mindbleach
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- Comment on Sydney woman who sold a cartoon cat T-shirt told to pay US$100,000 in Grumpy Cat copyright case | Australia news | The Guardian 2 days ago:
Kate Beaton on BlueSky: “These guys took their famous catchphrase from my comic, but okay.”
- Comment on Sydney woman who sold a cartoon cat T-shirt told to pay US$100,000 in Grumpy Cat copyright case | Australia news | The Guardian 3 days ago:
Show the fucking shirt.
- Comment on Collective licence to ensure UK authors get paid for works used to train AI 5 days ago:
Training is transformative use.
It’s not like this ends with authors being paid every time a neural network gets used - we’d see a properly open model emerge. Smaller networks, trained on hand-pruned data, already look like the way forward. Generalization from sparse examples is how any of this works.
If people can’t simply let the robot read every book in the library, they’re not gonna pay for every book in the library. They’re gonna switch to some above-board torrent of public domain / Creative Commons / permissively-licensed content. That didn’t happen first because scaling up worked better, to a point. Aaaand scale prevents competition. Also it was a great excuse to spy on as much private data as possible.
When the bubble bursts, the tech will remain and flourish, and there’s not gonna be much money involved.
- Comment on The photo I upload is grey no matter what size or format 2 weeks ago:
Colorspace issues, surely.
Your Goblincore post also looks grey on my machine, so it’s probably server-side.
You could try copy-pasting into another program, saving it from there, and crossing your fingers.
- Comment on Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House 4 weeks ago:
It’s repetition of settled issues by people too stupid to know when they lost an argument.
- Comment on Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House 4 weeks ago:
What century is it?
How much of a cunt do you have to be, to get mad at Quakers? Their whole thing is - they don’t start shit.
- Comment on Trump supporter Rick Fuze was arrested in CA for using a stun gun on peaceful protesters outside a Tesla dealership. The woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor with 16,000 citations. 5 weeks ago:
Other blunt instruments may have similar success; experimental research is ongoing.
- Comment on Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says 1 month ago:
Oh god, what now?
- Comment on What car stickers say about you 1 month ago:
- Comment on What car stickers say about you 1 month ago:
“I work in IT.”
- Comment on Do you remember zombie apocalypse MMO Urban Dead? It's shutting down after nearly 20 years 1 month ago:
[sad barhah]
“The strongest protections in the Act have been designed for children,” an explainer says. “Platforms will be required to prevent children from accessing harmful and age-inappropriate content.”
Fuck them kids. Monitor your children’s internet access if you don’t want them seeing weird shit. Same as unsupervised access to television, books, magazines-- anything. The world is not for children.
Since the dev team is A Guy, hopefully he chooses to hand off to someone in a slightly less stupid country. Short as that list has become.
- Comment on frfr no cap 1 month ago:
All eyes on me.
- Comment on a strong beak, of course 1 month ago:
- Comment on Could you explain to me why you like silent hill 1? (Spoilers) 1 month ago:
Half-Life arguably suffers from success more than any horror game. Everybody ripped it off, to the point its innovations can feel cliche. Like Aliens. Fortunately it’s put together well enough to remain viscerally engaging, and the ridiculous aspects are mostly deliberate. And, bitrates aside, it still sounds incredible. Sound design is more than half of what conveys atmosphere.
- Comment on Could you explain to me why you like silent hill 1? (Spoilers) 1 month ago:
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/…/SeinfeldIsUnfunny
You have to remember that it was competing with tense-but-goofy Capcom fare like Resident Evil and Dino Crisis, and then… Japan-exclusive Lovecraft patchworks like Iru! / They’re Here! Earlier and more-grounded horror titles like the Clock Tower remake were nowhere near as visually or mechanically immersive.
And for whatever reason, horror doesn’t age as well in games as it does on film. It took ages for The Exorcist to decay from being superlative and important to a historical relic you vaguely understand as frightening. Evil Dead, The Thing, Terminator 2… there’s some old-ass movies that stand up and skeeze you out. Shit, I’d still hesitate to rewatch The Ring. But interactivity demands some shock value, and that shit has a shelf life.
- Comment on Mozilla is Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox | Also about to go into effect is an updated privacy notice 1 month ago:
I have been using Firefox since before it was Firefox.
This might make me leave.
Jesus FUCKING CHRIST, Mozilla - not even Google has the nuts to claim it owns everything you do in Chrome!
- Comment on Mozilla is Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox | Also about to go into effect is an updated privacy notice 1 month ago:
Pale Moon is still based on Gecko.
