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brightly-returning · 1 year

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you can really tell the same people who wrote prodigal son wrote episode 9 of poker face 👀

#who else is watching #poker face #poker face peacock #prodigal son #natasha lyonne #the zuckermans

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biconickyoshi · 7 months

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I’m so sad that I don’t live anywhere near the east or west coast because I wanna go to one of these concerts so badly 😭 I hope they at least record one of them and post it to YouTube!!

Link to purchase tickets:

#atla #avatar the last airbender #avatar: the last airbender #a:tla #jeremy zuckerman #atla ost #avatar aang #aang #zuko #sokka #toph #katara #suki #avatar studios

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unbfacts · 5 months

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#Ethan Zuckerman #Pop up ads #Apologized #Advertising

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mostlysignssomeportents · 14 days

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CDA 230 bans Facebook from blocking interoperable tools

I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me TONIGHT (May 2) in WINNIPEG, then TOMORROW (May 3) in CALGARY, then SATURDAY (May 4) in VANCOUVER, then onto Tartu, Estonia, and beyond!

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is the most widely misunderstood technology law in the world, which is wild, given that it's only 26 words long!

https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referred-here-because-youre-wrong-about-section-230-communications-decency-act/

CDA 230 isn't a gift to big tech. It's literally the only reason that tech companies don't censor on anything we write that might offend some litigious creep. Without CDA 230, there'd be no #MeToo. Hell, without CDA 230, just hosting a private message board where two friends get into serious beef could expose to you an avalanche of legal liability.

CDA 230 is the only part of a much broader, wildly unconstitutional law that survived a 1996 Supreme Court challenge. We don't spend a lot of time talking about all those other parts of the CDA, but there's actually some really cool stuff left in the bill that no one's really paid attention to:

https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/supreme-court-decision-striking-down-cda

One of those little-regarded sections of CDA 230 is part (c)(2)(b), which broadly immunizes anyone who makes a tool that helps internet users block content they don't want to see.

Enter the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and their client, Ethan Zuckerman, an internet pioneer turned academic at U Mass Amherst. Knight has filed a lawsuit on Zuckerman's behalf, seeking assurance that Zuckerman (and others) can use browser automation tools to block, unfollow, and otherwise modify the feeds Facebook delivers to its users:

https://knightcolumbia.org/documents/gu63ujqj8o

If Zuckerman is successful, he will set a precedent that allows toolsmiths to provide internet users with a wide variety of automation tools that customize the information they see online. That's something that Facebook bitterly opposes.

Facebook has a long history of attacking startups and individual developers who release tools that let users customize their feed. They shut down Friendly Browser, a third-party Facebook client that blocked trackers and customized your feed:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/once-again-facebook-using-privacy-sword-kill-independent-innovation

Then in in 2021, Facebook's lawyers terrorized a software developer named Louis Barclay in retaliation for a tool called "Unfollow Everything," that autopiloted your browser to click through all the laborious steps needed to unfollow all the accounts you were subscribed to, and permanently banned Unfollow Everywhere's developer, Louis Barclay:

https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-everything-cease-desist.html

Now, Zuckerman is developing "Unfollow Everything 2.0," an even richer version of Barclay's tool.

This rich record of legal bullying gives Zuckerman and his lawyers at Knight something important: "standing" – the right to bring a case. They argue that a browser automation tool that helps you control your feeds is covered by CDA(c)(2)(b), and that Facebook can't legally threaten the developer of such a tool with liability for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or the other legal weapons it wields against this kind of "adversarial interoperability."

Writing for Wired, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University speaks to a variety of experts – including my EFF colleague Sophia Cope – who broadly endorse the very clever legal tactic Zuckerman and Knight are bringing to the court.

I'm very excited about this myself. "Adversarial interop" – modding a product or service without permission from its maker – is hugely important to disenshittifying the internet and forestalling future attempts to reenshittify it. From third-party ink cartridges to compatible replacement parts for mobile devices to alternative clients and firmware to ad- and tracker-blockers, adversarial interop is how internet users defend themselves against unilateral changes to services and products they rely on:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability

Now, all that said, a court victory here won't necessarily mean that Facebook can't block interoperability tools. Facebook still has the unilateral right to terminate its users' accounts. They could kick off Zuckerman. They could kick off his lawyers from the Knight Institute. They could permanently ban any user who uses Unfollow Everything 2.0.

Obviously, that kind of nuclear option could prove very unpopular for a company that is the very definition of "too big to care." But Unfollow Everything 2.0 and the lawsuit don't exist in a vacuum. The fight against Big Tech has a lot of tactical diversity: EU regulations, antitrust investigations, state laws, tinkerers and toolsmiths like Zuckerman, and impact litigation lawyers coming up with cool legal theories.

