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...or he doesn't believe in mutually exclusive binary options.

Satire and pedantry actually aren't that much of a flex.

Possibly. In most cases, the satire has become so arid, and reality such a cataclysmically stupid bit of incoherent lunacy, that "satire" is now just a corpse of bones that all the most bleak and nihilistic forms of humor sit upon like a throne...or clown-ass shitposters.

It's impossible to tell anymore, and that makes me weirdly happy and angry at the same time.

...or everyone will just move elsewhere.

I think the TikTook ban is stupid, but assigning TT this kind of importance in a generally fickle space is dumb.

Russian space chief's head appears to already be in geobullshitrinous orbit.

The second VA Linux sold off it's hardware division, and definitely after co-founder Larry Augustins departure, the die was cast.

The company, and Sourceforge's leadership, lost all tethering to the community that fostered them, and the firm got passed around from buyer to buyer like a blunt at a Phish concert.

It allows them the opportunity to interview specifically involved people who may be culpable or point to those who are for making decisions that impacted this scenario.

Boeing playing whack a mole with a Federal Agency is just going to be the Streisand Effect of regulatory attention.

I'm frankly ok with Boeing getting a Federally mandated enema until what's left of the firm could be carried in a sandwich bag.

Kamasi is a current darling. Right now two schools are en vogue: a more fusiony, dancable crossover kind where groups like Snarky Puppy, Mononeon, Thundercat and Sungazer are up front, and a more traditionally anchored, but edgier sonic architecture is applied kind of school populated by Kamasi, James Hurt, Robert Glasper, Daniel Casimir, Shabaka Hutchings, and anything on the Brownswood or Jazz Re:freshed labels...

Haven't been there in a while, but it is indeed a fun venue.

Because there aren't that few. I'd need to revisit some of it really, but even in the late 90s, when I was doing a custom PS major, we were using comparatively larger models for conflict analysis, like the "Correlates of War" project, which were coded well enough to do some rough but statistically useful runs with...as an undergraduate back then it felt like something really useful to compliment/challenge/reconcile with the more common case study format prevalent in the field.

https://correlatesofwar.org/ https://www.jessicamaves.com/forge.html https://www.csac.org.uk/dataset/ etc

That book, along with Peter Turchin's "Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall" made me a fan of 'Cliodynamics' (a field name Turchin coined) as a concept. It, along with general ideas in Complexity Theory, I find more useful for making sense of large human/societal systems than just "single bullet theory" case studies.

Death by murder.

Navalny was far from a saint, but his death is still a Kremlin job by any measure, and I suspect will only accelerate Putin's decline, as the state of Russian affairs continues to degrade.

The fact that anyone would ever give that road-diner stockclerk-looking, craven buffoon any cash/credit lines, is a testament to the carnival barker class of this industry.

Make sure you know how to calibrate it though.

"(“Noise” is subjective of course: I don’t watch reality television but others do, for example.)"

This brings up a good sub-topic. "Noise" as I mean it is where it's something you cannot definitely validate the veracity of in short order, or you do and it's useless.

The trash TV thing is a great example: if you are watching Beavis & Butthead because you know its trash and you need to zone out, that's a conscious, active decision, and you are in effect, 'in on the joke'...if you can't discern that it's satire and find yourself relating to the characters, you might be part of the problem :)

I think you are generally correct in where things will likely go (sometimes correct goop) but the problem I think will be far more existential; when people start to feel like they are in a perpetual uncanny valley of noise, what DO they actually do next? I don't think we have even the remotest grasp of what that might look like and how it will impact us.

I don't think it's "new" at all, but it is getting renewed focus, but also as it ties into the OS side of the house overall.

They want to basically make windows machines, telemetry kiosks for every bit of data they can extract.

It isn't impossible, it's just lacking the casual convenience of webscale infringement.

Can't cut into those potential margins after all.

I can't tell if this is satire or supplication to a patently goofy premise.

"I think you misunderstand copyright and perhaps conflate it with a trademark" Nope. Quite the contrary.

"I think the fundamental assumption of the analysis that there are two mutually exclusive groups, 'pro-Israel' and 'pro-Palestine' is flawed." This is a fairly nail-on-head distillation, and that it exists exacerbates any attempts at substantive discourse that follows.

"You are very very unlikely to stumble upon something resembling a training image closely enough for copyright to take effect" That is definitely not the case, and is completely contingent on the prompt matching closely what the training set has in it.

The Omnichord has/d some excellent capability, and I remember the first time I saw it was in the video for Robbie Robertsons "Somewhere Down the Crazy River"

The newest Meshell Ndegeocello album used it a lot, called "The Omnichord Real Book" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM-oUR-eNfw

"Is training with user-generated content a way to launder copyrighted images?" Pretty much.

Same. I was there briefly (disclosure: former VA Linux...we dropped a lot of swag around the event)

It was a surreal moment.

Because "enshittificationj".

I realize that is horribly glib, but it's also horribly accurate.

Not really.

At this stage the weaponization/enshittification of FOSS by abstracting its original goals, and making it about the equivalent of leverage for larger firms to use for cheap labor/R&D will only likely change if people only use reciprocal licenses with clauses for SaaS firms to straighten up (e.g. AGPL v3) AND legally enforce them in the courts.

"I feel modern "open source" is kind of a parody of the original intentions and it completely misses the forest for the trees."

Correct.

I still recall trying to recruit one of the dejanews SREs to come work at my then employer (VA Linux) to now avail. A couple of months later he was a Googler.

"Without advertising, the world would be filled with large companies with no incentive to innovate because it would be impossible to discover their competitors."

There is nothing in that sentence that makes sense historically, and certainly doesn't now. Larger firms can leverage advertising usually better than small players just on budget terms, so it isn't just advertising itself, but how its deployed.

Adtech favors larger players that are platforms (e.g. Doubleclick) and just scrapes marketing dollars from everyone it can, and then benefits the platform itself if its product family has competing products (Google, Amazon, etc)

Advertising doesn't provide any fairness in a playing field. It's simply a parallel arena of competition with a more opaque set of operating rules.