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panamared27401

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N.C., USA. Management consultant, but not the crappy kind. Old, sweary, and stabby when provoked. #Antiracist; #Antifa; #Resist; trying to be a good LGBTQ and BLM ally. Interests: #journalism #media #maps #dataviz #astronomy #management #leadership #LearningAndDevelopment #learning #uspol #ncpol #cats #mastocats #kittens #CatsOfMastodon.

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stux, to random
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Guess I should just remove the 'hit reaction' animations from the monsters cause this just seems sooo dumb :flan_laugh:

Don't worry, it's not real and made in Unreal!

Shooting mega monsters gives a hit reaction bug

panamared27401,
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@stux No monsters were harmed in the making of this gif.

stopgopfox, to politics

Chris Licht is a moron. The CNN CEO believed he could court the MAGA crowd without losing the left. Instead, the network now finds itself hemorrhaging viewers and in the ratings basement behind Newsmax. Fire him.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2023/05/15/cnn-drops-to-fourth-place-in-prime-time-friday-night-behind-newsmax

panamared27401,
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@stopgopfox CNN's largest shareholder doesn't give a shit about CNN's ratings. What he cares about is getting Trump or another fascist back into the White House because THAT is how he makes real money. CNN's ad revenue is a drop in the bucket in comparison.

gsuberland, to random
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lmao I just got an email from what seems to be an actual real lawyer someone hired because they got banned from YouTube after I discovered their account consisted of dozens of videos ripping my content off with no credit. what the heck.

panamared27401,
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@gsuberland What is the tort they're claiming? Butthurt?

ajsadauskas, (edited ) to tech
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The enforcement of copyright law is really simple.

If you were a kid who used Napster in the early 2000s to download the latest album by The Offspring or Destiny's Child, because you couldn't afford the CD, then you need to go to court! And potentially face criminal sanctions or punitive damages to the RIAA for each song you download, because you're an evil pirate! You wouldn't steal a car! Creators must be paid!

If you created educational videos on YouTube in the 2010s, and featured a video or audio clip, then even if it's fair use, and even if it's used to make a legitimate point, you're getting demonetised. That's assuming your videos don't disappear or get shadow banned or your account isn't shut entirely. Oh, and good luck finding your way through YouTube's convoluted DMCA process! All creators are equal in deserving pay, but some are more equal than others!

And if you're a corporation with a market capitalisation of US$1.5 trillion (Google/Alphabet) or US$2.3 billion (Microsoft), then you can freely use everyone's intellectual property to train your generative AI bots. Suddenly creators don't deserve to be paid a cent.

Apparently, an individual downloading a single file is like stealing a car. But a trillion-dollar corporation stealing every car is just good business.

@music @technology @music

panamared27401,
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@kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon My late congresscritter, Howard Coble, was responsible for that. A product of north-central North Carolina, he was nicknamed "The Congressman from Disney" in the district (and in Washington) because of all the water he carried for that corporation on IP matters.

panamared27401,
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@kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon Oh, I know. I did some reading on Coble and Disney in the late 1990s, and I was stunned to learn about how much stuff they were squatting on. But money talks loudly enough to drown out all other voices.

panamared27401,
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@kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon Oh, I quite agree. Coble's hometown paper editorialized against the copyright changes Disney bought through him at the time, but nobody else listened. Coble certainly didn't.

panamared27401,
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@lispi314 @kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon Agreed. My 2 cents is that it's a reasonable compromise, but I get that people may disagree.

panamared27401,
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@kkarhan @lispi314 @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon No argument here.

panamared27401,
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@lispi314 @chucker @kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon I think a lot of musicians (cf. R.E.M.) with sizable back catalogs to which they own the rights would disagree with you, and honestly, I don't know what the right answer is.

