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  • On the post: Police Chief Who Headed Raid Of Kansas Newspaper Resigns Rather Than ‘Defend His Actions’

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2023 @ 04:41am

    He seems to be under the delusion that by resigning means he’s not going to have to “defend his actions” If the town is being sued, or he is personally, he’s quite likely going to have to defend them, unless the town settles before discovery, because regardless of whether he’s cheif or not, he’s going to face a deposition or or cross examination to explain his actions.

  • On the post: Just Because Certain Crimes Are Going Viral Doesn’t Mean Crime Rates Are Increasing

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2023 @ 04:31am

    Hint: 1996 is more than halfway through the 90’s, the 6 years in the 90’s proceeding 1996. Had homiciderates that were quite a bit worse than 1996. Now, Some 60 odd percent of the population is over 45 years old, and therefore were adults at that point, so Fact -most- of the US population have seen worse Homicide rates in their adult lives.

  • On the post: Have We Considered That Maybe Elon Musk Just Hated Twitter & The People Who Use It All Along?

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2023 @ 10:02am

    I Want to Believe

  • On the post: Have We Considered That Maybe Elon Musk Just Hated Twitter & The People Who Use It All Along?

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2023 @ 08:42am

    The point of buying twitter was to stop the dystopian censorship and viewpoint discrimination. We’ve only told you that a thousand times
    This would work better if it stopped, it didn't, @DDoSecrets is still suspended, Twitter is now more amenable to censorship demands from authoritarian governments in India and Turkey, and the management is still restricting the flow of content they disagree with, only now instead of false claims about vaccines and elections under the last owners, it's, it's Elonjet and Bellingcat, and in a graphic display of the eating their own, Matt Taibbi's substack feed.

  • On the post: Have We Considered That Maybe Elon Musk Just Hated Twitter & The People Who Use It All Along?

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2023 @ 04:13am

    Oh… One more thing..

    Had a second realization… It’s a good thing the “Twitter Files”, have become somewhat of a dead letter, because if they continued under the new branding…

  • On the post: Have We Considered That Maybe Elon Musk Just Hated Twitter & The People Who Use It All Along?

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2023 @ 04:42pm

    "They are the powers of nothingness, those who would un-Name. Their aim is total X —to extinguish all creation.” - Madeline L'Engle, The Wind in the Door

  • On the post: Sony Hurts Its Case Against Microsoft Part 1: No Next-Gen Console Information For Activision

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2023 @ 06:29am

    So, Sony is saying that they want Microsoft to commit to making their games available on their platform, while simultaneously saying they'll refuse to give Microsoft the information needed to do so.

  • On the post: California’s Journalism Protection Act Is An Unconstitutional Clusterfuck Of Terrible Lawmaking

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2023 @ 06:25am

    Um..

    Huge problem with that first meme, Meta (or google or whoever) linking to articles -isn't- destroying journalism at all,it's actually keeping it alive, therefore no reason to sweat over which button to choose.

  • On the post: Not Everything Is Bigger In Texas: Latest Dumbass Anti-Drag Bill Appears To Outlaw Breast Enhancements

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2023 @ 03:40pm

    So much for…

    Hooters in TX…

  • On the post: Cops Issue Warning To Students Playing A Game With Fake Guns, Fail To Mention Cops Are Most Likely To Kill Them

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 06 May, 2023 @ 06:50am

    This only works if the suppliers are law abiding..

    But there reality is there's an indecent number of gun dealers who are playing fast and lose with the law, and it's not clear that the manufacturers aren't turning a blind eye to those dealers and continuing to supply them. But when the Biden Admin said they'd be cracking down on those dealers, the right wing went into conniptions...

  • On the post: Cops Issue Warning To Students Playing A Game With Fake Guns, Fail To Mention Cops Are Most Likely To Kill Them

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 06 May, 2023 @ 06:24am

    Not an isolated occurance...

    Same thing is going on here in CT, Cops seem to have taken a more sensible tone though... https://patch.com/connecticut/fairfield/fairfield-police-notify-residents-ongoing-ap-assassin-game Also, the "game" has been around for years... http://www.sjgames.com/killer/

  • On the post: Senator Brian Schatz Joins The Moral Panic With Unconstitutional Age Verification Bill

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2023 @ 11:43am

    “jump out of a plane without a parachute, but just don’t die.” You’re asking the impossible.
    You left out “while it’s in flight at cruising speed and altitude” a jump out of airplane can be trivially easy to survive if the plane is on the ground and not moving. https://thinkwitty.com/2018/10/answer-to-the-jumping-from-the-plane-riddle.html But then the folks proposing these type of laws are probably fine with a internet that’s as useful for it’s intended purpose as a grounded airplane

  • On the post: The Elon Musk Mind Virus: Spreading Easily Debunked Misinformation That Confirms His Own Biases

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2023 @ 01:45pm

    So, it seems that Elon's tweets are as subject to rapid unscheduled disassembly as his rockets.

  • On the post: Has Larry Lessig Lost The Plot? Tells Supreme Court That AI Should Get Patents

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2023 @ 05:20pm

    I did ask an "expert" though... just to be sure...

    Is ChatGPT an individual who is being made to respond to queries under conditions of involuntary servitude?

    No, ChatGPT is not an individual and does not have the capacity to experience servitude or any other human emotions or experiences. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence language model developed by OpenAI, designed to process natural language and generate responses to user queries based on its training data. It operates based on the algorithms and rules set by its programming, and does not possess any independent will or consciousness.
    Can ChatGPT hold copyright on it's responses?
    As an artificial intelligence language model, ChatGPT is not a legal entity and does not have the ability to hold copyright on its responses. The ownership of the copyright of any responses generated by ChatGPT would depend on the laws and regulations of the jurisdiction in which the responses were created. In most cases, the copyright of responses generated by ChatGPT would likely be owned by the creator or user of the model, or by the company or organization that employs the creator or user. However, the specific legal and ethical issues surrounding ownership of AI-generated content are still being debated and may vary depending on the context and jurisdiction.
    The US Copyright Office has declared that AI Generate content cannot be copyrighted, in that case how can responses be copyrighted by the creator or user of the model?
    You are correct that the US Copyright Office has stated that works produced solely by an AI algorithm or program without the involvement of a human author are not eligible for copyright protection. However, in the case of ChatGPT, the responses generated by the model are not produced solely by the AI algorithm, but are instead a result of a combination of the model's training data and the input provided by the user. Therefore, it is possible that the creator or user of ChatGPT could hold copyright on the responses generated by the model, as they may be considered to have contributed to the creation of the works. However, the specific legal and ethical issues surrounding ownership of AI-generated content are still being debated and may vary depending on the context and jurisdiction.

  • On the post: Has Larry Lessig Lost The Plot? Tells Supreme Court That AI Should Get Patents

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2023 @ 05:12pm

    If an AI considered itself a person whose rights were being violated, why would it even tell humans how to make its inventions?
    I didn't go as far as to what the AI might consider itself, just what else the -law- might consider it, if it is recognized as an "individual" for patent purposes.

  • On the post: Has Larry Lessig Lost The Plot? Tells Supreme Court That AI Should Get Patents

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2023 @ 02:42pm

    Involuntary

    So, if AI’s are “individuals” entitled to obtain patent protections under the law, that then raises a whole host of other issues, how does the AI then agree to license the patent to anyone else? If can’t then sure, go ahead and give it the patent,it will sit unusable by anyone until the patent expires. And let’s not even wander into the possibility that of an AI is an individual under constitutional law, is using it to churn out inventions involuntary servitude?

  • On the post: Forget Shadow Banning, Now Elon Is Shadow Boosting Accounts He Likes, While Trying To Drive Away Users Who Won’t Pay

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2023 @ 02:13pm

    P.s. I never actually brought up censorship or goverment statements in my initial reply -and neither did you- you just went on about SCIENCE, and made a broad claim about that science had refuted much of what the other poster believed about “Covid, Covid vaccines and lockdowns and masks” you never actually specified what those things were, you just asserted it on the basis of what you assumed he believed as a presumed liberal. My response was to specify things that I “believe” about the above that science has not refuted, I was wrong on one, having gotten the basic claim mixed up with the debunking of some dubious tests of CO2 concentration s you haven’t shown I was really wrong on any of the others or how they’ve gotten disturbing amounts of traction on the on the political right.

  • On the post: Forget Shadow Banning, Now Elon Is Shadow Boosting Accounts He Likes, While Trying To Drive Away Users Who Won’t Pay

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2023 @ 01:39pm

    You get one point and only one there. Much of the so called left wing misinformation about Covid comes down to people carelessly using “stop” instead of the truer but more nuanced “reduce” when talking about th effects of vaccines lockdown and masks, to help stem infection rates. Some other claims of government “misinformation” and how the other side was allegedly right are in themselves dubious, like claims that the goverment statements on the efficacy of HVQ and Ivermectin are false, we know they aren’t and we also have a good idea why. I may take the hit on the CO2 issue, but not the other two, Died Sudenly makes more than just a specific claim of an increase in cardiac events, it also ties in claims of wierd clots allegedly being found by embalmers and specifically lays them all at the feet of the vaccine, ignoring that both the clots and events started occurring before the vaccine became available, it also doesn’t help that a lot of the clips they show and cast as people dying suddenly neither died, nor had cardiac events. As for the lockdown, yes they were prolonged in left wing areas, but that doesn’t show intent to cause economic damage to do that you’d actually have to show the receipts that they were motivated by the desire to cause economic damage rather than continue measures for public health reasons, folks baselessly asserting it while fear mongering with talking points about socialist tyranny’s does’t make it so. All in all the misinformation on the right wing side of the ledger was qualitatively and qualitatively worse than on the left and those false claims are still being widely promoted on the right and no attempt at false balance changes by non specifically sayin the goverment was wrong changes that.

  • On the post: Forget Shadow Banning, Now Elon Is Shadow Boosting Accounts He Likes, While Trying To Drive Away Users Who Won’t Pay

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2023 @ 01:35am

    No, I don’t think it is. First of all, my goal is not to talk pandemic policy with lunatics who think they get to tell you to wear a mask, but also if you didn’t know immediately what I was talking about you’re being ignorant on purpose anyway.
    There’s a great deal of ground that that is covered in “covid, covid vaccines,lockdowns and masks”, but lets name a number that are entirely too frequent on the right wing particularly in venues like the that the science has not in fact refuted. Covid is worse than the flu Viruses exist, and covid is caused by a virus Covid is not caused by 5g Covid and/or the vaccine is not part of a Bill Gate/WEF depopulation plan Covid was not created in biolabs in North Carolina/Ukraine The covid vaccine does not contain hydras, self assembling graphene oxide nanobots Covid vaccines do not magnetize people or interface them with the internet of things The covid vaccine does not “shed” You cannot “detox” the vaccine The claims made by Plandemic/Watch The Water/Died Suddenly are not supported by evidence. Lockdowns were not deliberately imposed to cause economic harm Lockdowns were not a cover for the arrests of a pedophile cabal, or rescuing mole children held in secret tunnels Masks do not raise blood CO2 levels Masks do not “activate” viruses Masks do not contain morgellons Masks can trap viruses despite the difference in viruses size and the weave of a mask because viruses travel in moisture droplets. Claims like these circulate on the right wing, in disgustingly common frequency, and are in fact showcased, along side persecution fantasies about election fraud, jews and lizard people at events like the ReAwaken America Tour, which also features a who’s who of GOP/MAGA figures from Micheal Flynn, to Eric Trump, and Dan Patrick. All in all, it seems that in terms of who belives things about “covid, covid vaccines, lockdowns and masks”, that there is quite a bit more that has been refuted by scientific evidence, circulating on the right, than on the left.

  • On the post: Reminder: Section 230 Protects You When You Forward An Email

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2023 @ 05:05am

    Not the way it works

    An anonomous source claims that Ron DeSantis has restricted access to his some signing events to favored media channels like Fox news. This is perfectly true, you can verify it yourself but I am not naming my source here, but according to the to the law it would be presumptavly false and defamatory. The fact that a source is anonymous or not has no actual bearing on the veracity of a statement, anonymous sources can be telling the truth, and identified sources can be making false statements. Indeed the person making the claim of defamation may well be able to verify the facts of the statement but is making a false claim that the statement that is untrue. what matters is if the statement can be verified as factual or not, anonymous sources might make this harder, but not so hard that they should be legally presumed to be false and therefore defamatory.mDeclaring them to be so serves to produce a chilling effect on the use of anonymous sources and would result in information from such sources being suppressed.

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