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geneva_convenience via Not Not the Onion

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Study Finds Voices Should Sound Normal Through Walkie-Talkies By Now

ITHACA, NY—Citing numerous advancements in communication technology over the years, a study released Wednesday by researchers at Cornell University found that voices coming through walkie-talkies should sound normal by now.

“After countless hours of fact-finding and analysis, we’ve concluded that it’s 2025, and the speaker shouldn’t be all crackly anymore,” said lead researcher Jerome Thompson, noting that at a time when humanity was developing quantum computers, it was “pretty messed-up” that voices in two-way radio transceivers still came out tinny and could be difficult to understand.

“They should sound like cell phones, but instead they sound weird and staticky. Any handheld device should sound as though the person is standing right there in the room with you. And honestly, they should’ve sounded like that a long time ago—I mean, phones have sounded good for ages, so why not walkie-talkies?” The study follows a report out earlier this month that concluded people using walkie-talkies shouldn’t have to say “over” at the end of every sentence.

Study Finds Voices Should Sound Normal Through Walkie-Talkies By Now

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brianpeiris via politics

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The Enemies Project helps "enemies" discover the human being in each other - Support their Kickstarter

The Enemies Project helps "enemies" discover the human being in each other.
In each episode, the Enemies Project documentary pairs two people with fiercely opposing worldviews. Intense conflict, yes. But the Enemies Project is neither gotcha TV nor political debate. The purpose is for "enemies" to find the humanity in the other — because in a warring world, understanding is rebellion.
Episodes are hosted by renowned Peacemaker Larry Rosen.

youtube.com/@TheEnemiesProject

They're running a Kickstarter Campaign here: kickstarter.com/projects/larry…

Episodes Released So Far:

Transgender — A transgender woman and a MAGA mom move from outright hostility to deep tenderness
Abortion — A pro-choice woman and a pro-life man confront the fact that their enemy is deeply, beautifully human.
A Palestinian and a Jew — A Palestinian American and a Hasidic Jew sit together in the aftermath of October 7, confronting grief, pain, and shared suffering
Two Jews — A Zionist and an anti-Zionist Jew wrestle with betrayal, loyalty, and the pull of reconciliation within their own community
Do Kids Need a Dad? A Lesbian and a Fatherhood Purist — A lesbian mom and a man who believes gay people should not have children find respect and warmth
Dictatorship Under Trump: A Proud Boy and a Progressive — Each fears dictatorship in America, but from opposite sides of the political spectrum
Dictatorship Under Biden: A Proud Boy and a Progressive — The mirror-image conversation, revealing how fear of tyranny shapes both left and right

Coming Episodes — What You're Enabling:

Guns — Two Traumatized Women Divided by Ideology
Immigration — A White MAGA Teen and a Mexican American Dad
Police Use of Force — A Cop and an Abolitionist
Falling from Christianity — A Gay Man and a Preacher
Falling from Islam — A Tech CEO and a Muslim Mama
Race in the U.S. [participants being interviewed now]

Other Episodes in the works: Russia/Ukraine, India/Pakistan, Falling from Mormonism.

The Enemies Project

The Enemies Project helps "enemies" discover the human being in each other. In each episode, the Enemies Project documentary pairs two people with fiercely opposing worldviews. Intense conflict, yes.

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arsus5478 via Linux

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arsus5478
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is i2p relevant today?

after a year or so hiatus I reinstalled i2p on my debian.

I don't think I'm going to use it much: I enjoyed using it to torrent files and to ask about censorship circumvention, things I now have alternatives to.

why is this network still relevant?

free and open source project building an anonymous network

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

#linux

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basiclemmon98

in reply to arsus5478 • 1 settimana fa • •

It's really not, until it is. I personally see it as a fallback infrastructure for redundency if Tor, VPNs, Bittorrent, etc. go dark. But other than that, no, it doesn't really serve much of a purpose rn.

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frog_meister

in reply to basiclemmon98 • 1 settimana fa • •

And that's exactly what happened a few years ago when the tor network was having issues.

People needed a backup, and i2p was there waiting.

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DigitalDilemma

in reply to arsus5478 • 1 settimana fa • •

It's technology like this that I think will become more and more important as governments seek to restrict access to large parts of the internet. UK and Australia are forging ahead in censorship, and the EU is well on their way. The US already does some censorship, as do large parts of Asia and Russia.

No matter the reason given, it's always about control. So less easily censored technologies will be very useful for anyone that wants the ability to research truth, or at least, alternate points of view.

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unholy3313

in reply to arsus5478 • 1 settimana fa • •

I use I2P every day for downloading torrents. In some ways, it's even better than Tor. I use them together. Tor for accessing onion services and as a VPN and I2P to download torrents. Granted, I use I2PD.

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kylian0087

in reply to unholy3313 • 1 settimana fa • •

In contrast to Tor, Torrenting on I2P actually helps the network and doesn't hurt it.

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Ferk

in reply to kylian0087 • 1 settimana fa • •

I always saw I2P as a more modern and distributed onion-routing alternative to Tor.

The thing is that people are used to making use of Tor in different ways than the way they use I2P, but you can also have outproxies (ie. exit nodes/relays) in I2P the same way as in Tor.. and you can also host a service inside the Tor network without relying on an exit node, like in I2P. It's just that people only seem to want to host exit nodes for Tor and not so much for I2P, this led to internal communications in I2P being more common (which is a good thing), whereas in Tor it's common to use it for anonymous access to the clearnet (which strains the network and causes chokepoints, specially with big downloads or torrent sharing). That's just a matter of usage, not capability.

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in reply to arsus5478 • 1 settimana fa • •

btw any of you i2p nerds have a mixed setup with clearnet torrenting + i2p?

how did you set it up and how do you like it?

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sobchak

in reply to arsus5478 • 1 settimana fa • •

Unlike Tor, I think the heavy use of p2p file sharing on the network adds "cover traffic," making things like correlation attacks harder.

I'm curious what the alternatives to i2p are that you use now?

I wish there were more higher latency anonymous networks (to make correlation attacks harder). katzenpost.network looks interesting, but is just academic right now; all the other stuff in this space is blockchain crap.

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frog_meister

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I2P isn't popular, but it will always be relevant.

jankforlife via Memes

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jankforlife
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Anarkiddies are funny

#memes

like this

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Olgratin_Magmatoe

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Reversal:

communist: I'm all for ending this oppressive system, but only if we do it with a state that will wither away
anarchist: So... by magic?

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culprit

in reply to Olgratin_Magmatoe • 1 settimana fa • •

anarchist:

just got to wait for the capitalist state to whither away

socialist state:

so I guess we agree?

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Dessalines

in reply to Olgratin_Magmatoe • 1 settimana fa • •

From here

Once the proletarian state possesses political power and controls the means of production, it will “wither away” over time as it suppresses the bourgeoisie and moves toward a classless society. While the state must exist while class distinctions remain, it becomes superfluous in a classless society. The use of force is no longer necessary to suppress class antagonisms, because there are no classes. Lenin includes a long quote from Engels to explain this phenomenon, a portion of which is sampled below:

As soon as there is no longer any social class to be held in subjection, as soon as class rule, and the individual struggle for existence based upon the present anarchy in production, with the collisions and excesses arising from this struggle, are removed, nothing more remains to be held in subjection — nothing necessitating a special coercive force, a state. The first act by which the state really comes forward as the representative of the whole of society — the taking possession of the means of production in the name of society — is also its last independent act as a state. State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies down of itself. The government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production. The state is not ‘abolished’. It withers away. This gives the measure of the value of the phrase ‘a free people’s state’, both as to its justifiable use for a long time from an agitational point of view, and as to its ultimate scientific insufficiency; and also of the so-called anarchists’ demand that the state be abolished overnight.” (From Anti-Düring)

If you agree with the premises behind this argument, the conclusion must follow. If the state arises from class antagonisms in society and exists for the purpose of class suppression, it must therefore exist while there are classes (even during a proletarian revolution!) and start to die off once class is abolished. Engels’ description, “the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production,” explains the change in the nature of the State very well. Lenin points out that under the dictatorship of the proletariat, the State is no longer “the State” proper, but a different kind of institution altogether.

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Olgratin_Magmatoe

in reply to Dessalines • 1 settimana fa • •

See my response to Cowbee

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Olgratin_Magmatoe • 1 settimana fa • •

The basis of the state is class struggle, so to eliminate it you eliminate class. The basis of class is differences in relation to the means of production, so the answer is to collectivize all production. Until we get there, classes will remain, thus elements like police are necessary to keep the proletariat in control and capitalists oppressed, and as production and distribution collectivizes then so too will the basis of the state itself become unnecessary as class struggle fades alongside class itself.

