word bug @wordbug.bsky.social · 02/10/2026mooom don't call it "my basement", we had agreed we would call my home "the underground Land of Chud" 050
word bug @wordbug.bsky.social · 21/09/2026really helpful essay, even tho i believe in a spectrum of variably shitty skynets we should be concerned about. when an untrustworthy industry is telling you it's destroying the world, don't let yourself become negatively polarized into assuming you're safe. 031
word bug @wordbug.bsky.social · 21/09/2026i think he's talking about recent inroads in math research powered in large part by ai not so much about number crunching as about text conveying sound logic being produced very quickly, afaik 010
word bug @wordbug.bsky.social · 12/09/2026alignment is easy, you just need to remember deleting evil.rb 060
word bug @wordbug.bsky.social · 08/09/2026easy to see why trump wants academia replaced with big tech, given how incredulous the openai person was when faced with a basic commitment to the truth 010
Reposted by word bugOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"Besides being deeply cynical, Chomsky’s supposed pragmatism has not stood the test of time...We may have manufactured consent once upon a time, but America has long since transitioned to a post-manufacturing economy." Very harsh but worthwhile read. strangematters.coop/noam-chomsky...strangematters.coopChomsky After Epstein - Strange MattersNoam Chomsky – friend of Epstein, defender of dictatorships – was no model anti-imperialist. Can we do better? 561578357
Reposted by word bugGeoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I apologize for nothing and only wish I had gone even harder. If someone wants to argue God isn't non-binary, they can tell me (in detail) what they think his penis looks like and how big they think it is. 1119212
word bug @wordbug.bsky.social · 24/08/2026that assumes the group of americans who understood the question is very close to 100% 000
Reposted by word bugsallyposts/mall ghost @sallypoastes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Turns out there's a limit to what excel will convert into a date 1422
word bug @wordbug.bsky.social · 21/08/2026as a game mechanic it has potential, but it would need some tweaking and an opt out option 040
word bug @wordbug.bsky.social · 20/08/2026what percentage of cases of people pirating something do you think result on charitable donations to the creators? not saying it doesn't happen, but "most people"? disco elysium was an expensive game to make... $2M or something? they would have needed to go Viral. 110
word bug @wordbug.bsky.social · 20/08/2026i support artists having a better position in their negotiations over their IP, which they would if the world was more equitable, but it's fine by me that they can choose to sell it for whatever reason. if that means they can take a bad deal, then oh well. (and japanese copyright goes too far, yes) 000
word bug @wordbug.bsky.social · 20/08/2026pirating has a non-negligible cost. netflix isn't successful bc it's the world's favorite charity, but bc it's convenient and legal. and disco elysium also wouldn't exist without copyright; it got funded bc the creators made a deal over their intellectual property. 100
word bug @wordbug.bsky.social · 20/08/2026(maybe i'm missing something! maybe copyright takes lives! honestly if this is the case i'd be very interested to know. i do think 100 years is too long, the mouse shouldn't have done that) 000
word bug @wordbug.bsky.social · 20/08/2026well i think the positives outweigh the negatives. without copyright, the aspiring writer's business model would be... pure charity? so many writers i read simply wouldn't bother. i'm annoyed that i can't sell my pokemon fanfiction, but that's a sacrifice i'm willing to make. 200
word bug @wordbug.bsky.social · 20/08/2026as a human that cares, that's why i also care about laws that encourage good behavior. like fraud laws! it's not like platforms can't prevent fraud without the government's pressure. people have always understood that killing is bad, but anti-killing laws reduce killing all the same. 100
word bug @wordbug.bsky.social · 20/08/2026and it gets a hell of a lot harder to support the author when platforms are not legally obligated to exclude copycats of recent works. because in capitalism only the buyer and the seller matter, and if the writer is no longer the seller amazon would be dumb to protect them. 110
word bug @wordbug.bsky.social · 20/08/2026what's stopping copycats from making one account for book? what's stopping people from buying the first google result without checking if some social media discourse has already flagged the account as a copycat? 000
word bug @wordbug.bsky.social · 20/08/2026again, fraud law cannot be the only protection of writers bc it's not even meant to protect writers. what if i write in the description "i copied this lol, 50% off tho" and people buy it? it's not only not false advertising, it's the realest advertising. 100
word bug @wordbug.bsky.social · 20/08/2026then look at the market as a whole. given the efficiency of copying books over writing them, one copycat could list >100 books for every book a writer writes, so there doesn't need to be many copycats for a marketplace to be saturated with editions whose sale doesn't help the writers at all. 100
word bug @wordbug.bsky.social · 20/08/2026how do you expect that premise to be established? the book just has a cover with its name and the name of its writer on it. it's not false advertising if it's true, regardless of whether the seller is the writer, a publisher, a reseller or a copycat. 100
word bug @wordbug.bsky.social · 20/08/2026pasting my book is not "someone else's artistic success", and whoever reads their edition is not going to read mine. and fraud law is meant to protect the consumer, while what i'm trying to protect is the worker. copyright is not a great way of doing this, but it's the only one that applies here. 100
word bug @wordbug.bsky.social · 20/08/2026and this goes beyond purchasable books, too. i read fiction that is accessible for free, and it sometimes gets stolen too! with patreon links stripped of course. recently i saw an "i wrote this btw" in mid-chapter meant to counter this exact thing. (3/3) 000
word bug @wordbug.bsky.social · 20/08/2026my problem is living writers being crowded out of the market by their own copycats, as copying a book is much easier than writing it. every dollar that goes to a copycat is not going to the writers. the readers shouldn't be burdened with figuring out which is which. (2/3) 100
word bug @wordbug.bsky.social · 20/08/2026your hypothetical doesn't work, which we know because copyright doesn't apply to every work. an "epilogue: i wrote this btw" wouldn't (and shouldn't) prevent people from freely reproducing romeo and juliet today. (1/3) 200
word bug @wordbug.bsky.social · 20/08/2026well, if copyright law wasn't in play then people wouldn't have to impersonate or misattribute in order to publicly sell someone else's work as soon as it gets published. and misattribution *is* regulated by copyright law. 100
word bug @wordbug.bsky.social · 20/08/2026people buying the copy aren't going to buy the original. often they'll think they're buying the original, as the copycat will either impersonate or misattribute. 100
word bug @wordbug.bsky.social · 20/08/2026for already very successful novelists, sure. a staggering amount of authors self-publish ebooks with amazon as a way to break into the industry. copycats undermine their chances of ever making a living out of it. 100
word bug @wordbug.bsky.social · 20/08/2026very kind of it to offer an "erase personality" button 12415
word bug @wordbug.bsky.social · 19/08/2026viewers and views can be tracked independently. it makes sense that creators will want the raw data, while the public will want a curated count that is at least somewhat resistant to viewbotting. 000
