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@skyeeva.bsky.social

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skye @skyeeva.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

cw ableist slur matty healy is such a disgusting pathetic little man

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skye @skyeeva.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

no actually what's going on? if scientists can't explain this massive string of break ups then we have to turn to the astrology girls instead

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skye @skyeeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

its so crazy knowing this album is about zach bia

for some weird second string loser who's not worth mentioning

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skye @skyeeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

god she's so fucking real for this

Push away all the people who know me the best
But it's me who's been makin' the bed
I'm so tired of bein' the girl that I am
Every good thing has turned into somethin' I dread
And I'm playin' the victim so well in my head
But it's me who's been makin' the bed

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skye @skyeeva.bsky.social · 18/08/2023

the fact that basically every AI model has just been ignoring the fact that copyright exists for literally everything that isn't explicitly open access is insane. www.npr.org/2023/08/16/1194202562/n…

In other words, if a federal judge finds that OpenAI illegally copied the Times' articles to train its AI model, the court could order the company to destroy ChatGPT's dataset, forcing the company to recreate it using only work that it is authorized to use.

Federal copyright law also carries stiff financial penalties, with violators facing fines up to $150,000 for each infringement "committed willfully."

"If you're copying millions of works, you can see how that becomes a number that becomes potentially fatal for a company," said Daniel Gervais, the co-director of the intellectual property program at Vanderbilt University who studies generative AI. "Copyright law is a sword that's going to hang over the heads of AI companies for several years unless they figure out how to negotiate a solution."

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skye @skyeeva.bsky.social · 15/08/2023

it's incredible how every environmental issue leads back to oil and racism www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2…

However, King adds a crucial missing piece to this oft-told history; he explains why that land was so valuable. Before the widespread use of steel, redwood lumber was not just any old wood. It was the very bones of industrial capitalism, at the precise moment in the 19th century when the Golden State was undergoing a growth spurt. Redwood lumber was the principal building material for entire cities, including San Francisco; it provided the most durable ties for the nascent railroad industry; and, perhaps most importantly, it could be fashioned into rot-resistant pipelines and tanks to store and transport water and petroleum. Many of these applications (especially the pipelines) required a specific type of redwood timber—the kind that could be found only in the oldest trees. But strangely, King uncovers, many of the moguls who most needed that rare lumber were the same ones who were supposedly campaigning to “save” the redwoods.

The most startling section of King’s book concerns his research into the history of the venerable Save the Redwoods League—a conservation group founded in 1918 by, and for a long time largely managed by, wealthy industrialists and prominent eugenicists (the “racists” of the book’s subtitle). Digging through a newly accessible archive containing the league’s private documents, King reports that throughout their history, rather than attempting to preserve large tracts of wild land, as they purported to do, its early members mainly focused on buying up “beauty strips” of old-growth redwoods alongside roadways and railways, which hid the sight of the other trees being liquidated. They repeatedly brokered deals that paid logging

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