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  New Discoveries in Digital Archaeology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
  Music Group Seeks WTO Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
  Islandia Citizen Executed on Ceres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
  Romanian President Calls for “Independence” . . . . . . . . . 4
  Atheist Alliance Sues Kindercomp Manufacturer. . . . . . . 4
  Biochauvinism Claimed in Murder Investigation. . . . . . . 4
  Microtonalist Composer Jolene Kermani Dead . . . . . . . . 5
  U.S. Senate Debates Memory License Fee. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
  Thai Monarch Urges Calm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
  Memetic Crimes Bill Fails in Senate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
  Split Catholic Church To Decide Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . 6
  CONTENTS
  
  NEW DISCOVERIES IN
  DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGY
  GREATER SAN FRANCISCO,
  United States/Teralogos: April 3, 2101
  Posting today to a popular infotech news site, digital
  archaeologist Auberon MacWilliams announced the recovery
  of “a true gem of early computer science.”
  MYCROFT is a typical Low-Sapient AI operating system,
  first released by System Technologies AG in 2085 for the home
  and small-office markets. Sales of MYCROFT have suffered
  considerably in recent years, so in November, System
  Technologies chose to release the foundation source code for
  the operating system. MacWilliams immediately began
  reverse-engineering the source code, searching for clues to the
  “ancestry” of MYCROFT.
  What he discovered astonished him. “I found dozens of
  modules identical to portions of the 2005-era Linux kernel,” he
  said in today’s announcement. “This is by far the largest surviv-
  ing block of code ever found from that period. MYCROFT was
  clearly built on a foundation of code from the last great era of
  open-source programming.”
  MacWilliams’ discovery is potentially embarrassing for
  System Technologies, which has long been an advocate for
  strong intellectual property rights and “closed-source” pro-
  gramming. System Technologies has so far declined to com-
  ment to MacWilliams’ announcement.
  – filed by John F. Zeigler
  MUSIC GROUP SEEKS
  WTO PROTECTION
  SILAS DUNCAN STATION, Ceres/Teralogos: April 10, 2101
  The Lords of the Belt, a popular Duncanite musical group,
  has filed an official complaint with the World Trade
  Organization, seeking its protection against the ongoing
  piracy of its work in progress. A copy of a new song, “Biometal
  Lullaby,” appeared late last month on the new music chan-
  nel of the Transpacific Socialist Alliance information web.
  It is unknown at this time how many Lords of the Belt fans
  have illegally copied and listened to the song.
  “I’m burnt and cored, and I want to tox the downlift or elf
  who dooped our song,” said Lords of the Belt lead singer,
  Parallax Verge, apparently expressing anger over the theft of the
  piece. A preliminary search of the employees of 0G33 Studios,
  where the band was recording their latest songs, indicated no
  connections to the TSA. Unlike most current musical groups, the
  Lords of the Belt continue to record and perform in person.
  “Gordo is asymp over this,” continued Mr. Verge, referring
  to Gordon 25, the band’s songwriter. Gordon 25 is well-known
  for his regular attempts at self-modification. “We’re on track to
  purge and refit again this cycle. That’ll toss all of the new songs
  downwell, and we’ll have to start over.”
  The WTO spokesbot released the standard response, pend-
  ing further examination of the band’s claims. “The World Trade
  Organization stands shoulder-to-shoulder with all content
  manufacturers and disseminators in opposition to intellectual
  property theft. We will do the utmost to assure a satisfactory
  result.” It is believed that, if the band’s complaint is accepted,
  it will be added to the WTO’s ongoing lawsuit against the TSA.
  Reports that the band had initially tried to hire the private
  security company Kinetic Logic to track down the violators
  could not be confirmed. Among Duncanites, private security
  firms are often the only law there is, but these agencies have
  little influence beyond the Main Belt and Trojans.
  Nanosocialists who frequent the TSA music channel claim
  that the lawsuit by Lords of the Belt is motivated by spite, as
  the majority of comments left by downloaders about the song
  have been highly critical.
  – filed by Jamais Cascio
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  I’m burnt and cored, and I
  want to tox the downlift or elf
  who dooped our song.
  
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  ISLANDIA CITIZEN
  EXECUTED ON CERES
  SILAS DUNCAN STATION, Ceres/Teralogos: April 22, 2101
  Despite international protests, Islandia citizen Ray Joseph
  Clement, 34, was executed today on Silas Duncan Station on
  Ceres. Found guilty two days ago of criminal negligence that
  resulted in the death of his co-worker Ariel Ling in an indus-
  trial accident, Duncanite deemster Judge Giuseppe Levine
  signed the convicted Islander’s body over to Ling’s security bro-
  ker, Ceres Mutual, as compensation for the loss of Ling. Ceres
  Mutual has lobotomized Clement and put his body up for sale
  as a bioshell on the open market.
  When asked for a statement, Judge Levine said: “Some
  groundhogs and Elfs back near Earth might believe that the
  sentence was cruel or unusual. Maybe so, but that’s what pun-
  ishment should be, if it’s going to deter other folks from mak-
  ing the same bad choice. This Clement character agreed to the
  jurisdiction of my court when he entered into a contract with
  Mutual Assured Defense and I gave him a fair trial. If I didn’t,
  I wouldn’t stay in business.”
  Silas Duncan Station is an anarchocapitalist society in
  which all services, including justice and law enforcement, are
  contracted out to firms like Mutual Assured Defense. Several
  Islandia and European pan-sapient rights groups, already up
  in arms about alleged Duncanite bioroid abuse, have called for
  boycotts of Green Duncanite products.
  – filed by Jürgen Hubert
  ROMANIAN PRESIDENT
  CALLS FOR “INDEPENDENCE”
  BUCHAREST, Romania/Teralogos: April 28, 2101
  President Alexamdru Berca of Romania issued a statement
  threatening the withdrawal of his country from the European
  Union, unless a number of outstanding disputes can be resolved.
  “The Romanian economy is being strangled by the Union’s
  regulation of artificial labor,” said President Berca. “We
  increasingly find that membership in the Union is more of a
  liability than an advantage.”
  Romania has been struggling for decades with chronic labor
  shortages, the result of one of the lowest birth rates in Europe.
  Since the 2050s, successive governments have tried to encourage
  immigration to make up the difference, with little success due to
  internal instability and a low standard of living. President Berca
  swept to power in the last elections on a platform that promised
  to repeal legislation forbidding the manufacture of bioroids and
  bioshells. However, since beginning his term of office he has
  been unable to evade the European Union’s strict restrictions on
  such manufacture, despite intense − and increasingly heated −
  negotiations with senior E.U. officials.
  In a hastily convened press conference this morning,
  Quebec’s Pierre Landry, the chair of the European Parliament’s
  Committee on Pan-Sapient Rights, responded angrily to
  President Berca’s stance.
  “Artificial labor indeed!” Landry responded. “Let us be quite
  clear, the Berca government is planning to begin the wholesale
  manufacture of slaves. Should Romania repudiate its treaties
  with the Union and engage in such an inhumane practice,
  there will be very serious consequences indeed.”
  – filed by Jon F. Zeigler
  ATHEIST ALLIANCE
  SUES KINDERCOMP
  MANUFACTURER
  NEW YORK, United States/Teralogos: May 7, 2101
  The Atheist Alliance, a prominent anti-religious advocacy
  group, has filed a class-action lawsuit against Gemini
  Volksrobotics, an Australia-based firm which is a primary man-
  ufacturer of children’s companion cybershells or “kindercomps.”
  “We’ve subjected the behavior of Gemini kindercomps to
  careful analysis,” said Atheist Alliance chairman Madrigal
  Carstairs. “It’s clear that these machines are designed to infect
  children’s minds with theist concepts. We’re talking about the
  memetic sabotage of an entire generation of children.”
  Officials at Gemini Volksrobotics ridiculed the allegations,
  and vowed to fight the lawsuit aggressively. “Our kindercomps
  aren’t designed to teach children anything but basic social and
  academic skills,” said Gemini CEO John Perrine. “If children
  encounter religious concepts and ask the kindercomp AIs to
  explain them, that’s their choice, not ours.”
  The Atheist Alliance filed the suit in the federal district
  court in New York City, where Gemini Volksrobotics maintains
  its U.S. corporate headquarters. Aside from unspecified mone-
  tary damages, the suit asks that Gemini Volksrobotics be
  ordered to disclose all memetic technologies incorporated into
  its kindercomp software, and to pay for a replacement AI for
  any member of the class whose parents or guardian request it.
