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by djur 4y ago
Taibbi's thread shows examples of the FBI reporting left-wing accounts for misinformation.
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by djur 4y ago
> The FBI cannot censor people, period. That’s fascism and illegal in the US The FBI emailing Twitter to report possible violations of Twitter's terms of service is not censorship and it is not illegal. > This effectively gives t
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by djur 4y ago
It's definitely hard to figure out the logic where it's OK to ban someone for posting plane data because it might be misused for dangerous while it's bad evil censorship to ban the President while he's actively trying to
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by djur 4y ago
He posted a claim. "Info" implies that we should believe it to be true.
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by djur 4y ago
What did the government ask him to censor previously?
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by djur 4y ago
Seems to me that a lot of the people Elon has targeted with the so-called "Twitter Files" would say they were making the same type of situational harm-reducing judgment call.
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by djur 4y ago
> There is not a single person claiming free speech is being violated here. I can think of one person who claimed it: > My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane
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by djur 4y ago
If there was a setting I could use to "maximum derank" my account I'd use it without hesitation. I want to talk to my friends, not get yelled at by randos. I hate it when a tweet starts getting attention.
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by djur 4y ago
"The practice of shadow banning essentially involves making posts visible only to the person who created them and invisible to their intended audience" There is a substantial difference between tweets not being promoted by the alg
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by djur 4y ago
The FBI helped him get elected in 2016 and was headed by his own appointee. If it was acting against his interests in 2020 that's an extraordinary failure in leadership.
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by djur 4y ago
The left (or at least the fairly broad swath I'm acquainted with) has been mostly hostile to crypto and skeptical of "effective altruism" for years. I don't know anybody on the left who would have identified SBF as &quot
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by djur 4y ago
OK. You should make it clearer that you're arguing for a weaker system of author's rights, not just making claims about the current system. I favor copyright reform but what you're suggesting would destroy the ability for art
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by djur 4y ago
Luxembourg is a signatory to the Berne Convention, which requires automatic registration of copyright and forbids requiring formal registration. (The US was a late signatory to the Convention and arguably is still in violation.) Author&#x27
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by djur 4y ago
I don't think the claim is that it's literally Photoshopped. It's a painting. It could be a painting of a Photoshopped version of the photo, or the changes could have been made while painting. There isn't any legal basis
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by djur 4y ago
Would you consider an oil painting that exactly duplicated the photograph to be sufficiently different to not be covered by the original artist's copyright?
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by djur 4y ago
I can't agree. The changes are trivial[1]. An oil painting reproduction of a photograph is a derivative work, which makes this an unauthorized derivative work. The amount of skill involved in creating the reproduction is totally irrele
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by djur 4y ago
The flowers are arranged identically. The folds of fabric and hair are identical aside from a few trivial changes. It looks like a lightly photoshopped version of the original. Far too similar for chance.
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by djur 4y ago
The pose is only one of many creative elements in the portrait, and if the painting had simply replicated the same pose nobody would have even noticed, much less cared.
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by djur 4y ago
US copyright law is harmonized with the Berne Convention. European countries might use a different term but I don't think the differences come into play here.
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by djur 4y ago
The flowers are arranged identically in the painting to the photograph. The differences between the two are trivial. The hair is certainly not "very different" and the face is similar enough to be a copying by an imprecise hand. T
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by djur 4y ago
I mean, at this point I'm not sure what I'm arguing against, because I'm not quite following the English in this person's comments. Which is fine, my German would be much worse. But the impression I get is that they&#x27
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by djur 4y ago
I am indifferent to this specific phenomenon because it is a drop in the bucket. Frankly, a child would be better off hearing a story from a robot than watching many examples of children's TV or online video programming. I'll star
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by djur 4y ago
What's objectionable about this specific example of contract law? If the law didn't require contracts to have some consideration they would have offered $0. No real difference.
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by djur 4y ago
Without the clarification I would have assumed you were objecting to the idea of an AI "inventing" something, which I would agree with. I would have had no idea you were suggesting that children consuming AI-generated stories is o
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by djur 4y ago
Part of it is complying to building codes, and part of it is a tactic to get through design review boards. "This is a design you've approved a dozen times before and appears in cities all over the country" is an effective arg
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by djur 4y ago
When I've been in that place, other people's kindness can feel like evidence that I'm hurting them -- that I'm drawing energy from them, that I'm a hole in the world that needs to be repaired but can't, that ki
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by djur 4y ago
Thanks for sharing this. Please take care of yourself. There's something uniquely painful about losing someone who you look up to as a mentor.
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by djur 4y ago
My experiences as a person who has been suicidal, who has been close to suicidal people, and who has had friends who committed suicide all tell me that it's not as simple as "wanting to die". The same person can feel complete
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by djur 4y ago
There was a time when the point of the neutrals trend in decor was supposed to be that everyday things could fade modestly into the background to let the colors of clothing, food, art, etc. stand out more. But I don't think that's
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by djur 4y ago
Yeah, my friend's mom drove an old Lark convertible when I was a teen, and it had a cadet green paint job that looked like this. I always thought it looked particularly classy, especially compared to the glittery cherry red Studebaker

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