A Tale Of Two Ecosystems: On Bandcamp, Spotify And The Wide-Open Future”, 2020
  • Ethan Diamond, “Cheaper than Free”
  • postmodernpostal, “Bandcamp: An Alternative to Music Piracy”, 2017
  • Matthew Jinoo Buck, “How America’s Supply Chains Got Railroaded”, 2022
  • www.bandcamp2.com

• Your engine hasn't earned your rent

  • Bryant Francis, “Going forward, Unity devs will need Unity Pro to publish on consoles”
  • Daniel Sperl, “Flox is phasing out - a Post Mortem”
  • YoYo Games Subscriptions FAQ
  • Gregor Hohpe, “Don’t get locked up into avoiding lock-in”, on software lock-in in general
  • Gamefromscratch, “The Ultimate Open Source Game Engine Advertisement…”

• 5G's standard patents wound it

  • Eli Greenbaum, “5G, Standard-Setting, and National Security”
  • Elyse Dorsey, “How the Google Consent Order Alters the Process and Outcomes of Frand Bargaining”
  • Wikipedia, “Reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing”
  • Raghav Bajaj, “What Are Standard Essential Patents and Why Do I Need to Know About Them?”
  • Theresa Hitchens, “US Risks Losing 5G Standard Setting Battle To China, Experts Say”
  • Brian DeLacey, “Strategic Behavior in Standard-Setting Organizations”

• Tweets about the attack on the Capitol

  • Social media footage from 2021-01-06 on the Internet Archive
  • Washington Post, “RED FLAGS — As Trump propelled his supporters to Washington, law enforcement agencies failed to heed mounting warnings about violence on Jan. 6.”
  • Dan Kois, “They Were Out for Blood” (2021)

• Nintendo: It's about control, not piracy

  • Kotaku, “Nintendo Shuts Down Smash Tournament Over Some Absurd Bullshit”
  • Polygon, “Nintendo wanted to shut down Super Smash Bros. Melee Evo event”
  • Smash World Tour Official Statement, 11/29/2022
  • Cory Doctorow, “Nintendo vs Nintendees”

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• Is homestuck.giovanh.com official?

  • Saving Homestuck [SAHCon 2023 Panel]

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• ja, es kawaii

  • Barbarossa on Kickstarter

tech

• The Joy of RSS

  • Adi Robertson, Are you still using an RSS reader?
  • Luke Smith, A Guide to Using RSS to Replace Social Media
  • Flameeyes, NewsBlur Review
  • Cory Doctorow, Podcasts are hearteningly enshittification resistant (2023)
  • Clive Thompson, “How I Use RSS To “Rewild” My Attention”
  • Bryan Carney, “Who Needs Meta or Google for News? Use ‘Really Simple Syndication’” (2023)
  • Get Fluent Reader on github
  • https://getrssfeed.com
  • RSS Bridge on github
  • NewsBlur
  • Feedly