I think the real answer is that we end up kind of like the UK – going from the worlds ultra-dominant superpower to a sort of slow regression to the mean, as China, India and others take the spotlight.

When you look at what China is doing with their Belt and Road Initiative, and their move to dominate the transportation infrastructure of developing nations – the US isn’t anywhere near equipped to counter that. We’re still in a cold war mentality thinking that we will dominate as the world’s police force.

Meanwhile, all the actual economies will be run by Chinese companies operating with state support.

Perhaps worth noting, there was a SCOTUS decision in the early 2000s (New York Times Co. v. Tasini) that held that freelance journalists whose contracts did not specifically include an electronic distribution clause were entitled to damages when those articles were subsequently released on the web and to electronic news services like Lexis/Nexis.

Big publications like the NYT came to settlements that allowed them to pay to redistribute the older articles (by paying the original authors), but smaller publications may not have such a settlement structure in place and may not be allowed to redistribute the original articles without additional permissions.

FYI, I have a copy of the Dragon Magazine Archive CD-ROM version that came out in 2001… only to immediately disappear off the market for this very reason!

They need Dimo Higgins, Goblin Hunter

I was surprised that Stewart was so glib.

Yes, watching video on your phone, in short bites, is “like” TV, and arguably some of that content can come from full-fledged “TV shows” with diverse talent and production companies and cable distribution…

But surely it has not escaped Stewart’s notice that a shocking amount of eyeball time is now on video content that is not produced by mainstream media – instead made by small creators & online teams working from their homes. And if you doubt the impact of that, go down to Walmart or Target and spend some time on the toy aisle. The shelves are PACKED with Baby Shark, Cocomelon, Busy Beavers, Blippi… all of these streaming-first non-mainstream brands that are mostly famous because of Youtube.

It’s odd, because Stewart himself is the one who benefited when cable TV made “narrowcasting” a thing. And now that there are even narrower narrowcasts, he can’t seem to see that it’s an existential threat to his way of making content.

You stop explaining and apologizing.

“We need better training data for our AIs. Let’s introduce some random scramble into search results, and when users have to hunt through the list and pick what they actually wanted instead of the top result, we can use those data to train the AI how to respond to those words when they come up in AI prompts.”

– a Google exec, probably?

Do they have anything for somebody who is allergic to gnome skin? I’m asking for a friend.

Yeah, but THIS specific claim echoes the medieval concept of “blood libel”.

“We wouldn’t have to kill so many civilians if the criminals would stop committing crimes.”

I think the only difference with this proposal is that they “skip the middleman”. The water is never released back into a natural watercourse.

But yes, I grew up in TX drinking water that had been returned to the Trinity post-treatment by locations north.

we’re trying to sort of figure that out

Well that inspires confidence.

Capri Sun and PBJs oh yeeeeah

I want to live on Playground Island.

I’m probably taking my life in my hands even discussing this, but hopefully Lemmy will rise above the common discourse in this matter.

The problem is that both sides of this conflict play the genocide card the instant they are criticized. If you call for military action against (anywhere), your critics instantly accuse you of desiring genocide for the people of (anywhere) . “Palestinians rise up against your occupiers” becomes “a call for the genocide of Jews”. “Israel vigorously defend yourself from terrorists” becomes “a call for the genocide of Palestinians”.

Many in the Israel-supporting community say that any implication of intifada – even just wearing the famous checkered scarf (the keffiyeh) – is a call for Jewish genocide. Many in the Palestinian-supporting community say that any implication that Israel should secure its borders and defend its people and have a homeland in the Levant is a call for Palestinian genocide.

The only thing I do know, in all of this, is that the Gazan people are poorly represented by Hamas, and the Israeli people are poorly represented by their conservative government, and I don’t wish harm to any noncombatants.

All she had to say was “students are entitled to protest for Palestine, but calls for genocide are not OK”

Maybe. The problem is that a signficant contingent of Israel supporters will go on to say that any protest for Palestine IS a call for Jewish genocide.

It’s McCarthyism all over again. “Have you supported, or do you support, those who protest for independence and freedom for the Palestinian territories? … How DARE you, madam! How dare you call for genocide of the Jewish people! Have you no decency, madam? Have you no shame?”

And the other side will pull the exact same rhetorical trick, given the opportunity.

A hot room with 10 days worth of poop.

I agree. But that seems to be the perception. I mean, it’s easy to imagine Apple taking a stand against antisemitism, but a little more difficult to imagine Samsung or Motorola taking such a stand.

But as to whether their actual on-the-ground ethical standards are any better than the competition, I rather doubt it.

You are talking like Apple isn’t still pumping elons garbage through their devices for a 30% cut.

While Apple takes a 30% cut of app sales, as far as I know, they don’t make money from people using the free app. I don’t know that Twitter offers any in-app purchases that would be processed through Apple’s payment system.

My reading of the “it’s not just about money” statement was, “it’s not just about losing Apple’s advertising spend”.

They’re referring to the “halo effect” of Apple accepting the claim of antisemitism.

Truthful or not, Apple is sort of an “influencer” when it comes to ethics, with one of the few openly gay CEOs in big tech and a history of doing, or at least claiming to do, the right thing when any negative labor practices are revealed.

I think there is a sense that if Apple is willing to walk away, it’s a signal to other companies that the problem is real.

Consulting. So much consulting.