That said, if you would, please explain why you mean by "copyright also inherently assumes you have a right to control the minds of others." I'm not following.

panamared27401,
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@lispi314 @chucker @kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon OK. So let's say there were no such thing as copyright law. How, then, would artists, writers, musicians, etc., make a living?

panamared27401,
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@lispi314 @chucker @kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon OK, I'll take a look.

panamared27401,
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@lispi314 @chucker @kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon Your model for writing code implies that all code writers must be someone else's employee. But what if they want to be independent? How do those folks get paid?

panamared27401,
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@lispi314 @chucker @kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon Also, the guy in the video says we should either ban copyright or severely shorten its length. Those are two VERY different things. I have to wonder whether severely shortening its length and streamlining the process for obtaining rights wouldn't solve most of the problems currently surrounding U.S. copyright while still allowing creative people a chance to make money.

panamared27401,
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@lispi314 @chucker @kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon Having been a freelancer and independent contractor off and on for 45 years, I've looked into most of them, and in most cases, for them to "work" -- by which I mean provide a living -- the artist must still be protected by copyright law; otherwise, others could duplicate and sell his/her work as their own and receive money that otherwise would have gone to the creator.

panamared27401,
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@lispi314 @chucker @kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon Even with copyright law, plagiarism happens all the time, albeit usually on the personal level rather than the industrial level. Imagine how bad, and how industrialized, it would get if we had no copyright law.

panamared27401,
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@lispi314 @chucker @kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon Your mileage may vary, but in my experience, particularly online, when people can get a copy of a particular work they want without paying the creator, that's what they do, if only because it's one less step.

panamared27401,
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@lispi314 @chucker @kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon For reasons on which I'm not immediately clear, there seems to be a lot more of an appetite for that sharing approach in the coding community than in the musician community.

panamared27401,
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@lispi314 @chucker @kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon That's plausible.

panamared27401, to random
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Rabies Shot Through the Heart


panamared27401, to random
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Sweet Premature Child O' Mine


tzimmer_history, to random
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Turning the purely ratings-driven platforming of a spectacle that only helps the far-right demagogue who once before tried to abolish democracy and constitutional government as a necessary civic service to get Libs and Lefties to leave their echo chambers is utterly cynical and insulting. 1/

https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1656813612491501568?s=46&t=1xecvNVImNo8TKt3oEvqnA

panamared27401,
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@MikeBon Yes, but in a less direct way than most people think. CNN CEO Chris Licht likely is doing what the parent company's most influential shareholder, John Malone, wants. The parent company, Warner/Discovery, makes so much money that Malone doesn't care whether CNN itself makes money, because putting Trump and other Republicans in power will make him FAR more money than even a highly profitable CNN will. So he wants CNN to get Trump & Republicans elected. That's where the money is.

Pwnallthethings, to random
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Kind of feel that if we have to live in an age where a politician can just say anything and live in a crazy fantasy world where it's assumed true, it's such a shame that the lies are all so fascisty and boring and not like "vote for me, literally all of you will be an astronaut in my term" or something

panamared27401,
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@Pwnallthethings I'm still waiting for the jetpacks they promised us in, like, 1967.

w7voa, to random
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"That was a rigged election," says Donald Trump at the top of his appearance on CNN 'Town Hall' from about , repeating previous lies. "They were stuffing ballot boxes."

panamared27401,
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@w7voa Fuck this guy.

ernie, to random
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For @Motherboard, I had the chance to talk to @haeckerfelix about his IKEA chair, which seems to be causing his 4K monitor to short itself … for some reason. https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgwd4d/popular-ikea-chair-turns-turns-computer-monitor-off-baffling-everyone

panamared27401,
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@suyin @ljrk @ernie @haeckerfelix Wowza. That said, I can't relate to spending $1,400 on a work chair. The only down side to working on the sofa is that occasionally it's a little too easy to nap. That said, I tend to work 12-hour days (though often spaced over 14-16 hours), so I don't feel TOO guilty.

zombierustpunk, to random
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Okay, maybe I’m not technically a witch, but I did recite a spell in an arcane language to a hunk of magic silicon, which wirelessly enchanted another block of silicon on the other side of the world, causing it to rearrange an array of liquid crystals, revealing runes for someone else to see. So that’s pretty cool.

panamared27401,
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@zombierustpunk Einstein said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." In context, he was cautioning that for technology to succeed, people must at least basically understand how it works, but I think you've got "basically" more than covered. As far as I'm concerned, if you want to be a witch, I see no problem with that.

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