A bunch of stupid bullies who don’t understand the concepts of “fair use” and “internet” (or more likely, understand them very well but don’t like them), think they have enough clout to dictate terms. Well, the millions and millions and billions of Wetmachine readers will have to find their own way to AP stories from now on. I’m not going to link to them. Take that, you wankers!
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My clever plan: go outside right now & spend about 3 hours doing yard work, focusing on the gardens she most values. Then delicately broach the subject as a mental health issue.
There are many benefits of being married to someone whose doctorate is in viral genetics (& who once ran a mutagenesis assay lab). Obtaining permission to break "lock down" for the occasional beer run during a pandemic is not one of them.
Honestly that’s the way to go. https://twitter.com/shengokai/status/1243632711694200833
I'm this close to making my online syllabus two sentences:
"Fuck it, you all pass. Stay safe."First laugh-out-loud tweet I've read in about a week.
In this trying, divided time, I'm pleased to see the bipartisan agreement in my mentions that behavioral economics is terrible.
There were intellectually defensible ways to doubt the magnitude of the looming threat and critique the response to it, and this was not one of them.
As Open Source Journalism continues to grow, the shoe will be on the other foot in about 10 years. Then when AP wants to source a story from some video blog they will get sued. Which by the way Michael Yon did that very thing against Reuters.
As I understand things, AP was people who quoted a few sentences and then linked to the AP site.
I’ve seen a bunch of people who have been extremely liberal in their interpretation of “fair use” with respect to some Wetmachine articles from time to time. It would be more annoying if a giant concern like AP did it. But if AP wants to quote a few sentences from a Wetmachine article and include a link to the original, that’s fine by me. That’s the whole idea of the web, for Pete’s sake.
I don’t think we should boycott: I think every blogger should link to as many AP stories as possible! Maybe write a little script to generate the links automatically. Put up an RSS aggregation. Quote like hell.
Make them pay a fortune for unproductive legal action. And after bloggers jointly raise their AP’s Page Rank in Google, how are they going to claim damages?
Yes, I agree that it is a much better form of social protest to link like crazy than to boycott links. Stick it to them!