Together, they represent a multi-front war on the very idea that four billion people should have their digital lives controlled by an unaccountable billionaire man-child whose major technological achievement was making a website where he and his creepy friends could nonconsensually rate the fuckability of their fellow Harvard undergrads.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/02/kaiju-v-kaiju/#cda-230-c-2-b

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#pluralistic #ethan zuckerman #cda 230 #interoperability #content moderation #composable moderation #unfollow everything #meta #facebook #knight first amendment initiative #u mass amherst #cfaa

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avatar-news · 10 months

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The official Avatar: The Last Airbender soundtrack is finally being released this year on digital and vinyl!

After 15 long years, the much anticipated official ATLA soundtrack release is finally happening!

Check out the official announcement from Animation Magazine:

Nickelodeon and Republic Records: Kids & Family announced the long-awaited release of Avatar: The Last Airbender – Book 1: Water (Music from the Animated Series) on digital and vinyl. The album, featuring an updated and re-recorded score from the first season of the series, is now available to pre-order and will be released in November, with the first single, “Aang Becomes Ocean,” releasing on Friday, July 28. Emmy Award-winning composer and musician Jeremy Zuckerman, who composed the music for the award-winning animated Nickelodeon series, has expanded his original compositions and employed a full orchestra for Avatar: The Last Airbender – Book 1: Water (Music from the Animated Series). The original album artwork was created by Bryan Konietzko, co-creator and art director of Avatar: The Last Airbender and co-Chief Creative Officer of Avatar Studios. Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender is co-created by Konietzko and Michael DiMartino. The series ran for three seasons (61 episodes), from February 2005 to July 2008 and was honored with a Peabody Award and Primetime Emmy, along with multiple Annie Awards and Genesis Awards. Avatar: The Last Airbender follows the adventures of the main protagonist Aang and his friends, who must defeat Fire Lord Ozai and end the Hundred Year War to restore balance to the Four Nations. Pre-save Avatar: The Last Airbender – Book 1: Water (Music from the Animated Series) to Spotify or Apple Music here.

It's possible this was meant to be revealed at the Avatar panel at SDCC today, which was canceled due to the SAG-AFTRA strike.

#news #music #atla #cast and crew #jeremy zuckerman #bryan konietzko #cover #sdcc2023

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obiqueernobi · 10 months

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THE ATLA SCORE IS FINALLY COMING OUT OFFICIALLY

i've PRAYED for this moment, avatar's music is some of the best out there and i'm so glad it's finally getting an official release oh my god

#avatar the last airbender #atla #jeremy zuckerman #aang #katara #sokka #toph #zuko #i am so happy #it's been 15 years

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i-put-the-ass-into-sass · 4 months

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AVATAR IN CONCERT (premiere in London)

This was so so beautiful, I cried multiple times (just like everyone else I could see), we had Bryan Konietzko introducing it, Jeremy Zuckerman closing it, and a special extra song at the end!! I think that was the first time secret tunnel had been played by an orchestra and sung by hundreds of people at once (apart from that concert in the Toph comic lol)

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helyft · 2 months

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Kishiar being Kishiar (novel spoilers!!!)

HOW CAN A MAN LIKE THIS EXIST?!?! AAAHHHHH. (Read turning if you haven't yet, join the discord server if you haven't yet^-^)

#turning by kuyu #turning #turning bl #turning novel #yuder aile #kishiar la orr #Nathan Zuckerman #im mentally unstable about them #KishiYu #kishiyu #koream novel #korean bl #yaoi bl #yaoi novel

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lovefrombegonia · 19 days

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#kishiar la orr #yuder aile #nathan zuckerman #turning memes #turning brainrot #turning manhwa #kuyu #6cho #nono #turning #터닝

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clarkkantagain · 17 days

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izaake souza zuckerman

#izaake souza zuckerman #armed #nubs #buzzed

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kishiar-la-orr · 1 month

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“No. Workplace. Romance. In. The. Cavalry,” Nathan accentuated each word with a swing of his sword.

Gasp

Drunk Kishiar was offended by his aide’s words.

“It was a consensual workplace romance,” he spat out.

(let's make babies!, harry__riddle)

#turning novel #turning #fic recs #kishiar la orr #nathan zuckerman #let's make babies!#harry__riddle #quote #q #터닝 #turning BL #turning by kuyu #kishiar x yuder #kishiyu

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barbielore · 9 months

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In 2007, Mattel released an Alice in Wonderland three-part Silver Label series, all designed by Sharon Zuckerman.

