MrSqueezles

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[–] MrSqueezles@lemm.ee 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Remember when China told Google to censor web search results and Google said, "No. How about we show those search results with notes that they were censored and why since the sites will be blocked anyway?", and China was like, "You can't show them at all.", and Google said, "Fuck you. We'd rather lose access to the Chinese market than violate our principles.", and instantly shut down any service in China that would require censorship or disclosing private data and closed all Chinese offices working on any of those technologies?

What a time we're living in.

[–] MrSqueezles@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Journalist: Read a press release. Write it in my own words. See some Tweets. Put them together in a page padded with my commentary. Learn from, reference, and quote copyrighted material everywhere.

AI

I do that too.

Journalists

How dare AI learn! Especially from copyrighted material!

[–] MrSqueezles@lemm.ee 41 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don't like that, "leftist", has become a word used outside conservative circles. It sounds shitty and is as meaningless as, "rightist".

[–] MrSqueezles@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

It's mind boggling to see the volume of content Amazon has produced that nobody cares about. Rings of Power was $89 million per episode. Citadel was $42 million per episode. There are solutions other than, "Higher fees".

But Upload and The Boys are pretty good.

[–] MrSqueezles@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

The explicit, stated purpose of copyright was to encourage sharing of ideas. When it lasted originally 14 years, it worked. Before that, you might have had a great idea and kept it to yourself because why take years of your life researching a subject and writing a book when a publisher's going to immediately copy it and pay you nothing? 14 years is plenty of time to get a return on your investment and most importantly, after that, it didn't belong to you anymore. It belonged to everyone.

For example, that would mean District 9 and Hunger Games would be in the public domain right now.

[–] MrSqueezles@lemm.ee -1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I don't understand. Facebook can get data from an open system whenever they feel like it.

[–] MrSqueezles@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

What? Oh FFS. Context. Yes, Play Store has competitors, so yes absolutely a lot.

[–] MrSqueezles@lemm.ee -2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You mean like Play Store?

[–] MrSqueezles@lemm.ee 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

I like the judge, but 20 hours a week wouldn't teach anyone how hard it is to work in the service industry.

will have to work there 20 hours a week

[–] MrSqueezles@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

An mRNA vaccine works like a special set of instructions that tells your body how to make a pretend piece of a germ, but without using any real germ parts. Your body makes, then sees this pretend piece and learns how to protect you against the real germ. It's like teaching your body to recognize and fight the germ without ever having to meet it for real.

Remember the COVID spike proteins? That's what the vaccine is teaching your body about, not any actual viruses.

[–] MrSqueezles@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago (4 children)

The article talking about a Cybertruck racing a Porsche

Electric motors accelerate cars faster than ones with internal combustion engines, so this wasn’t a fair fight.

Nobody's permitted to compare electric cars with internal combustion because electric is faster? I don't understand the logic.

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