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- Comment on Ghoulish Jurassic Park Super Bowl ad. 1 week ago:
The "wrong"ness is the point.
They’ve taken a story that’s a lesson about technological hubris and turned it into an ad for just such a technology of which people are existentially wary.
It’s being naughty about an ethics lesson; diet caffiene-free non-carbonated trolling.
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- Comment on Copying Is Not Theft 1 week ago:
Copying is more like trespassing than theft.
When you own a thing, it’s generally accepted that you gave away or sacrificed something of value (either money or time or effort) in order to own that thing. If another person comes along and steals that thing from you, that sucks. The other person never gave up anything of value, you didn’t get anything, and you probably didn’t consent to any of this to begin with. This is clearly unjust and should be a crime.
Copying is a very different act. It’s still unjust, but much much less so than theft. When an object gets copied, the owner doesn’t lose the object itself, but they do lose something: exclusivity.
A bluray disc for a movie that was just released is going to be more expensive than a bluray disc for a movie that’s 75 years old and part of the public domain. There are already a ton of discs of that 75 year old movie on the market, in libraries and maybe even available to watch online for free; its exclusivity is low. The movie that was just released isn’t going to be available anywhere else but from whomever is selling it; its exclusivity is high. When someone makes a copy of that new movie, it lowers the exclusivity of it. The owner of the disc may not care about a loss of exclusivity, but the people producing those discs very much do. Decreasing exclusivity means that there are more options out there for people to acquire what they’re selling, which lowers the value, lowers how much people are willing to pay, and lowers how much money the producers can make.
Exclusivity decreases as access increases. And we have a name for the crime of taking unwarranted access: trespassing.
Trespassing is generally a less harmful act than theft and is generally not punished as severely, which is how unwarranted copying ought to be understood and treated as a matter of justice.
The mischaracterization of unwarranted copying as theft is punitive overreach by the owner-class and leads to unjust punishments.
- Comment on I will not stand for this information warfare any longer! 2 weeks ago:
I’m guessing urine. But they’re holding off on saying so for as long as possible because the worst people in the world are going to do the worst things imaginable knowing that occurred.
- Comment on Jon Stewart on presidential runs and why there's hope for America 3 weeks ago:
Jon has spent his entire career being exceptional at being a clown and communicating.
It’s not unreasonable for people to presume that a smart person who is good at communicating might make a great leader. But I think the role calls for more different skills that others have spent a lifetime specifically crafting (as opposed to performing stand-up and doing for television for decades).
He’s doing what he wants to do within the constraints offered to him. Do you think he wants to be working for Paramount? He had that show on Apple for a few years before butting heads on iPhone manufacturing practices, then he got pulled back into David & Larry Ellison’s world.
- Comment on What AI Billionaires Still Don’t Understand | Douglas Rushkoff 4 weeks ago:
The thing that keeps me paying attention to Rushkoff, no matter how outlandish and bonkers he sounds, is that he’s completely aware of how bonkers he sounds and acknowledges how frustrating it is.
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- Entire 8hr deposition of Jack Smith before the US House Judiciary committee on his investigation and indictment of Trumpwww.youtube.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to videos@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Good point 1 month ago:
Just gonna leave this here…
As I sat there at my ease, cross-legged on the deck; after the bitter exertion at the windlass; under a blue tranquil sky; the ship under indolent sail, and gliding so serenely along; as I bathed my hands among those soft, gentle globules of infiltrated tissues, wove almost within the hour; as they richly broke to my fingers, and discharged all their opulence, like fully ripe grapes their wine; as. I snuffed up that uncontaminated aroma,- literally and truly, like the smell of spring violets; I declare to you, that for the time I lived as in a musky meadow; I forgot all about our horrible oath; in that inexpressible sperm, I washed my hands and my heart of it; I almost began to credit the old Paracelsan superstition that sperm is of rare virtue in allaying the heat of anger; while bathing in that bath, I felt divinely free from all ill-will, or petulance, or malice, of any sort whatsoever.
Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers’ hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as to say,- Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.
Would that I could keep squeezing that sperm for ever! For now, since by many prolonged, repeated experiences, I have perceived that in all cases man must eventually lower, or at least shift, his conceit of attainable felicity; not placing it anywhere in the intellect or the fancy; but in the wife, the heart, the bed, the table, the saddle, the fire-side; the country; now that I have perceived all this, I am ready to squeeze case eternally. In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.
- Comment on Ġ̵̻ͅį̴̹̜̼̙͍͋̈̕m̷̦͎͈̎̄̄̿̈ṁ̶̭̫͓̞̻̾̂̚ë̶͚́̍̀͆ ̴̻͗̈́̿̂̚͝f̴̧̳̝͓̫̆̍͌͠u̸̧̖̠̗͔̽̽̾ȇ̶̝̠̎̔l̵̡͙͔̀́̃́̓͘,̵̠̜̽͛ ̴͙̜͇͚̥̜̑͛͐̓͆͒ḡ̸̮͝͠ḯ̸͍̩͛͗̍͝ṁ̶̛͎̖̭̖̓̃͑̃ḿ̵̫̇e̸͈͕̍̍͒ ̸̧̣̣̣̹̺͌̃ẇ̴̤̳͇̪̝̑̈́̏̚i̶͖͒̒r̶̢̪̙͉̭̥̂̐e̵̞̳̻̍͘ 1 month ago:
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- Comment on How Do You PROVE Discrimination in America? | Massive Case Study Discussion #SOC119 2 months ago:
Sweet jesus, that was insufferable.
