Jojo

Why do people keep reading dystopias as instruction books?

Oh, I’m with you. I don’t think anyone using Google VPN was using it because it protected their privacy on the Internet generally. At least I hope not.

The NASA VPN, on the other hand

Reasonable when the alternative is literally getting mugged on the daily?

Quoting the linked article:

The contract the Guild secured in September set a historic precedent: It is up to the writers whether and how they use generative AI as a tool to assist and complement—not replace—them. Ultimately, if generative AI is used, the contract stipulates that writers get full credit and compensation.

So, yeah. It’s more about ensuring that a human person in the writers’ guild gets credited as a writer, even if they or someone else uses an ai as a tool in the process.

That’s allowed, no?

Unless I’m mistaken, this was more about writers not wanting the studio to be able to say “we had an ai generated a script. We’ll pay you a day to do a brief editing pass.”

FSM?

Apparently she defended trans people in a conversation, someone complained, and moderators got involved and manually overrode the ai. Paraphrased hearsay.

The Vulcan science directorate has determined that time travel is impossible.

I mean personally I figure some way that doesn’t exclude anyone who’s had a hysterectomy, but

Everyone hear that? Once you get a hysterectomy, you’re not female any more!

Listen, mate, threatening to kill people is a pretty shit way to interact with anyone. If you don’t want to date someone with a penis, maybe say so up front. No one is trying to trick you, and no one is trying to lie to you. They’re just trying to live life, same as anyone.

When you define a word loosely enough, it can cease to be meaningful. When most people hear “opposition to censorship,” they’re not going to expect the reference to be advocating for the legalization of public and deliberate slander or open threats of violence and attempts to incite violence.

Using the phrase in that way may not be technically incorrect, but it is still misleading at best and disingenuous at worst. Again, you are welcome to your view of what constitutes censorship and the belief that it is always, ipso facto, abhorrent, but I don’t think that view leaves any room for meaningful discussion about this case, so I don’t think I’ll be engaging any further. Call it self-censorship if you like.

We’re also monkeys, if there is such a thing. Some monkeys are more closely related to apes (and thus to us) than they are to other monkeys, so if there’s any group that can be called the “monkey clade,” we are in it.

I guess you’re welcome to that opinion. Just as one would be welcome to the opinion that literally stalking someone should be legal.

Many kinds of speech are very broadly considered okay to restrict, even in places like the USA where “unlimited free speech” is a big motto. It’s illegal to slander and libel people, for example. That it’s illegal in many cases to verbally harass and abuse as well should be fairly non-contentious.

Yes. “Fighting words,” credible threats, and other such aggressive language are generally illegal, even in the USA.

If any language being illegal is automatically censorship, then I don’t think censorship isnecessarily bad in every case.

New Geneva conventions list of war crimes:

1. Wars

There are plenty of examples of companies challenging the legality of regulations and winning, and other cases of apparent corruption among judges.

Gigabit fiber is a thing, and not at all uncommon in a lot of places.

I mean maybe they decided it was going to be easier to buy a judge than another FCC chair?