cat owners in shambles

Corps trying to get in on Linux and make a version you pay them for has already happened twice (RedHat, Canonical) and it’s about to happen again with Valve. It’s been fine, the GPL is mostly working at keeping them from stealing it all. You’re even using stuff made by all three of those companies.

There’s also Android where they made a whole layer of Not Linux on top of a Linux and that’s kind of shitty, but it hasn’t hurt mainline Linux at all, and despite their best efforts, the part where it’s open source has let all sorts of projects use Android for things Google wouldn’t like (like those emulator handhelds).

This but it’ll take a while and be shitty in the meanwhile.

I used to be a diehard Metroid fan, but it’s been clear for a very long time that the company has no idea what to do with it.

Give Metroid to Fromsoft. Then give whatever they come up with back to Nintendo to rewrite the control scheme.

I’m A Cyborg But That’s Okay

OpenAI doing some Enron shit.

looking for a new effective altruism

ask the charity manager if their effective altruism is bug nets or imaginary robots

she doesn’t understand

pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is bug nets and what is imaginary robots

she laughs and says “it’s a good effective altruism sir”

donate

it’s imaginary robots

The difference between this and the original is pretty much Society of the Spectacle isn’t it.

Wleft After Christmas

I said it was, two comments up.

Right, so the process and intent I used to create that string of tags is art, but it’s fundamentally not the same thing as actually drawing a picture.

Captain America stands for all the good things from US propaganda, fine, but he also stands for the idea that the US is actually unique in wanting those things, the closest to achieving them, a flawed but ultimately good nation, which is a load of horse shit. A Captain America who actually fights for a nation where every man, woman, and child is equal is a Captain America who promptly gets killed by his country.

Art is the process, not the end result.

Typing “shitty catgirl picture” into an AI image generator is exactly as much art as me typing “shitty catgirl picture” into this comment box. Which we’ll agree is not the same as actually drawing a shitty catgirl picture.

AI gen fans will sometimes try to say that adding all their extra keywords and specifying things exactly is an artistic skill, but this is exactly the same process as typing “black_sweater gray_jacket hair_behind_ear looking_down male_focus” into gelbooru. Sure the picture you find by doing that on a booru is art, but you didn’t make it.

Sure, but only if you’re an outlier in terms of how much time theft you’re doing. If the company is failing to extract surplus value from anybody, or even failing on average, it’ll fall apart. So it’s not, like, a viable path towards labor organization, or anything like that.

nut

Early in the COVID pandemic, there was an effort to waive intellectual property laws for vaccines, so poor countries would have access to them. Gates personally intervened, because intellectual property laws are more important to him than millions of human lives.

https://jpia.princeton.edu/news/patents-pandemics-and-private-sector-battle-over-public-health-norms-during-covid-19

https://www.devex.com/news/gates-foundation-reverses-course-on-covid-19-vaccine-patents-99810

We need to ban youtubers from using the word “brief” until we find out what the hell is going on.

It’s just a pump, too. They’re just plumbers too lazy to make house calls.

Makes sense, you never know how much or what kind of RAM the fishermen are going to catch that day.

because it’s after laborday