  – filed by Jon F. Zeigler
  BIOCHAUVINISM CLAIMED
  IN MURDER INVESTIGATION
  DENVER, Colorado, USA/Teralogos: May 16, 2101
  In a raucous virtual rally that all but shut down traffic in the
  city’s Coda Uncola hyperspace, thousands of pan-sapient rights
  avatars protested alleged police biochauvinism in the Denver
  DVI serial murders.
  Since the first killing took place on April 23, five bodies have
  been found with their virtual interface implants removed. The
  most recent victim, Madison Corrales, 62, was found dead yes-
  terday morning near the South Monaco Parkway, police said.
  “The city and the police are deliberately ignoring a whole
  other set of victims in these tragic crimes,” said protest organ-
  izer Westin Carr, a Christian Hyperevolutionist minister and
  chairminder of the Denver branch of the Pan-Sapient Rights
  Alliance. “Along with the five humans who died, five digital
  intelligences have been kidnapped or extinguished. The mayor
  and the police chief talked about five victims. I see ten.”
  Police sources have confirmed that each of the stolen
  implants was a distributed virtual interface system that con-
  tained a sapient artificial intelligence. Implants containing
  SAIs remain rare, due to expense and the reluctance of many
  citizens to share their bodies with another sapient being.
  
  The five human victims were each subdued with a shock glove,
  then killed by neurological trauma related to the microbot-
  facilitated removal of their distributed implants, police said.
  Yesterday’s rally was sparked after a report in the Rocky
  Nugget, a widely accessed city slog, claimed police detectives
  had questioned Denver abolitionist Ethan Blake in connection
  with the murders. Rocky Nugget speculated the police were
  investigating hard-core AI rights activists who might have
  committed the killings in an attempt to “liberate” the SAIs
  from their owners. Denver Police officials declined comment,
  other than to say all leads were being vigorously pursued, and
  no motive has yet been established.
  Participants in today’s rally said they were outraged at the
  killer abolitionist meme. “As ethical pan-sapients, we funda-
  mentally treasure all forms of life: human, transhuman, and
  digital,” said demonstrator Tate Webb, a ghost who lost his two
  closest friends when Corrales was murdered − the victim and
  his SAI, Doppler V. “I loved them both,” said Webb, “but
  Corrales is dead, and D-V might still be suffering somewhere −
  and meanwhile, hir backup is trapped in legal limbo. The cops
  need to stop chasing hotheads like Blake, and start looking for
  the real criminals − the ones who hate and fear our kind.”
  – filed by Patrick Sweeney
  MICROTONALIST COMPOSER
  JOLENE KERMANI DEAD
  CHELTENHAM, United Kingdom/Teralogos: May 26, 2101
  Physicist and influential composer Jolene Kermani, 103,
  died today of heart failure at her home.
  Born Jolene Fraser in 1997 in Birmingham, Kermani dis-
  played musical talent as a child, but aside from early piano les-
  sons received little formal education in music. Instead, she
  attended the University of Birmingham, receiving a doctorate
  in physics in 2025. The next 12 years were spent pursuing post-
  doctoral research in nanoscale physics, making significant
  contributions to early nanotechnology research.
  It was while attending university that she began her career
  as a composer. In 2016, she received a musical composition
  program as a birthday present, and “on a lark,” began to play
  with it. Over the next several months, she created increasingly
  complex arrangements and compositions, often working late
  at night or during study breaks. She kept her hobby secret even
  from friends and family, but in 2018 began publishing the fin-
  ished compositions to the Web under a pseudonym. Although
  her grasp of musical theory and composition was entirely self-
  taught, these early works won widespread attention for their
  clarity and originality.
  It was after her 2028 marriage to Parvez Kermani, a
  Birmingham mathematics professor, that her career as a com-
  poser took flight. At his urging, she began experimenting with
  fractional tones and “microtones,” using the subtle harmonies
  and resonances that could be found by working between the
  tones of the standard chromatic scale. Her first Symphony for
  Synthetic Instruments was published in 2036, and won wide-
  spread acclaim. Her 13th symphony, released in 2045, was to
  become an unofficial anthem of the U.K.’s Preservationist
  movement following its use as the soundtrack in the popular
  2062 InVid Requiem for Two Worlds.
  Although Jolene Kermani was one of the primary movers
  of the microtonalist movement, she remained stubbornly
  anonymous until 2073, when a persistent web researcher
  finally managed to establish the authorship of her composi-
  tions. For the rest of her life she remained reclusive, making
  no public statements and accepting none of the praise or
  awards offered her. A committed Preservationist, Kermani
  refused modern medical treatment and made no arrange-
  ments for uploading.
