Of course the man-child who shot up the newspaper offices in Annapolis has a history of stalking women and being an internet troll. Almost like there’s a common vein of entitlement and sociopathy running through the heart of mass shootings.
I sat down, planned him out, learned Arduino, electronics, thermo plastics, soldering and a bunch of other skills, and pushed this guy out in a few months.
He has two lighting modes, a sound chip, a speaker, motors and a bit of a personality that causes him to occasionally misfire and start performing actions at random if the switches are pressed in some ethereal configuration (or the switches are unconnected).
He needs repair and touch up after a few smacks to the dome. But I am very happy with my beep friend.
As of July 4th 2018, the Internet as we know it might be dead for good.
The European Parliament is passing a new Copyright Directive. Article 13 #CensorshipMachine will impose widespread censorship of all the content we share online. Art, fanfiction, parodies, remixes, mashups, memes, etc.. Anything that you do not hold the rights over will be taken down.
Article 13 would force all online platforms to police and prevent the uploading of copyrighted content, or make people seek the correct licenses to post that content. Internet platforms hosting large amounts of user-uploaded content must monitor user behaviour and filter their contributions to identify and prevent copyright infringement.
Such filters will be mandatory for platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit and Instagram, but also much smaller websites.
Last Tuesday (19th June 2018) a group of more than 70 people who have played important roles in building the internet and developing it (Tim Berners-Lee, Vincent Cerf,
Jimmy Wales, Mitchell Baker…) into what it is today addressed an open letter to the members of the European Parliament:
“As creators ourselves, we share the concern that there should be a fair distribution of revenues from the online use of copyright works, that benefits creators, publishers, and platforms alike.
But Article 13 is not the right way to achieve this. By requiring Internet platforms to perform automatic filtering all of the content that their users upload, Article 13 takes an unprecedented step towards the transformation of the Internet from an open platform for sharing and innovation, into a tool for the automated surveillance and control of its users. […] The damage that this may do to the free and open Internet as we know it is hard to predict, but in our opinions could be substantial.”
I designed a sword and Pavel Moc executed it extremely well and close to my specifications. It has an 86 centimetre blade, with a point of balance about 4cm from the cross. It weighs 1.6 kilograms.
For a while now I have had the opinion that it doesn’t make much sense to “Do Liechtenauer” with a sword that you can’t put to good use in just one hand. I have various proofs in the work for this theory, and this is another step of the way there.
It can crush binds but has godly point mobility even in one hand. It’s pretty much exactly what I was hoping for. Tomorrow I will put it to a bit more use.
Today’s conservative judicial victories only happened because the Republicans stole a Supreme Court seat. I will not respect their calls for “civility” while they cheer the affirmation of Korematsu.
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