There were such people on TV too, if you watched the right (wrong) channels. Often music show hosts. The director wasn't prescient, he just was in touch with a trashy culture which hadn't quite hit mainstream yet.

That's interesting, because the main thing I've heard about him is that he did turn into a dickhole, having a reputation for being extremely cynical in his pursuit of clicks and profit and abusive to his staff.

Also fighting among themselves. Don't see this mentioned yet, but "Round Hill Music" is a copyright troll, a private equity roll-up buying up music catalogs to "monetize them" in ways like this. Independent music publisher my ass. No creative endeavor whatever is served by money accumulating to this entity.

That was an infamously bad ruling, and a good reminder of how the court system actually works when a judge thinks you're some long-haired furriner freak.

It's cargo cult logic. The rules only matter when the outcome doesn't. Everyone has a good impression of the court system until they come in contact with it.

Tunng, "The Wind-up Bird" sampled two lines from the film. They were apparently forced to take them out.
Copyright estates do far more damage than any book scanning project.

All these books have ISBN numbers, the article says so. So no, they're not out of copyright, they are all relatively "new" books (post 60s). The article tries to argue they could still have sentimental value, have unique margin notes etc. but odds are these are books no one would have shed a tear for.

People taking uncalibrated and unverified stuff and claiming life-changing benefits are why we are testing this in the first place.

> but can be largely controlled by the clinician/therapist/shamanic guide

From what I can tell this is a drug user myth, and one of the reasons these drugs are a drop in the bucket compared to other illegal drugs. A "trip sitter" is certainly a good idea, to avoid people hurting themselves as a result of drug-induced beliefs, but they won't save you from randomly having a bad trip, and once users have had a couple of those, they lose enthusiasm for the drug. LSD and friends are less affected by user expectation than other illegal drugs/alcohol.

I have also worked with implementing right to know and can attest that some companies take it very lightly and are one annoyed customer away from a very stressful and potentially expensive process.

I also helped push Spotify to implement listening history across devices with a DSAR, after first asking politely and getting the answer that it "wasn't a feature they were prioritizing".

All credit to our Austrian backgammon developer. More people should be like that.

Free speech includes lying.

Merit should always consider strictly value.

The $5K a year just gives you a $300 per person per visit discount. So pays itself back in 15 visits or so.

Plenty of us nerds can afford this and want to see news about this.

Garbage regulations like IP create these behemoths. If you want freedom, stop regulating monopolies into existence.