Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

Giant malign forces of capital 20 years ago use a weird interpretation of copyright as a tool to hurt normal people.

Giant malign forces of capital today use a more or less opposite weird interpretation of copyright as a tool to hurt normal people.

Reasonably well-informed commentators with mostly good takes: Ah, clearly the problem is that we don’t have a perfect interpretation of copyright. Consider the following thought experiment – an artist in a state of nature approaches a cave wall and…

I’ve said this before and I fear I’ll have to say it again, but watching the flip of politically connected, ridiculously wealthy, more or less unregulatable companies v. well-meaning knowledge workers on the issue of “copyright is absolute and inviolable” v. “copyright is just an idea, man” has been real unpleasant!

Running $(find ../../.. -type f -mmin -5) to learn where this code put its outputs because it’s easier than figuring it out.

I have written some bad python lately, but I spent the day reading other people’s code that accomplishes similar things and some of it would feel cruel to describe at all.

@kissane Not disagreeing, but (but) I think a factor in this is the sense that if a dev walks away the code is still there,¹ whereas moderation is “on call” work,² and this is in fact weird considering how we (we) usually value artifact work v. care work.

1. Just to be very clear, I think this is correct only at the most surface level and overlooks how much of good development is continuing community management.

2. JTBVC, I think this is also wrong-ish, but now I’m at my character limit.

I relish the opportunities that software offers to remember that not everyone has the same perspective on whether, for example, things identified by their times should be sortable according to their times. What a gift this is; I honor and celebrate and wallow in this wonderful moment.

@beep All I’m going to say is that if I tried to put something in the sky that literally burned your eyes to look at, and gave you a rash, and oh yeah also caused skin cancer, I would be rightly called to account. And yet when nature does it,

@nein09 Ah, this is useful even if uncertain. Thank you!

Through a loupe.

Plant ID, anyone? I picked up a handful of these from a free box in someone’s yard on my morning walk. The label just said “free succulents”.

@secretasianman Yeah, it must be one of the largest viewsheds in the area. Actually, what I’ve always wanted to visit is just north of there: Mt Maxwell. We had a distant view aligned with its cliff face, which looked very cool on the horizon. Like a bunch of rolling islands and then this one sharp(ish) ⌳ shape.

@secretasianman No, my mistake – I was usually listening to https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=CBU-FM-1&service=FM&s=F; they just mentioned the Sooke/Metchosin frequency.

@secretasianman I used to listen to the CBC Radio 2 broadcast from Sooke/Metchosin and idly wonder how it was spelled. Have still never been.

@powerllama My previous repost (you’d think I’d work out how to thread things properly, but you’d be wrong): https://assemblag.es/@jcalpickard/112535967070633529

I do not 100% agree with everything Alison Gopnik ever says but the way I was grumpily muttering, a year ago, that people were critiquing LLMs wrong, and should be thinking more about children, and cultural transmission, and feedback loops, and then Gopnik popped up and did all of that far more clearly than I was even imagining, and with way more intellectual grounding – it’s been very satisfying, thank you.