Category:Media
Books
- Best of 125 Years: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/28/books/best-book-winners.html
- Sci-Fi: Parable of the Sower (Jen)
- Top: Tequila Mockingbird
- Thomas Metzinger: The Ego Tunnel (Tom)
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Josh and Tom)
- Three Body Problem (Jen, Josh, and Tom)
Video
- Afterparty
- Somebody Somewhere
- The Other Two
Audio
- It's Always Sunny Podcast
- Category:Music
- Yes Yes No Podcast https://gimletmedia.com/tags/8gu9/yes-yes-no
- Tidal: https://tidal.com/
On Copyright
Copyright extremism has been steadily marching forward, Weird Al offers this recommendation:
Original copyright was 7 years, plus 7 additional years if you re-upped. After that, the deal was that things entered the public domain. There is a public interest in being able to reflect upon the zeitgeist without limitation after its initial pop revenue stream has been harvested.
Now copyright is life of the author + 125 years with extreme laws limiting you even from making your own copies of material you have purchased. Nothing new has entered the public domain since Mickey Mouse's first cartoon.
Copyright, like capitalism and socialism, is a fine economic mechanism in itself. But it becomes toxic when a subset of stakeholders engage in regulatory capture.
Current extremist copyright does more harm than good and should be attacked at every opportunity. Anchors aweigh and hoist the Jolly Roger - pirate that shit.
And while I have no specific recommendations, since I have simply eschewed corporate media rather than consuming it properly - which is to say illegally but rightly - I would recommend this as a starting point: