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paysrenttobirds ,

At the least it should have a prominent "for entertainment purposes only", except it fails that purpose, too

paysrenttobirds ,

I don't know what this is about, but it reminds me of the constant ev-bashing in most major newspapers over the last two decades (since the beginning). I believe it's oil money in the press, and definitely had effect on the overall conversation, especially discouraging small evs, but not clear effect on policy. It just keeps consumers from adopting.

Bluesky Is Building The Decentralized Social Media Jack Dorsey Wants, Even If He Doesn’t Realize It (www.techdirt.com)

There was a bit of news in the world of decentralized social media over the past few weeks. It kicked off with the announcement that Jack Dorsey had left the board of Bluesky. This was followed by an interview Jack gave to Mike Solana where he explained his thinking on all of this. There was also a flurry of talk claiming...

paysrenttobirds ,

Great article! I had not heard of many of these projects, and it's great to see an intelligent conversation about the struggle to keep social content accessible and "complete", for lack of a better word, while also providing necessary structure to curb abuses from users, criminals, and gatekeepers alike.

Neatly separated the concerns of content, algorithm, and branding.

Musk's X Corp loses lawsuit against Israeli data-scraping company (www.reuters.com)

May 10 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit in which Elon Musk's X Corp accused an Israeli data-scraping company of illegally copying and selling content, and selling tools that let others copy and sell content, from the social media platform....

paysrenttobirds ,

Alsup said using scraping tools is not inherently fraudulent, and giving social media companies free rein to decide how public data are used "risks the possible creation of information monopolies that would disserve the public interest."
The judge also said X was not entitled to "de facto copyright ownership" in copyrighted content that X's users made available to the public.

Based.

No One Can Own The Law—So Why Is Congress Advancing A Bill To Extend Copyright To It? (www.techdirt.com)

Last week, the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted to advance the Protecting and Enhancing Public Access to Codes Act, or the Pro Codes Act (H.R. 1631), to the full House. The bill would extend copyright protection to codes (such as building codes) that are developed by standards development organizations...

paysrenttobirds ,

Naming a bill opposite of what it does should be a crime

paysrenttobirds ,

If the games are downloading assets or libraries, I suspect you are right that the cards are just trying to keep in step with software changes, and vice versa. There should be some publication that you could watch to know ahead of time, as the companies and developers are certainly keeping each other informed.

paysrenttobirds ,

I agree with you, but I also think this bot was never going to insert itself into any real discussion. The repeated requests for direct, absolute, concise answers that never go into any detail or have any caveats or even suggest that complexity may exist show that it's purpose is to be a religious catechism for Maga. It's meant to affirm believers without bothering about support or persuasion.

Even for someone who doesn't know about this instruction and believes the robot agrees with them on the basis of its unbiased knowledge, how can this experience be intellectually satisfying, or useful, when the robot is not allowed to display any critical reasoning? It's just a string of prayer beads.

paysrenttobirds ,

I'm not disagreeing, but having driven a Tesla for a couple weeks-- it'll make a good driver look bad every time. Turning radius is surprisingly bad. Normal (through the window/mirror) visibility is bad. Handling is super weird and probably unlearnable in the default settings because the car seems to be constantly "correcting" your inputs even when not in autopilot. The default break style gives me motion sickness even when I'm the one driving. And the turn signals-- you just don't know how long they'll stay on, so I did start to feel reluctant to use them?

paysrenttobirds ,

I do encourage you to rent one. I like driving, too, and I just didn't think it was a good experience. But I didn't really fool around with the programs. It's interesting at least.

It's possible drivers who care have figured it out, but there is at least a very large learning curve.

paysrenttobirds ,

Haha, you are orders of magnitude bigger driving enthusiast than myself! I'd be interested to know what you think of the Tesla.

paysrenttobirds ,

Service to humanity.

paysrenttobirds ,

former livestock farmers – many of whom are not opposed to eating meat – and an animal rights non-profit that promotes veganism might seem like an odd pairing. But whether the players involved were first animated by concern about the exploitation of animals, land or people, they end up having enough in common to work together.

Thank you for this antidote to divisiveness.

paysrenttobirds ,

You're right, but grocery stores sell their shelf space, too, down to the inch and not just the end caps. So this is exactly what's happening in your grocery store, only online I think the annoyance comes from the slim chance you can get around it if you try hard enough and the lack of instinct when dealing with pictures and text instead of real objects.

paysrenttobirds ,

Same

paysrenttobirds ,

Yeah, I wonder, too. I've done the same for $15 copay through Kaiser (individual, marketplace) and Blue cross (employer).

paysrenttobirds ,

These articles are written by the subjects. I used to think they had to at least take the journalists out to a nice lunch or something, but in fact there are no actual journalists involved. Sad

paysrenttobirds ,

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