Spoilers to save everyone 20 minutes: a professor briefly describes a study meant to measure racial bias, then spends the entirety of the video pressuring 4 (nervous?) students to speculate on the study’s outcome.
He never says whether the study is real or not, or what the outcome was if it were real. The students spend most of the video giving hesitant answers because, obviously, they don’t know. Also, they’re probably not stupid and recognize there’s a high likelihood that the professor is setting up a cute “gotcha!” situation where the study’s outcome is not what one might expect, making anyone who defended the straight-forward answer the butt of a joke in front of all their peers.
The video ends with him finger-wagging at the students for being so hesitant to speculate, insisting that media and culture per-indoctornates them to presume the study would prove racial bias.
Like, WTF bro?
- Comment on Movie intros in 2026 2 months ago:
Mounting the OLED cinema display right behind your ultrawide gaming battlestation, then putting your living room couch on the other side of the room is giving me an interior design headache.
- Comment on There are ultimately only so many damn angles, okay!? 2 months ago:
me receiving all those guys nudes
- Comment on Regular Animals(2025), Art Basel Miami Beach - Mike Winkelmann(Beeple) 2 months ago:
They are “certificates of authenticity”, a joke on the NFT ownership craze of a while back.
I couldn’t find any photos of them tho.
- Comment on The best games of 2025, picked by NPR's staff 2 months ago:
That’s a surprisingly deep list.
- Comment on It is permnent! You are become him. 2 months ago:
So’s the haircut.
- Comment on We'll pay you $10,000 to DE-shitify this Samsung refrigerator 3 months ago:
I don’t know if this would be possible given the bounty’s requirements.
Let’s say you come up with some new firmware for the fridge that replaces all the hostnames on the advertising calls with ‘localhost’. Great. But if all other features on the device need to keep functioning, including any phone-home firmware update functionality, the fridge will re-enshitify itself on its next update. It either needs new fridge hardware (not allowed in the bounty requirements) or some kind of network container (like pi-hole, also not allowed).
So the entire bounty is an exercise in futility. But… perhaps that’s the point.
This is a demonstration of why the law, as written, is fucked and needs to be changed. I think that may be the main the point.
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 3 months ago:
I’ve only seen the animated series, so that.
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 3 months ago:
Barakamon (2014)
After torpedoing his career, a young, lonely calligrapher gets sent to a remote island community where he befriends the local townsfolk and a precocious child. Its quiet lovely and I think you’ll kind of a lot.
And it looks like someone has put the entire series, with English subtitles, up on YouTube:
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 3 months ago:
I’ll admit that this does sound kind a joke suggestion, but I’m serious, after a hard day, sit down, suck up your pride and put an episode or two of Bluey on. It’s a warm blanket on a cold day.
- Comment on snail lyfe 3 months ago:
I don’t know where the adorably precocious children in this screenshot are purported to come from. Every kid I’ve ever met who questions me about my gender has been an argumentative little shit that wants to make a point out of not believing me.
- Comment on do it cowards 3 months ago:
Skeets & toots ahoy!
- Comment on Fact 3 months ago:
Revision draft:
“The only boots worth licking are your dommy-mommy’s.”
- Comment on Trans adults waiting on average 25 years for NHS gender clinic appointments 3 months ago:
Absolute monsters.
- Comment on PhDebaters 4 months ago:
Degenerates only want one thing and it’s disgusting fucking.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 4 months ago:
Last time Microsoft tried something like this, they got the shit slapped out of them by federal antitrust regulators:
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 4 months ago:
Acceleration, temperature, body configuration (positioning), pain, balance and hunger are all related to touch in one way or another.
Time, however, is legit. Along with emotion. Maybe you could call the 6th sense cognition?
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 4 months ago:
More extracts from that same podcast:
In each case, right up until the moment I received evidence to the contrary, all this misinformation, these supposed facts, felt true to me. I had believed them for decades and I had accepted them in part because they seemed to confirm all sorts of other ideas and opinions floating around in my mind. Plus they would have been great ways to illustrate complicated concepts, if not for the pesky fact that they were, in fact, not facts.
That’s one of the reasons why common misconceptions and false beliefs like these spread from conversation to conversation and survive from generation to generation and become anecdotal currency in our marketplace of ideas. They confirm our assumptions and validate our opinions and, thus, they raise few skeptical alarms. They make sense and they help us make sense of other things.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 4 months ago:
I have a song for you:
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 4 months ago:
A short list of things you didn’t realize were false, stolen from the most recent episode of the You Are Not So Smart podcast:
- “The original 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds lead to a mass panic.” – It did not. However, rumors of a panic spread via newspaper op-eds about how it was a bad idea to get your news on any other medium besides newspapers. Citation: slate.com/…/orson-welles-war-of-the-worlds-panic-…
- “You can boil a frog in a pot by gradually raising the temperature of the water.” – This doesn’t work; frogs just jump out when they get uncomfortable. Citation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
- “Lemmings march off cliffs to their deaths because they blindly follow one another.” – They don’t. Citation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming#Misconceptions
- “…but I saw it in a Disney documentary!” – Nope. Turns out the filmmakers paid local kids to capture a bunch of lemmings, spin them around to make them dizzy, then manually threw them off cliffs and filmed it. Citation: hyperallergic.com/…/white-wilderness-disney-natur…
