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Perhaps having U.S. space transport and classified space-based security operations dependent on a chaotic fascism-supporting billionaire is problematic. Also, if you are using Starlink, you're now supporting Trump and everything that means. And if you buy a Tesla now, you can't claim "you didn't know" that they're as much a part of fascism as the original VW was part of the Nazis.

Dziura w drodze naprawiona. Niesamowite.

#Drogi https://polesie.pol.social/m/Drogi/p/9/Ktos-moze-stracic-kolo-na-drodze-z-Woloskowoli-do-Nowin#post-comment-3

I work in insurance. You best hope you don't have to rely on private medical insurance as they'll refuse to pay for your cancer treatment over a minor mistake on an application and sleep like babies while you die

Digital spaces enable LGBTQ+ people to engage with their gender and sexual orientation, but it can be daunting to give up any kind of privacy online while doing so.

Here's a guide to protecting your identities online, from using a VPN to obscuring faces.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/beyond-pride-month-protecting-digital-identities-lgbtq-people

"Od kilku miesięcy przez Polskę przetacza się fala zachorowań. Od początku roku do dziś sanepid odnotował aż 232 przypadki odry. W analogicznym okresie roku ubiegłego było ich zaledwie 22.

- Nie powinniśmy widzieć żadnych przypadków odry, dlatego że szczepionka jest bardzo skuteczna i gdyby poziomy wyszczepienia przekraczały 95 procent, tych przypadków by nie było. Każdy spadek poniżej tego wysokiego odsetka 95 procent powoduje powstawanie ognisk odry"

AI uczy się bardzo szybko.

Mój Facebook zalewany jest syntetyczna propaganda o tym jak mocarna jest rosyjska marynarka wojenna. Jeszcze parę dni temu dostałem lotniskowiec z trzema wieżami kontrolnymi na środku i przyczepka (screen 1). Dziś już całkiem realistyczny okręt wojenny i od razu w płomieniach :-) (screen 2)

Is "AI"-generated content covered by copyright?

Is it a derivative work of the work the model was trained on?

What if it is really really similar to that original, copyrighted work?

What about a derivative work based on "AI"-generated content, can that be covered by copyright?

One could say we're dealing with Copyright Troll-ey Problem.

#AI #copyright

The odd thing I've noticed since building the tandoor is we have a lot less (indoor) oven cleaning. Most things that would coat the oven in grease are far better cooked in the tandoor, which is hot enough and outside enough to just burn that off.
I'm starting to refer to our kitchen oven as the Indoor.

As an archivist, let me say clearly:

Modern copyright law is actively harmful to the preservation and study of our culture.

It harms artists by giving undue power to publishers. It harms artists by limiting remixes. It harms preservation and research efforts.

It's broken. It's bad. It should be massively reformed.

The year is 3129. Humanity is extinct. The last LG SmartFridge is desperately emailing its last owner that they are low on orange juice. The satellites that are still left, their orbits slowly decaying over millennia, dutifully relay the message. The automated "away from office" response turns on, as it always does, notifying the refrigerator that it's owner will likely return to the office in 3-5 business days.

Somewhere in what used to be called Ohio, a pack of roombas, their local wind turbines giving out and creaking to a halt, begin searching for the next functional docking station. A washing machine in Argentina tweets: "anyone need to do a load 😏" every Saturday at 1:30 a.m. eastern standard time. The replies are filled with AI thirstposters and their hypebots.

In North America, raccoons have quietly entered the bronze age, while baboons riding domesticated battlewolves rule most of Asia. Unbeknownst to either, the octopi are mastering nuclear fusion. A weather balloon bobs and sways in the upper atmosphere, now almost entirely clear of lingering chloroflourocarbons, reporting conditions to weather stations long since destroyed in World War Five.

The Crab Nation are mostly hermits, but come out to greet their prophet every ten years on the 6th full moon of the year. A lone, curious octopus decides to observe this year's event, peering out at the festivities from her safe haven - the submerged, rusting hulk of an ancient Cybertruck. Then he appears: the hologram of Shia Lebouf powered by MetaAI. He beckons the octopus to follow. The crabs all start chittering excitedly. The time has come to invade Amazon HQ. The crows gather in huge numbers. They need more storage space for their Steam collections.

I just got a copyright claim against a video I posted on youtube 10 years ago.

The video is a film by Georges Melies that was shot in the 1890s.

Someone is attempting to claim copyright over a film that is 130 years old, who's director died 86 years ago.

Now 1) I don't give a shit about this clip on youtube. 2) The person who made this claim is clearly in the wrong. 3) I can't be the only one that they have targeted illegally. 4) Youtube is a problem.

Oh nice!

It looks like back in March, Mastodon added an option to expand the maximum number of choices in a poll.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/29490

I can't really tell find any documentation about this, including in the various tickets where this was requested, eg https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/10609

Does anybody know more?

#mastodon #polls

I saw a spider carrying it’s spiderlings (babies) on it’s abdomen today.
It even jumped off, carrying them away from danger
It’s not the greatest photo (CW)
#Spider #Spiderling

I’ve got a lot of insects in my garden right now and it’s because this is mostly a forgotten land. Former industrial land that floods and is contaminated. But the housing developments are closing in and with the house building pledges and local people being told they’re barriers to progress I fear for these last little scraps of homes for wildlife. Brownfield land is some of the greenest we have

"Well what have we here?" #seaotter #photography