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I have yet to hear and absurd theory about Nicolas Cage that I don't find plausible.




Samenwerking tussen universiteiten, hogescholen, en het mbo is cruciaal om de grote maatschappelijke opgaven aan te pakken.

Het is daarom belangrijk dat onderzoekers weten wie bij andere instellingen aan welk onderzoek werkt. Het nieuwe platform Publinova maakt het onderzoek van hogescholen voor iedereen vindbaar en zichtbaar.

Ontdek meer over Publinova in dit interview met Jouke de Vries, Saskia Te Velde en Jorick Scheerens: surf.nl/magazine/samenwerken-b…

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Shout-out to out to our Communications Working Group (CWG) member (and OSM social media team member) Donitar Orishaba who staffed the OSMF table and participated in the OSMF Working Group panel at @sotm in Nairobi this weekend. Representatives of the different groups shared about what each WG does and how they do it. Working Groups are the main way the OSMF supports OSM---and they are a lot of fun, too.

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After Pavel Durov’s arrest and Brazil’s ban of Twitter/X, many people immediately jumped to talking about free speech. But those actions were about sovereignty, not speech.

Internet politics is shifting, and if we want to respond to it properly we need to stop framing everything as a speech issue.

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in reply to Paris Marx

The fact that something implicates sovereignty doesn't exclude the possibility that it is also about other issues, such as speech, privacy, etc.

For example, when the EU created a rule that prohibited US companies from storing data on servers that the NSA had access to, that was both a sovereignty and a privacy measure.

in reply to Cory Doctorow

When Russia followed suit, that was also a sovereignty and privacy issue, but it also implicated speech, because it created an enforcement nexus for censoring disfavored political views.

When the Saudis bought UK/Israeli malware from NSO Group to lure Jamal Khashoggi to his death, that was a sovereignty issue (the right of a nation state to "lawfully intercept" communications related to its politics), but also a speech issue.

in reply to Cory Doctorow

It's hard to imagine that *any* policy related to a communications medium *wouldn't* have speech implications.

Take the Karla Homolka trial - the first-ever case relating to Canadian sovereignty and the internet. Facially, the press-ban served Canada's sovereign right to preserve the integrity of its justice system; and the American-based Usenet servers that hosted prohibited accounts of the trial violated that sovereignty.

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But when Canadians subsequently learned that the press ban provided cover for wildly incompetent prosecutors and police investigators, whose failures led to a notorious and unrepentant serial killed going free, and who themselves never faced consequences for their professional failures, the sovereignty issue became inextricably embroiled with speech (and the notional beneficiary of the press ban - the justice system - suffered badly as a result).
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The Durov case remains obscure, but there is at least the appearance that the objective of the French prosecutors was to insist upon the introduction of deliberate defects ("back doors") in a widely used end-to-end encrypted messenger. There's no universe in which this isn't a speech issue, irrespective of how you feel about it (as the Khashoggi case irrefutably demonstrates).
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in reply to Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic It’s not as obscure as you suggest, or as clear that they’re looking for back doors. I’ll grant there’s an element of it that has to do with speech, but the crux of my argument is that constantly using speech and privacy as the central framing of tech issues results in a specific and narrow understanding of the issues and, importantly, the proper response and solutions.
in reply to Paris Marx

The problem is that in the case of lawful interception back doors it IS binary. Either the encryption works - in which case no one can look inside it - or the encryption doesn't work, in which case any sufficiently resourced attacker can get into it, which includes stalkers, spies, griefers, cops without warrants, bosses, and other bad actors.
in reply to Cory Doctorow

This is why discussions of lawful interception and end-to-end encryption always stalemate, because there is no way anyone knows to make encryption that only works when good guys use it.

Either you have working encryption, or you jettison virtually all considerations of speech and privacy.

That's not a false binary, it is a true binary.

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@pluralistic
I lived in the same neighbourhood as Homolka when she was arrested, and I lived in Montreal when she settled there after her release. The complete lack of awareness of the travesty of her trial in Quebec was devastating .

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@pluralistic agreed, assigning binary categories to a case like this paves over meaningful distinctions, things too important to dismiss as nuance. It's true that Telegram has been a vehicle for crime including CSAM and Durov has been totally unwilling to take any step against it; it's also true the French government has wanted to shoot holes in every form of private encryption for as long as that's been a topic. There's a lot going on here.


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Check out Anson Mills - Glenn Roberts team has worked on restoring/recovering 'lost' grains - different varieties of wheat, corn; and Carolina Gold rice.


"when television was not the same as life, but the relationship was closer than it had ever been before and would ever be again"

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Judge Cannon Should Have Stuck to the Beaten Path

Judge Cannon’s decision is undoubtedly skillful. But judges should be wary of blazing new trails

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Trump rants, resurfaces sexual assault allegations for 49 unfocused minutes (Washington Post)

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