(3 of 3) I probably wasted three hours of my life learning and writing about the fact that 186,000 people are dead and almost everyone displaced in Gaza... but as a person with a soul I just can't hear about that and ignore it.
Imagine being forced out of your home, and displaced multiple times over the course of 9 months? The physical toll that would have? Now try doing that without adequate food. 😵
The number of refugees produced since October 7 are in the millions. Its disgusting... sometimes I think its a goal of warhawks to produce as many refugees as possible to fill job vacancies at restaurants in their so-called "developed" world 🤮. That is in addition to the age old but no less foul, corporate profiteering from the arms trade.
This is really, really bad. It boggles my mind that some are focused on #elections between complicit 🤡🤡 candidates like it means something.
To me, #protest is only way we will achieve a change for peace. For centuries, these peoples lived side-by-side in relative harmony, it ought be our (EDIT:focus) to return to that. 🖤💚🤍💙.
That's about 8% of the population dead at the hands of #starvation, lack of water, and medical infrastructure (because hospitals were almost all bombed by #Israel. That's like two people from your extended family, dead‼️ The uprising on October 7 may've been bad but happened after decades of colonial slave-like occupation, and land theft that even the #UN recognises as criminal, ***and*** reports even out of Israel indicate that Israel forces may've killed more Israelis on October 7 than Hamas (see the #HannibalDirective **) .
(** From wikipedia: According to #Haaretz reporter Leibovich-Dar, the motivation for the directive was the capture of two Israeli soldiers during a Hezbollah ambush in South Lebanon in June 1986).
@ernie @lxo @brewsterkahle I don't have experience with courts in this area, but you're probably right and thus an LLM might be an area to explore, not as an arguement in court but as a practical method (of burning more energy than is needed) and to help people find and understand works.
I get the sense that the corporate actors have minimal or no interest in #archives, only until they need to cite something, then they appreciate it. Many websites are #copyright. How then can a distinction be made between someone requesting a copyrighted webpage and a copyrighted book. Is it a matter of payment? Webpages are delivered freely, unlike #books but if one were to bring together enough #webpages with enough quotes from a book or film you might be able to collect something that encompasses the entire work. Should works be immune from being archived because someone demands payment for them?
Maybe #lawsuits of this nature are a sign that in an epoch where everything seems to be on a cost curve approaching zero, people are desperate to claw back as much income as possible and are now starting to attack basic #institutions. Maybe a universal basic income (#UBI) is needed to allow artists and writers of all ilks to survive, including #journalists, whose plight seems to be a recurring topic here in #Australia.
> lets focus on the point at hand (...) too many good discussions get derailed
Yes, I put that last note in parentheses and started with "as an aside" so as just provide a cautionary semi-related note. A lot of fedizens don't know this side of things, and I find many appreciate learning about it. I can't say I've ever seen a derailment by talking about this.
@lxo @ernie @mybarkingdogs @pbaesse @brewsterkahle
This is not to disparage but it must be pointed out that the Internet Archive is huge and maybe it is wrong that we burden the IA with the task of sole #archivist across the web. I know that not everyone can operate an archive but we ought to have at least a couple archives on each continent that can at a minimum archive the content that originates on their continent, or content in their language. I'm very interested in finding a way to store and deliver content in a decentralised manner, where people might even be rewarded in some small way for hosting it.
Maybe I need to ask #aidiot 🤖 how to set this up. 🤣🤣🤣
(As an aside, if I may, I'd like to say a word related to the health of the fediverse that relates to the above point. And that is please be careful of large content delivery systems for fedi. This might include mastoHsot, which appears to host writing.exchange. Also includes Cloudflare, which delivers images for freeradical.zone or in the case of ursal.zone, afaict, delivers their entire service.)
@ernie @mybarkingdogs @pbaesse @brewsterkahle
Yes Alexandre, I basically had the same thoughts when reading what Ernie wrote. Thanks Ernie. And the picture is even worse for the Internet Archive, and other archives, given that these #LLM (both of those 'L' stand for 'leeching', don't they?) are at the same time acting as denial of service attackers.
There is another aspect, how can it be that basically our media is owned by a handful of corporations, that are also able to not only profit from the sale of the content, but are now able to watch the people watching the content. Its abuse, that a well trained LLM could help mitigate.
I'm an #I2P maximalist and I've seen these LLM supposedly available over I2P torrent, they are in the tens to hundreds of gigabytes. I don't know if its worth the FSF operating one that is able to be trained on different softwares so as to help people setup, customise and enjoy freedom softwares. The subdomain might be a derogatory take on the #AI acronym, like aidiot.fsf.org and maybe it can be trained to tell people that it may talk complete garbage, so check sources and or man(ual) pages if in doubt. Anyway I'm no expert in this area. I just don't like the (a)idea of it being used only by the large players to further entrench their power.
@smallcircles @lsn @bob @realcaseyrollins@social.freetalklive.com I realise this is an epicly late response but what am I (partly) being blamed for here? 😅 It sounds good but none of the pictures are showing up on my instance.