@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2026-03-20 13:15:51
US veteran charged with ‘conspiracy’ over ICE protest refuses to plead guilty;
The right to protest is ‘fundamentally American’, says Bajun Mavalwalla who awaits trial and faces six years in prison
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/20/us-army…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-02-20 15:18:40
Bij de BBB kiezen ze geen partijleider, die benoemen ze gewoon 🙂
https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/politiek/artikel/5569697/henk-vermeer-volgt-caroline-van-der-plas-op-als-partijleider-en
@servelan@newsie.social2026-01-21 02:50:25
I bet the moneylenders in the temple thought the same thing...
Cities Church in Minnesota is considering legal options after anti-ICE protest
https://religionnews.com/2026/01/20/cities-church-in-minnesota-is-considering-legal-options-after-anti-ice-protest/
@fgraver@hcommons.social2026-03-20 17:33:00
Yes, AI could boost productivity, but work is about more than maximising output https://theconversation.com/yes-ai-could-boost-productivity-but-work-is-about-more-than-maximising-output-278121
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2026-03-21 19:47:02
The lack of accountability in this is very unsettling: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/590299/government-data-being-held-by-unvetted-third-parties-treasury-report as is prioritising vendor interests over transparency to…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-21 02:15:40
"This is First Amendment Activity": Keith Ellison Denounces the Investigation of Church Protesters (JONATHAN TURLEY)
https://jonathanturley.org/2026/01/20/this-is-first-amendment-activity-minnesota-attorney-general-keith-ellison-denounces-the-investigation-of-protesters-for-disrupting-church-services/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p133#a260120p133
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2026-02-21 10:29:44
This is also why the US far right are coming for the EU now..
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109906653535473465
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io - Students of US history understand what Lincoln knew: One reason you can't have slavery in some parts of the country and not in others, is because slaves run to the free parts.
But many of those same students don't realize that you can't block women's reproductive rights in some parts of the country and let it be legal in others. People travel to California. This frustrates the racists.
The racists are coming for women's rights everywhere. Nationwide. And they will use racism to accomplish it.
@cdamian@rls.social2026-03-20 12:20:37
Friday Links 26-10
The podcast about culture is great, so is the one with the creator of Kotlin.
@…'s techno set is pretty great too.
https://christof.damian.net/2026…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-21 13:40:53
Stripe and Paradigm-backed Tempo launches a "stablecoin advisory" for businesses and is working with DoorDash to let delivery workers get paid in stablecoins (Jack Kubinec/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/04/21/stripe-and-paradigm-tempo-advis…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-03-21 16:49:43
OK, so apparently I shouldn’t have said “beyond the obvious,” and the obvious needs stating:
(1) Copyright licenses very clearly •do• allow the copyright holder to determine who may use a work and for what purposes, at least when such use would be otherwise prohibited without a license. That is how the law works. Rightly or wrongly, empires are built on this: “Streaming service XYZ may offer this song for streaming but not for download until this date.” Copyleft is one example of this principle in action.
(1a) Thing the thing presents discriminatory licensing (such as in Daniel’s strawmen) is anti-discrimination law, not copyright law.
(2) The reason copyleft specifically might prevent LLM usage is that •if• LLM output can be considered a derived work of the training material, then the output must also be licensed in the same way. That seems to me a thin reed: courts so far haven’t been willing to treat LLM output as derived work, even when the output includes things that would surely be considered plagiarism and grossly illegal if done by a human. But I don’t see another path to protection, and courts are still sorting this out…so.
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@dlakelan/116267990581623218