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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ricmac ("Richard MacManus") wrote:

Kazuo Ishiguro, one of my favourite writers, on AI:

“I think many of us are concerned about the fact that the copyrights were completely infringed.

Our work was being taken, all my books have been taken to train AI, but if the copyrights can be respected then it can be used in a way that, say, a traditional researcher would use somebody else’s book.

Just because it’s AI, it shouldn’t be an excuse to just raid people’s intellectual property.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/kazuo-ishiguro-japanese-windsor-castle-the-king-charles-b2858339.html#

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

If you are interested in purchasing or evaluating the quality of hand bound books here are some of the things I look for as a sign of "high quality"

1. Look at the "headband" this is the place where the pages meet the spine. A headband can be hand sewn, glued, or some combination of both. It's where the skill of the bookbinder really shows. Is it neat? Does it seem durable? Do you like how it looks?

2. Look at the spine. Spines can be flat, rounded, they may feature sewing in some styles.

jwz wrote:

"| just want a lodge a formal complaint about your Al generated outgoing message. I'm taking my kid to a heavy metal show and I was so excited for him to get to hear the outgoing message. Very sad. Still I will bring my ID and my IQ. Thanks for everything!"

jwz wrote:

I guess it's Donuts O'Clock in the parking lot. I have been drunk AF (professionally!) but I have *never* been that drunk.

Boosted by jwz:
jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-work-for-an-evil-company-but-outside-work-im-actually-a-really-good-person this is good satire and all but fedi actually has people who are in this position. general categories:
- you actively build things that murder or incarcerate people. quit now, or sabotage/whistleblow and accept the consequences.
- you do something not murder-related at a murdering/murder-enabling company. unionize and demand they stop murdering. if after sustained effort that fails, quit.
- you empty trash cans at such a company. your culpability is near-zero.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Jacksonville area people: the folks at @sanmarcobooks have a whole bunch of signed books from me, perfect for your holiday giving (including to yourself!). If you're not in Jacksonville, they also ship, so you have that going for you, which is nice.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Source: me, who writes science fiction and has done, you know, okay with it.

(PS: if you do love romance, hell yes write it. It's a great genre and great community. Also, you can put romance into other genres too! Rumor is romantasy is doing well right about now. Mix and match!)

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I fundamentally disagree with this thread - not that romance isn't the engine of publishing economics (it very much is), but that you're wasting time writing anything else. Fact is, if you're only writing for money you're less likely to make any. You should love or at least like the subject you're writing to engage readers. So if that's SF/F or thrillers or horror, do that. There's ample audience in those genres for you.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@hmdpublishing/post/DREihWzDlrR

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Let's be clear that it's mostly white Americans who aren't ready, that's backed up by the 2024 and 2016 electoral results, anytime white America wants to prove me a liar, I'm ready

Source: NBC News
https://search.app/yD7hZ

Boosted by jwz:
mhoye wrote:

If something has a lot of very bad externalities, and just the ones we know about cause major damage to important physical, social and informational ecosystems, then “lots of people want it” just isn’t a compelling argument.

Boosted by jwz:
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

Mozilla vs. their core audience

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
maxleibman@beige.party ("Max Leibman") wrote:

I like the phrase “Don’t threaten me with a good time,” because as an introvert, I find few things as threatening as a good time.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
i0null@infosec.exchange ("Hacker Memes") wrote:

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
Jo@social.sublingual.xyz ("Sublingual Multimedia") wrote:

Pope Francis ate lunch with 2 trans women, leo is having lunch with 4... We can all see where this is going. Pretty soon the pope will be having lunch with 4096 transgender women

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Dig your library decoration, Jacksonville.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Ziggie is finally starting to relax here, 9 months after we brought her home from the shelter

jwz wrote:

WTF ssh.

Recently, I am unable to *interactively* ssh in to my home Mac. "ssh host whoami" works but if I try to get a shell, it hangs forever. ^C, ^Z and ~. don't work. The socket is in ESTABLISHED, and after about 2 1/2 minutes it dies with "client_loop: send disconnect: Broken pipe". The -v log looks exactly like it does for successful connections to other hosts up to that point. WTF?

macOS 14.7.7 running openssh @10.2p1.
https://jwz.org/b/ykxZ

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

You guys I'm like three gym sessions away from almost sort of being JACKED

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

Now, you can unblock usage of the coding agent by configuring Copilot coding agent as a bypass actor for select rulesets. This allows you to exempt Copilot from specific rules without relaxing your requirements for code pushed by humans.

https://github.blog/changelog/2025-11-13-configure-copilot-coding-agent-as-a-bypass-actor-for-rulesets/

okay github, this... this is the exact opposite of what makes any reasonable sense, what the heck is wrong with you?!

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I am trying to pay close attention to how I'm outlining my next big story, because I think the plotting app I was working on earlier this year needs to change to avoid being too close to its inspiration.

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
gabrielladodero@mastodon.uno ("Gabriella Dodero") wrote:

Il Conte di Montecristo.
Un superclassico di Dumas (padre), si può scaricare gratis in formato audiolibro dal link più sotto. Naturalmente restano disponibili le versioni testuali,
pdf, e odt, da un link differente.

https://liberliber.it/autori/autori-d/alexandre-dumas-pere/il-conte-di-montecristo-audiolibro/

@cultura

#UnoLibri #libri #letteratura #public_domain #cosediscuola #cultura

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ekuber@hachyderm.io ("Esteban Küber :rust:") wrote:

As someone who grew up in Argentina under the shadow of its last dictatorship, this is the kind of headline and picture you only see when much worse things are happening in private. This will require a Truth and Reconciliation effort if we want any semblance of normal civil society.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/nearly-two-dozen-arrested-faith-leaders-protest-outside-chicago-area-ice-2025-11-14/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Christoph Willibald Gluck dies in Vienna, Austria, 1787

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: First assembly of League of Nations held in Geneva, 1920

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
g7izu@universeodon.com ("𝑮7𝑰𝙕𝑼 𝑹𝙍𝑫") wrote:

Space Weather

GONG far-side solar imagery (also known as magic!) shows a strengthening active region (marked "P100") coming around the east limb in a few days.

Keeping fingers crossed it will provide some fireworks!

Meanwhile a coronal hole will be sending a fast solar wind which will increase geomagnetic activity on Sunday 16 Nov. The NASA/ENLIL solar wind model also shows the CME from yesterday's X4 heading to the west and not affecting Earth at all.

#spaceweather
#g7izu

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas 🔭🕹️") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@lcamtuf/115549759176784856

I've now spent 15 minutes staring at clocks and wonder how they break next (site refreshes every minute)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

this is a fascinating study, and seems like it might provide some food for thought. the dissonance between population religiosity & the increasing penetration of religion into politics is an important fault-line.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/697676/drop-religiosity-among-largest-world.aspx

h/t @wdlindsy

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
justincrozer@fosstodon.org ("Justin Crozer") wrote:

What time is it when you see a cow laying in a field?

Pasture bedtime. 🐮💤

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jbcrawford@hachyderm.io ("J. B. Crawford") wrote:

my husband made it so the home assistant voice assistant can use full-on ollama to interpret instructions. then he told it to turn the lights on. it's been explaining its thought process for over five minutes now and the lights are still off.