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I make art that’s totally mine because I did it through AI. imgur.com/a/Rhgi0OC

Nightshade software to protect your art

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Meta has acknowledged using parts of the Books3 dataset but argued that its use of copyrighted works to train LLMs did not require "consent, credit, or compensation." The company refutes claims of infringing the plaintiffs' "alleged" copyrights, contending that any unauthorized copies of copyrighted works in Books3 should be considered fair use.

Furthermore, Meta is disputing the validity of maintaining the legal action as a Class Action lawsuit, refusing to provide any monetary "relief" to the suing authors or others involved in the Books3 controversy. The dataset, which includes copyrighted material sourced from the pirate site Bibliotik, was targeted in 2023 by the Danish anti-piracy group Rights Alliance, demanding that digital archiving of the Books3 dataset should be banned and is using DMCA notices to enforce those takedowns.

Yet they'll spend waste billions on metaverse.

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Do you think the corporations like my art and is it fair? Apparently it is if I run it through AI is what you're saying.

https://imgur.com/a/these-are-new-niki-mice-drawings-phone-company-chainsaws-merms-donut-logos-burger-mc-winfruit-computers-republunch-political-party-logos-Rhgi0OC

Why do you think that the AI companies want to hoover up everyone's art? Because it's valuable or they wouldn't take the risk of all of this backlash.

Game Studio's Job Requirement: 'Non Negotiable' Nude Sauna Sessions ( www.404media.co )

Someone asked him if being naked would be required, and he said “it is not about getting naked. It’s about experiencing different kind of sauna. And, if you knew anything about it, wetness level inside Bania or Steam one is around 90%. So, towel is extremely wet after few seconds. So, you can still do it, but it may result...

Scientists have discovered that a type of white blood cell exists as a single large population of cells that move throughout the body looking for, and repairing, damaged tissue | Discovery of ‘new rul ( www.cam.ac.uk )

From the article: This overturns the traditional thinking that regulatory T cells exist as multiple specialist populations that are restricted to specific parts of the body. The finding has implications for the treatment of many different diseases – because almost all diseases and injuries trigger the body’s immune system....

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regrow hair follicles

I bet I know what they're going to focus on.

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Holy shit this makes me happy. Now do home versions that combine with solar.

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Turns out I haven't looked in awhile, but they have personal wind turbines to power your phone. I think putting a bank on one side of some homes could be great. In Seattle, with all of the micro-climates, hills and wind tunnels, this surely is a thing.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=travel+wind+turbine

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Forsberg said his only concern was whether Electrified Thermal Solutions would be the ones to bring the technology to fruition, noting that many clean energy technologies have been invented in the U.S. only to gain commercial success in China.

Recent government funding has given the company a significant boost.

In January, ETS received a $5 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to help build its first commercial-scale demonstration project at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, an independent organization that provides contract research and development services to government and industrial clients.

Billionaire bets big on largest solar project ever proposed to deliver power across oceans: 'At the forefront of the clean energy transition' ( www.thecooldown.com )

The world is on the cusp of an energy transformation that could make the Industrial Revolution look minor. Mike Cannon-Brookes is banking on the Land Down Under to be a major driver of that change....

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This seems pretty cool. It's no crazier than putting a communication cable across the oceans and we already have the support for that. Is there something I'm missing?

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I agree. They've also come a long way since the original cable were put in for communication in 1858. Granted, it took almost a 100 years for tech to catch up. We're pretty innovative now though.

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(at one point there was talk of worried insurance companies bankrolling such projects as climate change could bankrupt them)

That would be a nice reset. Of course they'd be back pretty quickly, I just want them to check themselves since they're ruining America.

Albuquerque Is Throwing Out the Belongings of Homeless People, Violating City Policy ( www.propublica.org )

Albuquerque has escalated this work in spite of a court order prohibiting it from destroying the possessions of people who live outside without providing an option to store them. In doing so, the city also has violated its own policies, including that personal property should be preserved even when the owner isn’t present. The...

Professor sues Meta to allow release of feed-killing tool for Facebook ( arstechnica.com )

The tool is nearly ready to be released, Zuckerman told Ars, but the University of Massachusetts Amherst associate professor is afraid that Facebook owner Meta might threaten legal action if he goes ahead. And his fears appear well-founded. In 2021, Meta sent a cease-and-desist letter to the creator of the original Unfollow...

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Meta (or similar) probably is already running one of our major instances. We don't know who actually owns all of them.

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Why not both being an issue? Why wouldn't they say who they really are if they're a major corporation.

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I'm pro-fediverse, that's why I think it's just as bad. There is one instance in particular, that has the vast majority of Lemmy, that is controlling the narrative for most Lemmy users and it probably will only get worse. I was banned from that one because an admin was curating what I said. Now I don't really have a voice over there because I'm not savvy enough to do an alt that they couldn't tell. So here I am, not being able to let people know that I've noticed them being curated and they've also banned my community in the biggest instance (that one I like).

This fact is rarely discussed but a major factor why the fediverse helps with democratization of the internet. Free information.

Absolutely, I want to keep it that way. I think corporations taking over one of the big instances would be subtle and will have terrible consequences for the fediverse. People sign up for it, not knowing, and then get curated just like on Facebook.

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Nice, it looks like you can do it manually too.

When I unfollowed everything for the first time, I did it manually. I spent hours using a Facebook-provided feature to click unfollow on each of my friends, groups, and pages.

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I think we're on the same page, I don't care if they read my feed in the slightest. Reddit made a shit ton off of me and my friends and I didn't care about that either. They were providing a free service and I used it, make money. My issue with reddit was/is, they think they're the product and treat everyone as such.

Be the change you want to see

Yep, that's one of the things I'm doing right here by getting the word out for everyone to spread out through the Fediverse. People were saying that when I joined, but I didn't understand what the ramifications were. Of course, I can't tell anyone on the largest instance, lol.

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I was wondering, but it should be more mainstream, yeah? Wasn't Hitler thought to be living in South America or something in the old school conspiracy theories?

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Yes, why isn't that one of the "good ones"?

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Is using starlink a good idea for Ukraine? I'm sure Zelensky knows about this, but just in case you don't.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-ukraine-russia-war-starlink-satellite-denied-major-act-of-war/

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I mean sure, if you're on Russia's side, he did a good thing? Musk should have never made that decision himself, he should have worked with Biden before shutting off anything. I'll give you more articles if you want.

A Pentagon spokesman said the department responds directly to members of Congress on such matters. “However, we can reinforce that we are aware of the reports that some Russian forces in occupied Ukraine have used Starlink terminals,” he said. “DoD has been working closely with SpaceX and the Government of Ukraine to investigate and address this threat.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/pentagon-needs-to-open-up-about-russia-s-use-of-starlink-senator-says/ar-BB1lUzkS

Robot Makers Try to Reassure Public They're Legit After Elon Musk Fudged Demo ( gizmodo.com )

Elon Musk became the butt of more than a few jokes after internet users pointed out Tesla’s robot demo wasn’t all it appeared to be. As it turns out, a video the billionaire posted of Optimus, the company’s much-hyped humanoid robot, was actually being controlled by a human slightly off-screen. And it’s interesting to...

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This is a great video. Here is my best guess for the process, but I'm not a 100%

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