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@JamesGleick

I don't think I wrote any insults; you said something like "do you think you can educate me on tech?" that is a very arrogant thing to say, so what kind of reply did you expect? I even said "no offense" and "with respect".

With your attitude you will just alienate your (potential) readers while other authors build a community online that is willing to support their work.

With your attitude you have to rely on marketing campaigns that cost money, don't add any value and feed an anachronistic, greedy, centralized and censorious industry.

@JamesGleick

> Is it possible that it’s you who doesn’t understand the economics of writing books?

Then avoid rhetorical arguments like "without Copyright my books wouldn't exist" because you can't know it.

Or maybe you are saying that you wouldn't be able to compensate any lower revenue with a strategy different from artificial scarcity, like other people did?

Also there are studies that indicate that piracy actually help to sell more copies because often it triggers a domino effect in terms of notoriety. So you can't know if abolishing Copyright wouldn't help you sell more books.

On being educated on tech: well, it seems you joined the Fediverse in 2022 while it existed for 14 years now. Wirth respect, you may consider yourself a rockstar in your "tech" world but here you are perceived as very "mainstream", at least by people that have been here for a while.

But you have the chance to learn something new like everyone else.

@JamesGleick

They are projects based on #Copyleft and Free and Open Source Software licenses and are financed differently from the artificial scarcity of #Copyright.

On the other hand what you are stating with certainty, but can't prove it, is that if the law hadn't prosecuted those who reproduce the content of your books then you wouldn't have sold enough hard copies to support your work.

No offense, but what you are arguing is anachronistic and you don't seem to realize where you are: in this network we think differently.

You've already confirmed with facts that our model is better by switching from Twitter to Mastodon, you just need to take the opportunity to revise your beliefs.

@JamesGleick

"I could never have written them"... in that era though.

Did you realize that today things like Wikipedia, the Linux kernel and even Mastodon could be counterexamples of that?

@nixCraft

It's impossible to win because what ML models do is extracting data in a way not much different from statistics and they generate their output from scratch and it's something that never existed before, so it's impossible to claim that they "copy", "steal" and so on.

What they do is literally "learning", they are called like this for a reason afterall.

@f4grx @kkarhan @eloquence

Yeah that is a popular concept by Karl Popper but do you know more about him? Do you now that NeoLiberism (or NeoLiberalism if you prefer) has the same ideological roots of Nazism and both were financially supported by the same powerful people? Those roots is social darwinism and scientism is their way to justify their atrocities, so be careful when citing Karl Popper.

We already have the cultural tools to stop that in Western history and in this case it's Rousseau's division of power: it's not up to me nor to you nor to anyone else to condemn someone by inflicting whatever punishment that affects their lives.

It's up to who has the juridical power to do so with limits, accountability and the guarantees prescribed by law.

Any exercise of power without previously settled responsibilities is authoritarianism and you can't hide it behind a poor rhetorical trick.

https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps

EuroMOMO data for excess mortality in Europe for 15-44 years old: in 2021 it starts to increase since May and overtakes all previous years including 2020; then in 2022 it keeps increasing easily overtaking 2021.

What happened to young adults in mid 2021? We all know it and it's time to admit it.

@kravietz @shaman @Mordko

No, this is Western propaganda, there are videos of Poroshenko from 2014 saying at a rally that Russian-speaking people will "live in cellars, their children won't go to school" and so on.

There is also a video of Zelensky when he was a comedian in 2015 making fun of people from Crimea not having water.

@Mordko @shaman

I'm making fun of people who calls Russian millionaires "oligarchs" and Western billionaires "philanthropists".

And Petro Porošenko, the former president of Ukraine (2014-2019) is a billionaire because of Roshen, his giant company in the field of sweets. And he is the Neo-Nazi who persecuted Russian-speaking people in East Ukraine bombing the Donbass, leaving the Crimea without water and other atrocities.

Envy? People like him, Gates and Soros are criminals.