Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

Up to 75 percent of books published before 1964 may now be in the public domain, according to researchers at the New York Public Library.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzyde/librarians-are-finding-thousands-of-books-no-longer-protected-by-copyright-law
#copyright #intellectualproperty #PublicDomain #NewYorkPublicLibrary #Libraries #openaccess

It's worth pondering why every call for civility is issued for the benefit of those who have dedicated their lives to incivility. It's worth pondering why every call for healing centers on those who have done the harming.

It’s worth pondering why the people who cry the loudest about our divisiveness and political incivility never direct their laments at the people who joyfully elect an endless string of stupid, corrupt, and mean racist bullies.

The floor of the U.S. House isn't a comedy club, and presidential addresses aren't wrestling matches. Federal policymakers in the world’s preeminent superpower are supposed to have some class.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republican-heckling-bidens-state-union-mattered-rcna69664

Looking on the 2nd hand markets, I can see that many #Mac owners have extremely high hopes for the resale value of their computers.

Yes, Mac OS is preferable to Windows in several cases, but... 300-400 € for a ten year old computer which on the PC side would fetch at best 1/3 of that at comparable specs and condition ?

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Investigation: AI tools rate photos of women as more sexually suggestive than photos of men, especially if nipples, pregnant bellies, or exercise are involved (The Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/08/biased-ai-algorithms-racy-women-bodies
http://www.techmeme.com/230209/p9#a230209p9

I must confess that when I was younger I expected the future to have more robot butlers and jetpacks, and less plague and fascism, but here we are.

SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell says the company limited Ukraine's military from using Starlink to control drones as its service was "never meant to be weaponized" (Joey Roulette/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/spacex-curbed-ukraines-use-starlink-internet-drones-company-president-2023-02-09/
http://www.techmeme.com/230209/p6#a230209p6

Last year’s combined $200bn profit for the ‘big five’ oil and gas companies brings little hope of driving down emissions.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophy #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/09/profits-energy-fossil-fuel-resurgence-climate-crisis-shell-exxon-bp-chevron-totalenergies

“They talk about how it’s the parent’s choice, ‘power to the parents.’ But it’s not the parent’s choice. It’s the private school’s choice.”

#Arizona's public schools is in freefall since the state began diverting tax funds to private corporations. McHam Investigative Fellow @josephinelee reveals that #Texas lawmakers want to follow the same corrupt playbook by using #disabled students to dismantle public #education: https://www.texasobserver.org/voucher-program-arizona-privitization-public-schools-disabilities/

#TXlege #Disability #vouchers #politics #news

Get off of #Twitter now. Elon is a traitor.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/spacex-curbed-ukraines-use-starlink-internet-drones-company-president-2023-02-09/

What is it with all of these young right wing assholes and being failed creative types? James O'Keefe failed to make it to Broadway so he just makes up shit and creates fake controversies for a living. Ben Shapiro failed to become a Hollywood screenwriter, then tried to become a novelist and that didn't work out either, and then tried to become a film producer and goose egg'd that too. And Steven Crowder is a failed child actor.

I'm staring at a tweet that contains the words James O'Keefe and "musical theater dreams" in the same sentence.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/james-okeefe-outright-cruel-to-project-veritas-employees-internal-memo

Americans have the right to livestream police traffic stops … probably https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/09/us_livestream_police/

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Original tweet : https://nitter.namazso.eu/TheRegister/status/1623494760500547584

TwitterDev finally announced some more details.
1. Delay new rules for 4 days.
2. Free "bot" level of up to 1,500 Tweets/month for a single authenticated user (probably no read access).
3. $100/month "low level of API usage" tier.
4. Premium API (the expensive one that had prices listed) goes away in favor of Enterprise (the even more expensive one with no prices listed).

Before anyone asks, this does not mean 3rd party clients are coming back, if anything its the exact opposite.

#Australia to remove #Chinese #surveillance tech amid security fears

It follows moves by the UK and US last year citing concerns that #China could access the devices.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-64577641?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

he vastly, vastly overestimates the amount of blood he can squeeze from the stone that is twitter and he'll end up killing it trying to get the last drop, like lmao why the HELL would you fuck with the ability to SOCIALIZE on a SOCIAL NETWORK, then have the audacity to charge for it???

they're gonna do all this bullshit tweaking and pissing off everyone by limiting follows or whatever then check the balance sheet at the end of the month and see only 0.01% of users forked over cash

Since he overpaid so much he needs to pay off the loans he took out for his purchase but twitter is not profitable as a company so the only thing he knows to do is to monetize every possible aspect. The result is that the platform is a goner and it is going to ruin a lot of people's livelihoods

”…it’s no surprise that ChatGPT’s users frame their own creations as either existential threats or perfected accomplishments. Neither outcome is true…” https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/chatgpt-openai-artificial-intelligence-writing-ethics/672386/ #ai #chatgpt #openai