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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 01:23:21 JST Paul Cantrell

   Defeatism is form of surrender. Cynicism is surrender. Despair is surrender. Nihilism is surrender.

   Our job is to •care• and to •keep caring• and to •keep doing and keep building• and to •endure• longer than them.

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     datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 03:01:52 JST datarama

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     @inthehands On the one hand, I agree - if nothing else, because caring, doing and building are what I *want* to do.

     But on the other hand: "We will rebel against the AI oligarchs by creating *even better* training data for them!"

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     Jed Brown (jedbrown@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 03:49:42 JST Jed Brown

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     @inthehands It's important to note that search indexing is considered "transformative" and thus fair use *because* it does not supplant the market for the original content. That goes out the window when the product functions to capture traffic that would otherwise go to the cites. They are acting with impunity, but existing copyright law addresses this if courts find it to be not transformative.

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     Thomas Depierre (di4na@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 04:22:48 JST Thomas Depierre

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     @inthehands Two quotes from Pratchett comes to mind

     >>> “All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany’s Third Thoughts said: Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things yours! Make other lives and dreams and hopes yours! Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because they are mine!

     >>> "We look to ... the edges," said Mistress Weatherwax. "There's a lot of edges, more than people know. Between life and death, this world and the next, night and day, right and wrong ... an' they need watchin'. We watch 'em, we guard the sum of things. And we never ask for any reward. That's important.”

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 11:06:09 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • goetic

     @goetic

     Thank you!! My site is a labor of love, handmade from the ground up for the few people who will find it.

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     goetic (goetic@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 11:06:10 JST goetic

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     @inthehands My site is tiny, but I had to make sure and add that into my own. I don't care if Google never happens to come across it, the idea of them using my site to train their LLM is sickening.
     I also have to say, your site is absolutely gorgeous.