It isn't by magic, it's based in sound analysis of socialism and the economic basis of class and the state itself.

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ILoveUnions

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 1 settimana fa • •

In a communist non-state area, who enforces environmental protections? Who punishes rapists and murderers without being he said she said? Who prevents workplaces from unsafe working habits? Who assures buildings are up to code? Those are realistic issues, that don't stop magically when you do away with a class system. Doing away with a class system will improve them, but not eliminate them.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to ILoveUnions • 1 settimana fa • •

Administration and other protections that don't involve things like oppressive police forces. Marxists don't lump all administration into the state when we talk about statelessness.

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Olgratin_Magmatoe

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 1 settimana fa • •

The basis of the state is class struggle, so to eliminate it you eliminate class.
thus elements like police are necessary to keep the proletariat in control and capitalists oppressed

That is the main basis, but it is not the only one, and police are a good example of it. More often than not police enjoy the power that their position gives them. The job itself attracts people who enjoy having power over others, and that's not strictly a mechanism of classes existing.

The state backs up their power, and so they are influenced to protect the existence of the state. Anybody who commands the police will see the police as an extension of their power and will be similarly influenced.

Power corrupts and makes people want to retain power.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Olgratin_Magmatoe • 1 settimana fa • •

This is more idealist than materialist. "Power" isn't a real substance, it has no ability to "corrupt" people or turn them "evil." Police exist to protect the ruling class, the state itself is not a class but an extension of the ruling class in society. The state does not exist to prop itself up, it's a tool by the ruling class of society to entrench itself, prop up ruling class ideology, and suppress any resistance from the working class.

People act in their own interests, and in capitalism profit is the driving factor. The capitalists at the top are the ones that best get the most profits by any means necessary, so the ones at the top are typically more morally bankrupt. It wasn't that power corrupted them, but capitalism as a system selected for them.

In socialism, this isn't the case, and when we measure it up to how socialism exists in practice we don't see this kind of "power corruption." That isn't to say corruption doesn't exist in socialism, it absolutely does, but that isn't because of metaphysical powers of corruption. The closest is that people's existing material conditions and the way they interact with production does change their thought-process (called class consciousness), but that isn't the same as saying anyone with any degree of authority is being mentally poisoned by it into becoming evil.

Further, as Dessalines said, socialist planning and administration is more collectivized, both by intention and by necessity. You physically couldn't have a single person, or elite few, making all of the decisions in socialist society.

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Olgratin_Magmatoe

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 5 giorni fa • •

This is more idealist than materialist. “Power” isn’t a real substance, it has no ability to “corrupt” people or turn them “evil.”

But you are suggesting we create organization structures with authority over others. Immeasurable or not, it has an effect on human behavior which cannot just be ignored.

People act in their own interests, and in capitalism profit is the driving factor. The capitalists at the top are the ones that best get the most profits by any means necessary, so the ones at the top are typically more morally bankrupt. It wasn’t that power corrupted them, but capitalism as a system selected for them.

And police organizations select for those who enjoy (or are at a bare minimum comfortable with) having power over others. The same goes for government structures.

That isn’t to say corruption doesn’t exist in socialism, it absolutely does, but that isn’t because of metaphysical powers of corruption.

I never said anything about this being a metaphysical effect. This is an effect in relation to human behavior, organization, and economic structure.

Further, as Dessalines said, socialist planning and administration is more collectivized, both by intention and by necessity. You physically couldn’t have a single person, or elite few, making all of the decisions in socialist society.

As I told Dessalines, it doesn’t have to be one person. A council, committee, or other group of people can always be incentivized to retain and accumulate power.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Olgratin_Magmatoe • 5 giorni fa • •

You didn't address that your analysis is idealist and not materialist. Power does not select for power. This kind of vague, metaphysical explanation for what actually goes on, class struggle, is why you're running into opposition from Marxists. A materialist answer requires that we analyze class, and why we even form hierarchies to begin with. As I said in another comment:

That’s a bit like saying you can have battlefield success with only footsoldiers and no tacticians or strategians, or like saying a factory can run smoothly without foremen, or that a ship can sail safely without a capitain. We develop administrative positions because of their utility even within a class, not just class-based hierarchy like workers and owners. The latter, class-based distinctions are a product of unequal ownership and control, the former are a product of material necessity.
Cooperative production can work, but only for certain industries and certain scales. Agriculture is a good example, but for something more complex like smartphone production that involves global supply chains and intense safety risks for mining, shipping, silicon processing, etc, it’s just not feasible to do cooperatively and horizontally. Even then, for agriculture, as we advance to more efficient industrialized production we too develop beyond the basis for cooperative ownership to function.
Administration is not a bad thing. What’s bad is class society, which allows a small portion of society to plunder the vast majority of the spoils of social production.

In short, administration is not inherently bad. Like violence, like fire, like any tool, it can be good or bad depending on how and why it's used. In socialist, collectivized society, the basis of class is eroding. The state is not independent of class struggle, but rather fully dependent on it and within it, while not itself being a class. As production and distribution is collectivized, class struggle erodes alongside class itself, as do the oppressive mechanisms of society we call the "state." Administration, as far as it is legitimately useful, remains, as it should.

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Dessalines

in reply to Olgratin_Magmatoe • 1 settimana fa • •

I'm not exactly sure what the question is, but if its that "power always corrupts", this might be true for capitalist countries, which allow private ownership of capital, and creates a system that encourages and incentivizes accumulation of power.

But In a socialist state, where the heights of the economy are controlled not by private capitalist dictators, but by collective decision-making, and production decisions are controlled at the collective political level, then no one person can accumulate that much power, and they would be (and are) punished when they try to subvert the collective authority.

Taking the example of police, the important question is who commands them, and for whose benefit? In proletarian states, police are commanded not by capitalists who use them to protect their private property, but by the socialist state who commands them to protect the people. Socialist states are going to be receptive to accusations of abuses, because that means they're harming the people.

That's a key distinction between proletarian cops and capitalist ones.

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Olgratin_Magmatoe

in reply to Dessalines • 5 giorni fa • •

I’m not exactly sure what the question is, but if its that “power always corrupts”, this might be true for capitalist countries, which allow private ownership of capital, and creates a system that encourages and incentivizes accumulation of power.

I haven't posed a question. And what I am trying to get at is that power itself incentivizes accumulation and retention of power.

then no one person can accumulate that much power,

It doesn't have to be one person, a council, committee, or other group of people can always be incentivized to retain and accumulate power.

but by the socialist state who commands them to protect the people. Socialist states are going to be receptive to accusations of abuses, because that means they’re harming the people.

The PRC regularly attacks citizens and journalists that criticize their government.

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in reply to Olgratin_Magmatoe • 1 settimana fa • •

materially, socialist states tend to be much better to workers. straight up, it isn't even a contest.

as a communist i agree that in an ideal world the state should not exist. as a third worlder, i doubt we can defend ourselves against the burgeoise and imperialism without it in the real world. history shows it pretty clearly over here. maybe westerners can have straight up communism, we don't have that luxury.

that said, i understand why countries like china are overzealous with censorship because when you give too much leeway to them, they will worm their way into people's heads out of the sheer amount of resources dedicated to pushing anticommunism.

also when i look into most anarchists i meet here, it's usually just ancaps or libs.

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Olgratin_Magmatoe

in reply to ☂️- • 1 settimana fa • •

I agree with everything you've said, except for the last sentence.

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PagPag

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Pixel limit. OP hit it

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Narri N. (they/them)

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needs more jpeg

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happybadger [he/him]

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Step 1: everyone be nice to each other

Step 2: please bro

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UltraGiGaGigantic

in reply to happybadger [he/him] • 1 settimana fa • •

Step 1: everyone be nice

Step 2: or else

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shneancy

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idea: we do the whole leftist infighting thing after we win against the common enemy, deal?

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Boomer Humor Doomergod

in reply to shneancy • 1 settimana fa • •

But the state is my enemy.

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shneancy

in reply to Boomer Humor Doomergod • 5 giorni fa • •

the state as an idea is bad yes i agree. but there are better and worse states, and if i have to live in a state because us anarchists can't organsie well enough to create a state-less society, then i'd rather live in a better state rather than a bad one

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mel ♀

in reply to jankforlife • 1 settimana fa • •

The Spanish socialist revolution would like to disagree with communists I think

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lemonwood

in reply to mel ♀ • 1 settimana fa • •

Not at all. The Spanish revolutionaries were communists. Some in the communist party, but even the Spanish anarchists called what they fought for "libertarian communism".

