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I know, I should have just paid to stay on UIPO.
Question for US Copyright folks - if an author has approached a rights holder for reproduction rights (for an academic book) and been denied because the book is critical of the work, would that impact a fair use justification in either direction?
This has reminded me of the time our local IMAX (RIP) had old James Bond films on, and in the middle of the Junkanoo scene in Thunderball, a dog very clearly lifts a leg and has a nice massive piss.
(And there, just at the end, funding is in jeopardy because of the CDC cuts...)
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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The good news is I won't be able to get it out of my head until I understand the lyrics, and he made that impossible, that slick bastard.
I am happy* to announce that I am going for the Guinness World Record for most consecutive days with Kiss From a Rose by Seal in one's head.
It's been a really great time to have not slept for a full three days for medical reasons.
youtu.be/TmosS8G03Y8?...
I can't imagine there are any "good" times to discover BPPV, but that sounds like a particularly terrible one!
My FIL had it (thankfully, in a weird way, because when it happened to me I luckily didn't assume I was having a stroke!)
As we have said and continue to say: the absolute vibe-based public safety conversation is not going to change until we get serious about social change: library-specific deescalation work and broader social interventions around housing, youth engagement, safe consumption, and accessible healthcare.
Higher Ed lives! UWinnipeg is posting two tenure track positions in Human Rights:
Focus on digital security/ AI Ethics: www.northstarats.com/University-o...
Joint teaching in Peace & Conflict Studies: www.northstarats.com/University-o...
Wow, his reaction is GOLD.
"and if you need to smoke, ashtrays are provided"
It’s been a year since we launched the science IRL mini-grant program.
Wanna see what our grantees got up to??
Check it out!
www.patreon.com/posts/scienc...
We’ll be doing this program again in 2026, keep an eye out for the announcement soon!
!! Something I've been working on for a year is finally live!!
A report from @eff.org , @justjournalism.bsky.social, and IPVM geared toward journalists but important for law makers and the general public decoding the nefarious ways police and surveillance tech gets sold, marketed, and deployed. 🧵
Winnipeg, this is your reading for the day! Follow the delegations against Councillor Duncan’s disastrous anti-protest bylaw below
An old math rock band from the East Coast, The Plan, would be perfect! CanCon!
Wow, I could... hear this song.
“The chaos that is unfolding south of us right now is a clear indicator that it’s coming our way and if we don’t put these things in place to stop that, it’s going to be your neighborhood next”
Is Duncan saying Winnipeg is banning actions similar to the Twin Cities resistance to ICE violence? WHY
bsky.app/profile/akoh...
I know I'm being a typical academic and harping on what some may say is a minor point, but instead of using the Charter protected characteristics, we have a list of special characteristics that includes "source of income". No protesting billionaires or war mongers anywhere in downtown Winnipeg!
Legal name change to an incumbent, anyone could get in
What is the academic equivalent of #NoTechForICE? A colleague has proposed #NoPapersForICE... A lot of the journals we publish in and subscribe to are behind some of the grossest targeting of humans in the US. See also: bsky.app/profile/jamb...
Oh, the Freep story literally uses a photo of a pro Palestinian action on campus. This definitely will be fine.
(Preemptively, no need to tell a schol comms librarian how hard it is to make the individual choice not to publish with these guys, or that individual actions don't mean much and we need structural change, I... know. I have, in fact, heard it all before!)
