#especially sharers vs non-sharers

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*sees a non-sharer-confession blog and immediately blocks because good lord the confessions are so mean for no reason*

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Ren Grabert

In a **FIRST** for Poly Role Models, this week's contributor is a returning guest with a post-transition update to their profile. With their permission, I am linking the original profile here, in case it can still provide value to the readership. Please join me in celebrating this first and Ren's wonderful progressing identity.

1. How long have you been polyamorous or been practicing polyamory?

I have been practicing polyamory since 2010, and it's important to me to make the distinction that I practice polyamory vs. identifying as polyamorous. I see polyamory as a practice that works for me at this point in my life. I often tell people that I think polyamory is awesome, but I'll stop doing it if it's ever not awesome for me anymore. While I have trouble imagining myself in a monogamous relationship in the future, it's not entirely out of the question.

2. What does your relationship dynamic look like?

Right now it looks a lot like solo polyamory. I'm in a few long-term relationships, but I live alone and function as a free agent. I struggle with hierarchy in relationships. For me, it doesn't feel great to prioritize certain people over others. At the same time I recognize my limitations as a chronically ill person, including my energy level and how that affects my time and ability to connect with multiple people. As a result, I've come to realize that I'd eventually like to use that limited energy for a nesting partner; a long-term relationship with someone who I can build a home with.

3. What aspect of polyamory do you excel at?

I like to communicate, a lot. Honestly, I'd say I'm an over-communicator in intimate relationships- not to be confused with being an over sharer. I'm pretty introspective and I have a deep understanding of my needs and desires, and I can easily share them with partners. I also like to ask a lot of clarifying questions of my partners so everyone is on the same page.

4. What aspect of polyamory do you struggle with?

For as much self-awareness as I've garnered from being chronically ill around identifying my body's needs, I struggle to do the same emotionally. Due to a long history of trauma that I'm working through, I often find it difficult to name my feelings and subsequently communicate them to partners.

I also struggle a lot with dating as a chronically ill person. I can only speak to my experience, but I find that chronic illness makes me seem flakey. Sometimes I get sick suddenly and need to cancel at the last minute or go home early. Not everyone understands that this is just my reality and not me being rude.

5. How do you address and/or overcome those struggles?

The best tool I've found to help me with communication around feelings are Kate Kenfield's Tea and Empathy cards. Originally designed for Kate's group events, aptly named Tea and Empathy, these cards are incredibly helpful for self-reflection around feelings. Each card has a primary feeling word and three closely-related terms. I'll often use the cards for self-reflection (sometimes sharing a photo of my spread to a partner), by choosing the cards that I resonate with in the moment. This has helped me recognize and name those feelings when they come up again later.

As for the chronic illness and dating struggles, I am at a point where I feel incredibly comfortable putting my C/I status out on the table before anything else. While sometimes it's hard to tell if someone new can handle dealing with my chronic illness until they've seen me on a bad day, it's pretty clear based on initial responses how able and willing someone is to listen and try to work around my C/I issues.

6. In terms of risk-aware/safer sex, what do you and your partners do to protect one another?

We each get tested regularly and discuss results as we obtain them. We talk about changes in safer sex practices with partners (i.e. becoming fluid-bonded with someone new), and renegotiate our boundaries based on comfort level with each other's personal choices.

7. What is the worst mistake you've ever made in your polyamorous history and how did you rebound from that?

Early on I wasn't particularly vigilant when it came to finding partners. I ended up with people who were ok with polyamory on the surface but weren't really interested in or able to commit to it. I had a partner who ended up wanting a strict OPP (one penis policy). Another who wanted me to call them before my dates to check in, but ended up begging me not to go on the date during said check ins. Some of this behavior had been blamed on past trauma and, while I know trauma absolutely can result in compulsive/reactive behavior, it's still not ok to try to control someone else. Now when I see even the slightest sign of controlling behavior, regardless of the reasoning behind it, I'm out.

8. What self-identities are important to you? How do you feel like being polyamorous intersects with or affects these identities?

I think it’s important to recognize that, even if their individual identities are different than mine, a lot of people in poly and other non-monogamous communities look like me and are able to move through the world similarly. A lot of work needs to be done to make the polyamorous community a safer space especially for people of color, LGBQ people, trans people, and people with disabilities. I think a lot of that work needs to start inward by acknowledging each identity and the privileges it either provides or removes. So, I am white, a U.S. citizen, queer, agender, agnostic, and disabled with various chronic illnesses. I have class privilege and "passing” privilege. Every one of these identities affect my ability to comfortably engage in the poly community.  

(Bonus: Do you have any groups, projects, websites, blogs, etc. that you are involved with that you would like to promote?)

My new website, Sexual Health Info (sexualhealthinfo.org) will be launching soon! For updates, follow me at @sexhealthinfo on Twitter and Instagram.

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Who should be responsible for illegal P2P filesharing?

Peer-to-peer( P2P) online filesharing involves three parties: the file-sharers, the file-receivers and the providers of P2P software. It is common that some files are shared without the consent of authors and this kind of sharing definitely infringes copyright. However, who should be responsible for this infringement and how to identify infringing party still deserve discussion.

First, there is no question that file-sharers should be responsible for the copyright infringement, but with the development of technology, there are three main issues making it difficult for rightholders to sue these sharers. First, the amount of this kind of fire sharing is huge. One work which is protected by the copyright may be shared for hundreds of times. It is impossible to sue all the sharers. Second, it is hard for rightholders to identify who is using the software to share. Even for the software providers, the only thing can be tracked is IP address rather than the real person sharing the works. What’s more, software providers are not ought to disclose users’ private information to others freely. In this case, it is almost impossible for rightholders to track sharers. Third, some file sharing does not need a central server and can be shared by Bit Torrent, and shared files may come from multiple sources. The person who share the files to others may be the share receivers at the same time. Based on the above, even it is no doubt that file-sharers are the infringe party, it is hard to claim against them. On this occasion, claiming to the software providers seems to be a more feasible choice.

In the first major case addressing the application of copyright laws to peer-to-peer file-sharing,  A&M vs. Napster, Defendant Napster, Inc. designed and operated a peer-to-peer (P2P) filesharing network allowing users to search, access, and download audio recordings stored in MP3 digital file format on their own or others’ computers. And the court provides two aspects to consider when judging the infringement: whether the ISP know or have reason to know the existence of infringement act and whether the software materially contribute to this infringement act. In this case, plaintiffs introduced sufficient evidence to show that Napster caused a reduction in audio CD sales and hindered plaintiffs’ ability to enter the digital sales market, which means the service provided by the defendant has constituted “ materially contribute to infringement”. What’s more, Digital Economy Act 2010 also includes some provision aiming to address the infringement caused by P2P filesharing.

In my opinion, although some software providers should be responsible for infringement because these infringement acts cannot happen without their service, the standard should not be too strict, especially when the software has both infringe and non-infringe use.

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Its fair to say the smartphone camera has becomethe digital tool of most use, rendering the average persons camera roll essentially amemory buffer where carefully composed photographs rub up againstsnaps of receipts, funny stuff you saw on the street and fanciedsharing with friends, and, sometimes, snippetsof text you came acrossin a (paper) bookand wanted to make a note of. Snapping a photo in that moment isa stand in for the lack of real-world copy and paste.

And its the latter kind of photo (text quotations) that the founders ofsmartphone app Postepic want to liberate from this unstructured jumble of visual data. Indeed, the first version of the app, released last year as a bootstrapping side-project by a bunch of book-loving friendsafter they graduated from university in Poland, was just a basic way for them to organize and share photos of the quotationsthey had cluttering their camera rolls.

We started this project as we wanted to build something together, says co-founder ukasz Konofalski. We all share a passion for books and were used to sharing quotes and books recommendations between each other. We came across some reports that showed that in Poland in 2016 only half a book will be read on average, so we also wanted to support readership in general by building a bridge between traditional books and mobile world.

