hoshikarakitaridia

@hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Law, legitimacy, and the world's resistance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just gonna ignore the rambling and talk about the photo, because it’s legendary.

  This is Young Thug with his Attorney Brian Steele.

  Young Thug was prosecuted for RICO charges. Basically they said he was the boss of a criminal gang who did all sorts of things.

  Well it looked like this prosecution merely existed because the state’s attorney got elected for being hard on crime, and wanted to get someone famous in jail to make headlines.

  Criminal defenses are hard, because it is well known that the judge is always more willing to extend the benefit of the doubt to the prosecution, less so to the defense. However the judge in this case did some genuinely illegal things. He first made the decision that the key witness was credible. A man, who admitted himself to lying to the police just because he was scared of them, and then made fundamentally conflicting statements in court. The judge also gave the production carte blanche multiple times in order to tack on new charges in the middle of proceedings which rarely ever happens in other courts and especially not multiple times. And then finally, he held a meeting with the key witness ex-parte, meaning he, the witness and the prosecution were there, but not Brian Steel, and not Young Thug, and therefore his side was not heard. Ex-parte is rare and it basically only happens at temporary restraining orders or other things that need to be dealt with fast. But this wasn’t that.

  Anyway, Brian Steel became aware of this illegal meeting and he talked about it in court. However, he was cut off by the judge repeatedly, then only asked how he learned about this meeting and never heard regarding this procedural and constitutional violation.

  Ultimately the judge threw Brian Steel in jail for this. And then said one of the most badass things, to the effect of “Can I be jailed together with my Client, so we can prepare his defense?”.

  However this didn’t last long. The legal community was outraged that a lawyer was jailed again (last time this happened was 10-20y ago, it’s frowned upon), and about 10 lawyers showed up representing Brian Steel on a motion to disqualify the judge and ultimately got rid of him when he was forcefully removed by another local court judge.

  A new judge was assigned, Brian Steel was released in exchange for community service instead and eventually Young Thug would plea no-contest open to the court, meaning he told the new judge he doesn’t wanna fight the charges anymore and is ready for the judge to make a verdict on the spot. This netted him a fairly mild verdict, perfectly in line with the evidence, and he was only to sit 5-10 more years in prison and a bunch of charges were thrown out.

  To me, that first judge and prosecution are representing the incredible injustice happening regularly in some jurisdictions, the new judge represents the slow but creeping change for a more fair world, Young Thug was wrongly prosecuted (if you look at the evidence you will understand how weak this case was from the beginning), Brian Steel is an absolute hero who is ready to sacrifice his freedom for his beliefs.

  You can find videos online of this case if you’re interested, just search for “Young Thug trial”. I find these cases extremely interesting for highlighting the amount of prosecutorial overreach, corruption, etc. inherent in the judicial branch, and it helps understand what this actually looks like on a practical level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Now it’s Belgium

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m gonna be the donkey with the obligatory “please talk to an expert”.

  Joke aside, you might wanna consult with a psycho/speech therapist. The other symptoms you are described might not be related but they could be and you always wanna tackle the problem, not the symptom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends how strict you mean. A friend of mine got a stickman on his index finger and a trampoline on his thumb so he can pull them together and apart to make the stickman bounce on it.

  It’s funny, but it’s also extremely meaningless. Technically the meaning could be fun but I don’t think there is a real one.

  So no. I personally prefer tattoos on myself to have meaning, but I also heard usually the more tattoos you have the less important meaning becomes and lots of times people do it because it looks cool. Especially broad patterns and things like sleeves lean more into a design than into meaningful motifs, so that’s a whole category of tattoos that doesn’t necessarily have a meaning. And that’s only a small part of tattoos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally got thigh highs :3⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sidenote: thinkpads refurbished on eBay are an insane value. Bought a t490 for under 300 bucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't mind me, I'm just trying to bring back mothposting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  8/10 Lämp

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't touch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah

  Sauce drawer

  Classic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can't argue with his logic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This kind of implies that this is the social engineering equivalent of worm-like malware in Cybersecurity.

