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kyozou

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I've lived on 3 continents and seen a few things. I hope that journalists will move over here so I don't have to keep going back to the bad place.

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drahardja, to random
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A Brit just explained to me that a lot of homeownership in England is based on a leasehold arrangement, where you own your house, but RENT the land from a landowner. When the lease expires, the land AND THE HOUSE IT CONTAINS reverts to the landowner, even if you’ve paid for it. While leases can be extended basically indefinitely, it is possible for it to lapse and for landowners to seize the house that YOU BUILT for zero money.

Can someone confirm this? If true, that is…landlording and “generational passive income” taken to a WHOLE new level.

#england #uk #landowner #homeowner

kyozou,
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@drahardja Not residential, but almost all the property along the SF waterfront is like that. Ground leases of 50-60 years. Cost of building & maintaining structures is shouldered by leaseholders.

kyozou, to Israel
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Just want to be sure I have this correct.
People are angry about what , an ally of *rump, is doing, so they are going to help put *rump back in the White House so Israel can kill even more Palestinians.
That about right?

drahardja, to generativeAI
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Much as I dislike the theft of human labor that feeds many of the products we see today, I have to agree with @pluralistic that law is the wrong way to address the problem.

To frame the issue concretely: think of whom copyright law has benefited in the past, and then explain how it would benefit the individual creator when it is applied to . (Hint: it won’t.)

Copyright law is already abused and extended to an absurd degree today. It already overreaches. It impoverishes society by putting up barriers to creation and allowing toll-collectors to exist between citizen artists and their audience.

Labor law is likely what we need to lean on. and protect creators in a way that copyright cannot. Inequality and unequal bargaining power that lead to exploitation of artists and workers is what we need to address head-on.

Copyright will not save us.

“AI "art" and uncanniness”

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/13/spooky-action-at-a-close-up/#invisible-hand

kyozou,
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@drahardja @pluralistic Copyright law benefits authors who write books, artists who create art, and musicians who make music. Who do you think it has benefitted?

shoq, to random
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Fucking language barriers. After 4 days of trying to arrange shipping for samples, this woman in Shandong says “sorry, our Alibaba writer Engish not so good.”

No shit. They wrote “Minimum Order: 10” when they meant “10 pallets.” Doh!

kyozou,
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@shoq Machine translation. AI that’s been f**king up things for over a decade now.

kyozou, to ai
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I dare someone to collect a bunch of stuff that @mmasnick has written, package it up, and publish it as a book for sale on Amazon.

StillIRise1963, to random
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You can pick the sadist nazi narcissist who promises to put millions in camps, seeks SCOTUS approval to assassinate rivals and murder anyone he wants when he’s told you he has a VENDETTA, or you can pick the other guy who does some tangibly good things, even if there are other things we’d like to not happen or change, and doesn’t THREATEN OUR VERY LIVES.

kyozou,
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@StillIRise1963 @Millhouse You are delusional if you think that *rump isn’t an even bigger threat to Palestinians.

MikeDunnAuthor, to Philippines

Today in Labor History March 17, 1966: 100 striking Mexican American and Filipino farmworkers marched from Delano, California to Sacramento to pressure the growers and the state government to answer their demands for better working conditions and higher wages, which were, at the time, below the federal minimum wage. By the time the marchers arrived, on Easter Sunday, April 11, the crowd had grown to 10,000 protesters and their supporters. A few months later, the two unions that represented them, the National Farm Workers Association, led by César Chávez, and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, joined to form the United Farm Workers. The strike was launched on September 8, 1965, by Filipino grape pickers. Mexicans were initially hired as scabs. So, Filipino strike leader Larry Itliong approached Cesar Chavez to get the support of the National Farm Workers Association, and on September 16, 1965, the Mexican farm workers joined the strike. During the strike, the growers and their vigilantes would physically assault the workers and drive their cars and trucks into the picket lines. They also sprayed strikers with pesticides. The strikers persevered nonviolently. They went to the Oakland docks and convinced the longshore workers to support them by refusing to load grapes. This resulted in the spoilage of 1,000 ten-ton cases of grapes. The success of this tactic led to the decision to launch a national grape boycott, which would ultimately help them win the struggle against the growers.

kyozou,
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@MikeDunnAuthor Did you know that there's a new musical about Larry?
https://www.larrythemusical.com/

https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/larry-itliong-larry-the-musical-18672594.php

https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/larry-itliong-musical-sf-filipinos-19365243.php

augieray, to random
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“With nearly as many hospitalizations in January 2024 as in January 2023, it’s clear that is not growing milder and it’s not fading away. The real question, then, is not whether COVID is still a pandemic, but how much COVID illness and death are we willing to accept?”

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2024/is-covid-19-still-a-pandemic/

kyozou,
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@augieray It would be helpful to segregate mortality & hospitalization data by vaccination status.

kyozou,
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@augieray That’s interesting information but it doesn’t address my question.

skinnylatte, to animals
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Cookie at the end of a 5 mile walk today (1x speed! Look at her go!)