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Boomer Humor Doomergod

in reply to jankforlife • 1 settimana fa • •

Everybody loves their imaginary friends like “states” and “money” and “gods.”

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UltraGiGaGigantic

in reply to Boomer Humor Doomergod • 1 settimana fa • •

I wish they could keep it all to themselves.

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renzhexiangjiao

in reply to jankforlife • 1 settimana fa • •

what do you mean "by magic", the majority of human history was stateless

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to renzhexiangjiao • 1 settimana fa • •

Yes, but it was also based on hunting and gathering. The state arose alongside technological improvements in production creating class society, we can't just look to early communalism and use it as the bedrock for future society.

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apt_install_coffee

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 1 settimana fa • •

The past is definitely not a guide for how to achieve a future society or how that society should look, but it does remind us that a society without a state can exist.

It's not the hard part, but when we're told that thoughts of a stateless society are fantastical it's good to remember that it has been done before.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to apt_install_coffee • 1 settimana fa • •

Yes, and I agree with that. I'm a Marxist-Leninist, and do agree with abolition of the state, but that requires erasing the basis of class society.

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FranklyIGiveADarn

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 1 settimana fa • •

but that requires erasing the basis of class society.

Something impossible to achieve while maintaining the tools of oppression (authoritarianism/statehood) that protect and nurture such divisions

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to FranklyIGiveADarn • 1 settimana fa • •

Other way around. Class society is what gives rise to the state, the state does not give rise to class society. The state is not above class struggle, or above the ruling class, but is representative of any given society's ruling class. To get rid of the state, you have to erase its basis, and thay requires collectivizing production and distribution. As ownership is collectivized, class is eroded, and the elements of the state that enforce class distinctions and uphold the ruling class such as an oppressive police force fade away and wither.

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PolandIsAStateOfMind

in reply to renzhexiangjiao • 1 settimana fa • •

Do you want to go back to hunting gathering? Anything further will inevitably create the classes.

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Mangoholic

in reply to jankforlife • 1 settimana fa • •

I say try both, enough states to try, cooperate and well see which is better. People died for worst experiments. Also anything more left is better than the current system.

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for_some_delta

in reply to jankforlife • 1 settimana fa • •

The aim is to establish communal horizontal power while living under existing power structures. An example is bringing neighbors the excess fruit from a harvest. The practice is common in rural communities. The magic is cooperation and mutualism. No bosses required.

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lemonwood

in reply to for_some_delta • 1 settimana fa • •

Yes, but there are bosses right now. And they would still be very powerful, even if they lost control of the state. They don't care about what's best for everyone. They care about what's best for them. They would still control all those machines, institutions, money, private armies, the media and they would have the total support of all the capitalist militaries of the world, ready to come in and completely crush horizontal power and suppress mutualism. So the class of bosses wouldn't magically disappear over night.

If people organized (either "horizontally" or otherwise) to form some thing, some kind of organization or institution or loose federation of grassroots cooperatives or whatever you want to call it, that would be able to suppress this boss class and their military and everything. That thing would be what marxist leninists call a state by definition. Because when we talk about a state, we mean nothing more or less than a weapon able to force the will of one class upon another. Even if that will is just:"stop forcing your will on us non-bosses".
How horizontal it is internally dosn't matter at all for the definition of a state.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to for_some_delta • 1 settimana fa • •

The problem begins when trying to scale that to a societal level, which is necessary for things like high speed rail, the internet, huge power grids, etc. Trying to compartmentalize production to be both high-yield and small-scale is ridiculously difficult, and to do so would require technology far beyond what we have now without a serious lowering of living standards. That's why Marxists advocate for collectivization, and planning production and distribution at a societal scale, rather than trying to focus on creating communalist structures emulating early hunter-gatherer societies but with the niceties of today.

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FranklyIGiveADarn

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 1 settimana fa • •

You can voluntarily co-operate together without having a central authority dictating to you. Anarchism is not mutually exclusive with large scale projects or distribution networks.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to FranklyIGiveADarn • 1 settimana fa • •

That's a bit like saying you can have battlefield success with only footsoldiers and no tacticians or strategians, or like saying a factory can run smoothly without foremen, or that a ship can sail safely without a capitain. We develop administrative positions because of their utility even within a class, not just class-based hierarchy like workers and owners. The latter, class-based distinctions are a product of unequal ownership and control, the former are a product of material necessity.

Cooperative production can work, but only for certain industries and certain scales. Agriculture is a good example, but for something more complex like smartphone production that involves global supply chains and intense safety risks for mining, shipping, silicon processing, etc, it's just not feasible to do cooperatively and horizontally. Even then, for agriculture, as we advance to more efficient industrialized production we too develop beyond the basis for cooperative ownership to function.

Administration is not a bad thing. What's bad is class society, which allows a small portion of society to plunder the vast majority of the spoils of social production.

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vulgarcynic

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Can I get this with a few more pixels?

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Enhance

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vulgarcynic

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pineapple

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This seams contradictory. Isn't communism also supposed to be stateless?

Edit: Oh nvm you mean the socialist transition.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to pineapple • 1 settimana fa • •

Communism is stateless, but it looks a bit different to how anarchists mean the term. Marxists are more for collectivization of production and distribution, while anarchists are generally more for communalization.

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UltraGiGaGigantic

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A type of commune for all. One that best reflects our values. Not everyone's community will look and function the same. Why would we want that? We are not the same person.

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in reply to UltraGiGaGigantic • 1 settimana fa • •

There will likely be local distinctions in communism, but trying to focus on communalism where every community is its own local thing and not a part of a much bigger wholr results in contradictory interests. The soviets found this out early on in practice, early factory councils would focus on themselves, so they were restructured into a more interconnected system.

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UltraGiGaGigantic

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Nation states, power, fiat currencies, religions, borders constitutions and laws are just games we play in our heads. A tally stick doesn't work anymore as a measure of value. Kings are dethroned. Old ideas are replaced with new ones (for better or worse)

We make these thoughts in our heads real, but they dont exist unless we make it so. We actually could wish this all away as though a spell was cast. Magic as you say.

People are to busy trying to make life happen or are to invested in their favorite flavor of boot polish to think of a new way to live our lives unfortunately.

Fine by me. I got a vasectomy. I didn't force a kid to play y'alls reindeer games. Couldn't care less. Back to playing the world's smallest violin in the world's tiniest box.

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Israel accuses Hamas of returning wrong body

One of the corpses delivered by Hamas is believed to be of a Palestinian, the Israeli military has said

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mrdown

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You can't trust Israel

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mel ♀

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When Israel accuses you of something, check their archive. They did it in the past

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No, not like that!

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This perfectly encapsulates just how stupid Trump is on economic policy.

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See, this only looks stupid if you assume the goal is to help the country. But if the real goal is to get rich through insider trading, then it's a flawless strategy. Every time a chaotic policy announcement sends the market swinging, someone makes a fortune. And if you have advance knowledge of those announcements, you're positioned to win every single time. Suddenly, what seems like erratic and incoherent behavior becomes perfectly logical behavior.

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🇰🇵 DPRK animated series, produced by SEK Studio

Squirrel and Hedgehog is one of the DPRK’s longest-running animated shows. Airing from 1977 all the way until 2012, it’s extremely well known within the country

For anyone who wants to watch Squirrel and Hedgehog, I’ve found a link, and it even has English subtitles!

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With Truce in Place, Hamas Pursues Bloody Crackdown on Rivals in Gaza

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Gangs backed by Israel it was those gangs that was stealing food

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GrapheneOS is finally ready to break free from Pixels, and it may never look back

The makers of GrapheneOS have confirmed they are partnering with a major Android OEM to bring the OS to Snapdragon-powered flagships.

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Madagascar's president is ousted in a military coup after weeks of youth-led protests

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina was toppled Tuesday in a military coup that capped weeks of youth protests over poverty, power outages and a lack of opportunity in the Indian Ocean island country.

Right after parliament voted to impeach Rajoelina, who fled the country fearing for his safety, the leader of Madagascar’s elite CAPSAT military unit said the armed forces would form a council made up of officers from the armed forces and gendarmerie, a military unit that polices civilians, and would appoint a prime minister to “quickly” form a civilian government.

