tripu @tripu@qoto.org

How can one know, by looking at the name alone, whether the name is homage or mockery, admiration or contempt?

Honest question: how exactly is just using the name of a group of people (marginalised or not), without any epithets or modifiers, disrespectful or offensive? (“because some members of that group have said so” isn’t valid).

https://blog.nativesintech.org/apache-appropriation/

#Apache #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

@Pericopin @senorcito

Pues aparte de estar en desacuerdo con algunas de las cosas que dice, su Twitter parece ser al 90% reparto de desprecio, insultos y malos deseos a diestro y siniestro…

@AmpBenzScientist

All that is interesting, but one can explain it referring to “alcohol and other drugs”, instead of “alcohol and drugs”, which is misleading. Right? That’s my point.

@ShaulaEvans

…except that there’s a big qualitative difference: using an AI service to voice text is perfectly legal, while illegally copying content is… well, illegal.

@ShaulaEvans

Opposing that is so Luddite. What’s wrong with it, in principle, if consumers either don’t notice the difference, don’t care about the difference, or think that the advantages (faster releases, lower prices) make up for the disadvantages (worse quality)?

You do realise that instead of voicing your opposition here on Mastodon you could as well write a letter to the editor of The Guardian or to Apple itself, and put it in the mail, right? That would support a number of jobs. Why do you boycott those workers by choosing a much cheaper and convenient way (social networks)?

I am a software engineer. AI is little by little encircling us and doing part of our job. I could not in good conscience ask people to not get their software written by an algorithm if they so choose, purely out of concern for my own job.

/cc @audiobooks @bookstodon

@MurrayData@mastodon.world @katebevan

NO.

@edmonde@mstdn.es

It seems so 😆

Now there’s more freedom, more technical possibilities, better access to previous art, and more connections between artists. In principle it’s difficult to see how that would be bad for art.

Musicians now do covers and remixes and release single songs and do reggaeton, yes… but they also publish four-hour-long conceptual albums, record in acoustic, perform using virtual avatars, sing duets with singers who are long dead, invent new genres, etc. There’s just all that there used to be, plus a lot more.

Perhaps, if anything, it becomes more difficult for #music lovers to find the gems among the rubbish. But gems there still are.

@edmonde@mstdn.es

“Music nowadays is rubbish”?

Want to feel dumb? Read the comments here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/znn1nt/the_truly_scary_smart/

@freemo @javifields @fernand0

Absolutely.

👆 @gabipurcaru

A moment after your child is born, doctors offer you a one-time pill for your newborn that would greatly reduce the probability that they would end up at the bottom of the social ladder (criminal, incarcerated, homeless, addicted, suicidal, murdered, etc). Only side effect: the pill would also greatly reduce the probability that they join the social and economic elite (high-rank politician, big company executive, top sportsperson, very rich person, popular intellectual, etc). Assume the pill is known to be safe and effective.

Would you give that pill to your child?