Policing the speech of other people = authoritarianism, yes.

Copyright is a government-granted (and enforced) monopoly. Under anarchy, no one would benefit from copyright protection, at least not the same way we have it now.

People could voluntarily police their own speech to stay in an association… but I don’t know how/if that would scale.

Works created by the U.S. government to not benefit from copyright protection.

I don’t believe either the government in general or congress in specific have the blanket ability to ignore copyrights held by others.

You see, I’m a “no code” developer. /s

I’m a programmer, and I’ve heard many programmers advocate for using “AI”. I surround myself with those that reject it (primarily for ethical reasons), but the ones at my last job seemed to like it.

Anyway, the whole industry has actually been built on vibes for at least a generation. C is bad. JS is worse. We have better languages that had better tooling and better semantics since before either of those were invented, but they were ignored in order to build an edifice to Capital on sand. Since then, the actual computer scientists (that study that branch of mathematics) have made much better languages and done studies to provide evidence they are easier to learn and produce a lower fault rate. That has been consistently ignored.

Adopting “AI” is just another step before the whole industry collapses, and we restart on better foundations and salvage what is absolutely necessary.

I don’t know what the next foundation actually is, or how stable it can even be when it’s built on this von Neumann trash instead of a proper Harvard Architecture. /s (I hope the foundation is related to GRTT or QTT.)

Fiddlesticks. “marblegargler” is perfectly cromulent. ;)

Is that a dictionary for witches? Or did you misspell wiktionary?

• Nestle, Part 1: Bad for your Food
• Nestle, Part 2: Bad for your Water
• Nestle, Part 3: Bad for your Shelter

Whatever can be destroyed by the truth should be destroyed by the truth. (https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/03/13/destroy/)

Our good girl has only caught one squirrel, but she never loses them due to speed or even maneuvering, it’s because they cross the fence or climb a tree where she can’t follow.

She has “caught” a few baby rabbits, that were still trying to hide instead of evade. I’ll bet you are right about her being unable to keep up with an mature rabbit.

No, that’s like telling the city government they can’t have cops arrest people for a law that hasn’t passed council.

That’s almost literally the opposite of what the judges actually said.

They specifically called out “the use of unfair and deceptive practices”, but ruled the FTC has to follow it’s own procedures and, in this case, did not.

Once the FTC follows it’s own processes and procedures, it can institute the same policy.

Practice. It get to Chestnut’s level, it has to be intentional.

3 popeyes sandwiches used the be a common order for me, but I try to eat less these days. Most of my practice was not with purpose of getting better, but I enjoyed the feeling of fullness even as a child and still love a buffet.

Well, maybe I’ll try again in the future but I don’t currently own a Samsung.

I guess the answer to at least one of those is no. Last time I tried a battery replacement, I broke the screen either during assembly or disassembly. I build my own desktop PCs, and have fixed laptop monitors and drives, but every time I attempt hardware repair on something phone-ish, I make it worse (even going back to when I owned an OpenMoko).

Maybe he’s got a finer point, but it actually just looks like an argument against categorization. It’s like saying I don’t trust math about “triangles” or “scalene triangles” or “rhombuses” when you find out about the special properties of the equilateral triangle or the square.

The fact that there are differences between elements of a category does not eliminate the utility of the commonalities shared by elements of a category. It does limit that utility, yes.

For example, just because you are getting plenty of protein, if you somehow completely avoid one of the amino acids that the human body uses but can’t synthesize, then eventually you will have some fairly specific health problems. That’s not strong evidence that it’s worth micromanaging your macronutrients by tracking your intake of all amino acids individually. (It might be; I haven’t seen it studies either way.)

Maybe I’m missing some context, but I also get the “anti-science” vibe from the image.

Justice can be achieved without racism.

Actually, it can’t. Since racism caused the injustice, identifying the victims and restoring their losses is impossible without using it.

The pendulum swing (post-dampening) is the only practical way to get to justice.

This is especially true since we can’t know we’ve achieved societal justice without some measurement delay.

Popular and profitable things do way more damage no matter how “uncool” they are. Boomers making minion images will only worsen the problem.

There’s no option for me to choose a copyright-free world. But, I can choose to not use (or promote or propagate) works made by “AI” owned my MASSIVE corporations in violation of the copyrights of millions of independent, often non-profit-driven content creators (including myself).

Employment is a necessity under Capitalism. Performance is not.

I agree. I don’t really see any problem with her performing the play.

BUT, I’m not sure the library should be forced to let her use the space (or be assessed civil penalties). So, I don’t think she should sue or that the suit should go her way.

I could be convinced if the library is supposed to be providing performing space to the public and the library is controlled/funded by the government. Then, I think she might have free speech protections, especially after they had done some scheduling. Asking her to change the characters definitely seems like content policing, not mere “time and manner” control.