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mindbleach ,

Doctor Who feels like this.

mindbleach ,

There is no equivalent data for the second image, because “communism has never been tried.”

mindbleach ,

… under which religious empire?

mindbleach ,

If that counts then what doesn’t.

mindbleach ,

Zero time between bolded assertions of misrepresentation… and ‘I bet you also mean Nazis.’

Nah. I’m describing conversations that pivot like it’s just a word game. ‘We should do a communism.’ ‘That super didn’t work in several example countries.’ ‘They don’t count! That wasn’t true communism.’

Okay… but they were trying.

They tried to try communism.

They had your stated goals… and often your planned methods… and it went a certain way. Why else would an example count? Is this not exactly the criticism y’all do for capitalism, when you say it inevitably tends toward the worst outcomes? You’d never respect some asshole insisting ‘capitalism is only when perfectly informed consumers make rational choices between unlimited options,’ and therefore ‘capitalism has never been tried.’ That inane hair-splitting wouldn’t dispel condemnation of observable problems. They know which countries and systems you’re talking about, when you talk shit about them.

Y’all know which countries people are talking about, and why. There’s a flag in this image. Picking nits about word choice is not a meaningful defense of what they fucked up, and why.

mindbleach ,

Right, because you know what people told me, and I don’t. I must never have had these conversations because they’re not what you want to bring up.

Coupling that with ‘don’t use wrong terminology you didn’t use’ is illustrative.

none of it was because tools turn people evil if they collectively own them.

Oh is that all you’re proposing? Is it? Is it, though? Is it really? No further details that might be relevant?

Do you not feel the slightest tug of cognitive dissonance, scolding someone for not inferring the exact sub-branch they’re allowed to critique, in a one-sentence joke?

mindbleach ,

I described conversations I’ve had and your hot take is ‘no you didn’t.’

If what I say doesn’t matter then you can find someone else to project at.

mindbleach ,

Yeah why would a joke concern a related topic instead of absolutely precisely exactly what’s right there in the text, and by in-the-text I mean the fact there’s no text?

Nobody ever jokes about things unless they’re categorically opposed.

Obviously a meme community should be deadly serious, for scholarly discourse, and also nuh-uh nobody oversteps your position or misuses your rhetoric, never ever. A ghost did it!

Yeesh.

mindbleach ,

Whether or not you find it amusing, I really don’t think you know how jokes work.

mindbleach ,

I’m not dealing with this if you won’t demonstrate object permanence. Repeating the same insulting lies about me personally is an abuse and I am done tolerating it. Goodbye.

mindbleach ,

Palworld --> Rimworld. Huh.

mindbleach ,

Meaning, microtransactions out the wazoo? Even a firm negative answer might change.

Sims add-ons are new content for sale. Only the price is obscene. The general concept is just… how game add-ons are supposed to work. They made more stuff, you buy it as a product, you have the stuff. The issue is when the sum total of that content is maybe twice as big as the base game, and somehow costs seven hundred dollars.

Nobody would be mad at this shit if it was $60 for the base game, and then six months later, $60 for everything else. But that’s never what the greedy bastards want.

mindbleach ,

Some formats get abused when people don’t recognize them as formats. “Demotivational posters” were the done thing for a while. Then advice animals. Then rage comics. The people doing it genuinely don’t understand they can just not do it, because they’ve never thought about it for one second. They view this as the baseline.

This can happen across entire commercial mediums. Giant robots started as a specific narrative power fantasy and became the setting where animes happen. Same deal for magical high schools, rigid-but-shallow dystopian societies, and isekais. Holy shit, do isekais make the issue crystal clear. The instant utility of shoving a like-you-but protagonist into a different world is shamelessly direct. But it keeps showing up in stories where there’s no reason the main character has to be from somewhere else. These authors think that getting Wizard Of Oz’d is just the paper you write the story on.

mindbleach ,

I am completely and mentally stable.

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mindbleach ,

I’d wager invite-only versus network effect. Early adopters have more opportunity to shape the emerging community. There was no rush of standard American dorks to homogenize the place.

mindbleach ,

Wow.

mindbleach ,

The nihilist who takes a bowling ball to the gut?

The taxi driver from Hardware?

… Feyd Harkonnen?

mindbleach ,

Other bass-first songs include “You’ve Seen The Butcher” and “Radiant City” by the Deftones.

mindbleach ,

Boorus ought to be halfway there. They’re content-centric and high-bandwidth, they tend to have a theme, and they live or die by worthwhile tagging. But they’re not a feed, the way most federated platforms have been. They are not social media in any sense. They’re image hosts, minus any the incentive to create attention-sucking antipatterns.

Maybe with a more unified user experience - and ideally some P2P elements to make hosting cheaper and sturdier - we could fucking finally have a place that just hosts drawings. We’re a quarter of the way into the twenty-first century and it is absurd that every gallery site has some arbitrary limits on what content is too weird.

Tumblr used to be the exception, until Apple destroyed them. Bastards.

mindbleach ,

Five years apart.

mindbleach ,

I prefer chickens.

mindbleach ,

That’s why those cities built ports.

That’s why those ports matter.

mindbleach ,

By all rights, she should get to ask his mom to buy her stuff too, and mama Hakimi can only say no half the time.

mindbleach ,

So that deep-fried “E” period was the Cambrian explosion. Anything goes.

mindbleach ,

You downloaded it. You tried it.

End of thought process.

mindbleach ,

“One two three not it.”

mindbleach ,

Velocity changes how time works. The faster you go, the slower it happens.

mindbleach ,

Nations should also be free to choose their own destiny.

