whoever is running the @matrix.org account is clued in. they know

just saw a shitton of follows and i was like what's going on, good to see some of the old crowd is still here

catventures continue

summer office

oh, yeah. i mean, the internet is big enough for everyone. it's just a shame that when places are smaller (and even when they're larger) social sites are thrown in a bucket of what the average user is expected to be like

thanks, this is super helpful

Similar to The New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI over the use of training data, the outcome of the record labels' new suit could have deep implications for the future development of generative AI in creative fields, including requiring companies to license all musical training data used in creating music-synthesis models. Compulsory licenses for AI training data could make AI model development economically impractical for small startups like Udio and Suno—and judging by the aforementioned open letter, many musical artists may applaud that potential outcome. But such a development would not preclude major labels from eventually developing their own AI music generators themselves, allowing only large corporations with deep pockets to control generative music tools for the foreseeable future.

Again, the only thing copyright maximalism can deliver is a world where AI models are very expensive and licensed from the likes of Getty and Universal Studios, not a world without AI.

Here it is spelled out in the Ars Technica article. arstechnica.com/information-...

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I have a crazy mental framework for bluesky PDSes as DAOs with onchain governance but that's more engineering than I can manage myself on the weekends. I think it's too early (in terms of bluesky technology) but it ideally would be invisible to the end user.

onchain plc.directory

there’s something deeply funny about the fact that a platform led by cutting edge technologists, that exists due to their innovation and effort, managed to gather a huge cohort of people who use the decentralized protocol to argue that innovation and technology is bad

most looking forward to examples/templates of custom schemas so we can begin to write our own applications

the bluesky team is amazing and have the right idea, excited to see what comes next but i wish i had a bluesky time machine

unfortunately it appears we need to take the website back, despite having the strongest technological underpinnings of potentially any social media site, it is, as many current things, defined by its userbase and not the technology because social effects are what create value. or something, whatever

sounds good to me

I still miss summer (weather)

so can we talk about blockchain on here yet or

Board games with the boys

I'll never forget my Ganglia roots

rrdtool graphs are a total vibe

barely any sleep
then Saturday rolls around
the twelve blesséd hours.

bullish on hot girl summer this year

when the delivery driver says your postcode doesn't exist (that's boat life)

I miss summer

Cats don't know it's almost Christmas

Can't believe I've never had tempeh before. Definitely a new favorite (thanks @punk.place for cooking)

update: I think the cows are blocking the cell signal

had to explain to a friend “lmeow” yesterday

“no no, see, there’s this autistic crypto trader who larps as a cat in a yellow hazmat suit and he just says ‘lmeow’ and ‘gmeow’ and it just became a thing in my industry

anyways crypto is totally legit, you sh-“*call disconnects*

the cows woke me up at 2am

morally dubious but unarguably bad-ass

lucky! figured we'd get through it before any calamities happened seeing as we were stuck behind the peak forest one for a month or so. onto whitchurch tomorrow :)