‘I can’t explain [why we think you shouldn’t include these characters in your one-woman play]. And frankly, I’m quite baffled that you don’t understand.’

Okay but if you can’t explain your position, why would you assume others can understand your position?

They’re probably already in the data set of whichever LLM they use to write their policy documents anyway, so sure, fine. 🙄

I mean they should have given him credit. That’s what they owe him (all they owe him) under the MIT license.

It’s always niche stuff. Music by non-headliners. Indie films.

I honestly think text/pdfs will actually stay easy. Text, even manga I suspect, is lightweight to host, so it’s easier to keep online. By contrast a flac rip of a band that’s never gone gold will be too heavy to host on a web page, but too niche to keep dedicated seeders on a torrent.

The mechanical Turk strikes again.

Ah this is terrible.

The bee population is already struggling, and there’s no way this one survived after getting stuck in dude’s throat.

Reportedly the dude was also a dick, and horrible to his ex-wife, but the bee didn’t know that before it killed him.

This really shouldn’t be news.

I suppose JK Rowling, regardless of her personal politics, made her actual money by writing the world’s most popular children’s book series. Likewise George Lucas I guess is probably a billionaire too. And Taylor Swift.

But these are examples of incredibly lucky creators of novel IPs. There’s always been a handful of these people on the lower end of the upper end of economic power.

According to the article she was swallowed. Not likely to come back from that.

AI is good for producing low-stakes outputs where validity is near irrelevant, or outputs which would have been scrutinized by qualified humans anyway.

It often requires massive amounts of energy and massive amounts of (questionably obtained) pre-existing human knowledge to produce its outputs.

Sue that therapist for malpractice! Wait…oh.

Fair.

Why bad?

Maybe sorta to update keys? But I think they will also do that if you pop in a newer disc. It’s been known to cause an issue with playback of older disks, I think.

The whole process of buying media is broken.

Actually yeah, those are.

I think he’s doing tricep extensions in the picture.

What if neither of you believe in expiration dates but one of you think it turned and the other doesn’t?

He’s not a famous figure, he’s a child being exploited by his dad, and even on the page itself there’s nothing actually notable about the kid himself. It’s mostly salacious “controversy” about his gross no-name dad.

And actually encyclopaedias generally and Wikipedia particularly engage in value judgement all the time. Who is or isn’t a notable public figure, what is or isn’t a reliable source, etc.

Nothing about this child merits a Wikipedia entry. Maybe Encyclopedia Dramatica or Kiwi Farms or something else for the bottom feeders, but not a site that’s supposed to be for general human knowledge. GTFO with that.

If this isn’t a sign of the decline in Wikipedia I don’t know what is. Like it’s not even his channel it’s his dad’s.

What was the appeal of Plex anyway?