“We are taking power,” Col. Michael Randrianirina told reporters in front of a ceremonial presidential palace in the capital, Antananarivo, as protesters celebrated the news with soldiers. He said the constitution and High Constitutional Court’s powers had been suspended, and that a referendum would be held in two years, though he didn’t go into detail.

From an undisclosed location after fleeing, Rajoelina issued a decree Tuesday trying to dissolve parliament’s lower house in an apparent attempt to preempt being impeached. But lawmakers ignored it and voted overwhelmingly to end the rule of the 51-year-old leader, who himself came to power as a transitional leader in a military-backed coup in 2009.

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Full list of Young Republicans involved in offensive chats

Full List of Young Republicans Involved in Offensive Chats

The messages showed some young Republicans calling black people monkeys, joking about Hitler's gas chambers and calling rape "epic."

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The Enemies Project helps "enemies" discover the human being in each other - Support their Kickstarter

The Enemies Project helps "enemies" discover the human being in each other.
In each episode, the Enemies Project documentary pairs two people with fiercely opposing worldviews. Intense conflict, yes. But the Enemies Project is neither gotcha TV nor political debate. The purpose is for "enemies" to find the humanity in the other — because in a warring world, understanding is rebellion.
Episodes are hosted by renowned Peacemaker Larry Rosen.

They're running a Kickstarter Campaign here: kickstarter.com/projects/larry…

Episodes Released So Far:

Transgender — A transgender woman and a MAGA mommove from outright hostility to deep tenderness
Abortion — A pro-choice woman and a pro-life man confront the fact that their enemy is deeply, beautifully human.
A Palestinian and a Jew — A Palestinian American and a Hasidic Jew sit together in the aftermath of October 7, confronting grief, pain, and shared suffering
Two Jews — A Zionist and an anti-Zionist Jew wrestle with betrayal, loyalty, and the pull of reconciliation within their own community
Do Kids Need a Dad? A Lesbian and a Fatherhood Purist — A lesbian mom and a man who believes gay people should not have children find respect and warmth
Dictatorship Under Trump: A Proud Boy and a Progressive — Each fears dictatorship in America, but from opposite sides of the political spectrum
Dictatorship Under Biden: A Proud Boy and a Progressive — The mirror-image conversation, revealing how fear of tyranny shapes both left and right

Coming Episodes — What You're Enabling:

Guns — Two Traumitized Women Divided by Ideology
Immigration — A White MAGA Teen and a Mexican American Dad
Police Use of Force — A Cop and an Abolitionist
Falling from Christianity — A Gay Man and a Preacher
Falling from Islam — A Tech CEO and a Muslim Mama
Race in the U.S. [particapants being interviewed now]

Other Episodes in the works: Russia/Ukraine, India/Pakistan, Falling from Mormonism.

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Mike Johnson and Hakeem Jeffries will debate on C-SPAN

The debate is set to take place on the “Ceasefire” program hosted by POLITICO White House Bureau Chief and Chief Playbook Correspondent Dasha Burns.

The move comes as the two House leaders trade daily barbs over the government shutdown, with little direct communication between the two. It’s unclear if the debate will happen during the government shutdown; C-SPAN said the date is to be announced.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/15/congress/mike-johnson-hakeem-jeffries-cspan-debate-00609012

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Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World

Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World - IGN

The Japanese government has made a formal request asking OpenAI to refrain from copyright infringement. This comes as a response to Sora 2’s ability to generate videos featuring the likenesses of copyrighted characters from anime and video games.

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mannycalavera

in reply to simple • 1 settimana fa • •

I don't think these companies give a shit 😥. If it means US companies fall behind the White House is going to aide with these companies and allow it. Or hostilely take over your company like they're doing with Tiktok.

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tal

in reply to simple • 1 settimana fa • •

So, the "don't use copyrighted data in a training corpus" crowd probably isn't going to win the IP argument. And I would be quite surprised if IP law changes to accommodate them.

However, the "don't generate and distribute infringing material" is a whole different story. IP holders are on pretty solid ground there. One thing that I am very certain that IP law is not going to permit is just passing copyrighted data into a model and then generating and distributing material that would otherwise be infringing. I understand that anime rightsholders often have something of a tradition of sometimes letting fan-created material slide, but if generative AI massively reduces the bar to creating content, I suspect that that is likely to change.

Right now, you have generative AI companies saying --- maybe legally plausibly --- that they aren't the liable ones if a user generates infringing material with their model.

And while you can maybe go after someone who is outright generating and selling material that is infringing, something doesn't have to be commercially sold to be infringing. Like, if LucasArts wants to block for-fun fan art of Luke and Leia and Han, they can do that.

One issue is attribution. Like, generative AI companies are not lying when they say that there isn't a great way to just "reverse" what training corpus data contributed more to an output.

However, I am also very confident that it is very possible to do better than they do today. From a purely black-box standpoint, one possibility would be, for example, to use TinEye-style fuzzy hashing of images and then try to reverse an image, probably with a fuzzier hash than TinEye uses, to warn a user that they might be generating an image that would be derivative. That won't solve all cases, especially if you do 3d vision and generative AI producing models (though then you could also maybe do computer vision and a TinEye-equivalent for 3D models).

Another complicating factor is that copyright only restricts distribution of derivative works. I can make my own, personal art of Leia all I want. What I can't do is go distribute it. I think --- though I don't absolutely know what case law is like for this, especially internationally --- that generating images on hardware at OpenAI or whatever and then having them move to me doesn't count as distribution. Otherwise, software-as-a-service in general, stuff like Office 365, would have major restrictions on working with IP that locally-running software would not. Point is that I expect that it should be perfectly legal for me to go to an image generator and generate material as long as I do not subsequently redistribute it, even if it would be infringing had I done so. And the AI company involved has no way of knowing what I'm doing with the material that I'm generating. If they block me from making material with Leia, that's an excessively-broad restriction.

But IP holders are going to want to have a practical route to either be able to go after the generative AI company producing the material that gets distributed, or the users generating infringing material and then distributing it. AI companies are probably going to say that it's the users, and that's probably correct. Problem is from a rightsholder standpoint, yeah, they could go after the users before, but if it's a lot cheaper and easier to create the material now, that presents them with practical problems. If any Tom, Dick, and Harry can go out and generate material, they've got a lot more moles to whack in their whack-a-mole game.

And in that vein, an issue that I haven't seen come up is what happens if generative AI companies start permitting deterministic generation of content -- that is, where if I plug in the same inputs, I get the same outputs. Maybe they already do; I don't know, run my generative AI stuff locally. But supposing you have a scenario like this:

I make a game called "Generic RPG", which I sell.
I distribute --- or sell --- DLC for this game. This uses a remote, generative AI service to generate art for the game using a set of prompts sold as part of the DLC for that game. No art is distributed as part of the game. Let's say I call that "Adventures A Long Time Ago In A Universe Far, Far Away" or something that doesn't directly run afoul of LucasArts, creates enough distance. And let's set aside trademark concerns, for the sake of discussion. And lets say that the prompts are not, themselves infringing on copyright (though I could imagine them doing so, let's say that they're sufficiently distant to avoid being derivative works).
Every user buys the DLC, and then on their computer, reconstitutes the images for the game. At least if done purely-locally, this should be legal under case law --- the GPL specifically depends on the fact that one can combine material locally to produce a derivative work as long as one does not then distribute it. Mods to (copyrighted) games can just distribute the deltas, producing a derivative work when the mod is applied, and that's definitely legal.
One winds up with someone selling and distributing what is effectively a "Star Wars" game.

Now, maybe training the model on images of Star Wars content so that it knows what Star Wars looks like isn't, as a single step, creating an infringing work. Maybe distributing the model that knows about Star Wars isn't infringement. Maybe the prompts being distributed designed to run against that model are not infringing. Maybe reconstituting the apparently-Star-Wars images in a deterministic fashion using SaaS to hardware that can run the model is not infringing. But if the net effect is equivalent to distributing an infringing work, my suspicion is that courts are going to be willing to create some kind of legal doctrine that restricts it, if they haven't already.

Now, this situation is kind of contrived, but I expect that people will do it, sooner or later, absent legal restrictions.

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ToastedRavioli

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It sounds like it would be an analogue issue that is already similarly solved in other respects.