  That’s curious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still waiting for a response...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mhm doesn’t sound like it’s working

  That’s one way to waste 9 million on a useless campaign

  Anyone who has a family member that’s deep into conspiracy theories, you know that it’s impossible to “de-conspiracy” someone through arguments. People do not change their minds in a debate. The best you can do is show them a new perspective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your thoughts on people who say hate speech is free speech?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a lot of words and they mean different things to different people.

  What is “free”?

  If all speech is free from consequences, that’s something the law cannot regulate. If someone kicks you in the face for calling him a bitch, the law can only punish him retroactively but it can’t unkick your face. If all speech is free from legal consequences, that also wouldn’t be great. Saying “I will kill you tomorrow unless you pay me”, that’s a crime committed by language. Ofc if you have a weapon the chance that you mean it increases but regardless, we shouldn’t let people do this. And in the same way you could allege someone is a murderer. And that might not be true. That’s defamation and we shouldn’t let people say that if it’s not true. And there’s a bunch of less impactful speech based crimes. So we can agree some speech should be pursued legally.

  But on the other hand, we don’t want censorship. We don’t want a company to censor us when we give our opinions on them, we do wanna comment freely if a politician is a rapist, and we definitely wanna freely talk about the US government being a corrupt piece of shit currently. There’s some things the government should actively shield. In fact, sometimes it’s so important, even if we are restricted by contract about what we can say we should be allowed to talk about it if the bigger purpose is worth it. We call that one “whistleblowing”.

  So it’s a threshold in both directions. When should the government protect speech, when should it ignore speech and when should it punish speech? It’s complex.

  Side node: free speech in the American sense kind of just means you can say stuff and the government decides afterwards if that’s legal or worthy of special protection. Which incidentally is basically what most other countries do iirc.

  So yeah, “free” is just the framing of it, we deal with speech very similarly in most countries. Of course some are fascist, some just stricter, some more relaxed.

  Saying hate speech is free speech to me is one way to frame it. But to me it doesn’t change how we do or how we should look at it legally. Let them speak, and if there’s a law against it, we react. And technically that means anyone can say anything. And also very technically that’s free speech for all speech. And I really do not care about it, because I don’t look at technicalities, I look at statistics or examples, and with that I think we’re doing ok on the average. Of course trump’s cabinet is really stretching that to its breaking point but for now they haven’t gotten there yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What a dog shit take damn

  Even someone who likes AI knows games don’t write themselves.

  I’m really trying to think if his comments are aimed at investors for bringing in new funding and consolidate AI games on his platform but even he should know that just makes him the AI guy people don’t wanna associate with. It’s puzzling that I don’t get the strategy here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the surname and the language but generally I don’t see this being cringe.

  Just don’t be snide / condescending with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Just Released a... Linux Distro?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn they are desperate. Either in the short or long-term they are genuinely spooked, and finally they are trying to open up to the open source community.

  But man they have about 4 years of convincing the communities of their good faith ahead of them if this is genuine. They gotta pull a valve to signal that they mean it before anyone believes it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is most music today follow a math cadence? Then add rhyming? Are artist today really that bad they have to resort to that instead of it natural stuff?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Music is patterns.

  Either with rhythm, or with melodic context, or with textures & sound design.

  Genres change but the math stays the same, and ideas get rediscovered.

  Everything that’s new was once already old. Truly, there’s awesome music in every Subgenre or any pattern-subtype. For example I specifically like drum breaks. Not only do I like nu metal or other 2000s stuff, but also I probably would have enjoyed James Brown back then just as much as I am in love with dnb and drum step today. And I’ll enjoy the newer kinds of hype pop that experiment with that.

  What I’m saying is, it’s easy to be negative about something just because you’re bored by it, but that doesn’t mean it’s bad. Maybe you need to find new aspects of it to enjoy, like a new genre or different patterns, or it’s time for a different hobby. But talking down on a whole art field is not fair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Since light cannot pass through a black hole does that mean light has mass? Also why does light form a singularity in a black hole? Is that like a fixed point on a map or something?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So the answer is “kind of”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you avoid AI music?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It can be presumed that Spotify is doing that to some degree. There is consensus amongst scientists studying the field, artists, labels and other people in the field about that.

