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Cake day: July 14th, 2023

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    1. Fuck AI
    2. This judge’s point is absolutely true:

    “You have companies using copyright-protected material to create a product that is capable of producing an infinite number of competing products,” Chhabria said. “You are dramatically changing, you might even say obliterating, the market for that person’s work, and you’re saying that you don’t even have to pay a license to that person.”

    1. AI apologists’ response to that will invariably be “but it’s sampling from millions of people at once, not just that one person”, which always sounds like the fractions-of-a-penny scene
    2. Fuck copyright
    3. A ruling against fair use for AI will almost certainly deal collateral damage to perfectly innocuous scraping projects like linguistic analysis. Even despite their acknowledgement of the issue:

    To prevent both harms, the Copyright Office expects that some AI training will be deemed fair use, such as training viewed as transformative, because resulting models don’t compete with creative works. Those uses threaten no market harm but rather solve a societal need, such as language models translating texts, moderating content, or correcting grammar. Or in the case of audio models, technology that helps producers clean up unwanted distortion might be fair use, where models that generate songs in the style of popular artists might not, the office opined.

    1. We really need to regulate against AI — right now — but doing it through copyright might be worse than not doing it at all

  • No but you don’t understand.

    Capitalism works because it pits everyone against each other and so even though every single person is greedy and unethical, they begrudgingly improve society overall because of reasons.

    All we have to do is make sure we teach every child that all humans are fundamentally greedy and evil and the only ethical response is to out-greedy and out-evil them.

    And then we’ll have a prosperous society!

    • Adam Smith basically










  • Well, if you like BtB, you’ll probably enjoy any and all Cool Zone Media pods.

    But if I take similar here to mean: Episodic true history that is partly educational, partly comedic, with an air of “How the fuck did this ever happen?”

    There are a few that fit:

    • Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine
    • Darknet Diaries
    • Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)
    • If Books Could Kill
    • You’re Wrong About
    • Build For Tomorrow

    Some other ones that I always recommend:

    • You Are Not So Smart
    • Team Human
    • Cory Doctorow’s Craphound
    • Molly White’s Citation Needed
    • Very Bad Wizards
    • Knifepoint Horror


  • It’s the #1 thing that drives me crazy about Linux.

    It seems obvious. You’ve got a Windows/Apple/Super key and a Control key. So you’d think Control would be for control characters and Windows/Apple/Super would be for application things.

    I can understand Windows fucking this up, cuz the terminal experience is such a low priority. But Linux?

    There’s some projects like Kinto and Toshy which try to fix it, but neither work on NixOS quite yet.