Lithgow did such a good job ensuring his legacy. I definitely don’t immediately think of a horrible bigot the moment I see him instead of 3rd Rock and Buckaroo Bonsai.

That’s really the purpose of how DMCA is set up. It gives websites that host files uploaded by third parties a way to respond to copyright violation claims that removes their liability. They don’t have to act as an arbiter, they can simply act on the claim and then act on a counter-claim if the claim is disputed. YouTube is a little different, because they take it on themselves to look for potential violations ahead of time, but the benefit of being able to host unknown content without liability is still there.

Whether a company follows through with a lawsuit once they get a counter-claim is ultimately up to their priorities. Though I imagine the number of people who ever bother to file a counter-claim is probably vanishingly small. But if a company the size of Sega is bothering to send DMCA notices in the first place, I don’t think I’d bet on them ignoring the counter-claim, personally. Any counter-claim they ignore is an argument for public availability and thus fair use.

When you receive a DMCA notice you can respond with a counter-claim notice that says the claim is incorrect and that you’re willing to go to court about it. This could be because you have distribution rights, because of fair use, or for any other reason that would make the claim invalid. The copyright holder then has 14 days to file a case to sue the alleged infringing party. If they don’t, the notice can be ignored and any third party host must restore access to the files.

Whether these files should be accessible under fair use, I don’t know, but at that point it’s up to the court.

Point being, if you file a counter-claim you’re basically saying go ahead and sue me then. If a company with deep pockets has a reason to think they can enforce the claim, they probably will take you to court. Even if you win, you’re going to have to pay for a lawyer and deal with a court case.

https://copyrightalliance.org/education/copyright-law-explained/the-digital-millennium-copyright-act-dmca/dmca-counter-notice-process/

Because legal battles with massive corporations are time consuming, expensive, and risky?

Also:

“Unfortunately I have reached the limits of how far I can continue to fund this journey in its current form. As a result, I have made the hard decision to restructure the studio. We will continue developing our Melba technology with a smaller team, while halting further development of Go Wayback.”

It sounds like they aren’t abandoning the project, they just don’t have the resources to continue at the current scale and need to ease back.

Art. Do something creative for its own sake. Play some music, draw something, write something, glue something silly to your wall. Remember that not everything you do has to come with purpose or justification.

You’re alive, and at this very moment aren’t being physically consumed by a predator. Take it in and let yourself enjoy it.

Occasionally

Loads of people who vote Democrat are well aware that capitalism is fucked and has only ever worked for the rich. Voting for a Democrat does not imply agreeing with every party decision.

The question is whether you agree with harm reduction, accelerationism, or nihilism.

From a harm reduction standpoint, it makes sense to elect the imperfect candidate who will at least try to make things a little better. This is the same thinking that makes things like needle exchanges a good idea. Yes, maybe it would be better if no one were addicted to heroin, but given that some people are it’s probably be better to reduce the likelihood that they become a vector for blood-borne illnesses.

From an accelerationist standpoint, it makes sense to elect the worst possible candidate in the hopes that it’s jarring enough to get people to change the system. This approach of making things better by making things worse reflects the conservative tendency toward punishment as a solution. If addiction is punished and demonized, people will have a strong incentive to avoid addiction.

From a nihilistic standpoint, it makes sense to refuse to vote for anyone you don’t fully agree with. Participation in the political arena can be disregarded. This approach reflects the perspective that consequences don’t mean anything, so we might as well all share the same needle because it’s easier.

Personally, I find harm reduction to be the most beneficial option.

The Scout got his own movie?

This makes me wonder what our planet would smell like if we didn’t spend all our time here.

Aperture’s logo looks like an AI company. Coincidence or premonition? Or, like, gamer tech bros?

Y’all are burying the headline. This person has multiple groins.

Edit: Today I learned that groins are the armpit of the legs and I have two of them.

What’s with these half assed memes plastered in watermarks? Is it to make sure I don’t waste my time looking at whatever rebel federation is?

100%

There’s definitely a ceo-driven tendency to insert AI anywhere and everywhere whether or not it actually is a reasonable application. What I’m saying is that there are also some reasonable applications. When people focus entirely on “AI useless!”, they’re fooling themselves every bit as much as the people who think it’s suitable for every possible application. Their arguments are just as empty and vibes-based.

Leave Jake alone you weirdo creeps!

If you’d like to take the next sentence into consideration and respond to the context of what I was actually saying there, feel free.

That’s not what “thinking model” means. It’s not a statement about cognition, it means it takes steps in which it explains itself to itself to check if it’s missing something.

Well, it has initial utility with a bad trade-off and the utility dereases as addiction sets in. There’s a point at which smoking a cigarette is reducing stress, but eventually it increases the baseline stress before having a cigarette to the point that it’s a net loss. Eventually it’s not smoking reducing stress from other sources, it’s pushing back against the mountain of stress of addiction.

If it didn’t initially reduce stress in the first phase, you wouldn’t do it enough to get to addiction.

Personally, one of the things I found most useful for quitting was the idea that smoking another cigarette would never fix the desire to smoke, only not smoking could do that.

They can use it to do a lot of things. AI is far from perfect and makes all sorts of weird mistakes, but so do people. Arguably there’s substantially more value in training inexperienced humans to get better in their fields than in settling for AI as a cheap alternative that starts with a maybe slightly higher or similar but cheaper baseline, but that doesn’t eliminate all value they create. You can make arguments about the long term benefits socially or for individual organizations that leverage AI, but spend a couple hours playing with Claude and it becomes extremely evident that they’re not anything resembling useless.

Even if we completely throw chat bots out the window, there are some instances of general utility for thinking models. This comic is making a moral argument that’s more compelling, but arguing that they’re actually totally useless doesn’t really reflect reality

In this context I meant her character on Academy, but I’d also love anything with Mariner.