By reading this comment you are now cursed:
One week after you choose to dispose of any of those cables, you will need one of them.
Seems like a potentially interesting commuter vehicle...
When it finally hits the road, ownership won’t be an option either, as the Vigoz will only be offered on subscription
...never mind.
You're right that it's not a complete solution. Offhand, it seems like this won't help graphic designers that make advertising graphics if the advertiser doesn't really care about copyright protection - or basically anything that is expected to have a short lifespan (who cares if an ad campaign that runs for a week is copyrighted?).
Are those jobs worth fighting over? There are probably a lot more graphic artists making a living producing bilboards and web ads &etc than there are making a living selling their own art, but are those jobs something that society at large should make an effort to protect?
I do think that manipulating incentives is the most effective strategy. A high-budget film without copyright is not profitable, and therefore anything that leads to gaps in copyright protection is unlikely to be adopted by the film industry. This removes all of the potential burden of government regulation, oversight, auditing, labor union rules, legal battles, etc... it just obviates all that because it kills the profitability of using generative AI to replace people.
What happens is you're part of the privileged group until fascism has consumed the previous unprivileged group, then has to identify a new unprivileged group in order to keep the whole charade going, to keep people believing that the fascists are providing order and safety. Suddenly you become an other, a target, and you're not safe anymore.
Many people don't recognize this cycle happening until they end up on the wrong side of it.
I remember a clip from a few years back, not of Jon on stage but in front of Congress trying to get a measure passed to provide medical benefits for 9/11 emergency responders. He seemed just exhausted with everything at that point.
The starwars.com forum long before the Disney purchase killed it, then Digg until the v4 update, then Reddit until the APIpocalypse.
So many communities I've seen wrecked by corporate greed. The Fediverse gives me hope for people being able to interact online without having to worry about the enshittification.
I believe we can expect that conservatives will applaud this exercise of states' rights against the actions of the bloated federal government.
Actually there are several legal arguments about this currently ongoing. There is a lot of discussion and several lawsuits in progress.
There isn't really a final decision yet, but I think I agree with Cory Doctorow's opinion that the solution is to make the output of generative AI tools uncopywritable/public domain. This protects artists broadly, as any company that wants to produce a copywrited final work (e.g. film, television, music, books, etc) will need to hire an artist to do it.
The map: https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/2025-chromium6-cooccurance/map/
One thing that's not clear from either the article or the website is whether there is any data on water systems that are not contaminated. For instance, Jacksonville, FL appears clear - is that because there was no contamination, or because there was no testing data available?
It also seems likely that the contamination is clustered around urban areas because there is data available for those water systems, not because the urban areas are more likely to be contaminated. I seriously doubt there is much regular testing data available for rural residential well water systems.
You will use Copilot and you will ~~like it~~ have no recourse.
we have AI that could really solve humanity's problems and give us a chance for a bright future
No, we don't. We have overmarketed multidimensional statistical analysis algorithms that are being used to generate large volumes of plausible-sounding bullshit.
Machine learning cannot produce any new insights, it can only ingest and regurgitate existing data. The output from these programs is the equivalent of throwing all the contents of your refrigerator into a blender, straining out some of larger chunky bits and then calling the result a home-cooked meal.
I've heard that living with him can be frustrating