Someone told me they’re sure I’ll spontaneously recover anytime now, since my body is “resilient and naturally strong”. It encoded a fascistic form of ableism, which divides people between strong and weak, where the former are invulnerable and the latter are disposable...
If you think monetary economies developed from barter economies, attacking the OP for sharing the scientific consensus makes you look culty. You’ve got a lot of indignation and no evidence.
Blattert, a chemical engineer, was jailed for over 11 years for strangling one of his children and beating her severely with glue sticks, a belt, and his hands – open palms and fists according to the testimony of his brave daughter. Her use of a mobile phone to capture part of the incident is likely the only reason the...
Communities are also fiercely opposing the mining because of the threat of water pollution. A 2019 report handed to judges of the Constitutional Court of Ecuador by the US foundation Defend Them All detailed the significant damage the exploitation of Loma Larga would have on the wetlands ecosystem, saying it was “virtually...
Empty Epsilon is a bridge sim, which means it’s a multiplayer game where many players command the same starship. I build the science console for scanning. It will probably make the game harder, but that’s not really a problem, as long as we’re having fun.
NEW YORK, New York — The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is excited to announce that workers of the Metropolitan Council on Housing have organized with unanimous support (non-supervisory staff). As of July 18, 2022 the IWW has notified management at the city’s oldest tenant’s rights organization that their staff are...
As regular readers of Rethinking Schools publications, we have benefited from many strategies for addressing the prejudices of racism, classism, and sexism. We wondered, however, about a parallel prejudice that rarely gets attention: ableism, or discrimination against people with physical, mental, or emotional disabilities....
Among anti-authoritarian healthcare workers, political projects tend toward street medic collectives, DIY herbalism projects, efforts to change the way we speak with our patients, or maybe a writing and propaganda project with other radical healthcare workers. These kinds of activist projects made up the majority of the sessions...
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I think a solution where the community gets some kind of codified constitution is a good one, but it requires both a knowledge of organizational law and a understanding of what makes the community great. If things get nailed down too soon, or get something wrong, it could really mess BeeHaw up. Maybe it’s a good long term goal.
I do wish people would not use start-up terminology like ‘runway’ - it’s a aviation metaphor, and implies an eventual ‘take off’ which is usually the point at which a start-up goes public or is sold by the capital investment firm to take their sky-high profits.
Thank you continuing this dialogue; I saw your bio, and though we disagree on this particular issue, I think we have a lot in common, and I appreciate your participation here.
Neither GOSH nor the government control who can create derivative works.
Unfortunately, that is not the case. They used their position to selectively control publication of works they didn’t approve. That’s clearly censorship.
But even if they only collected royalties, it would still be a free speech issue. Selectively assigning monetary costs to certain speech is an abridgement of free speech, for the same reason SLAPP lawsuits are a free speech issue.
Are you saying that ALL royalties for derivative works/use of IP are an abridgement of free speech in your view?
I do believe copyright, its continued extensions in favor of rights-holders, and associated attacks on the fair use doctrine are abridgements of free speech. I also believe each addition of complexity to copyright law is a gift to copyright law firms and the consolidated publishing corporations who can easily afford to employ them, as well as an attack on small publishers and authors to whom employing solicitors and barristers is an onerous burden. But that’s not what I’m arguing here.
I’m saying that granting eternal royalties from Peter Pan to GOSH creates a monetary disincentive for anyone but GOSH to publish derivative Peter Pan works. This creates a chilling effect on the republication of Barrie works and re-use of Peter Pan characters, and is worthy of outrage. This is similar in effect to the intractable libel laws that financially disincentivize publishing negative news about powerful figures and institutions in Britain, which is even more outrageous. I’m also saying that the special copyright status of Peter Pan and larger problems like the libel law situation are evidence of the same underlying issue: Britain’s relative disinterest in protecting free speech.
Why do you assume because I listed the most prominent example of GOSH’s censorship, that it was the only one? GOSH also litigated against Canadian author J. E. Somma. In both cases, GOSH settled out of court, and in both cases GOSH enforced a lack of transparency over the settlement as part of the terms. The point of these examples is to demonstrate that GOSH went beyond the bounds of mere royalty collector when they saw the chance, not to demonstrate chilling effect.
Chilling effect is not about the books that survived the gauntlet of publication to make it to the litigation stage; it’s about all the ideas that never had a chance to blossom because the threat of copyright enforcement nipped them in the bud. Part of what makes this kind of corporate theft so insidious is that it is impossible to count the works it prevented from existing, or judge the social good they would have done.
So recently there has been a lot of debate on AI-generated art and its copyright. I’ve read a lot of comments recently that made me think of this video and I want to highly encourage everyone to watch it, maybe even watch it again if you already viewed it. Watch it specifically with the question “If an AI did it, would it...
I’ll go one further - they can never work. AI is trained using a system where an artist system generates art, and a gatekeeper system gives a confidence rating of how it looks human. The artist system goes through a training process until it can consistently fool the gatekeeper system. If there was a system that existed that could identify currently generated AI art, it would become the new gatekeeper system, and the artist system would only get better.
A lot of these people are small operators; most don’t have storefronts, some sell online, and a few through farmers’ markets.
This is part of a movement astroturfed by Gab and Truth Social to create a market for goods and services that caters to trumpist producers and consumers. None of these businesses are capable of growing past their trumpist market. When they make enough capital to get noticed by journalists, their growth is going to crater like MyPillow due to the political backlash.
Here’s an example vendor. She’s going to be making overpriced unhygienic peanut butter in her kitchen for less than minimum wage and taking advantage of her children’s free labor until they all burn out. If by some miracle she got the capital to buy the machines needed to make peanut butter to USDA standards and at scale, a proper boycott of her distributors would bring it all down.
They’re rubes, offering their depressed labor to their cult leaders in order to take a small chip out of a corporation’s bottom line. The Budweiser boycott is a great example of this - when a culture war exercise got out of hand, Republican thought leaders shut it down to avoid hurting one of their major donors. They make them think they’re going to build a thriving business, but the masters will throw them aside if the corporations pay the appropriate bribes.
Polizistenhass: Chor-Experiment zur Reportage „Fick die Cops“ (yt.artemislena.eu) German
Daloy Polizei (Fuck The Police) - Geoff Berner (yt.artemislena.eu)
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Thread on Long Covid, Ablism, and Fascism (threadreaderapp.com)
Someone told me they’re sure I’ll spontaneously recover anytime now, since my body is “resilient and naturally strong”. It encoded a fascistic form of ableism, which divides people between strong and weak, where the former are invulnerable and the latter are disposable...
Shutting Down Feminist Frequency (feministfrequency.com)
How The Barter Myth Harms Us (www.youtube.com)
No example of a barter economy… has ever been described… all available ethnography suggests that there has never been such a thing.
OPINION: Why US homeschooling surge should concern us all (www.opendemocracy.net)
Blattert, a chemical engineer, was jailed for over 11 years for strangling one of his children and beating her severely with glue sticks, a belt, and his hands – open palms and fists according to the testimony of his brave daughter. Her use of a mobile phone to capture part of the incident is likely the only reason the...
How locals in Ecuador are fighting global gold mining firms (www.opendemocracy.net)
Communities are also fiercely opposing the mining because of the threat of water pollution. A 2019 report handed to judges of the Constitutional Court of Ecuador by the US foundation Defend Them All detailed the significant damage the exploitation of Loma Larga would have on the wetlands ecosystem, saying it was “virtually...
Wage Gains at UPS Have Amazon Workers Demanding More (labornotes.org)
Many people feel they work in pointless, meaningless jobs, research confirms (phys.org)
Science console for Empty Epsilon (peertube.tv)
Empty Epsilon is a bridge sim, which means it’s a multiplayer game where many players command the same starship. I build the science console for scanning. It will probably make the game harder, but that’s not really a problem, as long as we’re having fun.
Burn It All! - Rent Strike (www.youtube.com)
Unpatchable AMD Chip Flaw Unlocks Paid Tesla Feature Upgrades (www.tomshardware.com)
Original source: www.blackhat.com/us-23/briefings/…/index.html#jai…
Remembering Red Summer — Which Textbooks Seem Eager to Forget (www.zinnedproject.org)
New York’s Oldest City-Wide Tenant Organization Is Now Unionized - Industrial Workers of the World (www.iww.org)
NEW YORK, New York — The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is excited to announce that workers of the Metropolitan Council on Housing have organized with unanimous support (non-supervisory staff). As of July 18, 2022 the IWW has notified management at the city’s oldest tenant’s rights organization that their staff are...
Charlie Parr - Don't Send Your Child to War (yt.artemislena.eu)
I ain’t been but one little place and lived here all my life...
Beyond the Medal: Representations of Disability in Caldecott Winners (rethinkingschools.org)
As regular readers of Rethinking Schools publications, we have benefited from many strategies for addressing the prejudices of racism, classism, and sexism. We wondered, however, about a parallel prejudice that rarely gets attention: ableism, or discrimination against people with physical, mental, or emotional disabilities....
Seize the Hospitals!…But How?: Report Back from the Health Autonomy Conference (itsgoingdown.org)
Among anti-authoritarian healthcare workers, political projects tend toward street medic collectives, DIY herbalism projects, efforts to change the way we speak with our patients, or maybe a writing and propaganda project with other radical healthcare workers. These kinds of activist projects made up the majority of the sessions...
the August 2023 Beehaw financial update (opencollective.com)
obligatory preface: we’re 100%-user funded and everything you donate to us specifically goes to the website, or any outside labor we pay to do something for us....
Peter Pan and the Copyright that Never Grew Up - Plagiarism Today (www.plagiarismtoday.com)
When most people discuss perpetual copyrights, they’re usually its at least somewhat hyperbolic....
Copyright and why it's broken. - Tom Scott (www.youtube.com)
So recently there has been a lot of debate on AI-generated art and its copyright. I’ve read a lot of comments recently that made me think of this video and I want to highly encourage everyone to watch it, maybe even watch it again if you already viewed it. Watch it specifically with the question “If an AI did it, would it...
Who's up for some boycots? Don Jr is boosting a new shopping network. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Meet PublicSq., the ‘anti-woke’ marketplace backed by Donald Trump Jr.