A senior Cavalier King Charles spaniel walking really fast

kyozou,
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@skinnylatte Does she speed up when she realizes you're heading home?

kevbob, to animals Italian
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Fa fa fa fa fashion

kyozou,
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@kevbob Looks so much like my girl that I lost a few years ago.

kyozou, to Russia
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How money money would lose if started shooting out of the sky? And what would do to keep that from happening?

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/14/house-intel-national-security-threat-russia-space-power-00141473

kyozou,
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@jayrandom @kyozou Of course there’s nothing good about it. Just wondering aloud why Elon and his pals have lately openly joined Team Putin.

ai6yr, to random
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    kyozou,
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    @ai6yr I had an incident when I was young that taught me to never bring bad news unless I was 100% sure that I was the right person to bring that news.

    lauren, to random
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    Very disappointed in Jon Stewart's return to Daily. He seems to feel that the world is the same as when he left the show years ago, and that risking fascism is worth a few laughs.

    kyozou,
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    @mark @lauren His “both sides” cynicism de-motivates people we need to vote for Biden.

    fraying, to random
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    Boy have I missed this guy.
    https://youtu.be/NpBPm0b9deQ

    kyozou,
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    @fraying The last thing we need is more “both sides” bullshit.

    skinnylatte, to languagelearning
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    Every week I do my language homework, panic about how ‘I don’t know these words’, then realize that all the words I don’t know are the Taigi words that originated from Japanese

    Also, I have to zoom in to see how to write some traditional characters, coz I’m getting old (and I actually only know how to write simplified)

    kyozou,
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    @skinnylatte @glightly I get that with Japanese stuff. I read books, newspapers, and other printed matter but then someone decides I can’t really read Japanese because I can’t figure out some highly stylized calligraphy. 🤷‍♀️

    drahardja, to random
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    One thing y’all should know about the people behind these anti-Tesla ads is that it’s financed by Dan O’Dowd, a billionaire and media troll who owns Green Hills Software, a safety-focused real time embedded operating system and toolset company.

    O’Dowd uses media smear campaigns (like this one) to discredit companies that refuse to license his software. He gets himself published on tech outlets claiming one catastrophic safety thing or another that will happen unless some major client switched to his product. That’s his MO, and his current target is Tesla, probably because they are popular.

    I experienced Green Hills’ hard sell personally when we were selecting an RTOS for Honeywell’s aviation products. We ended up qualifying our own hand-rolled, extremely simple kernel at a fraction of the price of a GHS license.

    Anyway, I’m no Tesla fanboy, but Dan O’Dowd and the Dawn Project are just another self-serving billionaire venture. They are NOT your friends. https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/111920750045905302

    kyozou,
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    @drahardja I see what you’re saying, but as a pedestrian in SF, anyone who is shining a light on the fact that Tesla “Full Self Driving” is in fact not capable of safely piloting a vehicle is my friend. For now.

    kyozou,
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    @drahardja There is no “wrong” in getting FSD banned.

    kyozou,
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    @drahardja What’s wrong with Tesla “full self driving” can’t be fixed with software.

    kyozou, to random
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    Idiotic both-sidesism.
    Democrats forced Cuomo to resign.
    Republicans are going to nominate *rump as their candidate for president.
    NOT THE SAME

    @wendysiegelman

    jann, to Samsung
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    Okay, I need a 32" TV for my bedroom. is a MUST! anyone have any NON- suggestions? NO NEED for . Prefer , but just need / that can hang on wall. TV is ~10 ft from head of bed - if that makes a diff. Only using w/AppleTV 4k Gen2. No TV tuner requirement.

    Suggestions? @joshua @tewha @lisamelton

    kyozou,
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    @jann @tewha @joshua @lisamelton If you don’t need the tuner why not just get a monitor?

    dankennedy_nu, to random
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    I don’t understand why the legal system is so intent on tormenting Alec Baldwin. What happened seems like a tragic accident that he had nothing to do with. What should he have done differently? Enlighten me.

    kyozou,
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    @dankennedy_nu I think that one argument is that he wasn’t just a paid actor on this movie - he was an exec producer making decisions (corner cutting) that led to tragedy.

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    DOJ "sharply critical" of Uvalde police response. WTF does that even mean.🙄

    kyozou,
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    @StillIRise1963 @lin11c
    The DOJ can only charge people who’ve broken a federal law. What federal law did they break? It’s frustrating as hell, but it is what it is.
    Here’s a good argument for charging them under Texas law, but unfortunately that would require Texas prosecutors to act, which they won’t. It sucks.
    https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/doj-report-failures-uvalde-police-rcna134344

    kyozou,
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    @lin11c @StillIRise1963
    First, the families deserved a full, honest account.
    Second, the report has recommendations for law enforcement all over the country.
    Third, it may be intended to shame Texas officials into taking action against the cowards.

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