For example, its not only illegal for someone to make and sell known illegal drugs, but its additionally illegal to make or sell anything that is not the specifically illegal drug but is analogous to it in terms of effect (and especially facets of chemical structure)

So any process that produces an end result analogous to copyright infringement would be viewed as copyright infringement, even if it skirts the existing laws on a technical basis, is probably what the prevailing approach will be

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tal

in reply to ToastedRavioli • 1 settimana fa • •

For example, its not only illegal for someone to make and sell known illegal drugs, but its additionally illegal to make or sell anything that is not the specifically illegal drug but is analogous to it in terms of effect (and especially facets of chemical structure)

Hmm. I'm not familiar with that as a legal doctrine.

kagis

At least in the US --- and this may not be the case everywhere --- it sounds like there's a law that produces this, rather than a doctrine. So I don't think that there's a general legal doctrine that would automatically apply here.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_…

The Federal Analogue Act, 21 U.S.C. § 813, is a section of the United States Controlled Substances Act passed in 1986 which allows any chemical "substantially similar" to a controlled substance listed in Schedule I or II to be treated as if it were listed in Schedule I, but only if intended for human consumption. These similar substances are often called designer drugs. The law's broad reach has been used to successfully prosecute possession of chemicals openly sold as dietary supplements and naturally contained in foods (e.g., the possession of phenethylamine, a compound found in chocolate, has been successfully prosecuted based on its "substantial similarity" to the controlled substance methamphetamine).[1] The law's constitutionality has been questioned by now Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch[2] on the basis of Vagueness doctrine.

But I guess that it might be possible to pass a similar such law for copyright, though.

section of the United States Controlled Substances Act

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FatCrab

in reply to tal • 1 settimana fa • •

This is a distressingly unusually solid analysis for lemmy. I agree with one exception--writing to memory absolutely counts as a distribution. Accordingly, if a generative model output an infringing work, it for sure could create liability for infringement. I think this will ultimately work similarly to music copyright where conscious/explicitly intentional copying is not itself the threshold test, but rather degree of similarity. And if you have prompts that specifically target towards infringement, you're going to get some sort of contributory infringement structure. I think there is also potentially useful case law to look at in terms of infringement arising out of work-for-hire situations, where the contractor may not have infringed intentionally but the supervisor knew and intended their instructions to produce an effectively infringing work. That is, if there is any case law on this pretty narrow fact pattern.

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frongt

in reply to simple • 1 settimana fa • •

That's their whole business model

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japan:
- people make rule34 porn of underage children: "i sleep"
- people make unsanctioned videos of characters from mega-corps like nintendo doing stupid stuff: "i weep"

always interesting to see where their priorities lie.

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mienshao

in reply to _cryptagion [he/him] • 1 settimana fa • •

Insane that that’s your takeaway from this post. This had nothing to do with underage children, so why is your mind already there? So fucking weird.

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paraphrand

in reply to _cryptagion [he/him] • 1 settimana fa • •

Go back to Reddit.

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_cryptagion [he/him]

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Go back to your mums basement.

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Hellotypewriter

in reply to _cryptagion [he/him] • 1 settimana fa • •

AI is like stealing a brick from everyone in your town to build your own house. As a medical writer it has absolutely destroyed my business.

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Pycorax

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And build it seeming convincingly well before it falls apart once a storm passes by.

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Tollana1234567

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i heard it pretty much ruined some career of corporate writers, on certain subs, although i dont know the extent of it. on one post, the user said the company was pretty much okay with the fact that thier low-quality AI generated writings will result in less clientele and less revenue, but no overhead of hiring an outside writer

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Hellotypewriter

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Yeah. So medical writers have it really rough. I was making $100k+ last year. I just exhausted unemployment. The problem is that you can feed AI a list of approved claims and basically feed it a ton of examples and it gets 85% of the way there. Of course it’s ripping off our work to do that, but cash is king. I haven’t checked in a bit, but website traffic was down 90%. So, they essentially lost millions to save $100k.

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Tollana1234567

in reply to _cryptagion [he/him] • 1 settimana fa • •

how is that relevant to AI; Minors AND nintendo doing some IP nazi stuff is not the same as AI stealing content.

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TomMasz

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OpenAI is copyright infringement.

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artyom

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OenAI replies: "but line go up...?"

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jordanlund

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I'm amazed that these shady chatbot apps aren't getting sued to death. I see ads all the time for Simpsons, Family Guy, Incredibles characters and I'm like "Disney is going to murder you."

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paraphrand

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Disney bought into a long history of Fox animated properties being lax in infringement enforcement online.

But this is a whole different level. That’s where I agree with you.

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earthworm

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They'll wait until the bubble bursts (or OpenAI shows signs of weakness) and then they'll eat it alive.

It's not profitable to go after them when the government is tweeting out Pokémon ICE commercials and the president is making deepfakes of himself.

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porcoesphino

in reply to earthworm • 1 settimana fa • •

And the other government with large contributors is China and intellectual property rights have never been strong there. Walk around a startup and you'll see plenty of posters they're made with their products and with the faces of Elon Musk or Steve Jobs there as if they're endorsing or part of the product

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porcoesphino

in reply to earthworm • 1 settimana fa • •

And the other government with large contributors is China and intellectual property rights have never been strong there. Walk around a tech startup in China and you'll see plenty of posters they've made with their products and with the faces of Elon Musk or Steve Jobs there as if they're endorsing or part of the product

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Tollana1234567

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they use westerners, even hiring white people to be the face of thier company, its to "legitimize thier shady companies its very common. they make the westerners go to events and pretend like they own it, but not do anything for the companies internal workings. thats why alot of products on amazon that are from china uses white people in thier ads.

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Tollana1234567

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NVIDIA will want thier investment back at some point too. oracle is going to be left holding the bag on all the useless datacenters they built.

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unexposedhazard

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They will just make deal with OpenAI that benefit both sides while all the small players get crushed. Same as with all types of media...

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MourningDove

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“Irreplaceable treasures”

ROFL!

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tgcoldrockn

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nonviolence advocate here. that punchable face tho.

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FreedomAdvocate

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Hate for AI vs hate for big corporations and copyright laws. Which thing that they hate will Lemmy members defend passionately?

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meco03211

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Likely, whatever benefits the little guy. Most people don't have a problem with copyright laws in a vacuum. It's the abuse of those by large corporate entities that are the issue.

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FreedomAdvocate

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Well in this case there' s no question - OpenAI benefit the "little guy" more.

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eldebryn

in reply to FreedomAdvocate • 1 settimana fa • •

If we had a fair distribution of wealth I wouldn't care about either of these really.

Most artists care about attribution/fame somewhat but if they could live comfortably they wouldn't care about royalties much or others using their art.

Likewise for AI, automation is an amazing thing for civilization but when it is gatekeeped and used to make the rich richer it's just exploitation of workers everywhere since they have to work as hard as they did one century ago with, arguably, less buying power.

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FreedomAdvocate

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If we had a fair distribution of wealth I wouldn’t care about either of these really.

A "fair distribution of wealth" isn't really a thing though. What you likely consider "fair" is most likely "not fair" to high income earners, correct?

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eldebryn

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Yes and idfaf. Work as much as you want to. No one gets a second home before everyone has at least one. That's my position.

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Rose

in reply to FreedomAdvocate • 1 settimana fa • •

AI companies are not on the side of copyright reform or abolition. They just want an exception for themselves. They very much believe in trade secrets. They probably want copyright to eventually cover the current grey areas so that they can stop pretending they give a damn about open models.

It's not unreasonable to demand AI companies to play by the same rules as everyone else.

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FreedomAdvocate

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It’s not unreasonable to demand AI companies to play by the same rules as everyone else.

But when you hate those very rules, shouldn't you be cheering on the people that are seemingly ignoring them and are likely to try and challenge them in court/lobby to be changed/removed? Right? "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" and all that?

Oh, but not when those people are evil capitalist companies that make AI product lol.

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aliser

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yeah like he gaf

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SabinStargem

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I am cool with everything stuffed into AI and freely distributed, whatever the form. Bluntly, I think copyright sucks, and want it gone. Nintendo shouldn't be able to patent game mechanics, and I would like to see more mashups of things.

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TomAwsm

in reply to SabinStargem • 1 settimana fa • •

Ah, a man of culture - DBZ Team Training is a classic. I also hear good things about Super Mariomon, though I haven't tried it yet myself.

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Montreal_Metro

in reply to SabinStargem • 1 settimana fa • •

I agree that I should be able to use whatever you make and sell it for money without crediting you because I’m a human just like you. We’re basically related so whatever you make is also mine because we’re pretty try much the same person.

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bss03

in reply to SabinStargem • 1 settimana fa • •

I will support the elimination of copyright. But, as long as copyright exists, I will reject and resist AI.

