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Lessig, Teachout, Bharara

We the People, and the Republic We Must Reclaim Lawrence Lessig TED talk

The Bare Knuckle Fight Against Money in Politics  Zepher Teachout & Lawrence Lessig on Bill Moyers

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Lawrence Lessig on the Free Access Movement

"Harvard’s Lawrence Lessig is easily the most important voice in intellectual property today, whose work — including founding Creative Commons"

Newest YouTube user to fight a takedown is copyright guru Lawrence Lessig

"Lessig's lawsuit runs through the checklist of fair use, making a case for why his lecture falls under that distinction: he used a small proportion of the song, his lecture doesn't compete with the market for the song in any way, and the lecture is an entirely new creation. Phoenix wanted its song to entertain and make money; Lessig's lecture was educational, and neither he nor Creative Commons, the sponsor, made any profit."

10 Years of Creative Commons: An Interview with Co-Founder Lawrence Lessig

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The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (video, 1:44:59, CC available)

The Internet’s Own Boy review: Remembering—and honoring—Aaron Swartz

Booking Video: Aaron Swartz Jokes, Jousts With Cops After MIT Bust

Former Reddit co-owner arrested for excessive JSTOR downloads

MIT not to blame for Aaron Swartz prosecution, MIT report says

Aaron Swartz

Long Hiatus

I’m slowly getting back online...  Over the last 6 months I haven’t been online much other than posting to IG and infrequently on Fb with the random moment on Twitter.   I am very lucky to be here and I’m very thankful to be on my way to a full recovery...  I’ll be sharing more on that in a future post and in the introduction to my next book... 

I’ve spent the afternoon making a few updates to my site:  kristen.education.  You’ll see a new header and I’ve also added some of my “secret” pages to the “Curation” page.  

My next project is going to be signing up for Star Wars Virtual Half Marathon.  I’m going to ask friends and family to sponsor me and donate the money to a Kidney Charity.  

Stay tuned! 

The manager and the moron

But this situation of linear movement is rapidly changing in every respect. And the greatest change is one that our Rip Van Winkle economist, looking only at the figures, wouldn’t even notice: In the past 20 years we have created a brand-new form of capital, a brand-new resource, namely knowledge.

Up until 1900, any society in the world would have done just as well as it did without men of knowledge. We may have needed lawyers to defend criminals and doctors to write death certificates, but the criminals would have done almost as well without the lawyers, and the patients without the doctors. We needed teachers to teach other ornaments of society, but this too was largely decoration. The world prided itself on men of knowledge, but it didn’t need them to keep the society running.

Focus on positive action

What Effective Protest Could Look Like

The more conservative protests are, the more radical they are. You want to scare Trump? Be orderly, polite, and visibly patriotic. Trump wants to identify all opposition to him with the black-masked crowbar thugs who smashed windows and burned a limo on his inauguration day. Remember Trump’s tweet about stripping citizenship from flag burners? It’s beyond audacious that a candidate who publicly requested help from Russian espionage services against his opponent would claim the flag as his own. But Trump is trying. Don’t let him get away with it. Carry the flag. Open with the Pledge of Allegiance. Close by singing the Star Spangled Banner––like these protesters at LAX, in video posted by The Atlantic’s own Conor Friedersdorf. Trump’s presidency is itself one long flag-burning, an attack on the principles and institutions of the American republic. That republic’s symbols are your symbols. You should cherish them and brandish them.

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