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  • In the past two weeks, a Project Sail publicity brochure has begun appearing in mailboxes. Featuring images of families in clothing emblazoned with the American flag, the mailing appeared to be an attempt to appeal to the conservative-leaning county’s sense of patriotism.

    That's so blatant.

    Probably the only reason it isn't working is that the company behind it is based in Silicon Valley.

    They're going to have to find someone "from around here". (And go behind their backs to pay off city leadership.)

  • A former employee of a disc manufacturing company in Memphis who stole hundreds of DVDs and Blu-ray discs, has been sentenced to 57 months in prison by a Memphis federal court. The length of the sentence is driven by an unrelated firearm charge. For the copyright infringement offenses, to which the defendant pleaded guilty, the court handed down a 21-month sentence to be served concurrently.

    Man who walked across the street was also wearing a shirt. The shirt is unrelated to his walking across the street.

  • Centurii chan @sh.itjust.works

    "Revenge bad" but you have Machiavelli as an advisor

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    IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM (Centurii-Chan)

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    An absolutely ancient being

  • In a post where she signs the open letter, ActivityPub co-author Christine Lemmer-Webber summarises the changing world well:

    “This is actually a really important time for that message to come across, because our communities do both face major threats which I believe we are ideologically aligned in wanting to face:

    We are facing a large number of laws which appear well-intentioned and aimed to try to take on tech gatekeepers, but unintentionally build regulatory moats that allow only gatekeepers to participate, and which threaten user freedom at large.

    The rise of techno-fascism and omnisurveillance affects all users. Neither ATProto nor ActivityPub, at present, are built in such a way that they can provide the levels of protections necessary to respond to the needs of activists and community members against nation-state level threats.

    These are our existential threats, not each other. And we need to figure out how to work together.”

    I'm reading this as "be nice to the Bluesky guys, because we have a bigger problem to deal with."

    That's fine, I'm not inclined to be mentally ill at strangers on the internet.

    But I'm also not going to call it decentralized when it's meaningfully not, and I'm going to keep an eye on where their money comes from.

    We have a common enemy in government control.

    But if you're going to be my friend, I need you to not lie to my face.

  • Leeds told Ars that the RSL standard doesn't just benefit publishers, though. It also solves a problem for AI companies, which have complained in litigation over AI scraping that there is no effective way to license content across the web.

    "If they're using it, they pay for it, and if they're not using it, they don't pay for it.

    ...

    But AI companies know that they need a constant stream of fresh content to keep their tools relevant and to continually innovate, Leeds suggested. In that way, the RSL standard "supports what supports them," Leeds said, "and it creates the appropriate incentive system" to create sustainable royalty streams for creators and ensure that human creativity doesn't wane as AI evolves.

    This article tries to slip in the idea that creators will benefit from this arrangement. Just like with Spotify and Getty Images, it's the publisher that's getting paid.

    Then they decide how much they'll let trickle down to creators.

  • Centurii chan @sh.itjust.works

    when she asks the girls to be "rough" on the sleep-over.

  • How willing are you and how willing do you believe millennials and gen-z are to relocate their life some number of hours away to participate in a funded solar punk initiative?

    I wouldn't be able to give you an honest answer to this unless I knew what we were building and what the compensation model looked like.

    So far it sounds very vague.

  • "I pay for access to music I get access to music." And with ChatGPT, you pay for access to an LLM, and you get access to an LLM.

    Just because you personally don't value that as a service doesn't inherently invalidate it as a business model, now or in the future.

    Netflix lost subscribers in 2011 and 2022, that didn't kill the company. Uber stock tumbled during the pandemic and again in 2022. In 2023, Wired was writing about how "despite its popularity... [Spotify] has long struggled to turn consistent profits."

    This is a whole wave of companies where the survivors seem financially stable now, but had a long history of being propped up by venture capital and having an unclear path to profitability.

    The only thing you've successfully shown is different so far is that you don't think it's a real service.

    I generally agree, but I still don't see anything that differentiates its trajectory from the Spotifys, Ubers, and Netflixes of the world.

  • Centurii chan @sh.itjust.works

    executioner stuck in the airport for her luggage.

    grimdank @lemmy.world

    Praise be to Space King!

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    you'll never guess what I watched. or who my favorite character is.

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    I love whatever this trope is called.

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    she changed alot, hasnt she?

    History Memes @piefed.social

    French is a romantic language

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    French duelling culture was wild. even if it was illegal an petty

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    do you remember the basics of CQC? BJJ:

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    flags to watch out for when looking for a relationship

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    professionals are a different breed

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    evocatus is probably girl of the month for me.

    Girls Frontline @lemmy.world

    September 4 Patch: Interstice of Reminiscence

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    Why do I skip parts of my live every time I blink?

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    PSA: do not ingest more than 1 krispy kreme doughtnut unless youre american

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    camo in the African front

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    Will of the machine god