Australian Atheists Forum

Irrev-Black wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 12:55 pm A matter of perspective.

From: Komm, süsser Tod Howard @lonestartallboi.bsky.social ·

"20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital."

in response to article in The Guardian: " ‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says"

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NewtonMark@eigenmagic.net
Mark Newton @NewtonMark@eigenmagic.net

The Business Software Alliance (BSA), an organization of copyright ultracops who will basically kill your business if you even think of playing fast and loose with licensing, is essentially a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft.

OpenAI, an organization of quasi-religious techbro dipshits who say their business will be killed if licensing isn’t abolished so they don’t have to play fast and loose with it, is essentially a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft.

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esther@strangeobject.space
fiee@literatur.social
Esther is in recovery @esther@strangeobject.space

Luisa Neubauer said something that connected with me in her speech tonight at the protest against the german far-right AfD party:

(paraphrased)

No one else is coming to save us from fascism. We’re all there is, but we’re also all we need.

Irrev-Black wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2024 11:14 am It all comes from somewhere, eh?

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Retrograde@oldbytes.space
fiee@literatur.social
Retrograde @Retrograde@oldbytes.space

Software as a Service = Client as a Hostage

stylofone wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:01 am

Irrev-Black wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 7:40 am Yeah, Soylent Hypothetical is people!

ErictheCerise
Eric the Cerise
@ErictheCerise@kolektiva.social

The Problem with Trolley Car Problems

I started out saying this as a joke, but gradually, over time, I've come to realize it's actually accurate.

The true solution to almost all "trolley car" problems is to find who keeps tying people to the tracks.

In trolley car problems, the people tied to the tracks always represent some disadvantaged sector of society — poor people, homeless people, no healthcare, minorites, etc — or even just (pardon the expression) "regular" lower class people.

And the "problem" is always "do you let those people be run over in order to save a billionaire, or a corporation, or the banking industry, or some sector of the economy, etc.

And again ... why are those people tied to the tracks in the first place? What is wrong with our economy/society/legal system, that we have those people stuck in those disadvantaged positions?

So the next time you see a trolley car problem — even the comedy/shitpost/joke problems — ask yourself, "who are those people tied to the track, and how did they get there in the first place?
Jan 10, 2024, 06:08

https://kolektiva.social/@ErictheCerise ... 9277058425

If you put meme-y little labels on the picture you could have recursive fun - perhaps the one person tied to the tracks is "clown using trolley car problem to promote false binary fallacy", and the multiple people "victims of bad decisions arising from believing false binaries."

It's probably already been done.

shlee@aus.social
:PUA: Shlee fucked around and
@shlee@aus.social

Australian economic policy is pretty much just a bumper sticker with "what would John Howard do?" written on it.