  The public domain thing is kind a useless argument at this point; It is the case law we are building upon currently but that’s basically just because haven’t gotten a broader legal framework yet and we’re still making AI fit into what we have.

  But we don’t have to answer by citing to the law, we can answer by looking at the ethics and expecting the law to loosely follow our ethics - that’s what it is designed to do.

  • AI takes ideas from other artists without giving credit
  • AI is trained on art without paying for it
  • AI can use other artists branding and likeness without their consent
  • artists make less because AI takes an increasingly bigger cut of the revenue (it’s kinda zero-sum, but let’s skip that conversation)
  • AI music can only exist because artists exist, SE we need to keep paying artists enough to keep working
  • AI might is possibly being used in some instances for money laundering

  And so on.

  I’m trying to say this because the law is there to follow our feelings. If we structurally don’t condone something to a certain level as a society, we make it illegal or we regulate it.

  And as you can see, there’s plenty of reasons to regulate and some are straight up financial, so we definitely should do something about it.

  And with “we” I mean specifically the Republicans and Democrats, the FCC (regulation to combat market disruption), judges, civil rights lawyers, and possible plaintiffs all have the chance to push us into a better position societally.

  Shoutout to Bernie Sanders, he’s trying to start a movement about it, and as always he’s ahead of the curve in Congress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine paying $4000 and ending up next to this guy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If this guy shows up at my show I know it’s a good one. “Haha fat” is so tone deaf, he looks awesome to be around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But spore was awesome though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No.

  I always look at new things by comparing them to old things.

  When PCs gathered widespread adoption the idea of an autonomous robot became popular. But it was still more than 2 centuries before the first practically self-driving cars were tested. It will be another 10 years or so before self-driving is actually feasible on a city-wide level.

  I look at AGI the same way people wanted their own wall.e in the 2000s. Yeah, we’ve made indescribable progress in that direction but still our current trajectory does not provide enough proximity to AGI to ever become feasible. There’s probably another 2 or 3 big changes that even gets us close enough to see the finish line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The taxonomy gets confusing because reasoning in LLMs is different from the reasoning of people.

  In LLMs, iirc it’s just the ability to talk to themselves for a while before answering the user.

  In people, it’s linked to many different skills and aspects of thinking in a broad sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta confirms thousands of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You are right, and we probably need an actual name for it.

  I guess it’s jailbreak adjacent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Differences of Opinion by Wendy Cope⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah did that with my dad. As soon as he expressed that he doesn’t believe in conventional scientific methodology and academic consensus, I stopped discussing any of those topics with him.

  No basis to discuss if he doesn’t even consider evidence for disproving his theories.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I earn 100$ (before tax) in 24 hours?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately a solid suggestion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gog Promotional E-Mail Containing Nazi Symbols Goes Out to Subscribers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yo wtf that’s mens rea

  They just admitted they knew it was bad and were like “but it’s legal in the US so it’s fine to send it there” but ignore it’s about as bad as it gets for legal symbols.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld 1.0 Cinematic Trailer | July 10th⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Here we go again

  New palworld server boutta spawn on my network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is it about Mark Zuckerberg's appearance or demeanor that creeps people out?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume it is mainly because his haircut and very pale skin used to be very unique and because his body language and facial expressions often does not match what people expect in a lot of public situations.

  Unfortunately some of these things can also be explained by neurodiversity and people are projecting their personal grievances of Facebook/ meta onto that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I re-establish peaceful relations with a family of crows?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have a solution but I wanna bump this question, I am invested now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NSFW shitpost/meme community when?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Make one?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come Mark Wahlberg got a pass for being the crap out of a Vietnamese guy. But Kevin Spacey, Bill Cosby, Weinstein, do not get a pass? Beside the sexual aspect what is the difference?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Besides all the other things people listed, in law we appreciate that sexual violence is kind of worse than just physical violence, and if there’s power dynamics at play and psychological dependency, it gets even more morally apprehensive.

  What I’m saying even just the sexual nature makes it worse for me, but of course there’s more.

  That said, I did not know about what Mark Wahlberg did, and obviously not great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people really "need" friends?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I got no sources, but I’ve regularly heard people claim that depression and similar mental health issues have an equal or worse health impact than smoking or other “soft” drug abuse.