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To anybody who went over to Bluesky after I encouraged them to do so - I am so very sorry. I had no idea that the staff there was like that.

To those who've been warning against going there, you were right and I was wrong. Totally wrong.

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@strawhatguy @walterkirn "However, if it can be shown that IP law does not"

Translation: "If somebody can come up with a superficially plausible sounding rationalization ..."

Remember "trade is a technology," that scam?
@strawhatguy @walterkirn The STEM communities are just now emerging from the harm done when the masses carelessly accepted that one without really thinking about it, because as nonsensical as it was, it sounded nice.

It sounded nice until the hunger it induced reached them.
@strawhatguy @walterkirn Then it sounded like BS to them, too, but not until lives were derailed for years, decades in some cases.

So, when you ask me to invite you to submit another specious argument and see who will fall for it, I'm going to say "no" to that, and that is basically what you asked for.
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@maxkeiser Glib pseudo-mystical bulls--t. My ideas come from me, from inside my own head. You do not have any sort of ethical right to help yourself to them.

@Jack is scum, and so is @elonmusk. We've always known it, but I guess they were determined to eliminate any doubt.
@maxkeiser @jack @elonmusk A world without IP protections is a world in which creators don't have to be paid for their work.
@maxkeiser @jack @elonmusk You're advocating the legalization of a kind of theft, and then trying to sell this slimy idea to the masses by feeding their egos, telling them that they helped inspire every idea that everybody else ever had.
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@TheQuartering @gofundme The rationale, itself, is an admission of corruption. In real life, public defenders are overworked, and are infamous for not going a great job of defending their clients.
@TheQuartering @gofundme To block fundraisers for those accused of violent crimes is to interfere with the ability of those so accused to get fair trials.

The company should not be at liberty to do that, period.
@TheQuartering @gofundme As important as free markets are, the right of a defendant in a criminal trial is far more important.

Economic ideas should not be prioritized over concerns about basic civil liberties.
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@centauri73 @SomeBitchIIKnow We're all going to be a little grumpy around here for a bit, I think. We've been crying over somebody who just died from a heart attack. He was in the hospital with a blood clot and things went horribly wrong.
@centauri73 @SomeBitchIIKnow In chat, we were drinking toasts to his memory, all night, until each of us went to sleep. He will be missed.
@centauri73 @SomeBitchIIKnow Also, "AI" covers a lot of territory. There's the type of AI done by serious people with modest, realistic ambitions and that can be interesting. Eg. Numerical algorithms can sometimes get stuck. Something that could get them unstuck would be useful.
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@daves2481 @thatfatbobcat @IanJaeger29 "Exactly how would you propose taking back the land from the aggressor?"

Reality check: The mighty Russian army has failed to overwhelm the Ukrainian army for a few years, now. If NATO put boots on the ground, it could obviously crush the Russian army.
@daves2481 @thatfatbobcat @IanJaeger29 Nobody sane person seriously maintains that the Ukrainian army, even with the outside funding and supplies, comes close to being as powerful as the US army. Or as powerful as would be the army of a fully re-armed Germany, which at this point is looking like a very good idea.
@daves2481 @thatfatbobcat @IanJaeger29 "Should America nuke Moscow? That’s sounds like a plan."

Nice straw man.

"Russia is a superpower"

They demonstrably are not, not in conventional terms. A real superpower could not be fought to anything resembling a draw by a barely developed country a fraction of its size.
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Feb 17
@Flickr Hi. I was going to get an account on your site, but then I found out that this would have been a bad idea.

archive.is/xzAHV

short-stories.deadjournal.com/738.html

Live and learn, right? Having just read the post, I'll give you all a condensed version of the story.
@Flickr Writer gets Flickr account. He's going to do mixed media work, combining contemporary urban realist fiction with digital art. He writes a bio in which talks about his creative choices and the thinking behind them.
@Flickr He uploads a plain black rectangle, because he wants to get rid of the banner over his photostream. At this point, that's all that is on his account - a lengthy artist's manifesto and that first, simple upload.

Without warning, Flickr instantly deletes his account.
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