#coppas

[super-firepaw119]

KOSA update 7/23/24:

Senator Schumer is growing desperate, He plans to bring two terrible bills—KOSA & COPPA 2.0, to the floor for a procedural vote as soon as this Thursday.

Proof: https://x.com/omaseddiq/status/1815706689619816860?s=46&t=yFN9Hf-JJHJ9o67VUawUqg

Spread this around. Do not panic—Call your two Senators & tell them to vote ‘No’ to both KOSA & COPPA 2.0!!

Keep calm & keep fighting!!

[spiritmandersiishipchildren]

!!!HEY EVERYONE!!!

SINCE THE US POLITICS TAG IS TRENDING RIGHT NOW, CAN WE GET TAGS RELATING TO KOSA AND COPPA 2.0 TRENDING?

THE SENATE WILL BE VOTING ON THEM TOMORROW (July 25th, 2024) AND THESE WITH MASSIVELY CENSOR THE INTERNET, ESPECIALLY FOR THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY AND ANYONE NEEDING MENTAL HELP! IT VIOLATES THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND IS BACKED BY THE PEOPLE BEHIND PROJECT 2025!

VOICE YOUR OPPOSITION! GO TO BADINTERNETBILLS AND TELL THE SENATE THAT WE WILL NOT LET THESE BILLS PASS!

[fatty-food]

Grilled cheese with prosciutto, spicy coppa, gruyere, pickles, & mustard (via Instagram)

[hamadisthings]

update on KOSA:

find you senators here

stopkosa call tool here

let congress know that we are listening to their movements

scripts bellow

( @txtstotheworld )

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Go back to the top of this article and reread that transcript of Rep. Buddy Carter grilling TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew. Now, Carter is a dunderhead, but he’s dunderheaded in a way that illuminates just how bad COPPA enforcement is, and has been, for 25 long years.

Carter thinks that TikTok is using biometric features to enforce COPPA. He imagines that TikTok is doing some kind of high-tech phrenology to make sure that every user is over 13 (“I find that [you aren’t capturing facial images] hard to believe. It is our understanding that they’re looking at the eyes. How do you determine what age they are then?”).

Chew corrects the Congressdunderhead from Georgia, explaining that TikTok uses “age-gating”: “when you ask the user what age they are.”

That is the industry-wide practice for enforcing COPPA: every user is presented with a tick-box that says “I am over 13.” If they tick that box, the company claims it has satisfied the requirement not to spy on kids.

But if COPPA were meaningfully enforced, companies would simply have to stop spying on everyone, because there are no efficient ways to verify the age of users at the scale needed for general operation of a website.

-How To Make a Child-Safe TikTok: Have you tried not spying on kids?

[blogitalianissimo]

Girato sul 5 e ho visto Al Bano devastare l'inno di Mameli 💀

[fanhackers]

Back to school edition: “So you want to be a Fan Studies scholar?” (aka "My 2¢, YMMV")

As a professor, I often supervise undergraduates who are interested in fan studies topics, often as independent studies or senior theses. Some of these students want to go on to do graduate work in fan studies–but that can be complicated, because fan studies is such an interdisciplinary subject. So I ask them: do they just want to continue studying fandom in an organized way, or are they considering grad school because they actually want to get a job / earn a living as a scholar or teacher? Let’s ignore the state of the market in higher ed (many ugh, much gross) for the moment, and talk purely about the intellectual issues involved in studying fandom.

Like, for instance, there really aren’t fan studies departments per se (and few institutions even have television studies) and hiring is still overwhelmingly a departmental thing. (That’s changing, but academia isn’t known for its lightning-fast pivots.)  So what department would you looking to be hired into?  Students often don’t know–they like literary study, they like media and communications, they like television and film, they like anthropology.  So I ask them the question another way: if you got hired as a professor, what introductory courses do you think you’d enjoy teaching? Are your bread and butter courses going to be, say, Intro to British Literature I and II or Media and Society? Or maybe it would be Intro to Anthropology or Intro to Film Studies. Maybe it would be some form of Rhetoric and Composition.  It might also be Intro to Marketing–some of the people most interested in fandom studies are business or economics professors, looking to better understand consumer behavior.  

But the larger point is: few professors get to teach their exact areas of specialization all the time, and most professors teach one or more of their department’s intro courses. (You might also end up teaching high school: how does your fan studies interest overlap with a high school’s curricular needs?) So don’t just think about your research interest when you’re considering graduate schools and departments: think about how your research interests fit into and overlap with the broad knowledge base that you’ll need for a degree and a career. 

–Francesca Coppa, Fanhackers volunteer

[peterpparkour]

She was smart enough to know I wouldn't just leave her. She was just sitting on the porch. She waited. I never came back.

