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2.11: News: Courtroom Drama(s)

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Watch a viral TikTok showing Brennan Lee Mulligan (a popular

D&D YouTuber and “internet boyfriend”) roleplaying as an anarchist goblin: https://www.tiktok.com/@emmaeditsvids/video/7228356808497384746

The new D&D movie is surprisingly good: https://kotaku.com/dungeons-and-dragons-movie-review-budget-easter-eggs-1850294824

Just because it makes me happy: Here’s the classic scene

from Aliens where Vasquez wakes up from cryo sleep and starts doing
pullups: https://youtu.be/Cb8bqidtzzo

While we’re on the topic ­– check out Web of Make

Believe: Death, Lies, and the Internet on Netflix. The season finale has
hackers recounting their adventures, including one hacker’s roundabout way of doing research with his lawyer: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21029130/

And finally, here are the news articles we referenced in

this episode:

  • Authors supporting each other: https://lithub.com/whats-going-on-with-all-the-empty-author-signing-pics/
    • PRH and PEN go after book banner in Florida: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/92322-pen-america-penguin-random-house-sue-florida-school-district-over-unconstitutional-book-bans.html
      • Texas judge ordered books returned to a library
        • in April: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/91903-judge-finds-texas-library-s-book-bans-unconstitutional-orders-books-returned.html
        • Some hard numbers on book bans: https://publishingperspectives.com/2023/03/ala-book-bannings-in-the-usa-broke-all-records-in-2022/
          • The week in libraries from Publishers Weekly:
            • https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/index.html
            • Internet Archive loses its case: https://publishingperspectives.com/2023/03/copyright-us-court-rules-against-internet-archive/
              • In other legal cases: Dominion settles with Fox
                • News. This matters for defamation cases in general: https://mailchi.mp/poynter/gyhd1w8glz?e=e5489eccb5
                • South Asian translated books getting their due: https://publishingperspectives.com/2023/03/the-salt-program-focuses-on-translating-south-asian-literature/

                  • If you were interested in any of the books we recommended,

                  you can check them out here:

                  • Minor Mage by T. Kingfisher*: https://bookshop.org/a/55633/9781614505006
                    • Swordheart by T. Kingfisher*: https://bookshop.org/a/55633/9781614505228
                      • The Mincing Mockingbird Guide to Troubled
                        • Birds, which you can see on its publisher's site here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316490/the-mincing-mockingbird-guide-to-troubled-birds-by-mockingbird-the-mincing/

                         

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