Copyright is about corporate power, repression of information and maintenance of culture monopolies and everyone who thinks it's going to protect them has been sold a bill of goods

they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead

He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.

All or nothing, the true lover says, and that's the truth of it. My love will never die, he says. He claims eternity. And rightly. How can it die when it's life itself? What do we know of eternity but the glimpse we get of it when we enter in that bond?

“Love it or hate it it’s here to stay” is a crazy thing to keep saying about a technology. If people don’t like using something it doesn’t have to stay we’re not talking about bad weather here

Yo @safety.bsky.app are you all just deleting every single account from Gaza on sight? Because this person hadn’t even heard of Bluesky when I started talking to her- made an account yesterday and made ONE POST. She’s a published journalist by the way.

Good books in one language deserve good translation into other languages by another artist who takes care with the nuance of words. It's serious disrespect to the original work to take a human out of translation.

there was pushback internally but i think now everyone is more of less okay with it" is CEO speak for "dissenters were made to shut up"

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

please help lubna and her children!!

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The far right will not solve the problems capitalism is creating.

We stand with Chile's social movements, strengthened by years of fighting against the murderous dictatorship that the incoming president has praised.

Don't count on elections for social change. Build grassroots power in the streets.

“The work was emotionally exhausting, with chat users confiding intimate details about their real-life relationships, as well as their own emotional trauma, falsely believing they were talking to an unfeeling AI chatbot.”

disney has pretty transparently just wanted to be in control of the genAI like, this whole time. genAI is like IP accelerationism, and its boosters are notoriously obsessed with their "ownership" of art precisely because they did not have any part in its creation, only its mass appropriation

AI is a prefect machine for an IP world because it entirely removes the need for pesky human artistic endeavor and interpretation and makes the creation of any new ideas literally technologically impossible: it only ever reframes, remakes or remixes the already created

"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist

46 years in jail... for posting. Fucking hell.

“Busbas” gets 46 years total for posts he made on Facebook "defaming" the monarchy. This is on top of 4 years he was already serving & still has one case outstanding.

Not justice, its blatent oppression.

#FreeOurFriends

The most inevitable obvious conclusion to the strategy of backing the evil of "intellectual property" and the mouse against the corporate AI giants.

Shit was always just about negotiating terms of power consolidation.

I'm so sick of this shit. Trump's been committing flagrant illegal murders in the Caribbean and Pacific for weeks, the person calling for US military intervention just got a Nobel Peace Prize, and you're all lining up to tacitly legitimise war by condemning Maduro. What do you mean 'sleepwalking'?

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