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Disney’s relationship to copyright is wildly contradictory. It’s the poster child for the public domain’s power as a source of inspiration for worthy (and profitable) new works. It’s also the chief villain in the impoverishment and near-extinction of the public domain. Truly, every pirate wants to be an admiral. Disney’s reliance on – and sabotage…
The hosting of the recent COP28 climate summit by the United Arab Emirates, one of the world’s leading petroleum exporters, exemplified exactly this puffery and, sadly enough, it’s just one instance of this greenwashing world of ours. Everywhere you look, you’ll note other versions, but it certainly was a classic example. Emirati businessman Sultan Ahmed…
Yet Another Vector for ML Fuckerytm Training set auditing… it’s a *must* A popular training dataset for AI image generation contained links to child abuse imagery, Stanford’s Internet Observatory found, potentially allowing AI models to create harmful content. LAION-5B, a dataset used by Stable Diffusion creator Stability AI and Google’s Imagen image generators, included at least…
On December 14, the country launched its reusable spaceplane from the Gobi Desert, as the state-run news agency Xinhua reported at the time. According to the brief update, its third flight will be used to verify reusable spaceplane technologies and carry out science experiments. But according to amateur astronomer and satellite tracker Scott Tilley, who’s been closely tracking the…
Some people, mainly from the privileged West, think that colonialism is long over. Others are sure that colonialism has never stopped. This book explores a third possibility: that not only is colonialism still continuing, but that right now it is morphing into its most powerful version yet. We call this data colonialism. Data colonialism is…
When you make a mushroom chocolate bar, you tap into an incredible synergy between chocolate and psilocybin. Chocolate, particularly cacao, isn’t just delicious—it’s a trip-enhancing powerhouse. https://psychedelicspotlight.com/how-to-make-a-mushroom-chocolate-bar/
A skootch of hope… Aspiring to objectivity is not the only option. But professional journalists need to compete against voices that draw on partisan and ideological affinity to claim their authority to tell the truth about public life. In a society in which the majority of the population are not strong partisans, there should be…
By exposing libc functions to our module, and granting it capabilities to access resources outside of its environment, we are now able to write programs that look much more like the native binaries we are used to. That’s enough to get us started, but check back for more posts as I continue diving deeper into…
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