Honest question: why would there even be a next election?
Question 2: if there is a next election... why would those in power right now, allow anyone not faithful to their ideology, to run in it?
What if inflation goes down?
Price × 1.05 × 1.03 × 1.01... is still larger than the initial price.
Unless there is deflation, prices always go up.
Posting memes, is not "doing the manipulation"? 🤔
Beware that CC NC licenses are a minefield:
NonCommercial turns on the use, not the identity of the reuser.
https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/NonCommercial_interpretation
The BY-NC-SA is especially thorny. In this particular case, it could be equally argued that:
Given how fluid the NC interpretation can be, I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole. Combined with current copyright law, it's not only about whether the creator decides to sue, but also whether their heirs/estate decide to sue... for 70 years after the creator's death!
Hi, fellow (at the moment) hetero, cis man 🙂
I mostly share your point of view and feelings, with a couple nuances. I've never felt strongly about my own gender, but still hate toxic masculinity with a passion. I've often chosen to pose as genderless just to avoid being associated with the "stereotypical man", but I've come to think that one doesn't need to be queer just to denounce toxic behaviors. There are some, few, role models of "positive masculinity", that one can follow, without changing labels. I don't think that "men" should let the toxic ones monopolize that label; positive masculinity should reclaim it, and push the toxic ones out!
As for gender, sexuality, attraction... they're all on a spectrum, and not necessarily at a single fixed point, or intensity. Artistic sensibility is on its own, also not necessarily related to the others. I don't think that simply being able to appreciate a beautiful man, or woman, or lamp post, is enough to call oneself "queer". We may not be like the "stereotypical macho man", but that doesn't mean one should renounce whichever label resonates more with oneself.
Ani = weird goth waifu
Rudi = fascist AI agent of chaos
At least they've kept them separate... kind of.
I see. Just checked the Wikipedia page, what a story.
Face eating leopards getting closer and closer to each other's faces.
Entities care about art... as much as they can benefit from it. Large entities make sure to get the rights for peanuts, small ones are fine with dropping it and replacing with someone else's, still without paying. Pretty much the only way for small artists to get a fair compensation, is from people who want to support them... a case in which —ironically— copyright is irrelevant.
It isn't US centric either. Corporations have used the US to pressure everyone into accepting a similar set of rules, with similar effects all over the world.
But I'm not even strictly against copyright itself. I'm against how the laws have been pushed over and over towards a twisted parody of the initial goals, while the real world has been going in a completely different direction.
I'm running ollama in termux on a Samsung Galaxy A35 with 8GB of RAM (+8GB of swap, which is useless for AI), and the Ollama app. Models up to 3GB work reasonably fine on just the CPU.
Serendipity is a side effect of the temperature setting. LLMs randomly jump between related concepts, which exposes stuff you might, or might not, have thought about by yourself. It isn't 100% spontaneous, but on average it ends up working "more than nothing". Between that and bouncing ideas off it, they have a use.
With 12GB RAM, you might be able to load models up to 7GB or so... but without tensor acceleration, they'll likely be pretty sluggish. 3GB CoT models already take a while to go through their paces on just the CPU.
Is it protecting "small artists", though?
Suing for copyright infringement, requires money, both for lawyers and proceedings.
Small artists don't have that money. Large artists do, small ones don't, so more often than not they end up watching as their copyright is being abused without being able to do anything about it.
To get any money, small artists generally sign off their rights, either directly to clients or studios (work for hire), or to publishers... who do have the money to enforce the copyright, but pay peanuts to the artist... when they even pay anything. A typical publishing contract has an advance payment, a marketing provision... then any copyright payments go first to pay off the "investment" by the publisher, and only then they give a certain (rather small) percentage to the artist. Small artists rarely reach the payment threshold.
Best case scenario, small artists get defended by default by some "artists, editors, and publishers" association... which is like putting wolves in charge of sheep. The associations routinely charge for copyrighted material usage... then don't know whom to pay out, because not every small artist is a member, so they just pocket it, often using it to subsidize publishers.
Copyright laws, as of right now, primarily benefit publisher dynasties (like Disney), then large publishers, then large studios and large artists, a few lucky small artists... and leave most small artists SOL.
The official White House social media accounts on X, Instagram and Facebook soon quoted his post, all sharing a fake magazine cover depicting an illustration of Trump smiling in a suit — and wearing a bejeweled golden crown.
Would a USB-C extender work with the Bosch made cable?