  Jolene Kermani is survived by her brother, Ian Fraser of
  Kaliningrad; her husband, Parvez Kermani of Cheltenham;
  her son, William Kermani of Sydney, Australia; two grand-
  children, Whistler Kermani-Takahashi of Islandia, and Jolene
  Kermani Trudeau of Ottawa, Canada; and six great-grand-
  children. She is to be cremated and interred in a private cer-
  emony on June 5. Memorial donations to the Cotswolds
  Preservationist Society.
  – filed by Jon F. Zeigler
  U.S. SENATE DEBATES
  MEMORY LICENSE FEE
  WASHINGTON, D.C., United States/Teralogos: June 3, 2101
  Over protests from minority Republicans, the United States
  Senate today held hearings on the possibility of new fees to be
  imposed on manufacturers and wearers of digital cognitive
  implants, including virtual interface implants and sensory link
  (“slink”) hardware. Producers of content have long complained
  that the digital implants allow the user to have a perfect mem-
  ory of content that they experience and to transmit that mem-
  ory to others. In the case of upslink and downslink hardware,
  that transmission is explicit in the design of the systems.
  “In the past, human memory was imperfect, and a person
  would have to return to the original content to enjoy it in its
  full form. Even copies were insufficient. The digital revolution
  of a century ago changed that. But we now are confronted by
  a new revolution, where copyright-infringing digital copying is
  directly built in to the memories of increasing numbers of peo-
  ple,” said United Content Owners vice-president Michael Post,
  the first person to testify at today’s hearings.
  The draft legislation would impose a per-unit tax on the
  manufacturers of digital cognitive implants and, in one version
  of the bill, a monthly license fee to all implant users. The funds
  generated would be directed to the United Content Owners
  group, to be distributed to its members. The fees would be
  applied to all residents of U.S. territories with digital cognitive
  implants. Visitors with implants would be required to pay a flat
  rate upon entering the United States.
  Meredith Walker, second term Republican Senator from
  Massachusetts, opposed both the legislation and the hear-
  ings. “By considering these laws, we are only giving aid and
  comfort to those who wish to empower corporations at the
  expense of citizens and hold human development back to the
  pre-digital age.” Senator Walker left the hearings early, after
  Senator Albert Clark (D-NV) referred to her as “the esteemed
  Senator from the TSA,” referring to the radical Transpacific
  Socialist Alliance.
  The World Trade Organization, a strong advocate of thou-
  sands of content producers and disseminators, released a state-
  ment supportive of the hearings. A recent WTO report, Global
  Action 2100, recommended that a digital-cognitive licensing
  scheme be adopted on a system-wide scale.
  – filed by Jamais Cascio
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  THAI MONARCH
  URGES CALM
  BANGKOK, Thailand/Teralogos: June 9, 2101
  In a prepared statement webcast last night, King Rama XV
  asked his people to “exercise restraint” following a week of vio-
  lent anti-nanosocialist demonstrations.
  The king’s statement appeared to moderate the ongoing
  rioting in Bangkok and other cities, which started on June 2
  outside the Indonesian embassy, but soon spread throughout
  the Kingdom. Hundreds of homes and workplaces owned by
  suspected nanosocialist sympathizers have been destroyed by
  monarchist radicals. The death toll stands at 32, with over 600
  reported injured.
  The violence flared up after a blunt statement from the
  Indonesian government on June 1 denied all knowledge of the
  whereabouts of the missing Thai royal regalia. The regalia,
  including the Great Crown of Victory, the Sword of Victory, the
  Royal Staff, the Royal Fan, and the Royal Slippers, disappeared
  in the closing stages of the Pacific War in 2085. Thai monar-
  chists have long accused ministers of the former nanosocialist
  government, who fled the country to Indonesia, of taking the
  regalia with them. For years, Thai diplomats and agents of the
  royal family have used all available channels to seek the return
  of the regalia, but Indonesia and other members of the
  Transpacific Socialist Alliance have been uncooperative.