[nasirsagron]

La differenza di bicipite nelle foto tra Berrettini e Sinner mi stende

[marcelskittels]

Wout van Aert of Belgium and Team Jumbo-Visma celebrates at finish line as race winner during the 104th Coppa Bernocchi, GP Banco BPM a 186.65km one day race from Parabiago to Legnano on October 02, 2023 in Legnano, Italy. (Photos by Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)

[through-pierre-lenses]

Pizza

35mm film photography - Cinestill 800t

[frenchcurious]

Hermann Muller (Auto Union C 6.0 v16) suivi de près par Tazio Nuvolari (Alfa Romeo 12C 4.1 v12) Coppa Ciano, Livourne 1937. - source UK Racing History.

[follow-up-news]

TikTok has failed to stop children from joining the app and has unlawfully collected their personal data, the US Justice Department alleged in a lawsuit filed Friday. The lawsuit accuses TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, of violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by allowing children to create accounts without their parents’ knowledge or consent. TikTok also collects and retains personal data from children, such as email addresses, phone numbers and location data, and fails to to comply with requests from parents to delete their children’s information, the suit alleges. Friday’s lawsuit stems from a 2019 agreement between TikTok and the US Federal Trade Commission to settle allegations that it illegally collected personal information from children under the age of 13. The settlement required that the company take specific measures to comply with COPPA. The Justice Department claims that TikTok has continued to violate the law, as well as that 2019 court order.

[blogitalianissimo]

Buona coppa Italia a tuttɜ

[giammydorazio]

A me non sembra che questi due ragazzi, Sinner e Berrettini, abbiano dei problemi tra loro... Cmq abbiamo una squadra di Davis da urlo.

[fanhackers]

Fictophilia

If I were to simplify (okay, fine: oversimplify) the field of fan studies, I’d say that scholars typically take one of two broad disciplinary approaches: either they look at fan works (and come from fields like literary studies, media and film studies, etc.) or they look at fan cultures and social organizations (ethnography, anthropology.)  But other academic disciplines produce research that might be pertinent to fans and fan studies–for instance, psychology. 

I recently came across an article called  “Fictosexuality, Fictoromance, and Fictophilia: A Qualitative Study of Love and Desire for Fictional Characters,” (2020)  written by  Veli-Matti Karhulahti  and Tanja Välisalo in the journal Frontiers of Psychology.  The abstract explains:

Fictosexuality, fictoromance, and fictophilia are terms that have recently become popular in online environments as indicators of strong and lasting feelings of love, infatuation, or desire for one or more fictional characters. This article explores the phenomenon by qualitative thematic analysis of 71 relevant online discussions. Five central themes emerge from the data: (1) fictophilic paradox, (2) fictophilic stigma, (3) fictophilic behaviors, (4) fictophilic asexuality, and (5) fictophilic supernormal stimuli. The findings are further discussed and ultimately compared to the long-term debates on human sexuality in relation to fictional characters in Japanese media psychology. Contexts for future conversation and research are suggested.

The article is generally descriptive and nonjudgmental, and the authors note that “the present intention is not to propose fictophilia as a problem or a disorder,” but instead to assert that most people are “fully aware of the love-desire object’s fictional status and the parasocial nature of the relationship.” (In other words, we’re mostly pretty sane!) The essay also cites some interesting work that I’ve not seen typically referenced in literary or ethnographic fan studies works, including the proto-fan studies text Imaginary Social Worlds, by John L. Caughey (1984). While Caughey’s book (like many works of the 1980s) starts by evoking the figure of crazy or even homicidal fan (think Mark David Chapman or John Hinkley), his goal is to argue that ‘fantasy relationships’ are actually pretty normal.  The book looks at “fantasy relationships” across history, connecting fan crushes on characters and celebrities “to the lifelong bonds that people in different cultures have conventionally had with gods, monarchs, spirits, and other figures that they may never have had the chance to meet in person.”  While Caughey’s book is focused on Western history, Karhulahti and Välisalo’s “Fictosexuality” takes its examples primarily from Japan, examining numerous psychological studies of “Japan and its fiction-consuming ‘otaku’ cultures.” This gives it a global take not always seen in English-language fan studies texts (which tend to deal primarily with Western media.) “Fictosexuality” is also unusual for its interest in making connections between asexuality and fictophilia, asexuality also being underrepresented (and under-theorized) in fan studies texts.  

Fans have historically been wary of any attempt to psychoanalyse them–and fair enough: after all, it was only recently that people stopped assuming that all fans were out-of-control “fanatics,” and there’s been a lot of creepy and misleading work on fandom done by outsiders. (If you want agita, look up SurveyFail on Fanlore.)  But psychology and related fields may also have methods which allow us to understand fans and fandom in new ways.

–Francesca Coppa, Fanhackers volunteer