- Comment on Israel denies entry to two EU lawmakers, accusing one of supporting boycotts 2 months ago:
Oh no! Economics!
or deny Hamas’ 7 October attack.
Okay, the fuck does this even mean? Who in the world is “denying” that attacks? Fuckers came out on autogyros.
Lumping it in with prosecuting war crimes reads like this macros going ‘reblog if you wanna fuck this character [newline] or enjoy playing the game.’ You’ve been accused of both motte and bailey! How do you plead?
- Comment on fish roast 2 months ago:
swim swim hungry
- Comment on Trump literally referred to himself as "King". Surely conservatives are against a monarchy forming? 2 months ago:
Conservatives are necessary as a counterpoint to progressivism in general.
The fuck they are.
- Comment on What it means to sign Elsevier's Copyright Transfer Agreement 2 months ago:
Fuck the scansion on this format.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto FiveM Players Quit In Disgust As New Sources Corroborate The Rumors 2 months ago:
What the hell is any of this?
- Comment on Trump literally referred to himself as "King". Surely conservatives are against a monarchy forming? 2 months ago:
The whole Alt-Right Playbook series is incredible and necessary, but the more relevant video is arguably Always A Bigger Fish. Specifically for one point:
Conservatives are not failed liberals.
They don’t want what liberals want. That’s why they don’t do what liberals do. We keep assuming we must agree on certain topics - often because they say they believe in things we believe in - but if that were true then their actions would make sense. We wouldn’t be constantly baffled by their hypocrisy, asking over and over, ‘how can they say X when they do Y?’
The default approach is to point out these contradictions… as if they haven’t noticed. As if it will force them to reconcile their rhetoric with their behavior (or vice-versa). That never happens. They don’t fucking care. All of their stated ideals are ad-hoc justifications.
Everything for conservatives is in service to hierarchy. Words don’t mean anything except to signal loyalty or disloyalty to that hierarchy. They are shibboleths. Ducktalk. They cheer when Their Guy says the sky is blue and boo when Our Guy says the exact same thing. They proclaim themselves “rational” because obviously someone rational would want what they already want, and being smart just means working backwards for clever excuses. This is how reality works, for these people. All of their stated ideals are ad-hoc justifications.
And they think we’re the same way.
That’s what really connects us, across the aisle. We think they’re like us, and when they say they support democracy, we think they mean it. It’s why we’d say that. They think we’re like them, and when we say we want fair elections, they think we’re lying. It’s why they’d say that. All of their stated ideals are ad-hoc justifications. They say things we like to hear because it works. It has no predictive value.
- Comment on Trump literally referred to himself as "King". Surely conservatives are against a monarchy forming? 2 months ago:
In a very real sense, those people do not have beliefs. They think reasons are things you make up based on what you’ve already concluded. Business snubs their outgroup? ‘Well it’s their right to blah blah blah vote with your wallet yay capitalism.’ Business snubs their ingroup? ‘How dare they violate my right to blah blah blah political correctness gone mad.’ They decide what they want today and pick plausible justifications.
And in their minds, that’s what everyone else is doing.
Nothing they do makes sense without that context. You’re never really arguing with them because they don’t agree on how arguments work. Their conclusions do not follow a chain of logic from factual claims. You can completely dismantle their arguments, and then… they’ll pick new arguments. They’re just working backwards from the answer they want. And they think you are, too. Everyone’s just shuffling cards. No matter the evidence or the rationale, they’re not about to switch sides, because that’s what they think hypocrisy is.
Reminding them of their own arguments has no impact, because they don’t understand the concept. Neither the concept of saying something without meaning it, nor the concept of logical consistency. They think you’re suddenly choosing that argument - because that’s all they did.
- Comment on Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X? 2 months ago:
It’s like we have forgotten - some questions have a right answer.
- Comment on The 2025 SJW Update: Donations, costs and other points 2 months ago:
Cheers, thanks for that. Didn’t notice there was a search bar right in the Blocks page. I added a few from modlogs, but the fucker keeps kiting new accounts, all with a smug ‘you can’t get rid of me!’ profile header.
- Comment on The 2025 SJW Update: Donations, costs and other points 2 months ago:
Fairly off-topic - is there a point where you block Universal Monk from making new accounts with the same name, on other servers, whilst implicitly bragging about how they dodge everyone telling them to fuck off? Is there some quantity of money I can pay to have that problem solved?
- Comment on Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’ 2 months ago:
Well, left and left.
- Comment on Google's slow Chrome Extension reforms anger developers 2 months ago:
Everything still works in Firefox.
You can just leave.
- Comment on Colours 2 months ago:
This is octarine erasure.