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silence7 , to technology in Facebook removed every post linking to Kansas Reflector’s website, apparently in response to an op-ed about Facebook's censorship of climate-related ads

OP: If you’re in Canada, Meta banned news there entirely

silence7 OP , to world in Heat Waves Are Moving Slower and Staying Longer, Study Finds | Climate change is making heat waves linger for longer stretches of time, exacerbating the effects of extreme temperatures.

Most news isn’t some major exposé, but routine reporting on things that are happening. This falls into that category.

silence7 OP , to technology in AI hustlers stole women’s faces to put in ads. The law can’t help them.

Because it’s a pain to go do (and was especially so in the film era) and it change what the photo conveys in a meaningful way.

Think of for example a photo like this, showing anti-civil-rights protesters in 1969:

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/e8bd6a64-3b5f-414a-af20-bdd8cc3d8c90.webp

Blurring the faces would meaningfully obscure what was going on, and confuse people about who held what kinds of views.

silence7 OP , (edited ) to technology in AI hustlers stole women’s faces to put in ads. The law can’t help them.

In the US, kinda sorta.

Advertisers are liable if they use your likeness to promote a product, imply endorsement, or otherwise make commercial use of it without your consent. This gives you the right to sue, which is worth absolutely nothing when you’re dealing with a shady overseas shell company hawking fake Viagra.

News organizations, artists, and random private individuals can publish a photo or other image of you taken in a place where you do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy without having to contact you or have your consent. This is important: think of trying to share a photograph of a public event, and having to track down people in the background, or create public awareness when you photograph politician committing a crime.

silence7 OP , (edited ) to technology in AI hustlers stole women’s faces to put in ads. The law can’t help them.

It’s considered a civil dispute. You can sue to those using your face in an ad for monetary damages, which in practice means you’re trying to sue an overseas shell corporation with no assets, and can’t get anything, so no lawyer will represent you.

silence7 OP , to world in Oil Giants Plan to Bury Massive Amounts of CO2 in Southeast Asia | After decades of burning carbon, Exxon, Shell and others are looking to lock down the rare places that can absorb it.

Lol no. It’s a tiny and very expensive part of what needs doing

silence7 OP , to world in Climate change is altering Earth’s rotation enough to mess with our clocks

Most of lemmy fails to load thumbnails for The Washington Post

silence7 OP , to world in Climate change is altering Earth’s rotation enough to mess with our clocks

Yeah, kbin has a couple of nasty bugs:

  • it can’t get thumbnails for anything on the Washington Post
  • when it doesn’t have a thumbnail, it picks one at random from some other post
silence7 OP , to world in Ukraine, Stalled on the Battlefield, Targets Russia’s Oil Industry

An attack on the midstream is fundamentally different from burning oil at the well in terms of how it affects how much carbon goes into the atmosphere; it results in oil not being extracted and burned.

silence7 OP , to world in Ukraine, Stalled on the Battlefield, Targets Russia’s Oil Industry

Burning an oil well directly burns oil which people would otherwise burned, while raising prices and encouraging additional extraction. I’ll also note that Saddam Hussein had people light the oil wells on fire before the US moved in.

An attack on a refinery prevents oil from being burned, and can’t burn oil that’s not there. I’d prefer to see them shut down in a planned matter, but this is better than keeping them going.

Different things are different. Deal with it.

silence7 OP , to world in Ukraine, Stalled on the Battlefield, Targets Russia’s Oil Industry

Prevent crude oil from being refined, and it’s not useful, so people don’t burn it. The quantities passed through the refinery are far greater than the amount present at it on any given day, so one less refinery means a whole lot less consumption.

silence7 OP , to world in Ukraine, Stalled on the Battlefield, Targets Russia’s Oil Industry

Key difference: a major failure at the nuclear reactor is can kill people across a large area.

Taking out refineries is going to raise the cost of gas, and lower the value of oil, resulting in both a cut to drilling and to burning, which is a net benefit for people.

silence7 OP , to technology in The first demonstration of entirely roll-to-roll fabricated perovskite solar cell modules under ambient room conditions

Yes, that’s the hope. It’s still more expensive than silicon cells. But this gives it a plausible path to commercial viability.

silence7 OP , to technology in Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies

On average, people junk cars at about 20 years. A few really do last longer, particularly if they’re not driven daily.

silence7 OP , to technology in Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies

That won’t work at scale; cars wear out, and become expensive enough to maintain that people scrap them

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