@aredridel@kolektiva.social2026-04-03 00:23:07
My moment of clarity in the last few weeks was coming back to “Oh right, copyright is a hack, and one that is not serving us, particularly us on the margins”
The moral rights of authorship and the way we situate our legal process of ownership are, actually, kinda at odds. And it entirely misses the idea of a commons, both as community and as a cultural base to draw from.
I've long believed that we, collectively, should own our culture — to have modern myths be Copyright 1972 LucasFilm, the traditional songs we sing Copyright 1922, now owned by Warner/Chappell Music is one of the things I find repugnant about the situation we find ourselves in.
That said, reconciling that with the behavior of the AI companies, _particularly_ the American ones? It's hard. Google abuses its monopoly position; Microsoft has forced harmful and terrible tooling on people at every turn; OpenAI is run by someone who actively despises art and does not understand it; and Anthropic is run by a guy who is trying to make sure the apocalypse has a pleasant demeanor and doesn't offend any corporations on the way. All of the above have scraped the web with no active consent — and that's largely fine, that's what putting things in common _is_, that's the beauty of the open information world we have the remnants of — but also actively evading measures people put in place to stop it and with absolutely no willingness to engage with the process. Extracting from the commons _is_ the tragedy of the commons.
It does not mean that enlarging the commons with the resulting tools is bad. The doctrine of original sin is a Christian concept I do not subscribe to. The concept of 'fruit of the poisonous tree' is a legal tool to fix power relations not a moral stance. They're worth understanding, but they are not absolute moral stances that are self-evident.
These are not harmless tools, but so too putting hard regulation and corporate, legalistic scrutiny on everything has a vastly negative impact: it is a yoke on human creativity and community to the reins of capital.
And, so too, disruption has huge costs. We are, apparently, committed to doing things the worst possible way. One can just hope that we capture the good too, because the ride has started and it's rather late to get off.
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2026-02-03 20:10:58
"Where do you start when it comes to creating a brand image for what is arguably one of the most important milestones of your institution?" – "The Smathers Centennial" https://communications.uflib.ufl.edu/2026/01/20/design-diary-the-smather…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-03 16:54:31
Time and again in the communist bloc, economic reformers from Moscow to Pyongyang planned to introduce rationality and markets into planning.
They often thought they had won the argument,
-- and not just among dissidents in labor camps but at the highest levels of their Politburos.
Yet almost every time, their proposed reforms were either whittled down to nothing before implementation, or passed and then reversed after a few months or years.
Why?
These reformers …
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-02-02 22:45:47
Where are ICE and Border Patrol agents coming from? (pbump)
https://www.pbump.net/o/where-are-ice-and-border-patrol-agents-coming-from/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p113#a260202p113
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2026-04-03 06:25:39
France 🇫🇷: « Les voitures neuves électriques représentent 28 % du marché, en hausse de 69 %, sous l’effet du bonus écologique revalorisé via les CEE et des baisses de prix pratiquées par plusieurs constructeurs.
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Les voitures d'occasion électriques progressent de 47 % »
https://www.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-03-02 19:35:26
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@relcfp@mastodon.social2026-02-03 16:52:47
CFP Rhetoric and Communication. Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/02/cfp-rhetoric-and-communication-interdisciplinary-studies-in-the-humanities
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-04-04 02:15:59
Trump is considering more changes to his Cabinet in the coming weeks (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-considering-changes-cabinet-coming-weeks-rcna266624
http://www.memeorandum.com/260403/p129#a260403p129
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-04-03 15:20:58
Trump says anti-fraud raids have begun in Los Angeles (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-blanche-bondi-doj-dhs-shutdown-congress-elections-live-updates-rcna266472/rcrd106595?canonicalCard=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/260403/p53#a260403p53
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-02-04 00:20:56
Trump says federal government 'should get involved' with running elections in states (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-colombia-petro-congress-shutdown-ice-immigration-live-updates-rcna256876/rcrd98532?canonicalCard=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p125#a260203p125