Notices by Metalpoet :pentagram: (metalpoetnl@metalhead.club)

This arrived today, and I've already devoured the prologue just since I finished working.

@pluralistic has set a fantastic stage, I have a feeling this book is going to knock it out of the park just like the last two.

This is actually the first time ever I have backed a Kickstarter, and I'm very glad I did.

#picksandshovels #noir #bookstodon

@pluralistic I was planning to buy one after payday anyway.

@pluralistic so get this... it seems my employer's "internet security proxy" has blocked martinhench.com as a threat. I'm certain this is a technical error in the automatic categorisation system (what with the books dealing with cybersecurity) and not a deliberate attempt at censoring an anti-enshittfiication message.

Yeah, that MUST be it.... right ?

What @pluralistic said about Canada in his latest comment, is globally true.

Throughout my lifetime the US has used free trade to pressure countries into making otherwise objectively bad policies. "If you get rid of good regulations we won't put tarriffs on your exports". Access to the vast US market was the only reward for terrible policies like criminalising "circumvention" devices, even when used to perform completely legal activities like backing up a movie, fixing a minor breakage on your tractor or car or converting an ebook for a braille-reader.

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@pluralistic Access to the vast US market was the one positive trade-off for scrapping regulations against negligently unsafe products and practises. It was a high price to pay for that one little reward.

So... with Donald Trump promising a tariff war, ending the era of getting access to the vast US market: why should any country persist in these policies ?
Why should any country CARE what the US Trade Representative says if the ONLY thing they ever offered in return is no longer on the table ?

I think it's time for some serious lobbying to get rid of policies and laws like that. There is literally NO reason to have them anymore.

@pluralistic your latest collumn had me thinking. We use books to train inteligences now - it's one of their main uses and always has been. Nobody has ever suggested that, if you're going to use a book to teach people with, you need to pay for more than buying them a copy of the book.

I fully expect AI companies to raise that argument in their lawsuits: that using a book to learn is definitely not a copyrightable activity since they've always been used that way. Indeed, one of the groups of people who MOST rely on books to learn: is future authors.

Great readers make great writers after all.
As writers, we learn from other writers, by reading their books.

@pluralistic so I fully expect them to argue that, for an AI to be trained on your book is no different than for a kid in a creative writing class to read your book and learn techniques they will later use in their own writing.

Now, of course, AI isn't actually intelligent. I don't know if true AI is possible but we both agree that we definitely haven't achieved anything close to it yet.

One could therefore argue that "training AI' is not like learning because it's not a real intelligence and isn't capable of real creative development on top of what it learned.

But do we really want governments deciding who or what is sentient ? What could go wrong, eh ?

@pluralistic which I think adds yet another reason I support your view that we should treat the question of AI training as a labour rights discussion rather than a copyright discussion.

It's not at all clear to me that training AI is a copyrightable activity anymore than training humans is - or should be.

But labour doesn't have that question at all. Labour is first and foremost about human needs.

And making art is definitely a human need.

Making art is what made us who we are as a species.
Most human endeavours we do to survive. But not art: we don't make art to survive, we survive to make art.

if we no longer make art, will we really exist at all ?

@LadyDragonfly @grissallia if it wasn't for the bloodhound gang would anyone even remember who Chasey Lane was ?

@pauldrye @thomasfuchs this is literally an attempt at variolation, the low-tech precursor go vaccination - which would be considered unconscionable today due to the extreme risks involved.

Worse, it's being done as self medication. At least in the early modern era it was done under medical supervision. And still lots of people died, variolation reduced overall deaths from diseases but killed lots of the people receiving the treatment. In contrast vaccination associated deaths are near zero.

#tunetuesday by @Kitty
with a prompt by @derthomas

#BangersAndFiller

So the prompt us for my least favourite song from my favourite album.

The thing is, it's actually a really good song. It's just maybe slightly less good than the absolute wonders that fill up the rest of the album.

From Powerwolf's album Preachers of the Night:
Last of the living dead.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=wX8hrWhJCeo&feature=share

So @neurothing wants me to look at #thesky for the ##ThursdayFiveList eh ? Let me see.

Blind Guardian: dark clouds rising
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=DG8IvX4WRdo&feature=share

Satan: Up There (South Park bigger, longer and uncut soundtrack)
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=17c-q2_yVdo&feature=share

Faceless devastation: under blackened skies
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=QLA0XaOS64g&feature=share

Kreator: under a total blackened sky
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=6AwGYzR-ro4&feature=share

Judas Priest: blood red skies
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=aORXZiGeIdA&feature=share

So I see my own #TuneTuesday prompt #TravellingTunes came up.

I think my own first contribution will be:
Metallica: wherever I may roam
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-cEyiM9adE&feature=share

#tunetuesday theme is #funsong thanks to @VestigialLung

What's more fun than having no more fucks to give ?

Here's Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ok0hDCvrzSA&feature=share

#TuneTuesday Is going to be tricky for me, since
#ShakeTheDanceFloor Is music styles I don't generally like. But luckily the Germans and Swedes come to the rescue.

From Germany we get #tanzmetal like #eisbrecher
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj-DJR3K4-k&feature=share

And #Sweden gives us #TranceMetal like #RageOfLight - worth it just to hear #MelissaBonny singing candyman

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=oogXPsnvgm8&feature=share

Update: put in the right version of Candyman

@selzero "Name this death metal album".