You might want to look into Gemini (not Google’s “AI” offering, despite the name). It’s an internet protocol for sharing text-only communication. There’s a whole community out there working with it.

Having lived in a few countries now (Canada, Netherlands, UK) I can categorically say that when workers get more free time, they tend to have better political outcomes, which trend toward socialism because of course they do.

There’s something deeply infuriating about a politician citing climate change and energy security as priorities in the same breath as promoting LNG and carbon capture as solutions.

He either doesn’t understand the problem, or he’s hoping we don’t. Both options make him a terrible leader.

Edit: and now I’m at the point where he’s saying that the path to transition is through a period of increased emissions because the shock would be too great. Now where have I heard that before?

Oh right, the last 30 years. Somehow, choosing not to burn the planet is something “Future Canada” will have to do. “Present Canada” is always willing to screw over future generations if it means making fossil companies richer.

This is the typical defence for copyright. It’s also innacurate to the point of being intellectually dishonest. It ignores the reality of capitalism where legal protections only exist for people and corporations that have the money/power to get what they want.

Your Thing™ example would be cloned and sold on Amazon by a broad range of fly-by-night companies, and that’s if you’re lucky. If you’re unlucky, Amazon will clone it themselves, obfuscate your product in its search results, and sell your product under their brand, sometimes even for more than you’re selling it.

If your Thing™ isnt a physical product but rather something creative, then 99 times out of 100, there are only really two paths available to you:

In the lucky case you sell your copyright to a third party that exploits it (and you), offering you a pittance while simultaneously tying your hands, preventing you from creating derivative works or even just giving it away… for the res t of your life, and that of your kids’. In the unlucky case, you can’t afford to promote your product, so you toil for years with little to no reward for your work. Then AI techbros scrape your art and sell it back to you exclusively for their profit.

Copyright has some great marketing, but it offers you little while the rich claim ownership over your art, and our society.

Those rights are yours. They’re only denied to you because of copyright and capitalism.

Totally agree. I’m very excited for KOG and want to support its development, but the last thing I want is more plastic crap.

“Act”? Like, “just stop oil”? Nonsense. That’d be terrorism. /s

I’ve been using the FOSS version of Kvaesitso and I quite like it.

All perfectly reasonable requirements.

I like this alot.

Well as someone who’s never heard of Flint Global, I think the fossil fuel link required supporting data.

Even still, having worked in the past for a company that did lobbying for many industries, one of which was fossils is still a ways from “fossil fuel lobbyist”. That sort of claim requires more direct evidence for me.

He is however the former chair of Friends of Israel though, so I think were on the same “fuck this guy” page.

Fair. I read this as more of a epic security failure and wasn’t considering the motivations behind the dumb system in the first place.

Funny, but not AI-related.

Neither the Guardian article, nor his Wikipedia entry mention any lobbying for fossil fuels. Do you have a source for this?

Honestly, this number feels low.

I’m curious about this. How are you doing it and what sorts of poison are you generating?

I understand that there are watermarking tools like Nightshade, but I hear they’ve already been undermined. I’d like to create a never ending rabbit hole of fake blog posts, but I’m not clear on how to ensure that the site’s search indexing continues to work while poisoning any AI crawling.

How would you reset the timer whenever input is detected though?

Please no.

I’ve seen (and read) The Expanse, and you’re right, it’s fantastic. One of the authors has also repeated gone on record as doing his best to fight the patriarchy.

That article was very difficult to read due to the many, many grammatical errors. TL;DR: a vibecoded slop instance went down when an agent published credentials to the repo and the 2FA system was broken. The fediverse responded with defederation.