#CreativeCommons

Ticketmaster is a runaway corrupt monopoly. They forced out or gobbled up every ticketing company, then merged with Live Nation and monopolized both venues and promo, to the vast detriment
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I remember when we stopped calling police weapons "nonlethal" and switched to "less lethal" - I thought it was a victory for anti-authoritarian realism, ditching a polite euphemism for a
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In his magesterial, longrunning series of papers explaining why Uber is not, and never will be, a viable business, transportation analyst Hubert Horan calls the business a "bezzle."http://horanaviation.com/Uber.html 1/ Bezzle
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Naples: It is what it isA thread http://julesvernex2.com/2021/05/07/naples-it-is-what-it-is/ I was leaning against a lamppost close to the Central Station, hearing music, when I felt a light tap on my shoulder. A
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Hi . I’m the CEO of @Wikimedia Foundation. We operate @Wikipedia and work to keep it available for the world, especially in times of crisis. What happens in the world
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0/After two decades from birth of the #openmovement, #Open is still a paradox: it represents a challenge to and a concentration of power. @creativecommons @Wikimedia @OKFN @mozilla @edri @internetarchive @communia_eu
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Los Angeles has a geometry problem. Multiply the space that even the smallest car occupies by the number of Angelenos who need to get from A-B and you'll see that
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Today in @WiredUK, my op-ed: "Why it’s easier to move country than switch social media" - an argument that the real power of social media comes from switching costs, not
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In "The Effect of White Social Prejudice on Support for American Democracy," a pair of political scientists used data from the World Values Survey to analyze the rise of authoritarian,
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High-stakes tests are garbage, pedagogically bankrupt assessment tools that act as a form of empirical facewash for "meritocracy."1/ They primarily serve as a way for wealthy parents to buy good
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My theory of US political equilibrium: both parties would like to please their donors, partly because it gives them the finance to win elections, and partly because individual party apparats
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Faced with remote learning, educators had to figure out what to do about high-stakes testing: a pedagogically bankrupt adversarial practice of measuring students' educational outcomes by testing their performance in
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The right has long held that homelessness is a symptom - of a lack of self-control, a lack of foresight, of addiction, mental illness, etc - and therefore the solution
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For a @themarkup feature, @leonyin and @asankin compiled a list of "social and racial justice terms" with help from @ColorOfChange, @mediajustice, @conmijente and @muslimadvocates, then checked if @YouTube would let
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When I think of the last 40 years of neoliberalism, I think of a game of musical chairs, in which the music's tempo steadily increases, the number of chairs rapidly
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As far back as 2015, the agribusiness monopolist @JohnDeere was taking steps to ban farmers from fixing their own tractors, arguing that copyright law made trafficking in tools to effect
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