

People who decide not to vote are in fact making a positive statement, they’re saying “we agree with whatever the people who do vote decide.” I don’t give America a pass due to apathy.
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People who decide not to vote are in fact making a positive statement, they’re saying “we agree with whatever the people who do vote decide.” I don’t give America a pass due to apathy.
It’s -25C where I am right now. Bring on 2034.
It’s right wing too, but it’s not populous.
California’s population is roughly equal to Canada’s. Alaska’s got less than 2% of Canada’s population. We can absorb Alaska without too much disruption, California would be more of a fusion. And their economy is twice the size of Canada’s, so likely it’d be seen as more of Canada joining California rather than the other way around.
How ironic that the only country to actually invoke Article 5 and receive NATO assistance under it is the one that’s now ditching NATO.
Nah, California is too right-wing and populous, it’d overwhelm Canada’s Canadianness.
I think we should take Alaska, it always made more sense as a Canadian territory.
It really sucks how the US has given “spreading democracy” such a bad name. And democracy itself, I suppose.
I was at the bedside holding the hand of both my brother and my father as they died. I actually had a voice recorder in both instances and had it running, in case anything important was said that I needed to go back and review for whatever reason.
But I don’t really recall the specifics of what was said, and I didn’t go back to listen to those recordings out of some form of curiousity. I didn’t believe that there was anything particularly profound about the last words that were being spoken at the time, by either me or my dying family member, aside from of course trying to express some sort of reassurance and/or expression of love to ease any distress that was being felt.
The important words are all the ones we spoke to each other during our lives. Saying “I love you” in those last moments is nice, of course, but the important “I love yous” were the ones spoken over the years prior to that.
If you’ve got something important to say to someone, do it now. Or, if you really want to ensure that it’s only heard after you’re gone, make a recording and put it in a clearly labelled box.
I’m not expecting them to do anything specifically to benefit the rest of us. But let them fight. If nothing else, it costs them money.
You don’t think the publishing industry would like to sue Meta over this?
Well, yes, why would you believe something without seeing it? But given how litigious the publishing industry is about this kind of thing I don’t see it as likely that they wouldn’t fight.
They’ll compare the amount the publishers are demanding against how much it would cost them to lawyer up to prevent that and any future payments. Meta’s heavyweight enough that they can use “lobbying their way out of the law, aka changing the law so that they’re not violating it at all” as a strategy.
If they do simply pay the publishers off, oh well, at least it’s just the status quo. But I don’t see a reason to assume that’s the way this is going to go. Other countries have already carved explicit exceptions to copyright for AI training, Meta would be in favor of that kind of thing.
You think Meta will just roll over and hand out whatever penalties the publishers demand of them?
Meta isn’t going to be defending us. It’s going to be defending itself. Because it is now one of us.
I think this is still going to be a net benefit to us, though. Meta may not have contributed much bandwidth, which is leeching in the short term, but in the long term they’re now forced to contribute something much more important; lawyer power. Meta is going to have to fight to defend piracy.
Similar to online AI detector tools
Ah, so it’s useless then.
Anything that pushes back copyright is fine by me.
A local model is just a giant matrix of numbers, so as long as you’re running it locally you can be sure it’s not secretly recording or communicating information with any outside source. Just make sure you trust the software that’s running it (there’s plenty of open source alternatives for that that have nothing to do with China).
And since it’s an open weight model, any remaining reluctance to talk about whatever subject can be abliterated or fine-tuned away if it’s really a problem.
“The majority secretly agrees with me, only a minority of idiots disagree” is a bad assumption no matter which “side” of an issue you’re on. I’m always glad to see options become available but we shouldn’t expect everyone to want them.
Huh. Based on the community this was posted in, I can assume that the answer the video comes to is “yes” and not watch it. But according to Betteridge’s law of headlines the answer is “no.” I need to argue about this without watching it but I don’t know what stance to argue about.
Ah! I’ll use the Orbit plugin to get an AI to summarize the video for me. Hm. The AI-generated summary says the video describes an anecdote about music copyright violations, talks about some ethical considerations about both music and software piracy, and then:
The speaker concludes by acknowledging the complexity of the issue and the importance of considering the perspectives of all parties involved.
So I guess the answer was “Maybe?” How am I supposed to have a pointless Internet argument about “Maybe?”
Bah. Someone attack me for using AI, at least that’s a debate I can sink my teeth into.
There’s a 20-30% threshold of people who will believe just about anything.
Or it could just be that 30% haven’t been paying attention to the news for the past month or so.