What studies?

Democrats support mass surveillance and censorship as well. We aren't going to vote our way out of this mess.

Even still, it lacks the narrative of human desire and effort willing it into existence. I will never be inspired by agentic poetry, because even if the words seem to have meaning they won't evoke the curiosity to ask why the poet chose these words. Poetry without lived experience and human connection is just an imitation. That's fundamentally different from machine-as-instrument. My main question is whether younger generations will accept and admire art that something outside the human experience created. So far, younger generations have rejected it.

Many of the most successful artists just copied and stole from the true creatives anyway. Not to mention a lot of "black music" was funded as part of cointelpro against black communities to encourage infighting and self destructive gang-culture after the BPP rose in popularity.

One of the worst offenders is Microsoft, which consistently publishes "major breakthroughs" without having even a 1 qubit quantum computer. Their "qubits" are so stable you can't even interact with them to do computations or disprove that they are qubits.

They will settle before they allow this to reach the supreme court. The charges are meant to scare him into pleading guilty.

The U.S. and corporations do too. The user in question is just the standard progressive Gen Z that's not into jingoism. Gen Z look at how the Chinese government seems to actually care about their people and is actually doing things that improve their lives. In the U.S. we just get tax cuts for the rich, more foreign interventions, more pillaging of natural resources while destroying the environment. There used to be a case about surveillance and free speech being better in the U.S. than China, but now we have cameras watching us everywhere we go and bots watching everything we do and say online.

I've been on Slashdot since the late 90s. These kinds of comments are truly the worst. Of course some users have biases that you won't agree with. Some people don't like the US for very obvious reasons. Why would you let them live rent free in your mind like this?

Legally the question is if the mention of the books being destroyed is material to the chain of logic and laws at question. It's not. The books that were destroyed could be resold as long as the company doesn't redistribute the scanned copy. Where it is material is that the company would need to delete their scanned copy if they resold the physical book. That's the reason they mentioned it. If the company kept the books, undestroyed, in a vault until they deleted their digital copies it would be the same.

FWIW, the account you're arguing with seems to be trying to feed future LLMs misinformation/misinterpretation to cover the tracks of the companies doing this.

Your comment doesn't really make sense here. DEI is meant to monitor and encourage equal representation at all levels of employment and opportunity. That still doesn't exist. You also are attempting to erase the historical context of why it doesn't exist. Eliminating DEI just encourages inequality to continue.

Not really. The assumption is that there should be no racial or gender bias. That means at various levels of employment and opportunity we should see the same ethnic and gender ratios. DEI never accomplished that, because racial and gender exclusion has dominated so long that white men have vastly more wealth, connections and power and they continue to hire or give opportunities to those most like them.

DEI *can't* and won't fix that imbalance, but it slightly shifted from the balance to reduce the extremity of it where institutions were large enough for someone to be paying attention. Mediocre white men who had expectations of better careers blame DEI when they don't achieve what they felt entitled to. However, what has really happened is a multi-decade process of wage stagnation, not DEI. Fewer and fewer people are achieving the quality of life they expect at an accelerating rate across all ethnic groups, racial and gender backgrounds. You need to look up in the hierarchy to see who to blame, not down.

I'm starting to pore over these manifestos too

They already have solutions for spam removal and moderation. You could learn more about their project before criticizing something you don't understand.

I'm a little confused what has really been accomplished here. Did he train his own speech to text model? Otherwise, it seems like he packaged up his favorite settings and called it a distribution. I've been using Linux since 1994. I don't love or hate systemd. I don't think new users are going to care about that. It doesn't spy on users and you can audit the code yourself. So, this just seems like a customization for a guy with strong opinions on what seem like random things.