All yourebase are belong to us…

I’ve heard that living with him can be frustrating

You’re right that it’s not a complete solution. Offhand, it seems like this won’t help graphic designers that make advertising graphics if the advertiser doesn’t really care about copyright protection - or basically anything that is expected to have a short lifespan (who cares if an ad campaign that runs for a week is copyrighted?).

Are those jobs worth fighting over? There are probably a lot more graphic artists making a living producing bilboards and web ads &etc than there are making a living selling their own art, but are those jobs something that society at large should make an effort to protect?

I do think that manipulating incentives is the most effective strategy. A high-budget film without copyright is not profitable, and therefore anything that leads to gaps in copyright protection is unlikely to be adopted by the film industry. This removes all of the potential burden of government regulation, oversight, auditing, labor union rules, legal battles, etc… it just obviates all that because it kills the profitability of using generative AI to replace people.

The starwars.com forum long before the Disney purchase killed it, then Digg until the v4 update, then Reddit until the APIpocalypse.

So many communities I’ve seen wrecked by corporate greed. The Fediverse gives me hope for people being able to interact online without having to worry about the enshittification.

Actually there are several legal arguments about this currently ongoing. There is a lot of discussion and several lawsuits in progress.

There isn’t really a final decision yet, but I think I agree with Cory Doctorow’s opinion that the solution is to make the output of generative AI tools uncopywritable/public domain. This protects artists broadly, as any company that wants to produce a copywrited final work (e.g. film, television, music, books, etc) will need to hire an artist to do it.

Apparently all the adult writers got up and left the room.

The great evil is embodied in a black dude with the power of darkness/ugly flying thingys and gets defeated by white people with the power of light/love?

Who approved this? Did someone let their six year old submit plot ideas?

kakistocracy (/ˌkækɪˈstɒkrəsi/ KAK-ist-OK-rə-see) is government by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous people.

Yep, that’s a fascism.

The Dell P5524Q is a 55" conference room monitor. It has no built-in wifi, microphones, camera, or other smart tv bullshit, it’s just a big monitor. It just turns on when you turn it on and turns off when you turn it off - it doesn’t take 5 minutes to boot up because of the shitty low-grade computer hardware built into it. You can find them on eBay in the US$900 range.

And, a lot of agriculture workers are immigrants. ICE is actively damaging farm labor, making workers afraid to show up and hauling away people who are just doing their jobs.

Fringe

I’ll be in my bunk.

The Codex series is definitely worth watching.

You might also enjoy Arby ‘n’ the Chief - it’s not exactly machinima but it certainly fits the culture. If you played Halo 2 or 3 during the peak days, it will be nostalgic.

There is a fantastic YouTube documentary about this:

On the Verge of Collapse - The Story of Rooster Teeth

Highly recommended if you were ever a fan of any of their work. They were ahead of their time in a lot of ways.

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China has been supplying war material to Russia, and is the single largest customer for Russian oil which is one of the only things keeping the Russian economy semi-functional.

Learn more about this dangerous, unregulated chemical: https://dhmo.org/