That said, there are a number of other reasons I think AI sucks, it's not limited to copyright.

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Tollana1234567

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i support elimination of IP copyright for medications, lessen the time for other forms of IP, like movie/show franchises.

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bss03

in reply to Tollana1234567 • 1 settimana fa • •

I don't think copyright is currently serving it's purpose "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". And it should be eliminated anywhere it is not doing that.

Closest to my pocketbook is software (I'm a programmer), and I think we'd almost certainly be better off without copyright of any kind on software. It would mean exercise of some of our freedom around software would have to be implemented via reverse engineering, but it would make that route much more available / less risky for software that is current not Free Software. But, maybe I'm extra jaded because software is almost always done as "work-for-hire" so the author doesn't actually hold the copyright, the Capitalist employer does.

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Gormadt

in reply to bss03 • 1 settimana fa • •

I support the elimination of copyright in it's current form

The way it was initially was fine IMO: 14 years, with an option to renew it at the end of those 14 years. ONCE.

Now in terms of patenting medications, if it was partially paid for with public money it's the public's patent. In other words it's open for everyone. Made a new medication but took a government grant to help fund it? It's public when it comes out, enjoy a nice hearty reward check for your efforts.

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tal

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Nintendo shouldn’t be able to patent game mechanics

Those are patents, not copyrights. There are a bunch of different forms of intellectual property. Off the top of my head:

Copyright
Trademark
Patent
Moral (not very substantial in the US, but more-meaningful in France)

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SabinStargem

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IMO, the way it should be is that concepts and art should be free to be used by anyone. However, specific incarnations made someone can't be copied. For example, Nintendo can make a Pokemon game, as can Sega with the same characters. Naturally, Nintendo can make a Shin Megami Mario game.

The important thing is that the company or people behind an incarnation is distinctly labelled, so that people can't confuse who made what. In this way, variants of a media can fulfill niches that otherwise wouldn't be possible. Say, for example, a WoodRocket "Jessie Does James" hentai anime.

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tal

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I have, in the past, kind of wished that settings and characters could not be copyrighted. I realize that there's work that goes into creating each, but I think that we could still live in a world where those weren't protected and interesting stuff still gets created. If that were to happen, then I agree, it'd be necessary to make it very clear who created what, since the setting and characters alone wouldn't uniquely identify the source.

Like, there are things like Greek mythology or the Robin Hood collection of stories, very important works of art from our past, that were created by many different unaffiliated people. They just couldn't be created today with our modern stories, because the settings and characters would be copyrighted and most rightsholders don't just offer a blanket grant of rights to use them.

That's actually one unusual and notable thing H.P. Lovecraft did --- if you've ever seen stuff in the Cthulhu Mythos, that's him. He encouraged anyone who wanted to do so to create stuff using his universe. One reason why we have that kind of collection of Lovecraftian stuff.

But you can't do that with, say, Star Wars or a lot of other beloved settings.

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SabinStargem

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The Touhou franchise strikes me as the modern Lovecraft. People are creating fangames, and go on to make them into commercial products. Around the 22nd or thereabout, "Shrine Maiden Wars" will be released, which is a take on the Super Robot Wars formula, but with the Touhou cast. It is an incredibly vibrant ecosystem of fanworks, where most people get to have fun AND profit.

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Sebastrion

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Touhou Luna Nights Is such a Fun Game!
It was the first Touhou Game I played because I'm don't like Bullet Hell's.
If someone reads this and is into Metroidvanias, give it a shot!

Touhou Luna Nights on Steam

Touhou Luna Nights is a Metroidvania title with a heavy emphasis on exploration and action.　 Developed by Team Ladybug, creators of multiple fantastic action games thus far.

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SabinStargem

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I probably will get it when Turkey Day rolls around. Anyhow, counter-suggestion: Check out La-Mulana if you like puzzles with your Metroidvania. They are extremely long and difficult games, but is worth your time if you got the lateral thinking to puzzle out the riddles and enjoy things like King's Quest.

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3abas

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Once you start studying non capitalist propaganda, the idea of "intellectual property" becomes transparently harmful. Copyrights don't protect ideas, they protect the wealth of rich people.

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jsomae

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Everyone here is either on the side of hating big AI companies or hating IP law. I proudly hate both.

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arararagi

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Didn't Japan rule that AI was fine to infringe copyright to train? Why are they complaining now?

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Geodad

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Japan didn't think the face eating leopards would eat their face.

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its okay if they did it, but not okay if a outsider does it.-japan

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Based on what I saw while lurking around the site formerly known as Twitter, while some Japanese creatives are totally hostile to AI with their traditional and digital artwork being poached for "training", others are jumping into Sora to enliven their waifu artwork, mostly posed 3D models or from video games.

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titanicx

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Stop calling it Twitter. It's x. And it's idiotic.

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HumanOnEarth

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Wow, Elon himself on Lemmy!

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3abas

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The stubbornness of calling it Twitter is really silly. Imagine insisting Edge is AcTuAlLy Internet Explorer, same energy.

It's called x now, you access it by going to c.com. it's stupid, but you need to face it and accept that Twitter and what Twitter used to be is gone.

Stop using the Nazi platform, period. This refusal to let go of Twitter and still giving Elon money and influence by continuing to use his platform while insisting you're making some sort of statement by making fun of him and calling it Twitter is... Silly. What's the end game?

Twitter is dead. Let it go.

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JackbyDev

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You need a better example. Edge was specifically not Internet Explorer. For quite a while, both existed. They were separate programs. Also going to twitter.com still takes you to where you wanna go lol, it just redirects.

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ZeroOne

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That's rich coming from a country with no proper copyright laws & a copyright monster by the name Nintendo

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tatterdemalion

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Japan's copyright law is very similar to the US, so I'm not sure what you're referring to.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Co…

1880s international copyright treaty adopted by 160+ countries

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Meta removes ICE-tracking Facebook page at the request of the Justice Department

Meta has removed a Facebook page used to track the presence of immigration agents at the request of the Department of Justice, the company confirmed on Tuesday.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a post on X that “following outreach” from the DOJ, Facebook removed a “large group page” that was being used to target ICE officials.

Meta said in a statement that the group "was removed for violating our policies against coordinated harm.”

Meta removes ICE-tracking Facebook page at the request of the Justice Department

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AI's new frontier

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pancake

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Is the bottleneck in cancer research intelligence though? Like, even if you had infinite mindpower available at near-zero cost, you'd still have to do basically the same amount of lab work. And that would cost basically the same amount of money and time.

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Pentagon sidelines military JAG lawyers ahead of deployments to US cities

According to CNN, Hegseth has now sacked multiple top officers across the Army, Navy, Air Force and Space Force who previously led those services’ legal branches — often after they gave legal advice that included concerns about Trump administration policies.

One such officer was Lt. Gen. Joe Berger, formerly the Army’s top uniformed attorney.

Berger reportedly raised questions about a series of early decisions Hegseth made after being sworn in this past January, including the legality of using Texas National Guard personnel for civilian immigration enforcement and the mass firings carried out early in the Trump administration by the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency.

Hegseth gets the JAGs off his back ahead of push into cities as Pentagon hobbles lawyers who raise concerns

Hegseth has long expressed disdain for military lawyers and support for soldiers accused of war crimes

^{Andrew Feinberg (The Independent)}

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Are there any good places to torrent music with consistent quality and tagging?

I would like to move away from using spotify for music. Are there any torrenting sites where I can torrent music with high quality audio (~320kbps) tagged properly?

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splendoruranium

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I would like to move away from using spotify for music. Are there any torrenting sites where I can torrent music with high quality audio (~320kbps) tagged properly?

I strongly suggest to always tag your own music. I think expecting to always finding every album tagged to your own (or you media center's) specifications and preferences in one place is a fantasy. At least it's one that I've given up on more than a decade ago. Your music will always come from multiple different sources and I don't think there is (or ever can be) one golden goose.

So yeah, +1 for Musicbrainz Picard. I'll throw in Puddletag for small manual corrections.

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L501

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So I actually made a python script yesterday that uses spotify's web api to make a list of urls of every song on every album that I've liked one or more songs on. I then wrote a shell script which takes the file with all the urls and fetches the songs as 320 kbps mp3 files with a tool called zotify using a burner premium account I made. Unfortunately, it can only download songs in real time and will probably take around a month to finish downloading all the songs so I just set it to run on my vps. The mp3 files are good quality and have proper tagging and album art. I think I may have done it.

