Marcela (she/her)
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2·27 days agoAnd provided an insight to the whole flow of dark money.
Edit: Otherwirse they could just brush it off as a rumor/conspiracy theory.
8·1 month agoI think that the judge said that the decision does not mean that Meta acted lawfully, but that the authors did not present convincing arguments, and wishes that other plaintiffs will come up with better arguments to set a legal precedent against Meta, who stands to make trillions out of it, and thus can compensate the creators.
Conclusions: Legal torrenting is not in sight because of this. And we watch capitalist accumulation in real time.
Oh thanks, I have been looking for this. Someone referenced this argument but I could not retrieve the exact source.
I expected they would say that “downloading only” is fair use. But they also argued uploading? These girls have gone wild.
I also saw elsewhere that they said “decades-old copyrights law” can’t hinder their innovation. And this is what rival capitalist interests manufacturing legal precedent looks like.
1·1 month agoWell said!
4·1 month agoJudging from the other comments, I am not sure that others got the B99 reference.
Edit: Having reread your comment - hilarious!
Hey I see what you did there!
LMAO
17·5 months agoMaxwell insisted on grand titles – “International Journal of” was a favourite prefix. Peter Ashby, a former vice president at Pergamon, described this to me as a “PR trick”, but it also reflected a deep understanding of how science, and society’s attitude to science, had changed. Collaborating and getting your work seen on the international stage was becoming a new form of prestige for researchers, and in many cases Maxwell had the market cornered before anyone else realised it existed.
If you explain to any outsider that what we call science is a game of collecting and showing off units of prestige, they will be flabbergasted. Maxwell catered to the most superficial and vain aspects of the human psyche, and traded in a measure of righteousness. This is genius, I will grant him that, but opposite to the objectives of science. He made the worst possible metric about which to measure everything, and created a global system of narcissistic organizations selling their souls to publish to these journals.
And scientists are the least probable to rebel against this status quo. If anything, it will make them appear as big-time asses who are full of themselves. They are bound to project more legitimacy onto the system, similar to doomsday cultists.
Aspesi was not the first person to incorrectly predict the end of the scientific publishing boom, and he is unlikely to be the last. It is hard to believe that what is essentially a for-profit oligopoly functioning within an otherwise heavily regulated, government-funded enterprise can avoid extinction in the long run. But publishing has been deeply enmeshed in the science profession for decades. Today, every scientist knows that their career depends on being published, and professional success is especially determined by getting work into the most prestigious journals.
It is the departments’ choice to cancel subscriptions anytime and start publishing on their own terms. They are equally to blame when they esteem reputation above all, and measure reputation by publishing to these journals. Let’s not pretend that big-shot universities are simply taken hostage by a handful corrupt billionaires. They’re in on it.
It is as if the New Yorker or the Economist demanded that journalists write and edit each other’s work for free, and asked the government to foot the bill. Outside observers tend to fall into a sort of stunned disbelief when describing this setup. A 2004 parliamentary science and technology committee report on the industry drily observed that “in a traditional market suppliers are paid for the goods they provide”. A 2005 Deutsche Bank report referred to it as a “bizarre” “triple-pay” system, in which “the state funds most research, pays the salaries of most of those checking the quality of research, and then buys most of the published product”.
Racket.
1·5 months agoI think it was all over the repo.
2·5 months agoWell, many people are not aware of the link between their ChatGPT projects and the rise in their electricity bill, nor the foreshadowed electricity drought. Contrary to what corpos had people believe about their “individual responsibility via recycling” their individual contribution to these outcomes is now actively suppressed by the billionaire-owned media. Curious.
Wow there is a lot packed into this comment, which I mostly agree with.
- Dumb collectible “ownership” fetishism
- Delusion epidemic due to AI addiction
- Decades-long Climate adaptation setback
- Devastating labor practices
- Cult doomsday syndrome reinforcing false beliefs
- Vaccine skepticism popularity and health outcomes
I am still baffled by how you managed to stuff the entirety of endstage capitalism dystopia into two short sentences. No wonder the word “fatigue” is featured in the username!
But I came here to point out that the last part is possible occurence of cognitive dissonance. When they have fucked up so badly, by commiting to such big evils, and especially sacrificing their kids health, yeah, there is no way back… Cognitive dissonance makes it impossible to admit the harm, so they are bound to reinforce the beliefs or face tremendous levels of guilt.
to let a generic phrase be forever attached to a political movement in any setting is a bit much
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BTW this is a prolonged ‘Aha moment’, not a typesetting symbolism of laughter.
“Living space”, like? Displacing other peoples to provide an ideal amount of population density to your own people is still not OK. Or it should be anyway.
Good, but the way the developer spells “nazy” makes me to follow the quoted advice on my own brain process:
if you want to change the wallpaper during runtime, you must pkill the daemon, and then start it again
The first name of the project was “The Final Solution to your Wayland Wallpaper Worries”. The developer reports he was unaware of the connotation until the Ukraine war happened.
Is this the reverse Turing test? It can be used to gauge if hominid hype followers can “really” think…
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