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Swimming the Author
England tested witches with water. The suspect was bound, right thumb to left toe, looped to a rope, and lowered into the village pond. Pure water was believed to refuse the devil's servant, so a body that floated was guilty and a body that sank was innocent, and the innocent were hauled up half-drowned to receive the town's apology. The procedure was called swimming a witch, and its genius was architectural: it could only convict. Whatever the water did, the crowd on the bank went home with the verdict it had carried down to the shore. Four centuries on, the pond fits in a browser tab. Paste the chapter. Click the button. Let the water decide. […] -
Join me and @peterhotez at Politics & Prose in Washington DC for #ScienceUnderSiege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World on October 2 at 7pm https://politics-prose.com/mann-hotez #PublicAffairs #Hachette
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" #Libraries urge court to reconsider judgment against Internet Archive #IA - Amid a wave of threats against libraries, the American Library Association #ALA and others fear the suit challenges freedom of information #FoI.
Last March, the Internet Archive was forced to curtail its lending of e-books following a judgment against the digital library in a lawsuit coordinated by the Association of American Publishers ( #AAP ) ... But, in December, more than 100,000 of those libraries, as represented by the American Library Association (ALA) and Association of Research Libraries ( #ARL ), expressed support for the Internet Archive’s appeal against the case.
“This is a fight to keep library books available for those seeking truth in the digital age,” says Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive. And other libraries appear to agree.
A court brief filed by the #ALA and #ARL urges the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider the lower court’s judgment in light of the impact that it will have, not just on the Internet Archive, but libraries across the #UnitedStates. The appeal comes amid a wave of threats that libraries nationwide are trying to stem."
https://www.shareable.net/libraries-urge-court-to-reconsider-judgment-against-internet-archive/
#Freedom #Democracy #DigitalLending #US #USPolitics
#FreedomOfInformation #Hachette #PenguinRandomHouse #HarperCollins #Wiley #InternetArchive @internetarchive