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splendoruranium

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Well, I'll be darned - I hope it works out!

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andyspam

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Would you be willing to share your scripts?

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L501

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I will also add a cron job to check for new liked songs once a day after this big download of ~15,000 songs is finished.

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SolarPunker

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Nicotine+ is a very good soulseek front; I suggest to adjust tags with Picard.

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Hamas carries out public executions after returning to the streets of Gaza

This show of force, welcomed by some Palestinians after months of lawlessness, could now threaten the fragile ceasefire, especially as all living hostages from Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack have been released.

The Hamas-run police maintained a high degree of public security after the militants seized power in Gaza 18 years ago while also cracking down on dissent. They largely melted away in recent months as Israeli forces seized large areas of Gaza and targeted Hamas security forces with airstrikes.

Hamas ‘carries out public executions’ after returning to the streets of Gaza

Trump said Tuesday that Hamas had taken out ‘a couple of gangs that were very bad’

^{Samy Magdy (The Independent)}

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Liberals when the Zionists kill civillians and label them terrorists: "Israel has a right to defend itself from terrorists"

Liberals when Hamas acturally kills terrorists except they're backed by the GDF: "Wahhh this is a violation of international law which I suddenly care about now"

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altphoto

in reply to gedaliyah • 1 settimana fa • •

Oh my gorsh! They have got to be fucking retarded!

Like this super power invades and destroys your entire country so you can release hostages, and when this super power stops you still want more? How stupid do you have to be? They have to have skulls 9 inches thick!

I just hope the Palestinians eat to recover their strength and then go after the religious crazy.

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GialappaShow torna il 20 ottobre su TV8 e Sky Uno: nuove imitazioni, Suor Piena di Michela Giraud e Miriam Leone con il Mago Forest

GialappaShow riparte lunedì 20 ottobre in prima serata su TV8 e Sky Uno, inaugurando la sesta edizione in tre anni. Ideato da Giorgio Gherarducci e Marco Santin della Gialappa’s Band e condotto dal Mago Forest, lo show rilancia il meccanismo che ha reso il format un cult: ritmo alto, clip commentate e un parterre di comici con personaggi e parodie inedite.

LE ANTICIPAZIONI: GialappaShow torna il 20 ottobre su TV8 e Sky Uno: nuove imitazioni, Suor Piena di Michela Giraud e Miriam Leone con il Mago Forest

GialappaShow, anticipazioni 20 ottobre 2025: Miriam Leone, Suor Piena di Michela Giraud e ospite Neffa

GialappaShow torna il 20 ottobre 2025 su TV8 e Sky Uno, le anticipazioni. Prima puntata con Miriam Leone e ospite Neffa. Michela Giraud debutta come Suor Piena.

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Seeking a Comprehensive List of ActivityPub Platforms Sorted by Total Monthly Active Users

I'm looking for an up-to-date, comprehensive list of all ActivityPub federated platforms, sorted by the total number of monthly active users across all instances. Similar to Fediverse Observer’s list but for platforms instead of instances using the platform. Does anyone know of one?

Fediverse Observer checks all sites in the fediverse and gives you an easy way to find a home from a map or list or automatically.

Fediverse Sites Status. Find a Fediverse server to sign up for, find one close to you!

^{fediverse.observer}

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kersploosh

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fedidb.com/software

"By platform" is a fuzzy request given the interoperable nature of the fediverse. This list is broken up by software, so Lemmy/PieFed/mbin are listed separately even though their users share and interact as if they were all on one platform.

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Davy_Jones

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Thanks!

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lens0021

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fedidb.com/servers?

pelespirit via Politics

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The not-so secret language of fascist fashion

Take, for example, a black polo shirt with white stripes at the hems of the sleeves and collar from the activewear brand Will2Rise. It is sold under the name “3.0 Perry Polo”, a reference to the famous British brand Fred Perry, whose black and yellow design was “hijacked” by the far-right group Proud Boys since its founding in 2016. (In 2020, Fred Perry discontinued the model as a result). In the Will2Rise version, Fred Perry’s logo of golden laurels is replaced with a modern design of the white supremacist Patriot Front logo, which depicts an upright fasces surrounded by a circle.

While valorization of masculine power and fitness is an important part of this new aesthetics, women – who are traditionally associated with fashion and adornment – also have a role in shaping the look. Adhering to traditional ideas of gender, the new Republican look of extreme plastic surgery and heavy makeup combines with tradwives’ 1950s dress silhouettes of cinched waists and flowery patterns to celebrate hyperfemininity.

These styles not only allow their wearers to blend in, but they also play a role in normalizing an aesthetics of radicalism and violence. Sociologist and American University professor Cynthia Miller-Idriss, who studies extremism and polarization, has written that “it is simply much harder to recognize ideas as hateful when they come in an aesthetic package that doesn’t fit the image people hold in their heads about what white supremacists look like”. When the radical right looks like the mythical boy and girl next door, it’s hard to know who can be a threat.

The not-so secret language of fascist fashion

Today’s rightwingers want their message to go mainstream, so it’s coming to a store near you

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

#politics

return2ozma via Technology

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OpenAI wants to stop ChatGPT from validating users’ political views

New paper reveals reducing “bias” means making ChatGPT stop mirroring users’ political language.

^{Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)}

#technology

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Noxy

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Pretty telling that the headline is that they want to do something, rather than they did something.

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ikidd

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Somewhere, sometime, ChatGPT is telling the stupidest person in the world "Yes, you are absolutely correct!"

return2ozma via politics

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OpenAI wants to stop ChatGPT from validating users’ political views

New paper reveals reducing “bias” means making ChatGPT stop mirroring users’ political language.

^{Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)}

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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

The exchange is part of a trove of Telegram chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than seven months of messages among Young Republican leaders in New York, Kansas, Arizona and Vermont. The chat offers an unfiltered look at how a new generation of GOP activists talk when they think no one is listening.

The 2,900 pages of chats, shared among a dozen millennial and Gen Z Republicans between early January and mid-August, chronicle their campaign to seize control of the national Young Republican organization on a hardline pro-Donald Trump platform. Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.

Together, the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely — and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those positioning themselves as the party’s next leaders.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146

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Sahwa via World News

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Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation

John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society

^{Haroon Siddique (The Guardian)}

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jasoman

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UK government looked at the US government and liked what it saw.

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klammeraffe

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Other way around

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Viking_Hippie

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You're both right.

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WoodScientist

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Finally a good use for cryptocurrency.

Coopr8 via politics

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Do You Support Digital ID from Birth?

Do You Support Digital ID from Birth? #politics, #DigitalID, #digital #id

The recent push for age verification online is leading to discussion of Digital ID, which would tie a person's birth record to an official public identifier that can be referenced by private corporations and required for use of services in person and online.

What are the arguments for and against Digital ID? Where do you think your country is headed on this issue?

#politics #digital #id #digitalid

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Charlie Charles annuncia “La Bella Confusione”: il nuovo album esce il 24 ottobre

“La Bella Confusione” è il titolo del primo album solista di Charlie Charles, in uscita giovedì 24 ottobre per Island Records / Universal Music Italia. Il producer che nel 2016 ha contribuito a definire il suono della trap italiana firma un progetto dal concept personale e cinematografico, anticipato da una campagna di billboard misteriosi comparsi sui Navigli a Milano.

SCOPRI TUTTI I DETTAGLI: Charlie Charles annuncia “La Bella Confusione”: il nuovo album esce il 24 ottobre

Charlie Charles annuncia “La Bella Confusione”: il nuovo album esce il 24 ottobre

Charlie Charles annuncia ‘La Bella Confusione’: il primo album esce il 24 ottobre per Island/Universal. Tutti i dettagli.

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BrikoX via Global News

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Holocaust survivor Agnes Kory: there's no end to Israel's atrocities for Gaza's children

Holocaust survivor Agnes Kory accuses Israel of attempting to carry out a genocide on Palestine in the name of all Jewish people

Archived version: archive.is/newest/thecanary.co…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Holocaust survivor decries Israel's genocide

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BrikoX via Interesting Shares

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[Article] Aliens may have stopped trying to contact humans because they simply got bored, Nasa scientist claims

Astrophysicist suggests ‘radical mundanity’ is answer to the ‘great silence’ in the galaxy

Aliens may have stopped trying to contact humans because they simply got bored, Nasa scientist

^{Maryam Zakir-Hussain (The Independent)}

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AtomHeartMagazine via Spettacoli, Cinema, Musica, Televisione, Teatro, Anime e Serie TV

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JUJUTSU KAISEN: Esecuzione, nuovo trailer e uscita al cinema l’8 dicembre in Italia. Sul grande schermo Shibuya e l’anteprima del Culling Game

Crunchyroll presenta il trailer ufficiale di JUJUTSU KAISEN: ESECUZIONE, lungometraggio evento che porta nei cinema l’Incidente di Shibuya e anticipa i primi due episodi della Stagione 3 dedicata al Culling Game. L’uscita italiana è fissata per l’8 dicembre 2025 in esclusiva nelle sale, distribuzione Crunchyroll e Sony Pictures Entertainment.

