Rachel Cobcroft

When I’m Prime Minister I want journalists to ask me what 10kg of rice costs.

✨ NEW EPISODE ✨ In this episode of CC's Open Culture VOICES, we hear from @MedhaviGandhi, founder of @theheritagelab, a digital media platform based in India 🇮🇳 connecting citizens to cultural heritage through engaging campaigns, content & resources. youtu.be/l8Zte5lVXSE

📢We are beyond excited to announce our keynote speaker at #WikiWorkshop2022: Lawrence @lessig! More info here: #speakers" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">wikiworkshop.org/2022/#speakers

“We find that 3 years of security & OS updates still provides users with a great experience for their device." Really, Google?

Read clause 42.10 and proceed to “WTF” with me aws.amazon.com/service-terms/

More fun publisher surveillance: Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is *unique for each time a PDF is downloaded*, this is a diff between metadata from two of the same paper. Combined with access timestamps, they can uniquely identify the source of any shared PDFs.

Loving this taxonomy of common types of notice-and-takedown abusers in YouTube's new Copyright Transparency Report. storage.googleapis.com/transparencyre…

The fight to free PACER has stretched on for more than a decade, in the courts and in the legislature. Victory may finally be on the horizon in 2022: freedom.press/news/victory-o…

Whether you consider today #AustraliaDay or #InvasionDay, it’s a great day to think about how you can support Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people. If you have some $$ spare, here are some groups that would benefit from whatever you can give 🧵👇

In one headline, CNN erases decades of whatever little progress we have made on user education

I downloaded all the data Amazon has on me, and honestly the creepiest thing about it is that they sent me the *actual audio files* of every time I spoke* to Amazon Alexa *years ago when I was young and foolish about surveillance

I dig reading old public-domain books from the 19th/18th centuries. So I made a little search tool *specifically* for that You type a query, it finds you one book that matches it -- and presents it for instant reading Behold the "Weird Old Book Finder": clivethompson.medium.com/a-search-engin…

Visit our new exhibition and learn about the 19th-century women ornithologists working outside the academic institutions, creating alternative research methods and bringing attention to environmental awareness ➡️bit.ly/3IsoDiG #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #WomenScientists

After polling journalists on what their favorite transcription services are, we decided to read their privacy policies. Here’s what @mshelton and @yaelwrites found: freedom.press/training/blog/…

Image prediction: mashed potato Confidence: 31.77%

#1Lib1Ref aims for every librarian to add one reference to @Wikipedia, but you don't have to be a librarian to participate. Want to be part of a global free knowledge movement? Now is your chance! More info 👉 w.wiki/44X

A penguin of Penguins. For #PenguinAwarenessDay 🐧

2/ Download, remix, reuse these 38,500 recordings from our 78 rpm collection: archive.org/details/george…

With its booming revenues, #Spotify is all set to monopolise audio #streaming 🎧 – but what does this mean for the public? @glynmoody explains the pitfalls of media #monopolies on the #WalledCulture blog 👉 walledculture.org/a-few-companie… #music #AccessToCulture