Pluralistic: 2024's public domain is a banger (20 Dec 2023)

Today's links

2024's public domain is a banger: How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2013, 2018, 2022
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It all started with a mouse: A masterclass on the public domain, fair use and trademark.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
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Bill Willingham puts his graphic novel series "Fables" into the public domain: A magnificent table flip (but the devil is in the details).
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
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2023's public domain is a banger: Hemingway! Holmes! Woolf! Pooh! Christie! Metropolis! Gershwin!
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2002, 2012, 2017
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An hour of interwar Halloween music: Spooky season listening from Centuries of Sound.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
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Science fiction is a Luddite literature: My latest column for Locus Magazine.
Neal Stephenson's 'Termination Shock': Geoengineering and the end of the world.
Stellar images of quack exercise machines: A memento mori for anyone flexing in lycra on a Peleton.
This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017
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Private equity's nursing home killing spree: Pre- and post-covid.
Malcolm X's true killers: NYPD deathbed confessions confirms "conspiracy theory."
A voyage to the moon of 1776: Filippo Morghen's imaginary travelogue.
German covid coinages: Schadenfreude fur CoronaFußgruß.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
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Reverse centaurs and the failure of AI: Turkers all the way down.
Gorgeous, slipcased editions of public domain classics: Dave McKean's Crime and Punishment.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
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How to leak a Zoom meeting: Watermarks, tile randomization, and more.
Pandemics and peak indifference: Squandering history's most expensive lessons.
Planet Money's free Great Gatsby audiobook: The public domain in action.
Honor MLK day with the Internet Archive: A fabulous, open access trove.
Someone Comes to Town, Part 28: This week's podcast installment carries on my friendly dispute with Manuel Castells.
Facebook's community standards: JWZ's 0-follower, 0-post FB account was suspended.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2015, 2020
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Email sabbaticals: I'm going offline until next year.
Chaos Communications Congress: Finally a way to do CCC without making your family furious.
Landmark US financial transparency law: Beginning of the end for the US onshore-offshore industry.
Rogues' Galleries and facial recognition: Self-fulfilling prophecies at the core of white supremacist policing.
Jan 1 is Public Domain Day for 1925: Gatsby, Dalloway, Buster Keaton, Ma Rainey, et al.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
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