GUARDALO QUI: JUJUTSU KAISEN: Esecuzione, nuovo trailer e uscita al cinema l’8 dicembre in Italia. Sul grande schermo Shibuya e l’anteprima del Culling Game

JUJUTSU KAISEN: Esecuzione, ecco il trailer in italiano

Nuovo trailer italiano di JUJUTSU KAISEN: Esecuzione. In Italia al cinema dall’8 dicembre 2025. Guardalo subito!

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BrikoX via Global News

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Almost 70% of US adults would be deemed obese based on new definition, study finds

Medical experts have called for new way to more accurately measure obesity, although definition has yet to be adopted

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Almost 70% of US adults would be deemed obese based on new definition, study finds

^{Nicola Davis (The Guardian)}

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BrikoX via Technology

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US | Mint Mobile launches 5G home internet service — 415 Mbps MINTernet plans start as low as $30 per month for unlimited data

MINTernet is the latest in the growing field of home 5G internet services

Mint Mobile launches 5G home internet service — 415 Mbps MINTernet plans start as low as $30 per month for unlimited data

^{Brandon Hill (Tom's Hardware)}

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Young Republicans' 'I Love Hitler' Group Chat Leak Sparks Outrage & Resignations in New York

Young Republicans’ ‘I Love Hitler’ Group Chat Leak Sparks Outrage & Resignations in New York

A Young Republicans group chat leak with open Nazism and racism has caused major backlash for many of its members.

^{Sid Natividad (The Nerd Stash)}

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BrikoX via United States | News & Politics

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Nebraska resident sues after mayor’s Facebook page deleted her comment

Local resident is asking a judge to declare the mayor violated her First Amendment rights and have a jury determine compensation for damages

Nebraska resident sues after her comment about a sinkhole gets deleted from Omaha mayor’s Facebook page

^{Ariana Baio (The Independent)}

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In the Supreme Court case Linkde v. Freed (2024), justices ruled public officials could be sued for preventing citizens from commenting on their social media page, even if the account is personal, so long as they have the authority to speak on the government’s behalf or are purported to be doing so in the post in question.

Ouch. Easy cash.

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Can i get the top day feed of my subscriptions to put on feeder (or other rss readers?)

Using Voyager at the moment and its great but i was wandering if its possible to get an rss feed like top month or active and put it on feeder

#fediverse

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Yea just use the actual website and it has an RSS link for your current view.

Picasso via Fediverse

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Can i get the top day feed of my subscriptions to put on feeder (or other rss readers?)

Using Voyager at the moment and its great but i was wandering if its possible to get an rss feed like top month or active and put it on feeder

#fediverse

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Israel resumes killing Palestinians in first phase of Trump’s “peace plan”

This violence is part of the broader strategy of Israeli settlement expansion and de-facto annexation of Palestinian land, with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid reporting that at least 3,400 Palestinians have been displaced by settler violence and access restrictions throughout the Gaza genocide and the subsequent ceasefire.

Israel resumes killing Palestinians in first phase of Trump’s “peace plan”

Seven Palestinians were shot and killed by the Israeli military in Gaza since the phase one of the so-called “peace plan” brokered by the Trump administration was implemented.

^{World Socialist Web Site}

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Hopefully this pisses Trump off.

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Supreme Court weighs whether to gut key provision of landmark Voting Rights Act

The conservative majority will consider whether states are barred from considering race when they draw legislative districts aimed at complying with the 1965 law.

The conservative-majority Supreme Court on Wednesday will consider whether to eviscerate a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act in a congressional redistricting case from Louisiana.

The justices, who expanded the scope of the case over the summer, will hear oral arguments on whether states can ever consider race in drawing new districts while seeking to comply with Section 2 of the 1965 law, which was enacted against a backdrop of historic racial discrimination to protect minority voters.

The long-running dispute concerns the congressional map that Louisiana was required to redraw last year after being sued under the Voting Rights Act to ensure that there were two majority-Black districts. The original map only had one such district in a state where a third of the population is Black.

Supreme Court weighs whether to gut key provision of landmark Voting Rights Act

^{Lawrence Hurley (NBC News)}

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technocrit via World News

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How Israel plans to continue the war without its army - As tanks withdraw and the bombing slows, Israel extends its war through Palestinian militias turned against their own.

Israel’s logic here is clear. It has long relied on an old colonial strategy: Divide and rule. A society consumed by internal violence cannot stand united against its occupier. By cynically fostering the rise of militias, Israel achieves two aims: Weakening Palestinian unity and reducing the burden on its own army. It avoids direct costs and international scrutiny, while Gaza continues to bleed from within.
The armed gangs now spreading fear in Gaza are not defenders of the homeland but Israel’s collaborators, serving its occupation under a different name. They were empowered during the war to act where Israel could not always act openly. Yet Israel’s history with Palestinians who serve its interests is clear: It uses them, then discards them. Once their purpose is fulfilled, collaborators are cast aside, disarmed or destroyed, left with neither honour nor protection. He who turns his gun on his own people may think himself powerful, but his fate is always the same: Rejection by his people, by history and even by the occupier who once used him.
For Palestinians, the consequences are nothing short of catastrophic...

How Israel plans to continue the war without its army

As tanks withdraw and the bombing slows, Israel extends its war through Palestinian militias turned against their own.

^{Amal Abu Seif (Al Jazeera)}

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“Bombing slows” Are they still bombing? Maybe they have a different definition of “cease” than I do.

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So the old playbook that in part gave us Hamas. Surely nothing could go wrong with this plan.

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How Israel plans to continue the war without its army - As tanks withdraw and the bombing slows, Israel extends its war through Palestinian militias turned against their own.

Israel’s logic here is clear. It has long relied on an old colonial strategy: Divide and rule. A society consumed by internal violence cannot stand united against its occupier. By cynically fostering the rise of militias, Israel achieves two aims: Weakening Palestinian unity and reducing the burden on its own army. It avoids direct costs and international scrutiny, while Gaza continues to bleed from within.

The armed gangs now spreading fear in Gaza are not defenders of the homeland but Israel’s collaborators, serving its occupation under a different name. They were empowered during the war to act where Israel could not always act openly. Yet Israel’s history with Palestinians who serve its interests is clear: It uses them, then discards them. Once their purpose is fulfilled, collaborators are cast aside, disarmed or destroyed, left with neither honour nor protection. He who turns his gun on his own people may think himself powerful, but his fate is always the same: Rejection by his people, by history and even by the occupier who once used him.

For Palestinians, the consequences are nothing short of catastrophic...

How Israel plans to continue the war without its army

As tanks withdraw and the bombing slows, Israel extends its war through Palestinian militias turned against their own.

^{Amal Abu Seif (Al Jazeera)}

#Palestine

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Microsoft veteran explains Windows quirk that made videos play in Paint

I swear Windows was - and still is - basically three OSes in a trench coat. It’s less a cohesive operating system and more just a collection of weird quirks.

I swear Windows was - and still is - basically three OSes in a trench coat. It's less a cohesive operating system and more just a collection of weird quirks.

Microsoft veteran explains Windows quirk that made videos play in Paint

: Raymond Chen says the OS used green-screen overlays to fake video playback – with curious side effects

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This is how hardware accelerated TV tuners worked back in the day, and probably also MPEG cards during their brief flash in the pan when they were necessary to play MPEG encoded video before processors were powerful enough to do it in software (and/or had various extensions added to them to assist, like MMX and SSE, etc., etc.).

I had an ATI TV Wonder card back in those dark days, and its mask color was hot magenta: RGB(255,0,255). Any pixels in your framebuffer of that color would be overwritten with TV output, although the player that came with the card already seemed to broadly know approximately where its output should be located so you couldn't relocate the video on your screen by doing this. If you full screened the player and then minimized it, though, you could color in any pixels on your display with e.g. Paint and they'd magically become little slices of broadcast television.