  The missing regalia have become symbolic of the trials
  Thailand has endured during the former nanosocialist dictator-
  ship and the Pacific War. Much of the king’s ceremonial role has
  been curtailed by the absence of the regalia, which also tradi-
  tionally play a vital role in the coronation of any new monarch.
  Although King Rama XV is an Alpha genetic upgrade and is
  expected to enjoy several more decades in good health, the ques-
  tion of ensuring a legitimate succession remains a serious con-
  cern. Without the regalia, many monarchists believe that no
  legitimate successor to Rama XV can be crowned.
  – filed by Jon F. Zeigler
  MEMETIC CRIMES
  BILL FAILS IN SENATE
  WASHINGTON DC, United States/Teralogos: June 16, 2101
  The Senate today rejected a bill which would have criminal-
  ized certain kinds of “memetic transmission,” with a majority
  of lawmakers accepting the argument that the bill would fail to
  pass constitutional muster. The vote was 63 to 55 against the
  bill, with two senators absent or abstaining.
  “Naturally I’m disappointed,” said Senator Patrick Walsh
  (D-Seattle-Tacoma), who was one of the bill’s sponsors in the
  Senate. “There are some awful memes out there, preying on
  the mental health and well-being of our citizens. We have got
  to find a way to deal with the criminals who build and release
  these memes without any thought for the harm they cause.”
  The decisive vote against the bill was a personal defeat for
  Walsh, who had staked much of his political reputation on its
  passage. Opponents of the legislation were jubilant. “This is a
  victory for the American people,” said Linda Cordova, vice
  president of the advocacy group Thought Freedom. “Senator
  Walsh and his cronies are very good at muddying the issue.
  I’ll clarify it. Memes are ideas. Memes are speech. From the
  First Amendment on down, the law says that the government
  has no business regulating ideas or speech.”
  Senator Walsh said that he had no plans to re-introduce
  similar legislation, making it almost certain that no law
  addressing memetic dissemination will be passed this year.
  – filed by Jon F. Zeigler
  SPLIT CATHOLIC CHURCH
  TO DECIDE TRADEMARKS
  KÖNIGSBERG-KALININGRAD/Teralogos: June 23, 2101
  Representatives from the Catholic Church and the Catholic
  Church (Reformed) are scheduled to meet this week in the free
  city of Königsberg to discuss the ongoing trademark and intel-
  lectual property rights dispute between the two denomina-
  tions. In prepared statements, each side expressed hope that
  the meetings would be productive.
  Recent conversions of Catholics to “alternative religions”
  have alarmed leaders in both the Traditional Vatican and the
  Reform Papal Seat in Chicago. Islam and Mormonism have
  grown steadily in traditional Catholic regions, while Christian
  Hyperevolutionism and Buddhism have gained popularity at
  Reform Catholicism’s expense in the developed world. The
  struggle over intellectual property is seen by many as having
  distracted both denominations from the larger crisis.
  The dispute over ownership of long-established Catholic
  Church concepts such as Pope and the confessional has been a
  stumbling block to improved relations between the two faiths
  since their acrimonious split in 2038. Throughout the 2040s,
  Traditional and Reformed Catholic denominations sparred in
  court over the intellectual property rights for widely recognized
  Catholic terms, concepts, and content. The death of Traditional
  Catholic Pope Clement XV in 2053 caused both sides to tone
  down the rhetoric, leading to a period of relative tolerance.
  It is widely believed that the 2090 ascension of Cardinal Anne
  DuChamps to the position of Pope Martha of the Reformed
  Catholic Church infuriated many high-ranking Catholic conser-
  vatives. The selection of a woman as Pope was hailed by many
  in Europe and the United States, where the modern Catholic
  reform movement started. Traditional Catholics, dominant in
  Africa and South America, called upon Pope Zachary II to
  denounce the new Reform Pope. The Vatican’s decision to again
  seek control over pre-schism Catholic intellectual property came
  within weeks of Martha’s ascension.
  – filed by Jamais Cascio
  Memes are ideas. Memes
  are speech. From the First
  Amendment on down, the
  law says that the government
  has no business regulating
  ideas or speech.
  
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