IP certainly means protection, though it favors big corps than individuals.
I'm all for those creative professionals. I get why people are upset about their work being used without their consent, especially from people who contracted to provide their work. It's been used to exactly cut such jobs against them.
But to combat the situation tighting IP law doesn't seem to be the right tool.
Artists, writers, creative professionals arguments on generative AI being copyright infringement is moot. They should simply rally with underpaid third-world AI training (tagging) personel to ask for labour compensation, maybe proposing continuous micropayment for individuals.
I used zoom for some hobby online meetups. The majority used zoom. I'm assuming that it's organizer's choice, which they're familiar at work. I'd love to spread a word for FOSS alternatives, but sadly I'm not the person organizes events.
The thing is for most people zoom is equivalent of video conference. Zoom has soared its publicity in WFH era, and Zoom decides to (like every corporation does) utilize it, milking every possible profit from it.
I even 'favorite'-d a tweet instead of like back then...
I looked for safety topic and found almost none (just brief mention in introduction). This research's scope is mental health so it's understandably out of their scope, but endorsing something should always weight both benefit and risks.
Natural water body never guaranteed to be safe, no matter how it looks on surface. Many lives lost because of OWS every year. Personal floating jacket is bare minimum, won't guarantee safety either.
I start something short. Just like a writing short fanfiction, get some core scene in my mind. Then I backtrack what needs to be there for character's background and motives. If I'm writing forest scene I don't plan worldbuilding for city or empire unless the forest is part of common land.
Also, there's nothing wrong with using established trope in your fantasy writing and worldbuilding. Most readers have basic idea of what elf is, and elf is not trademarked. You can borrow them and add your own twist (and if you feel your version of elf distinguishable enough, you can always replace them later).
IMO whether we're fucked or not is not a constructive argument.
In either case, the interpretation of climate change can lead to the same conclusion: a) we're fucked up to the point of no return. So we can keep our wasteful society as is until we extinct, because changing our society will not achieve anything. b) we're not in that bad situation so we can keep our wasteful society as is until the situation gets really bad and requires change.
Anything could be used to justify not making changes and majority of society/indistry ppl in power are super resistant to it (which likely reduces their profit).
In reality, it's not black and white. Even if the 'no return' scenario is real, we can still lessen the climate change effect or delay catastrophic end if we make changes now.
AC could die all of the sudden too. One of my friends had it last summer in Tokyo, had to spend week w/o AC. It happened when he was awake in the morning, but I heard other horror stories of AC stopped at night and waking up with severe dehydration symptoms.
If it only drives the far-right, does that mean Facebook contributed shifting in window of discourse? (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window)
They added chronological, follow-only feed in recent update. Would you return if they have it now? How much ppl returning will be an indicator of its future.
Using engagement for metric will ofc render algorithmic feed "better", i.e. addictive. Their value is not about mental wellbeing.
Exactly. Imitation crabs and fish cakes are equivalent of ground meat for fish and presumably easier to simulate. Their market is not as big as salmon, but trying salmon first is like trying to imitate steak meat before making patty decen.