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I think this is a common language divided by an ocean thing.

I grew up with # being pound as well. The use of the pound symbol to highlight shit came from coding. Hash is another word for the pound symbol. It tags stuff. Ergo hashtag. Born in the glory years of Twitter.

See you next Monday at the planet naming mocking society.

All the so-called AI companies are [expletive redacted] that often obtained their training data in questionable ways. And they should be sued and made to pay.

What is missing in my opinion from a lot of artists, who now hold one fist in the air and a pitchfork in the other marching on Silicon Valley, is an acknowledgement of risk that they took when they put their artwork themselves on the internet. The risk used to be other people could take, copy, duplicate it but this was balanced by being able to monetize it. That nothing that ends up online is ever safe was known two decades ago. If your stuff was stolen from galleries and coffee table books, I'm not talking about you. If you made your stuff available so search engines and social media sites could bring you costumers, you're it.

Also, why are companies able to obtain training data in "creative" ways? Because you and me and all of us like cutting corners and getting shit for free. So we steal, copy, duplicate, torrent stuff. Sure, point your finger at Facebook for torrenting together their model. Also point your finger at the people who provided the training data this way. Many people will end up pointing their fingers at themselves here.

I think the author invokes the Luddites and doesn't realize that we might just see history repeating. The Luddites were skilled artisans fighting against slave labor automization. They lost. Many were displaced by industrial progress, a smaller number remained. Fast forward to today and visual artists like the author fight the evil automated LLMs. They will also lose; a small number will prevail.

Every technical advancement has brought these upheavals and we are in one right now. There are far fewer landscape and portrait painters around today because they had to go Picasso or impressionist when photography rolled around. There are far fewer negative developer jobs these days as entry level jobs in photography because use of film has fallen off a cliff. We also have fewer manual typesetters and no cavalry to speak of. Shit changes. Shit is changing now.

Art will prevail. Human made one will be sought after. But there market will not be the same. The only thing we can do now is trying to catch all those people and jobs this technological leap will shuffle loose. Like we tried our best with coal miners or factory jobs that went to China.

Those thoughts are not crazy. I feel like that every time I take a picture off a bridge or tall building and I'm leaning over the edge to get a better angle. I found peace of mind in a lanyard strap.

That is a valid point. As the question has been answered already, I was just wondering what prompted it.

He wasn't supposed to be alone in the cell. They were supposed to check on him. The surveillance cameras were supposed to work. It's possible this is 3 human fuckups in a row with sad consequences. By which I mean his victims could never see him in court getting convicted. It's also possible that he was killed in custody. We like conspiracy theories. We may never know. Because you would need to be able to prove this. And unless they filmed themselves hanging him, which I doubt they did, then this will take its rightful place among the great myths of our time.

It's also possible he offed himself. He may have suddenly discovered a conscience and developed scruples (low chance). He may have not felt like discussing his pedophilia in open court again and chose the coward's way out (higher chance). Somebody may have pressured him. He knew shit about many of the rich and powerful; the reverse may also be true (highest chance of these three).

I wouldn't call this so much a statistical error but a human one. While the exact number may be unknown, somebody with a pencil sat down somewhere and counted some beans on a sample, which a math whiz can extrapolate to get to a total population number that's closer to the truth.

Never trust a statistic, which you haven't forged yourself.

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I'm sure there are reasons why they want to go this route that I don't understand. My personal fear right now is that we will be witnessing a version of podcast enshitification.

I don't know why but I find the abruptness of the announcement rubs me the wrong way too. A show that prides itself on producing everything well in advance gave virtually no indication that this was coming. So next week we go back to Farpoint. Next week rolls around and we get this.

The timing is bad. Money will be tight thanks to peace loving, senile president Dukat's recent well thought out military excursions and impeccably humane diplomatic messaging. You don't want to give subscribers a reason to stop their subscriptions in a time when every penny needs to be pinched. You will lose subscribers because they will forget to make the change. You will lose subscribers because now you are forcing them to reevaluate their decision. You may lose more if your new asking price is higher than before. I fail to see how they could not lose subscribers here.

Tbh I always disliked the marketing messages of MaxFun, never really liked any other of their shows, so I don't mind seeing the back of them. They had a touch of the Pluribus, I paraphrase: "come to our events even if you are a bit weird, we will love you, guaranteed!" I stopped listening to their guilt tripping, which I call their pledge drive messages, after year 2 or so. Couldn't fast forward fast enough through this like it's the Enterprise intro. Ask for support, no problem; I listened to every episode till the very end. But there is a manipulative line you can cross for me and they do in those drive weeks. So will we be hearing less of that? Or more of it all the time? A surprise two-week break is maybe giving me too much time to ruminate on that.

Fucking hell, I had a lot of thoughts about this, didn't I. Sorry it got so long and thanks for reading through my parasocial therapy sesh.

If you're being spat on you might be talking to a llama. The extra L is for liberal. Don't say antisemitic stuff. That's my sincere answer.

Edit: OP is a troll who edited the post.

There is no entity called "the world" that can flick through contingency plans. You can bet those who benefit from oil that would have sailed through the strait with no problem hadn't the orange toddler started a war have a plan B. Whether that's reactivating a few old pipelines or just sending ships the long way around, fuck knows. I'm not swimming in petrodollars. None of these plans will cost the same. All contingency plans cost more money. They might be raising fuel prices too much but they couldn't not raise them at all.

No one foresaw this development because it is - and that's the diplomatic term for it: fucking stupid. And that's why there isn't a plan B in place that can be used in the same way right away.