Two things really surprised us when we finally launched it in June 2016: the number of new books worth reading we discovered by simply sharing quotes with each other; and a very warm reception we received from the developers and users communities alike. We have received volumes of valuable feedback from them and got back to work.

Version 2 of the app, which launched this week, turns a basicideainto an app that has enough form and function to feel appealing to use. The coreadditional feature is optical character recognition (OCR) meaning that instead of uploading and sharing ugly-looking (and hard to read) chunks of raw page text, i.e. in their original photo form, Postepic users can now lift the wordsoff the page, capturing and editing the text and its visual presentation bychoosing fromaselection of fonts and backgrounds.

The final result presentsthe text snippetinside a square frame, in a way thats both easy to read andvisibly pleasing (for an example of how utilitarian quotes looked in v1 of the app see the image at the bottom of this post). So Postepicbasically lets people turn a favorite quote into an easily shareable unit of digital social currency. Aka,an Instagram for book quotes.

Last year Facebook added a feature aimed at enhancing the impact ofthe text statusesbeing shared via its platform, givingusers the ability to add colored backgrounds to their textupdates to makethem more visual. And with so much visual noise being injected into messaging and communications apps, this is hardly surprising. Point is, if you want something to stand out in the age of Instagram Stories (Snapchat Stories, Facebook Stories, WhatsApp Stories etc etc), it has to look right asthe bar for beingnoticed keeps getting higher.

And withall this visual noise clamoring for our attention, it can feel like the written word isbeing forgotten or overlooked as people ditcha thousand words in favor ofsharing a few photos. Yet a well-turned phrase has the power to be both arresting and enlightening, as well as a hint ofgreaterdepths lurking within the full work. Sogiven how much attention has been (and continues to be) lavished onvisual forms of communication from photo filters to selfie lenses to style transfer theres arguably spacefor a clever social sharing app that brings the power of the written word back into focus.

Notably, Apples new social video sharing app Clips includes an auto-captioning feature. Thats great for accessibility, but also a reminder that words-as-text still have powerand with a little technological automagic can be effortlessly edited back into the selfie frame.

Postepic is not the first app to take a shot at wordy snippets, though. Others have tried to buildan Instagram for book quotes Quotle, for example but no one has yet managed to generatesignificant momentum for the concept. It might be because sharing book snippetsis inherently more niche than sharing photos (its certainly more bounded, given language barriers). Or becauseno one has made a slick enough version to attract more mainstream appeal.

Postepics v2app seems to beatQuotle on OCR speed. And because itschosen to fix the sharing format as a square its content inherently feels bettergroomed for social sharing vs the more wordy/text-heavy Quotle. (Although, on the flip side, Postepics ease of use and more formulaic format might attract a flood of clich sharers and drive down the quality of discoverable quotes.) But clearly the founders hope is that the uniform sharingformat setsPostepic up to benefit from viral uplift if users sharewatermarkedquotes to their larger follower bases on platforms likeInstagram (as other apps have). Time will tell if they can make it catch on.

Its certainly stilla fairly unformed thing at this stage, especially given the size and nature of itsearly adopter community having only clocked a few thousand downloads for its MVP v1 via a launch onProduct Hunt. So even though the team has curated a bunch of quotations themselves to populate the app, youre more likely to find quotesabout scaling a startup than lines from a Shakespearean sonnet. But the core function of v2 has been executedwell, within a clearapp structure. So its super simple to capture, edit and share nicely presented quotes.

Quotation lengthis capped at 600characters to ensure readability (and curtail any copyright concerns). Photo backgrounds are also limited to a handful ofgeneric shots and textures offered within the app at least for now, to avoid users uploading inappropriate imagery, says Konofalski (on that front,remember Secret?). While the OCR tech supports ten languages at this point: Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

The app also lets you tag quotations for subject matterand toadd sources (a requirement if youre making a quote public). Using these labelsyou can then browse and search quotes, while a favoritesfeature lets you curate a like-list if you spot quotes shared by others that you like.And if you dont want to share thequotes you create with the crowd you dont have to you can keep individual quotes private and just use the app to create an organized, visual library of the best bits from the books youre reading.

