I am anti copyright and have been all my life. I have created things of value and always dump them into the public domain.
Copyright infringes our rights to use our brain and voice and hands and body.
Fuck IP.
Federal regulations are stupid level: they are owned by lobbyists and megacorps.
Send this to the states.
No, they're expecting the free money to dry up, and the company's value to plummet. If they cash out just before that happens, they maximize their own bank accounts.
This is basically an admission that the bubble is about to burst.
Regulators should be afraid of weaponized Ai. So should censors. So should monopolists.
All of the things the State has done in the past 500 years has been corrupt and bureaucratic and caused harm. All. Not most, but all.
All of the people who supported it, from monopolists to lobbyists to activists caused harm.
Ai is undoing it all. Not piece by piece but all at once.
I, for one, can't wait to see folks zapped for restraining voluntary behavior.
Yes. OS providers like Microsoft have forgotten the purpose of an operating system, They believe that the purpose of computing is the operating system,
Not really, Microsoft believes the purpose of an operating system is to a) generate income for Microsoft, and b) generate tons of personal data they can sell to advertisers and AI con artists.
I have doubts there ever was a Plan A, beyond "Let's see how much money we can get from the marks," but injecting ads has always been Plan B.
Even if there was a Plan A that would have made them profitable, and even if it had worked, there would still be a plan in place from Day One to "enhance shareholder value" by adding in advertising, more and more advertising, until there's nothing else left. (And if they time it right, the IPO will be just before the stock collapses, and they'll all go buy islands in the south seas somewhere, populated by nubile youths of their chosen persuasion.)
You know I'm right.
What really needs to be done is to take a page from China. EVERY Chinese business has government officials at the helm.
Did you really just say you want Donald Trump, personally, to control every business in the United States?
No wonder you posted anonymously. Wouldn't want the nurses to revoke your internet privileges. You might not get a cookie at bedtime. Or they might up your medication, and you know how that makes you feel.
This is why it's time to end social security.
I look at how much I've paid in over my life, and what it would be worth to me today EVEN IF you took out a lot to take care of the infirm and disabled.
There is no way that 65% of the population needs a full handout, but that's about what I'm paying.
Did "Andre Norton" identify as a man? If you expand "identify as" to include pen names (and nothing else), then yes. But I suspect J.K. Rowling (who published under the name "Robert Galbraith") would take issued with being told she "identified as" a man, though.
But the longer they can keep the pyramid from collapsing, the more they can pay themselves.
Maybe they won't stay in business.
We can only hope.
Often, they are appointed but have to run for re-election, but yeah, in quite a few states trial judges are elected. (Federal judges are always appointed for life.)
Romance novels have already been entirely formulaic for decades.
It is, by far, the more formula driven genre of fiction, and always has been, because that's what the market will buy. (It is also, by far, the biggest market for fiction, because those who want that same story, over and over, with different names, buy a lot of it.)
Like the way women who write science fiction had to publish with a man's name?
Nothing new there, not for nearly a hundred years.
There's always room for more bullshit. With any luck, they'll amass so much bullshit, it becomes a black hole and sucks in all the other techbro companies with it.
Entropy requires no maintenance. -- Markoff Chaney
