Hyperlink Your Heart @hyperlinkyourheart@mastodon.art

I did a portrait of James Connolly for the #moustache #pixel_dailies, a few days late! 🤣

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InPRNT have 20% off a bunch of stuff this cyberest of Mondays.

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/hyperlinkyourheart

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Made a few tweaks

https://portfolio.hyperlinkyourheart.com/rise.html

Probably should also have mentioned in the last toot that this is based on concepts from my game "Just a Robot", which I have started working on again this month after a long hiatus.

https://gamejolt.com/games/just-a-robot/185852

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While you're boycotting Amazon today, consider quenching your spend-lust with a print of my fine pixeled arts instead (links to my shops in my profile)

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The "shitty technology adoption curve" describes the arc of oppressive technology: when you have a manifestly terrible idea, you can't ram it down the throats of rich, powerful people who get to say no. You have to find people whose complaints no one will listen to.

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Yesterday, Canadian Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains introduced the Digital Charter Implementation Act, which proposes a national privacy standard for Canada akin to Europe's GDPR.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/privacy-bill-bains-fines-1.5804779

The law is complex and will undergo many changes, but its two most salient features are:

I. The right to refuse to have your data collected and used; and

II. The right to have your data deleted if you change your mind.

With still penalties for companies that don't comply.

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Me at work: I have never seen this box before, what’s in it?

*opens box*

Ah, a single large chip labeled “lucifer”. It’s 2020, what could possibly go wrong.

In 1998, Bill Clinton signed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act into law. At the time, most of the attention was on Section 512 - AKA "notice and takedown," which absolves platforms from liability for users' infringement provided they respond quickly to removal demands.

Over the years, this has been horrifically abused, with everyone from post-Soviet dictators to sexual predators to cults and literal Nazis using spurious copyright claims to censor their critics, often without consequence.

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