On the community front, the main feed of Postepic is an assorted jumble for now, showing a stream of non-topic sorted trending quotes that Konofalski says turns over every few hours based on what others are liking. Currently theres no way to follow other users to customize what you see here but thats down tohow nascent the community is. Our goal is to offer a solution that many content and photo sharing apps use: to give users a choice to pick their favorite genres and authors to adjust their feed, he says. Additionally, we want to launch a functionality of following other users, so their posts show up in users feed [but]decided to postpone the functionality until we reach a community size that would warrant this.

Postepic does also support social sharing to other platforms, as youd expect. Though this doesnt alwayswork as youd imagine.For example, testing sharing to WhatsApp the app merelycreated a generic text message with a link to view the quote in Postepic, rather than including the visual form of thequote in a WhatsApp message template (though this is likely a WhatsApp restriction on sharing from a third party app). A basic workaround is obviously to screengrab a quote and upload it manually where you like as a photo. Sharing to Twitter incorporated both the image and a text message with a link when I tested it. Konofalski says that with most well known apps it willautomatically import/drop an image intothe other app.

The appis free to download (and iOS only for now), and while the team says it has a fewideas for potential monetization down the line such as hostingpre-launch book campaigns, or offering writers a subscription-based platform to connect with fans the focus for nowis fully on building up the size of the community to try to reach a critical mass of readers.

Does generation Snapchat read books? I guess theyll soon find out

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HUFFPOLLSTER: Here's What Polling Says About The French Presidential Campaign

French surveys show Marine Le Pen narrowly ahead in the nation’s first round of voting, but losing in subsequent runoffs. Back at home, the GOP health care bill is deeply unpopular. And a new study finds a growing partisan divide between younger and older Americans. This is HuffPollster for Tuesday, March 18, 2017.

HUFFPOST POLLSTER IS TRACKING THE FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION - Natalie Jackson: “Front National candidate Marine Le Pen’s lead in French pre-election polls raises the specter of France falling to right-wing populist power similar to the forces that resulted in U.K. voters choosing Brexit and U.S. voters electing Donald Trump to the presidency....She has consistently held the lead in the first round of voting, but En Marche’s Emmanuel Macron is close behind...Unless she pulls off a surprise and gets a majority of the vote on April 23, Le Pen will have to face either Macron or Les Républicains’ François Fillon in a runoff election on May 7. Le Pen doesn’t poll very well against either of these two most likely runoff opponents. According to HuffPost Pollster’s new French election poll aggregates, Le Pen trails... there are many fewer pollsters and polls in France than in the U.S. HuffPost Pollster is tracking polls from seven pollsters, including daily tracking polls from Ifop and OpinionWay. Many of the polls are co-sponsored by French media organizations.” [HuffPost, Round 1 chart, Le Pen vs. Filon runoff, Le Pen vs. Macron runoff]

THE GOP’S HEALTH CARE BILL IS DEEPLY UNPOPULAR - HuffPollster: “Americans are more likely to hate the GOP’s proposed health care bill than they are to even tepidly support it, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll. The top-line numbers alone aren’t good for the bill’s proponents: The public opposes the bill released by House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and backed by President Donald Trump by a 21-point margin ― 45 percent to 24 percent ― according to the survey, with 31 percent unsure. The GOP plan also is on the wrong side of a significant gap in intensity, with just 5 percent strongly favoring the bill, and 32 percent strongly opposed. Leading the charge are voters who supported Hillary Clinton, nearly three-quarters of whom say they strongly oppose the bill….Voters who supported Trump consider the GOP plan an improvement over Obamacare, but are less than unanimous ― and not especially enthusiastic. While 50 percent say they favor of the GOP bill, just 13 percent report favoring it strongly….Most other recent polling has also found the public opposed to the Republican health care plan, although the numbers vary between surveys.” [HuffPost]