Dictatorships are not about choice.

mindbleach ,

> democracy is good

> dictatorship is bad

Somehow this is a contradiction.

mindbleach ,

Predictable and stupid.

Don’t be a tankie by gladhanding a power-consolidating autocrat-for-life.

mindbleach ,

Oh sorry, do you not know how to respond if I don’t phrase it where you can go ‘no u?’

If you keep hearing these labels, maybe it’s because this is the reality. Xi is a dictator - Biden is not. Americans can talk shit about their leader - the Chinese cannot.

Lie better or fuck off.

mindbleach ,

“Nuh-uh!” repeats troll, ignoring damning example of real problems in the next sentence.

Often described as an authoritarian leader by political and academic observers, Xi’s tenure has included an increase of censorship and mass surveillance, deterioration in human rights, including the internment of a million Uyghurs in Xinjiang (which some observers have described as part of a genocide), a cult of personality developing around Xi, and the removal of term limits for the presidency in 2018.

“Vibes,” says lying idiot. “Whatever I don’t wanna hear is just vibes.”

mindbleach ,

It’s Wikipedia, blocked troll. Not that you’d care even if the man told you to your face. You’ve found one stupid thing to repeat, and that is the extent of your ability to form thoughts. Waste someone else’s time. Or, better idea: don’t.

very upsetting (lemmy.ml)

captiona screenshot of the text: > Tech companies argued in comments on the website that the way their models ingested creative content was innovative and legal. The venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has several investments in A.I. start-ups, warned in its comments that any slowdown for A.I. companies in consuming...

mindbleach ,

I don’t give a shit about copyright for training AI.

But I don’t give a shit about investors, either.

mindbleach ,

Nah. Even in its current stupid state, copyright has to recognize that sifting through the entire internet to get a gigabyte of linear algebra is pretty goddamn transformative.

No kidding the machine that speaks English read every book in the library. Fuck else was it gonna do?

mindbleach ,

“This law is immoral but also twist these criminals’ balls off” is a double standard. Mercilessly enforcing shite laws is never a sane position.

Especially when I am telling you - this isn’t illegal. The overwhelming majority of AI training is plainly transformative, and based on readily-available public materials. A torrented version of a published work is still a published work. I don’t care how they got it, and obviously neither should you, But you want to act infuriated that this cutting-edge technology used dubiously-sourced… text files? Shush.

mindbleach ,

I fail to realize how it matters how much it is transformed.

And ignoring when people explain that it does.

You want copyleft to be super duper copyright, where even quoting a sentence of a Cory Doctorow novel demands an entire newspaper gets GPL’d forever. We don’t care what fair use says! This anti-copyright goal demands more protection than mere copyright!

This is silly.

Transformation is where copyright does not apply, because you did something new. No matter what works you referenced - your thing is different. It’s why Disney can’t sue Wikipedia for articles describing their movies. It’s also why Wikipedia can’t sue OpenAI for models describing their articles.

mindbleach ,

Accurate enforcement of copyright would have no effect on AI because training is fair use.

Wishing it were otherwise is a misunderstanding of copyright, even if you’re against copyright.

mindbleach ,

It also means i can legally train my own image Model on pictures of Hogwarts to generate cozy castle backdrops for my own art.

As much as you could just look at them and draw stuff.

And with the same potential consequences if you try using a blatant knockoff as a wholly original design.

mindbleach ,

Gonna bet the floating candles aren’t historically accurate.

Am i allowed to go on a stream type “Eiffel tower” in a prompt window and press generate?

Yeah. Free and clear. As much as you’re allowed to take a photo of the actual extremely-visible landmark.

But you’re probably not allowed to build a replica as a tourist attraction.

I have seen no legal statements that explains such cases

My impression of your understanding is not impressive.

mindbleach ,

Glibly equating taking a picture and publishing a picture does not help your argument.

Generating an image is not about to infringe copyright. No more than drawing it and showing it to the guy beside you. Copyright is about the use of images. Mostly: copying.

Using whatever image comes out as your company logo, as if anything created by anyone through any means can ever be automatically “free and clear” of all prior art, is obviously stupid. Like come on. No shit the draw-anything machine can draw popular characters, major brands, famous scenes, etc., etc., etc. Rendering stuff we recognize is what it’s for. Nobody promised you a universally bespoke image, somehow unlike anything reality had ever seen before. Why in the name of god would that expectation be a metric worth discussing?

mindbleach ,

it still looks near original.

Presumably you know, but for anyone else: the word for this is “transparent.” It’s when the codec leaves no noticeable artifacts.

mindbleach ,

Misread as “gaming industry” and was briefly very confused.

mindbleach ,

You’d describe the encoding, not the source. The fun part is that it also applies to audio. “At 256 kbps, MP3 is transparent.”

It only applies to lossy codecs. Lossless codecs, by definition, have no error. “Error” itself being a borrowed term. Good encodings don’t have fewer errors… they have less error. For example, measured as mean squared error, where an individual sample being very wrong counts more than many samples being slightly wrong.

mindbleach ,

Unless they were shooting with anamorphic lenses, that’s still cropping 4:3 to 16:9.

The real issue is that AFAIK the show’s never been remastered from film. All we have are DVD transfers - and filters on top of that.

mindbleach ,

Alternately: PILF.

mindbleach ,

I’ve done the math for how long it’d take to randomly guess the last several kilobytes until something checksummed correctly.

I was not pleased with the answer.

mindbleach ,

Let me save you some time: not enough.

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