Notices by Leth (lethargilistic@kolektiva.social)

@MediaActivist A friend of mine uses acast. I think they have a free tier still.

@MakBerberovic I would say the same thing about any other kind of plagiarism. It's art and work and skill and intent, and a far more interesting creative process to me than inceptivism—much more involved than so-called "theft."

That can be why I do it, but it doesn't matter aesthetically because others are not me and do not live within me while I enjoy making it. Art isn't even completed until others do the work of interpreting it.

@MakBerberovic You have extrapolated a lot from the least important word in this post, but OK. The perceived difficulty of its creation is irrelevant because art is interpreted and *all* art involves striking kinds of balance.

If the interpreter likes it as surrealism, it's good surrealism. If the interpreter changes their mind because they learn it was created with an AI, it's still good surrealism.

The "he has six-fingers" or otherwise "this isn't possible" criticism of AI art strikes me as a weirdly anti-surrealist stance for artists to take.

"Only human brains are allowed to produce nonsense!"

The world needs less emphasis on suicide "awareness" and more suicide appreciation. As in, the fact that someone killed themself in response to material conditions should not always hit you first in the "tragedy" or "productivity waste" parts of your brain.

It should enrage you because it is rational.

You think you're better than someone who looked at this world and couldn't bear it? Why? Because you were willing to absorb more pain?

"But setting yourself on fire doesn't accomplish anything" in the same tone of voice as "but breaking windows doesn't accomplish anything."

@MakBerberovic I don't know how you misread this toot and I frankly don't care.

> Goes off about how religion is bad because people are taught to have cognitive dissonance from a young age.

...

> Goes off about how more democracy is necessary to save the soul of the United States.

"Lookie, Lookie. Elon Musk is against birth control."

My brother in Christ, Elon Musk openly believes he must repopulate the Earth with his "superior" seed. Why are you caught off guard by any of his reproductive views??

@benfell @anarchismhub You don't make the news without a little property damage. And if it made cops feel upset, good for them good for them.

@Radical_EgoCom @benfell @anarchismhub Not even slightly mutually exclusive.

@bookstardust @youronlyone Yes, as long as your sticker is based on the public domain version of the character. You can make whatever changes you want that don't infringe on later, still-copyrighted versions of Disney's Mickey.

And tarnishment specifically means that you're using *a mark you made* that is *similar to* the famous mark in a way that harms the reputation of the famous mark. The art on the sticker is not a mark, so it can't be tarnishment.

(But I'm speaking from the American perspective, so the details might differ where you are.)

@youronlyone Moreover, Trademark law has its own fair use doctrine, so you're not categorically prohibited from using a trademark in your copyrighted expression, either.

But the main point is that trademark exists to prevent competitors from misleading consumers as to the source of the product. If it doesn't indicate source and doesn't use Disney's trademark info on the tag, it's not trademark infringement.

@youronlyone This is not true. Trademarks are more specific than this. They are the brand of the shirt; that is, they cover what the tag says to indicate the shirt's source. The image on the front of the shirt is copyrightable expression. You can't use a trademark to restrict the expressive use of a public domain character beyond the duration of a copyright.

@TruthSandwich @dung_eater @palestine @NoFlexZone @argumento @HistoPol @Lastresponder @Outpatientzero Just chiming in to say that no one Israeli politician (even Netanyahu) caused this. This would likely be happening even if he had lost the election because Israel is a colonial ethno-state and the logic of its existence requires it to maintain a genocidal position of dominance. https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/netanyahu-is-the-problem/

But, besides that, a prime motivator for the ever-increasing right-wing politics in Israel is literally that Israel has been allowing Israelis to force Palestinians out of their homes for years. Just taking over the property with either the covert or overt support of the IDF.. At a purely economic level, it is in the average Israeli person's interest to maintain this kind of violence because someone else's blood is the cheapest way to buy land. It's no surprise that it's trivial to find Israeli sources talking about Palestinians like they're not people. If the people stealing their land considered them people, they might have qualms about stealing the land.

Oh and, even outside of confrontations with Hamas, Israel is a world leader in weapons design. How do they test those designs? By using them on Palestinians. See, for example, the AI turrets designed to identify and shoot Palestinians with less-lethal weapons. See also their yeyars of using of fully-AI drones for war, including during the ongoing conflict. You want to talk about how they need to be better about reducing casualties? They could start with stopping firing self-piloting rockets into Gaza indiscriminately; does it SOUND reasonable that these rockets could reliably choose to target a Hamas militant instead of a civilian?

@TruthSandwich @dung_eater @palestine @NoFlexZone @argumento @HistoPol @Lastresponder @Outpatientzero You've really got to relax this assumption that any country would react this way. Not every country would use white phosphorous. Not every country would be using AI weaponry to absolve themselves of culpability for collateral killings. Not every country would be floating the idea of using nuclear weapons.

I don't even like countries (none of them have a right to exist and they should not), but I think a good number of them are a bit above indiscriminate violence against one of the most oppressed people in the world. For any reason. Like half of the Gazan population is literal children, mate. And the number of people killed by the IDF in the *West Bank* in 2023 TRIPLED the previous record set in *checks notes* 2022.

After a war has begun, fine. Anything's on the table because the idea that countries discipline their militaries is a myth. But before the war? It's definitely a Choice.

@TruthSandwich @dung_eater @palestine @NoFlexZone @argumento @HistoPol @Lastresponder @Outpatientzero Matey, Hamas is bad. I'm not sure anyone in this thread praised them or denied that. They're fundamentalists who impose upon Palestinians. They have centralized and held onto power within their organization for like 20-30 years. It's not common for anarchists to support them, and I certainly don't.

Neither collective punishment or ethnic cleansing are reasonable answers, and they wouldn't be reasonable for any other country either. Those alone are war crimes, if you want to get international.

However, this war isn't about revenge for those people. Those people are a pretext. If the Israelis were really interested in ending this conflict and seeking a mutual peace, there are all kinds of oppressive things that they could just stop doing. Respect the Gazan border. Stop treating Palestinians as second-class (non-)people. Even now, they could just stop the conflict and retreat, saying 20K was enough. If they REALLY want to do more violence, they might force an election for a new government or something.

But Israel chose to carry out an ethnic cleansing campaign (again!) because they're a colonial state founded with the goal of taking the land. If you can't even acknowledge that, then you don't know enough about this political situation to comment on it, to be frank.

@TruthSandwich @dung_eater @palestine @NoFlexZone @argumento @HistoPol @Lastresponder @Outpatientzero "This war has nothing to do with Palestinians except that they're doing the dying."

OK, you colonist fuck. You've lost any respect that I may have had left for you.

Lady Chatterton's Lover enters the #publicdomain today. If you want to make some porn with your friends, there's no time like the present!