Originally posted by ladyhadhafang at And back on the subject of SOPA and company … 

There's a new bill in motion, and it's worse than ACTA. It's called TTP, or the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement:

https://www.eff.org/pages/trans-pacific-partnership-agreement

Click  ( Read more... )

Originally posted by lk737 at U.S. Petition to prevent ACTA
Kosmonaunt on Tumblr just posted this link to the U.S. Petition to stop ACTA. Here is what was said about it ( Read more... )

Dear LJ friends,

Today marks a very special occasion for me, as an academic and as a fan. My thesis has finally been published and is now available online! The thesis is called "Narratives of a Fall: Star Wars Fan Fiction Writers Interpret Anakin Skywalker's Story," and it deals, as many of you know, with fan-produced narratives of Anakin's rise, ( Read more... )

Originally posted by nyxmidnight at Why SOPA is dangerous, an explanation of the bill
Why SOPA is dangerous
To Sum Up
SOPA:

• Gives the government the right to unilaterally censor foreign websites.
• Gives copyright holders the right to issue economic takedowns and bring lawsuits against website owners and operators, if those websites have features that ( Read more... )

I urge you to watch the video and do your part in supporting this critical protest of dangerous legislation by signing the petitions, passing along the news, and making your voice heard.

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 You guys - check out this CNN article on the drastically under-reported resistance to SOPA.  The article features an interview with a Wikipedia co-founder, and links to some explanations of SOPA, which I think underestimate its potentially chilling effects on internet free speech.  In any case, I urge all US citizens who see this post to read the ( Read more... )

So. This week I am finishing up the Harry Potter series of books, because estora would not rest until I had tried them, and then I immediately became addicted, and now I have to get them done before I go back to school, which means I have to read the final two in, like, the next four days, one of which I will be spending at my parents' house and ( Read more... )

So I've been working on revisions for the "first" story in the Life in Freefall saga lately. (Which y'all know already, because I post about it, like, all the time.) It's coming along, and I've received a lot of encouragement from my LJ f-list (thanks, guys!) and some kudos on AO3 (that's nice of you, anonymous friendly people!). It's not ( Read more... )

 Peace on earth, good will toward men. :) 

Yeah. That's how I feel about this paper. What the hell?

But on the up-side, I have almost six pages of a 8-10 page paper done, so, one way or another the end is in sight. I still have to find a way to talk about at least two more books (seriously? who gives a number-of-books assignment in grad school?) and then conclude with something ( Read more... )