"Trump world" legal representation is a problem. They'll pressure you into lying for them.
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Idiomdrottning demonstrates a new and often cleaner way to solve most systems problems. The system as a whole is likely to feel tantalizingly familiar to culture users but at the same time quite foreign.
The copyright argument is a bad argument against AI art. But there are also good arguments against it.
Now that the concept has caught on so widely, I've often wished @pluralistic@mamot.fr had gone with a less scatological term. But maybe that is part of the reason it caught on 🤷🏻♀️
It's awesome!
I'm also an artist, for whatever that's worth, 🤷🏻♀️
Copyright is artificial scarcity which is ultimately designed for publishers, not workers.
One of the many, many bugs in market capitalism is that it can't handle when something is difficult to initially create but when copies are cheap. Like a song. It's tricky to write it but once you have it you can copy it endlessly. Markets based on supply and demand can't handle that so they cooked up copyright as kind of a brutal patch, originally for book publishers in an era where normal readers couldn't easily copy books anyway, only other publishers could.
It's a patch that doesn't work very well since many artist still work super hard and still have to get by on scraps. Ultimately we need to re-think a lot of economics. Not only because digital threw everything on its ear and what could've been a cornucopia is now a tug of war for pennies, but also because of climate change (which is caused by fossil fuel transaction externalities being under-accounted for—if I sell you a can of gas, the full environmental impact of that is not going to be factored in properly. Sort of like how a memory leak works in a computer program).
I definitively sympathize with your artist friends and I've been speaking out against AI art, at least some aspects of it (including, but not limited to, the environmental impact of new models, and the increasing wealth&power concentration for big data capital).
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The shift of the political battle from workers-vs-owners to populists-vs-pluralists has been driven by the far right and has been an explicit goal of the right since 1922.
The populist ideology uses intolerance and bigotry as a tool. Hate on a group to get the workers to vote for the rich-get-richer economics the right wing favors.
Ideally a group they can describe as disgustingly weak in one breath and a dangerous threat the next.
So it's de jure the case that the left a.k.a. pluralists oppose intolerance and bigotry. That's what makes us the left.
no more Brave
So there's a silver lining. But the WEI project is still overall a complete disaster that needs to rot on the vine. It'll wreck not just browser diversity but overall hackability, adblocks, mashups, and above all: accessibility.
Right.
Instead, the worry is that devs will write other server backend code that won't respect browser back-holds, that will demand compliance.
It’s true that self-proclaimed communist states have been awful in this regard. You’re not wrong.
It becomes a question of semantics, ultimately. If I go on I’ll just fall into the “no true Scotsman” line of reasoning. “If by ‘whiskey’…”
Glad we’re ultimately on the side of supporting gay rights & black lives, whether or not that’s called right, left, red flag, blue state…
That could have been:
• Xia, legends of a drift system
• Star Wars, outer rim
• Firefly
• Merchant of Venus
Those are probably the most well-known games along that line 💁🏻♀️
(Not shooting the messenger, just as info for other readers.)
Using hashtags for this seems like an idea with some severe limitations because it can only see the posts it has happened to come across otherwise. (Unlike the other group formats.)
I believe it is a mistake selecting that particular instance for those communities.
The risk isn't just that they shut it down, there's a much worse thing that could happen: pinpoint elision (or even editing) of reporting on the genocide.
Yes, keyword search works poorly on fedi is what I'm saying 💁🏻♀️
Using that as a basis for group talk can end up being super unreliable in some situations.
Yes, it works poorly everywhere on the fediverse, is exactly what I'm saying.
Hashtags on Fedi can be good for organizing stuff within a single account or instance, or it can be used for other things like trigger specific bots, but they can not (as you know) work like an IRC channel like they did on Twitter.
That's why I'm not happy about kbin elevating that misfeature and legitimizing its misuse as if it were as robust as the other federated group protocols are. It's not the end of the world or the worst feature on the planet, I'm not that worked up about it, it's just not good, is all.
(Again, not blaming you for that ofc, you only reported on it, and that was awesome, thanks.)
Correct, and that's exactly why it does not work for group things.
If fedi is like email, and it is similar in many ways, a Lemmy community is like a mailing list. People can send to the list and the threads on the list from different servers. And there can be separate communities about the same topics just as there can be separate mailing lists about the same topics.
But hashtags in email wouldn't work as a replacement for mailing lists. Hashtags in email can still have some use, within a mailing list or in a specific conversation, but it's something very different from a mailing list.
On kbin, if people think that "Oh, here is where the posts about cycling will show up" but the magazine is just based around a hashtag, there's no way for people to participate deliberately. It's misleading.
Using hashtags as if it were tumblr or twitter is anti-decentralization and drives people into using the biggest instances only. Groups a la gup.pe and Lemmy and Friendica is a solution to that. It's only a partially decentralized solution, since each group itself is centrally hosted (exactly like mailing lists were), but it's at least a solution, whereas misusing hashtags that way isn't.
Not sure. There's a lot of kinda creepy stuff on here 😰
There's a lot of extreme content on the Fediverse (such as harassment).
These bookburnings are a Nazi project. The guy who started them is a Nazi leader who wants Sweden and Denmark to be ethnically cleansed. And sickeningly, the entire Swedish justice system from cops through judges to politicians backed him up (and now that there are repercussions they have cold feet).
People who are like "lol muslims can't handle a li'l free speech? It's only paper" have been deceived. They've fallen right into the trap as designed by the fachos. The classic tactic: do something that the target group understands as a hate-fueled threat but that onlookers misperceive as not that big of a deal.
Free speech is vital to an open and just society. The exceptions need to be few and clearly defined. (Counterfeits and frauds being a pretty commonly understood one.) I hold that inciting hatred against the outgroup should be such an exception.
Karl Popper put it perfectly:
Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.
That's rich when the Google Play store is full of malware while F-Droid is full of gems.
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