@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.
@Kingu@sakurajima.moe2026-02-03 12:05:43
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-02-27 19:41:54
I'm going to have to disagree. You should know not to get "smart" appliances at this point. Your fridge with a touch screen is going to show you ads, your vacuum with 'smart' features is going to stop working when the company shuts off its servers, and your wifi-enabled oven is going to do abusive stuff if you put it online. Which this genius did.
@roelgrif@mstdn.social2026-02-28 10:33:22
Opinieartikel van @… in Trouw.
https://www.trouw.nl/opinie/kirsten-verdel-aan-welke-kant-staat-god-in-de-amer…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-26 16:25:57
Cohere launches Transcribe, its first voice model; the 2B-parameter, open-source speech recognition model handles tasks like notetaking and speech analysis (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/cohere-launches-a…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-05-02 16:57:42
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Stinging Ray & Irie Ites:
🎵 Don't Let Dem Dub
#StingingRay #IrieItes
https://open.spotify.com/track/5zyf6sdjVvIJ6TiSjzcsd0
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-03-27 12:21:12
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
R. L. Burnside:
🎵 It's Bad You Know
#NowPlaying #RLBurnside
https://rlburnside.bandcamp.com/track/its-bad-you-know
https://open.spotify.com/track/1AcvqJhm4CXOFJ7INbR5rR
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-04-29 16:53:35
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
The Lemonheads:
🎵 It's A Shame About Ray
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https://jlandbros.bandcamp.com/track/the-lemonheads-cover-its-a-shame-about-ray
https://open.spotify.com/track/5fDCyoIY7zPEV5jn8DaCDb
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-23 22:10:16
Meta will lay off 10% of its staff in May,
according to an internal memo which was published by Bloomberg.
A Meta spokesperson confirmed the report's accuracy to NPR.
The layoffs will take place on May 20 and affect some 8,000 workers.
Meta will also not hire for 6,000 open roles that it had intended to fill.
In the memo, Meta's chief people officer Janelle Gale wrote,
"We're doing this as part of our continued effort to run the company more…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-16 09:15:41
In a podcast, OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger describes his phone calls with Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman, and says he had been contacted by "every big VC" (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)
https://www.implicator.ai/peter-steinberger-chose-o…
