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Cake day: October 15th, 2023

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  • The choices here are to respect copyright or destroy it. Having and AI exception is nonsense.

    "I’m not illegally downloading the latest blockbuster/ best seller / chart topping album. I’m scraping the internet for training data for my AI. It just so happens I need to filter the data by hand before it can injest it. I keep looking for suitable data, but haven’t identified any yet. "

    There’s plenty of non copyright material out there to do research on. It won’t make for useful AI products, but they can start licensing for that.



  • Trials in the Hague followed by imprisonment of all those guilty of war crimes. At this point that Includes most IDF members, their leaders, and the government.

    Actually bring consequences to bear and let other Israelis know that this isn’t acceptable. Israel also needs to be cut off from the teat of the American military industrial complex.

    Same standards for Hamas, but that’s a much smaller number.

    Any further sabre rattling is met with quick and strong sanctions.

    Basically the UN needs to do it’s job, but that needs America not to veto.



  • Yes. A diamond is just a rock somebody found. Same for gold. They have value because they are scarce and people think they are pretty (up until the last couple of centuries when we developed industrial uses for both). Nobody has ever needed a diamond or a hunk of gold to survive, yet they have value because we say that they are valuable.