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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Ted Nugent, the motor city madman, born in Detroit, 1949

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Republic Day in Malta

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Geminid meteor shower (look south)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Dartmouth College chartered, 1769

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with 'last' men to walk on moon aboard, 1972

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

[BEGIN TODAY IN HISTORY RUN]

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CarlCravens@mastodon.xyz ("Carl Cravens") wrote:

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The dogwhistles have become deafening. Get out while you can.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/12/13/the-crisis-of-gullibility/

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• Elon Musk signaling to QAnon (remote)

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jag@weirder.earth ("Jag Talon") wrote:

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• Pages showing map designs and how they can be biased. (remote)
• Magazine covers and websites that haave stock images of diverse people or have black people photoshopped in them. (remote)
• Pages describing the cost of color throughout history. (remote)

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john@sauropods.win ("John Conway") wrote:

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• A painting of a Pteranodon from slightly above, with waves breaking on the beach behind it. (remote)

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blueblue321@universeodon.com ("S. Winfrey") wrote:

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

(However, I realize that as long as nobody pokes the giant copyright holders or others with deep pockets, then maybe none of this will reach the courts in a meaningful way. And maybe the copyright giants will train these AI/ML machines on their own works and use them internally for "efficiency". You know, eliminate jobs or keep wages down. "You know we can replace you with these hallucinating machines!" Who knows.)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

There's many people who seem to think (or want us to think) the new ML/AI machines automating "remixing" of existing works at scale is already considered fair use. I would like to remind us that fair use (in the US anyway) is determined by judges in court cases.

If you have existing practices that have already been determined to be fair use, then you're *probably* safe. If you have entirely new practices, then I would expect court cases eventually.

https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Yay! End of the semester, and it's snowing!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/12/13/greetings-from-my-new-world/

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• My snowy front yard this morning (remote)

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alexelcu ("Alex Nedelcu") wrote:

anathema@eightpoint.app wrote:

Kind of annoying that all these hair supplements seem to be doing is making my eyebrows *really* long :S

anathema@eightpoint.app wrote:

This is the perfect weather to make a big pot of soup in. I should go to the shops before they get busy.

I wonder if I can forgo the meat substitutes with enough legumes? I’ll look like the protein content I guess.

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SymTrkl@eightpoint.app ("Jenny she/her 🏳️‍⚧️:inanna:") wrote:

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preeya@bigleaf.city ("futon penguin 🐀") wrote:

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Interesting: it seems Mastodon UI offers translations for _some_ posts, but not others?

Doesn't seem to be an "iff French" thing either

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anathema@eightpoint.app wrote:

If this depression doesn’t let up I’m going to try and get really into RimWorld or Dwarf Fortress to distract myself

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schratze@todon.nl wrote:

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evangreer@mastodon.online ("Evan Greer 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Flu mixed with jetlag. Don't recommend.

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kurtsh wrote:

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

You can only pretend innocent ignorance for so long before a few billion dollars in losses catch up with you. He'll look good in prison orange.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/12/12/sbf-is-finding-out/

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• Sam Bankman-Fried arrested (remote)

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kurtsh wrote:

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Who's gonna introduce the New York Times to the "web"?

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savetheclocktower ("Andrew Dupont") wrote:

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Popehat ("Ken White") wrote: