Last week, I got to participate in the Canadian Jigsaw Puzzle Association Travelling Puzzle! What a fun experience, and such a fantastic puzzle!

This cool puzzle with the sea-critter cutouts was what I got to make!

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Now That Its California Twin Has Failed, Is the JCPA Poised for a Next Act? A bill that would have created a new “link tax” in California failed in part due to threats by Meta and Google to block links to news.

As the dust settles on the now-failed #CJPA, advocates for the bill's federal equivalent are gearing up with new changes as they lobby for the flawed #JCPA - somehow finding ways to make the bill even worse. Read the latest from Policy Director Lisa Macpherson at the link below:

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"#Newsom, everyone knows, has national political ambitions…he just doesn’t want to piss off Google.
So, #Google’s total opposition and Newsom’s veto threat meant #CJPA had nowhere to go. But that’s when things got really strange. Without telling the NewsGuild, the union of news media […]

The Debate About “Journalism Preservation” Just Got More Confusing The push to force online platforms to pay to link to news content continues to evolve.

Efforts to force digital platforms to pay to link to news content continue—but as a vote for the #CJPA approaches, Google's move to simply not link to sites is being labeled "possibly illegal" by the bill's supporters. Read the latest breakdown from Lisa Macpherson below:

#Google is removing links to news from CA #news outlets as the CA Journalism Preservation Act seeks to move through the Legislature after stalling last year. #CJPA www.cnn.com/2024/04/13/b...