TRUMP’S APPROVAL HIT A NEW LOW LAST WEEKEND. DOES IT MATTER? - Philip Bump: “Social media erupted into paroxysms of schadenfreude over the weekend with the discovery that President Trump’s daily approval rating from Gallup had hit a new low of 37 percent….Gallup’s daily numbers are volatile. He’s been down before, as low as 38 percent approval. A week later, he was at 43 percent. On March 11, about a week before the March 18 low that’s gotten so much attention, he was at 45 percent approval — which then collapsed….Using data from Huffington Post Pollster, you can see that the average of a variety polls of Trump’s approval is much smoother than the Gallup daily poll. There’s still been a recent downturn, but a more modest one than the Gallup numbers might suggest. You’ll notice, too, that Gallup’s daily numbers are a bit lower than the running trend line in that overall average.” [WashPost, Trump approval chart]

 Is the health care bill hurting Trump’s ratings? - Nate Silver: “House Republicans introduced their health care bill, the American Health Care Act, only two weeks ago. During that relatively short interval, President Trump’s approval ratings — which were never very good — have become a little worse. Is that just a coincidence? Could health care be Trump’s undoing when so many things haven’t been?...For one thing, the timing lines up fairly well, given that we’d expect a lag of a week or so between when the bill was introduced (on March 6) and when we’d begin to see clear effects from it in the polling average….We can observe when a president rises and falls in the polls, but it’s not always easy to say why. Still, there are lots of reasons to think that health care is a liability for Trump … even in a political climate where people have often been too quick to predict Trump’s demise….One factor is that we know health care policy can cause big swings in public opinion.” [538]

PARTISAN DIVIDES GROW ACROSS GENERATIONAL LINES - Shiva Maniam and Samantha Smith: “The generation gap in American politics is dividing two younger age groups, Millennials and Generation X, from the two older groups, Baby Boomers and the Silent Generation….The public’s overall partisan and ideological balance changes little from year to year. But there have been some long-term shifts among the public and within generational groups, according to a new analysis based on more than 15,000 interviews conducted in 2016 as well as earlier survey data….[T]he share of Gen Xers who identified as liberal Democrats (21%) stood at its highest point since 2000...Boomers have turned more conservative. In both 2015 and 2016, about three-in-ten Boomers (30% in 2015, 31% in 2016) identified as conservative Republicans – the highest percentages dating back to 2000.” [Pew]

WHO SHARES AN ARTICLE MAKES MORE OF A DIFFERENCE TO ITS PERCEIVED TRUSTWORTHINESS THAN THE MEDIA SOURCE - The American Press Institute and The AP-NORC Center’s Media Insight Project: “When Americans encounter news on social media, how much they trust the content is determined less by who creates the news than by who shares it, according to a new experimental study….Whether readers trust the sharer, indeed, matters more than who produces the article — or even whether the article is produced by a real news organization or a fictional one, the study finds.The experimental results show that people who see an article from a trusted sharer but written by an unknown media source have much more trust in the information than people who see the same article from a reputable media source shared by a non-trusted person.The identity of the sharer even has an impact on consumers’ impressions of the news brand. The study demonstrates that when people see a post from a trusted person rather than an untrusted person, they feel more likely to recommend the news source to friends, follow the source on social media, and sign up for news alerts from the source.” [Media Insight]

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TUESDAY’S ‘OUTLIERS’ - Links to the best of news at the intersection of polling, politics and political data:

-Gallup finds concern over illegal immigration remaining steady, but with a growing partisan divide. [Gallup]

-Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Charlie Smart chart the possible effects of the AHCA. [538]

-Kristen Bialik details the backgrounds of previous Supreme Court justices. [Pew]

-Aleksandra Sandstrom notes how heavily Christian the 115th Congress is. [Pew]

-Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson discusses the politics of polling and the risks of nonresponse bias. [Harvard Political Review]

-Mrs. Porter’s second grade class has written the world’s most adorable survey. [Buzzfeed]

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