Alice herself debuted a new face sculpt, dubbed by collectors as "the Alice mold". It was a relatively large head though, and was only ever used by this doll and by the Little Red Riding Hood Barbie Giftset from 2008.

The Mad Hatter also has an interesting face, but for other reasons. The Mad Hatter achieves the goal of being somehow one of the most interesting Barbies I think I have ever seen. He has a unique face sculpt. While most media tie-in Barbies are "Barbie as...", the Mad Hatter is simply the Mad Hatter. He has a custom face and stature, and looks like no other Barbie I have ever seen.

With all that in mind, the Queen of Hearts is almost... boring. She is the only one of the three dolls in the collection to use an existing Barbie face sculpt, so she is the one that stands out as looking most like a Barbie rather than as a unique character.

That being said, her dress is incredible. The level of detail is inspiring.

#barbie #barbie silver label #alice in wonderland #queen of hearts #mad hatter #alice in wonderland barbie #mad hatter barbie #queen of hearts barbie #sharon zuckerman

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loopy777 · 4 months

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AtLA Book Water Soundtrack Review

You all know how we've wanted this soundtrack for years and suffered through such explanations as 'the original sound files probably don't exist anymore.' Thankfully, Avatar Studios has seen fit to re-record the music of the first season with a full orchestra, as part of what I assume is a media blitz meant to build hype for the live action Netflix remake. But we all know that remakes, even in music, often don't live up to the original. So, how did it turn out?

(Er, the soundtrack, I mean. The Netflix thing hasn't been released yet.)

With a sigh of relief, I can report: It's great!

Thankfully, the sample track didn't turn out to be indicative of the entire album. The composition of everything else is pretty faithful to the original versions, as far as I could tell. In fact, the overall sound is pretty close to my memories of the original music, despite the use of a full orchestra to record this version- with the exception of the drums, which in the HiDef sound files I downloaded sound fantastic and successfully make my floor and walls shake. (I make no guarantees about what you get if you listen to streaming, mp3 files, or the vinyl disks. This is why I pay a premium for FLAC files or CDs.) I loved turning up the volume and getting blasted by the classic Avatar theme in glorious orchestral quality.

Plus, some tracks are vastly improved by these recordings, while also being true to the original. The best example is the Northern Water Tribe entrance music, which I always thought sounded a bit chintzy and repetitive in the original track (but I admit my opinion might be colored by the poor quality of the recordings we have access to). The new version has a much fuller sound and enough variation to justify the length. I suspect this might come down to which of the original tracks used real instruments and which had to rely more on synthesized sound.

I suspect, though, that the vocals on this album are all the originals, and that's why the Koizilla music makes the chorus less prominent; it probably couldn't be mixed together with the new orchestra without sounding bad. In most cases, that's not a problem, but I do mourn that the Kozilla music doesn't sound quite right. But, on the other hand, Mako's singing has never sounded better.

The album has all the music I'd expect of a soundtrack for Book Water. The Fire Nation, Kyoshi Island, and Jet all get good suites that showcase their themes and music, something that just doesn't exist anywhere in the original recordings. The famous stuff -- the opening theme, the Avatar State, the 'into the sunset' peaceful music, the Agni Kai, Aang's antics, the full "Winter, Spring, Summer, & Fall" tune in both full instrumental form and with Mako's singing, and of course the ending credits -- is all here. The season finale is heavily represented, but that's appropriate as those episodes got a lot of new music and all of it is great. And if you've only been able to content yourself with the fan-made soundtracks we've had to piece together over the the years via promotional releases and episode rips, there's some good stuff here that you might never have heard by itself before, like the fun bit of music for June.

And because I'm compelled to nitpick, I'm a bit annoyed by the order of the tracks. I like to listen to soundtracks in chronological order, and while that kind of thing isn't really feasible with something as long and repetitive as a television series season, this album does a serviceable approximation with its order- except for two weird cases. The Blue Spirit introduction comes after the music for his escape with Aang, and the music for the encounter with Koh comes after the music for Aang's arrival in the Spirit World. I assume this is because it makes for a better hi/lo/fast/slow sequence as part of the overall, but I would have preferred the order of their presentation in the cartoon.

So, in conclusion, this is the soundtrack we've wanted all these years, and everyone should stream or buy it or at least pirate it in enough numbers to raise eyebrows. I want the other two books done this way, and I think we as a fandom deserve it, despite some of the fanfic I've seen you people write. ;)

#atla soundtrack #atla #avatar soundtrack #jeremy zuckerman #book 1: water

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vlackevil · 4 months

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A interview of Jeremy Zuckernan (the composer of ATLA)