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The ICC’s has no legitimacy if they’re unwilling to investigate and prosecute war crimes no matter where they happen.

I’m pretty much with you, I think. I’m open to it, but extremely skeptical.

There’s really no guarantee that the baseline UBI would be a “living wage” and I think we’d just see a constant spiral of inflation and re-indexing. I feel like it would end up being nothing more than an “allowance” from the oligarchy. Table scraps that would be used as an easy excuse to cut the social safety net at every turn. (“Why do they need X on top of their UBI?” says the rich politician…)

We need a strong social safety net. We need to decouple human rights from employment. We need more worker ownership of businesses/coops. We need to have the ability for people to do meaningful and productive things with their lives. We need a 32 hr standard work week.

I don’t see how UBI gets us any of those things.

Wouldn’t be surprised to find out that Trump solicits children on Roblox.

Remind me when regular people can afford GPUs, RAM and SSDs again.

Having tried Cosmic, I’m not totally convinced it’s good enough to be ready for prime time, but that’s pretty subjective. Overall I think it’s good to have another DE in the scene and at the very least Cosmic is a good start.

Definitely not just a coincidence.

People are acting like this is a win for OpenAI and the AI industry, but I think this is potentially a major victory for IP holders like Disney.

Up until now, the core assumption from the industry around AI has been that it is all fair use, and thus no license (or even so much as basic consent) was needed to train on copyrighted works or produce output resembling specific trademarked IP.

Now Disney and OpenAI have come to an agreement that explicitly allows OpenAI to produce videos of their characters, but from what I can tell does not allow them to train on Disney’s works to do it.

This deal lasts only 3 years, and so what happens is they don’t renew it 3 years from now? What does it mean for the other AI companies that are producing Disney IP without this agreement? What about all the other character and person likenesses that Sora is producing without any such agreement?

Essentially, I think this has allowed Disney to put the ball back in their court. They are deciding who does and doesn’t use their characters. They have put value into the idea of licensing trademarks for AI use. And I think this sets a dangerous precedent for AI companies, because what does this mean for all of the IP holders who they aren’t in an agreement with?

Allow me to introduce you all to the corpo reality distortion gradient of results:

• 0/5 – “Somewhat Successful”
• 1/5 – “Surprisingly Successful”
• 2/5 – “Successful”
• 3/5 – “Disruptive”
• 4/5 – “Pretty Much Revolutionary”
• 5/5 – “Revolutionary”

We should stop reporting on their messaging and start reporting on the facts only.

Jesus. I always thought that guy was a shoddy self-centered Texan dweeb who always did totally half-assed projects, but I had no idea the extent of his shittiness as a person. People who treat weapons like toys are the last people who should have them.

I was never that into Sterling, to be honest.

But yeah, the wrestling thing seems to permeate gaming video makers and podcasters in general. I feel like you could come up with a dangerous drinking game based on taking a swig every time a gaming media personality brings up some wrestling shit.

Do you feel oppressed by the immigrants who live in your country?

I think you’re buying into the right-wing idea that simply being an immigrant is somehow a form of oppression.

Immigrants are not to blame for the housing crisis. The housing crisis facing much of the world has to do with a growing population, a lack of housing development, and a market that treats housing like little more than an investment asset.

The only factory I’ll work for is this pitchfork factory. 🧜‍♂️

I think that’s fair. He seems pretty tired up in his pride. Seems like one of those people who is just afraid to admit he doesn’t know something.

Back in the day when it was just him listening to stems and talking about how good classic songs were it was just a little bit less obvious/annoying. It was less about him and more about the song.

The one that jumps to mind for me the most has got to be Rick Beato.

When I first found out about him he was just a super passionate and likeable dude totally geeking out listening to stems of classic records, just being endlessly appreciative and highlighting things that he thought were cool in a way that was reasonably accessible to regular music listeners. On the side he did some more technical music theory and musicianship stuff, which I could take or leave to be honest. But overall it felt like a channel that was there for sharing this dude’s love of music with others.

Lately it’s just been pounded down into mediocrity, I feel. He spends a lot of time chasing after bullshit trendy stories about AI music, spotify rankings, controversies of the week, long rambling live stream rants about various meta things that nobody has time for. The silver lining to all of that is that he has been doing interviews with musicians, which are generally pretty good, but it really depends on who he’s talking to. I understand that DMCA takedowns get in the way of breaking down songs, and that sucks, but my problem is that it’s often kind of negative stuff that distracts from talking positively about music, musicianship, production, etc.

I think he knows this because he recently put out a video about a big “change of direction” in the channel.