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Copyright Robots Turn Against Their Masters
The tv show that you produce and broadcast is up for some awards. Cool! So you provide the awards ceremony with clips from the nominated episodes. A great way to promote your show, right? Until copyright-enforcement programs shut down the presentation in order to, um, protect your copyrights. (CHT Jesse Walker.)
Wait, I think I’ve seen this plot before. And on the very show that was nominated, in fact.
Help Scattered Come Together
Help fund a film based on a Ken MacLeod short story! Get your name in the credits! Details here and here.
Milk and Eggs: Second Helping
Between “Pond Life” and “Asylum of the Daleks” lies the following short. It’s intended for pay customers, so watch it now before BBC yanks it down.
Milk and Eggs
So, I want to talk about the season premiere of Doctor Who. Serious mega-spoilers await in the comments section. Stay away or run the risk of crossing your own timeline.
Legs Broken, Crutches Distributed
One of the benefits of Obamacare, apparently – as you’ll learn from this piece, if you can make it past “people like you and I” – is that it enables this:
Tufts Medical Center in Massachusetts – along with their physician group and a company which owns and operates two hospitals in the region – has acted on this provision of the law and received $88.5 million in federal funds to create the state’s first member owned and controlled health insurance plan.
This “first” claim is quite false, of course. Massachusetts, like most states in the u.s., once had many member-owned, member-controlled health-insurance plans – until the government drove them out of business. Now the government is apparently attempting to run a top-down simulation of what it formerly destroyed. One thinks of Marie Antoinette playing shepherdess.