ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
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Joined Nov 2022
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“If you’re inclusive and display compassion for your fellow human beings as a company, then your business deserves to fail” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as “Go woke, go broke.”
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It's now possible to mark links to your #Wikipedia user page as verified on Mastodon!
Documentation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:RealMe
This was developed and implemented by @taavi who wrote it as a #MediaWiki extension, named "RealMe". It's open source (like all of the Wikipedia software) and can be used on any MediaWiki wiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RealMe
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@Radical_EgoCom acab in the abandoned Police Department of Frankfurt
@blakereid
That's an interesting approach; I'm certainly for UBI and universal healthcare also.
I wonder to what extent removal of the money / survival motive will impact all this sort of thing.
Will the government be free to find far fewer creator rights in (copies and derivatives of) their works, because creators' ability to survive is no longer on the line?
"Sure, person A claimed as their own something heavily derived from person B's original work, but since no money is at stake, we don't have to decide if that was okay." That sort of thing?
I can't decide if that would be great or awful atm. :)
Perhaps the point is that if an unknown had done the same thing, it would have been uncontroversial that it was mere copying, and bad.
There is the complication, though, that here there was an explicit license in place to allow Warhol to do things that did not include the actions at issue that he actually did (perhaps because he wasn't aware of the license).
I suppose I'm enough of the stereotype philistine techbro that I don't think art critics would be in any better position to judge here than anyone else. Is there really a fact-of-the-matter about, say, whether the Warhol works are "actually" transformative? I think an art critic's opinion would be just as subjective and personal as a Supreme Court justice's, but maybe that's just my math and science prejudice talking.
In the ideal world, a subjective judgment like this wouldn't even be required in a legal case; but I'm not sure how we get two and maintain the right balance between copyrights and fair use in that ideal world...
I agree Congress could do a better job, on the other hand I don't have a perfect replacement copyright law at hand myself! Does anyone?
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What should I dream about? I will abide by the results of this poll.
#StableDiffusion #AIArt #AIGenerated #AI #GenerativeAI #GenerativeArt
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If we priced externalities into the cost of fossil fuels, it’s not a profitable business.
The cleanup costs in California will be triple the industry’s projected profits, and that doesn’t even include cleaning up CO₂ and CH₄ from the atmosphere.
https://www.propublica.org/article/cost-of-california-oil-cleanup-exceeds-industry-profits
@garyackerman
I doubt that anyone seriously making this claim hasn't thought about that issue. (Admittedly the "seriously" there makes this a bit of a No True Scotsman!)
I may disagree with their opinion on the subject, but I don't think their error is as simple as not having thought about how slippery the concept is.
I think a typical response would be along the lines of "No, I can't define it exactly, but we routinely ascribe consciousness to each other on the basis of evidence that's relevantly indistinguishable from the evidence that I have about ChatGPT / Bard / whatever, so that ascription is equally correct."
(Also something seems to have gone wrong with your sentence 2 of 3 there; or at least I don't get it.)
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New paper showing the value of using a soft robotic leg phantom for testing robotic lower limb exoskeletons. Human tissue is squishy and leads to a lot of energy losses that are unexpected. Great way to test and improve prototypes before reaching human trials.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10124781
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Understand the ignorance that breeds anti-abortion laws
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Hey folks. Everyone--EVERYONE--can get got by a scammer at some point.
When we blame folks who get socially engineered for their carelessness or lack of vigilance, we're making it less likely that people will self-report when they got got, and perpetuating the myth that all we need is vigilance to avoid scams.
The narrative that only fools get scammed helps scammers. Don't fall for it.
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New graphic tee design - Black Wizard With His Blue Dragon Familiar A new graphic tee design: Black Wizard With His Blue Dragon Familiar:
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This is your irregular reminder #Adobe are fucking dicks:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3xk3p/adobe-tells-users-they-can-get-sued-for-using-old-versions-of-photoshop
> Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop
We need #FLOSS tools to get to the point where they can replace Adobe tools. The alternatives are great, but they are sadly not there yet to replace Adobe tools for professionals.
And won't be unless projects like @inkscape get enough funding to develop to a point of being viable alternatives.
Yes, it is in no small part about the money.
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hello german people. where are chill queer nighttime/pub places in berlin?
please help wonderful @ZeroEcks have a nice gay time
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My take on today's SCOTUS opinions: The Court made a serious error in releasing more than one decision that I want to read carefully on the same day.
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.
Joined Nov 2022
