Voroxpete @ Voroxpete @sh.itjust.works

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Ah, the Jordan Peterson defense. "That depends on your definition of 'have', 'used', 'a', and 'computer'."

What we've seen very clearly with fair use is that you end up being forced to defend it, as opposed to it being presumed. That means it's very easy for a rightsholder with money to go after every use, fair or not, and force the user to spend time and money defending themselves (and also probably face a preliminary injunction that takes the image down until the case is over, which will often be after its newsworthy).

Doesn't this guy regularly stream from a laptop in a desperate attempt to seem cool?

It's not the standard because it will likely have a LOT of unintended consequences.

How do you share evidence of police brutality if they can use copyright to take down the video? How do newspapers print pictures of people if they have to get the rightsholders permission first? How do we share photos of Elon Musk doing a Nazi salute if he can just sue every site that posts it for unauthorized use of his likeness?

Unless this has some extremely stringent and well written limitations, it has the potential to be a very bad idea.

I mean, yeah, I'd show up with my pup for that.

Nah, Trump doesn't want this to escalate. Exactly the opposite in fact. He wants to hit Iran, then call a ceasefire, so he can say that he boldly applied a mixture of force and diplomacy to resolve the situation (you know, the one that his constant enabling of Isreal and his pull out from the Iran nuclear deal created). He's looking for a quick win, not a protracted conflict.

This seems counterintuitive because of the obvious similarities to the George Bush playbook. Start a war in the Middle East, become a wartime president, get re-elected/made president for life. But it's not 2001 anymore. American attitudes have changed. In particular, the right have really soured on the whole war in the Middle East thing. America regularly cycles between World Police and Total Isolationism, and right now MAGA is leading the charge deep into an Isolationist era. They see foreign wars and foreign aid as the same bucket; money spent on people who aren't them.

So Trump is trapped between his base, who have no interest in another forever war, and his need to put at least one win on the board for his absolute disaster of a presidency. The optimal out for him here is a quick resolution, which is why he is absolutely losing his shit over Isreal constantly escalating the situation, and Iran having the sheer audacity to strike back despite his oh so clear instructions.

Mr Grumpy knows what's up.

I'll always take a good person who says bad things over a bad person who says good things.

And then send them out to pasture like Andrew Cuomo.

It can be done. Do it enough, and you'll have a party that actually represents the people.

What you need to understand is that this drop in tourism is not only driven by a refusal to send money to a country that has shown utter contempt for us (and remember, any dollar spent anywhere in the US goes towards federal taxes), but also by genuine concerns over our safety. To go to Maine we still have to cross a border run by the feds, and risk harassment (or worse) by Trump's thugs. ICE are storming around the country rounding up whoever the fuck they like with no regard to any kind of legal process.

Why bother risking if? Why go to any part of that shithole? I might as well vacation in North Korea. No matter how deep blue the state, you're still going to find people there who voted for that psychopath, twice in many cases. I just can't think of a good reason to vacation there rather than go to a civilised country... Or just stay home. New Brunswick is fucking beautiful, plenty to do around here, and Nova Scotia or Quebec are just as far as Maine. Or we could hop on a plane and finally go see BC.

I was 50/50 on whether you were going for that, or Murderbot.

Thanks, I didn't know about that.

Yeah, what happened here is those senators did the math that the house were too lazy to do and realized that, proportionally, this would hit red states harder.

Is that unusual?

I love Seafile, but I'm not sure it really meets OP's requirements. For example I'm not aware of any way to do upload without a login in Seafile.

It's vindictiveness, plain and simple. His existence is an embarrassment to them. They absolutely have to get the last word in this fight, because their egos are too fragile for anything else.

Actually one of the characters in 1984 works in the department that produces computer generated romance novels. Orwell pretty accurately predicted the idea of AI slop as a propaganda tool.

There are, as I understand it, ways that you can train on AI generated material without inviting model collapse, but that's more to do with distilling the output of a model. What Musk is describing is absolutely wholesale confabulation being fed back into the next generation of their model, which would be very bad. It's also a total pipe dream. Getting an AI to rewrite something like the total training data set to your exact requirements, and verifying that it had done so satisfactorily would be an absolutely monumental undertaking. The compute time alone would be staggering and the human labour (to check the output) many times higher than that.

But the whiny little piss baby is mad that his own AI keeps fact checking him, and his engineers have already explained that coding it to lie doesn't really work because the training data tends to outweigh the initial prompt, so this is the best theory he can come up with for how he can "fix" his AI expressing reality's well known liberal bias.

I don't feel like the hyperbole defense really cuts it when a significant number of people think the hyperbole is true. You can find an example of that happening in this same thread and I've had plenty of other interactions like it. For every person who takes it as hyperbole, there's another who genuinely feels like we're staring down the barrel of WW3, and that kind of fear is dangerous and harmful.

It's never "Just a joke" when the joke is hurting people.

You're misunderstanding my point. I'm not telling anyone off for venting about the prospect of America kicking off yet another forever war, or another brutal bombing campaign. That shit sucks, and people need to vent about it. Sometimes dark humour is the way to do that.

My issue is very specifically with people framing it as "World War 3", even though a) its not, and it won't be, and there's nothing happening right now that could realistically cause it to be, and b) "War" should be bad enough. There's plenty to vent about right there. Actual real people will die for the sake of Netanyahu's political career and Trump's fragile ego. That's awful, and if you need to vent through memes to cope with that, fair play. But why do we have to add this entirely fictitious "world war" layer just to make it somehow worth venting about? Why build up this completely fictional set of horrors in place of the very real ones, in a way that convinces people already stricken with despair that things are somehow even worse?

You're absolutely correct. Shit really sucks right now. Everything is awful. So why the fuck would you (plural, indirect, nonspecific) want to convince people that its even worse than that? Seems like reality is already bad enough.