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3 days agoIt’s funny, considering how Lemley’s convictions on Fair Use are regarded by so many lemmings.
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It’s a good analogy for a lot of things. The story mocks the human tendency to go along with obvious nonsense; to conform to expectations.
Such obscenity laws originate in centuries past, when people unironically believed that masturbation makes you go blind or crazy, rather than helping prevent prostate cancer. Society collectively believed that having sex the wrong way would end with you going to hell. Pornography might make the boys gay or wear women’s clothes. Well, if you look at who passes these laws now, maybe those beliefs haven’t died out.
The point is simply that there is nothing inherently harmful in being exposed to porn. Sure, some of it is disturbing or may give you bad ideas about how the world works, but that’s true for any kind of media. Whether referring to minors, eg 17-year-olds, as children is appropriate is another matter.
“harmful to minors”
Indeed, I find that few things have done more to ruin my sense of common decency than HC Andersen’s The Emperor’s New Clothes and that’s a story all about public nudity.
That’s how you get a 2-party-system.
Almost but not quite.
or risk becoming a monster.
Remind me. What became of Turing, a man who saved untold British lives during WW2?
“Had Meta bought plaintiffs’ works in a bookstore or borrowed them from a library and trained its Llama models on them without a license, it would have committed copyright infringement,” wrote plaintiffs’ counsel in the filing.
I wonder how many here agree with that theory.
Why, though? Many lemmings get away with “piracy” via torrents. Meta is in court over it and may very well lose on this count.
1·9 days agoKrugman is an economist, so he looks at the economics. When a physician looks at a patient, you probably would not be satisfied if they just said: “The patient is simply very old.” Even if that is objectively correct.
Most importantly, such a big picture answer doesn’t suggest any solution.
It does apply equally to everyone. The lemmy hive mind simply doesn’t understand copyright law.
And every so often you still get young men trying to cleanse the temple mount by force of arms. Talk about starting a trend.
“I’d far rather be happy than right any day."
“And are you?”
“No. That’s where it all falls down, of course.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
29·12 days agoWe pretrain METAGENE-1, a 7-billion-parameter autoregressive transformer model […] , on a […] dataset […] sourced from a large collection of human wastewater samples,
Haha. Life in Australia. Amirite?
As the story goes, John Steinbeck was told by one of his professors that he would become an author when pigs fly,[…]
The accurate phrase is “ad astra per ALAS porci,”[“to the stars on the wings of a pig.”] which means that Steinbeck in his snarky revenge was demonstrating far and wide that he was a bad student after all – and thanks to his famous but inaccurate imprint, countless people are running around with tattoos which actually say “to the stars through other pigs.”[“ad astra per alia porci”]
7·16 days agoThinking about how things have changed over the last century. And also about the differences between US states and between countries like Sweden, or Iran. That’s probably true. Especially for women, and LGB, and most especially TQ individuals.
Why make it a joke?
Looks a lot like a trunk load of fireworks exploded.
Good video on the Guardian’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq9_zvpamUk
Video on the YT channel of The Times. Don’t know who is talking but they killed me: https://youtu.be/JrDnramp8i8?t=34
Yes, exactly. By your numbers, their revenue would go down by almost 10% while their operating expenses remain the same. Is it plausible that they could have just lowered prices by 10% and still operated profitably all this time?