CileTheSane

Hey, good on you for learning things and admitting you were wrong.

Next time avoid statements like “stay on topic. You just proved you don’t understand the nuance I’m talking about” and you won’t look like such an ass when you actually read the article and realize you were wrong in the first place.

So you admit that I do own my likeness now?

Just catching up to the where I was in the first place? The argument you were so insistent was wrong and proved I “Didn’t understand”?

This is on the same level as “You can rob a store then when the cops come to your house say you were never there. They can’t arrest you if you weren’t at the scene of the crime.”

Lying is not a legal defense.

You just proved you don’t understand the nuance I’m talking about.

Translation: “I don’t have a rebuttal for your argument so I’m going to pretend it’s off topic.”

If you actually had an argument to make you would explain how the nuance was misunderstood and clarify what you meant. “You clearly don’t understand” just screams that you don’t have any foundational arguments for your claims.

You want to us to stay on topic?

Judge Beryl A Howell of the DC Circuit Court upheld a US Copyright Office ruling that works created by “AIs” are not eligible for copyright protection.

A work not being eligible for copyright protection does not mean it nullifies existing protections. If someone uses AI to generate an image of Ronald McDonald punching Mickey Mouse in the face and tries to sell it on a shirt they will get sued by both McDonald’s and Disney and they will lose easily.

“The courts have declared I don’t own the copyright for this” is not a defense for using protected images.

“there’s a nuanced difference between owning your likeness and owning a drawing of your likeness…”

Except you’re not passing a machete to Jason Voorhees. That would be “double it and pass it to the next person who you know is going to pull the lever.”

You’re passing a machete to the next person in line. You don’t know who that is. They may or may not pass the machete down the line. Considering I would not expect a person chosen at random to kill someone when handed a machete, it seems unethical for me to kill someone with a machete just to prevent handing it to someone else.

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/

Still dealing with weirdos on Lemmy who have nothing better to do than stalk my profile and try to pick fights with me elsewhere if I dare to disagree with them on a post, so not much has changed…

Don’t drive traffic to Reddit. The only way to “Troll” Spez is to not use Reddit at all. He doesn’t care what people are saying about him and long as they are engaging with the website.

I noticed r/all has changed drastically and showing less popular subs.

More space was taken up by flags than by protests.

Capitalism: it’s not enough to make a lot of money, you have to make ALL the money.

It’s not just Trans people, it’s people who aren’t masculine or feminine enough. The bigots are fine with this.

Actually, Musk didn’t want to pay anything for Twitter, but was willing to pay $44 billion to avoid the discovery process.

Or trying to keep arguing with me after I’ve given up on replying to them.

I saw a graph recently from when Digg lost popularity and initially both Reddit and Digg saw a boost in traffic at the same time, likely people complaining about the changes or watching the consequences. Reddit kept growing from the boost and Digg saw a steep drop off then steady decline.

So it’s possible July will see inflated numbers compared to what August will be. It’s also possible those inflated numbers happened during the blackout and the decline will start happening now as API changes go into effect.

I heard he didn’t renew the contract for Google server hosting and Twitter can’t handle the traffic now.