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  • On the post: Elon’s (Good?) New DMCA Policy Appears To Be The Result Of Lots Of Confusion & Misunderstanding

    James Burkhardt ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2023 @ 08:06am

    I've read this a few times, and while the language implies a criticism of Content ID, the meaning of the arguement seems to imply the criticism is actually of 3rd party copyright enforcement, with the blame for the issue going to the content creators who should start a full time job looking for infringement, which makes reading it a mess. Consider establishing a thesis, and know the differences between Content ID and DMCA to help improve readability.

  • On the post: Elon’s (Good?) New DMCA Policy Appears To Be The Result Of Lots Of Confusion & Misunderstanding

    James Burkhardt ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2023 @ 07:58am

    Yes. That point was made in the article.

  • On the post: What Transparency? Twitter Seems To Have Forgotten About Transparency Reporting

    James Burkhardt ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2023 @ 08:34am

    Twitter could not immediately be reached for comment, because Twitter does not have any media relations team. I prefer that caveat at the end, because it really underscores how little transparency exists

  • On the post: Next Week, The Supreme Court Could Destroy Everything Good About The Internet

    James Burkhardt ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2023 @ 11:40am

    Mike gets rid of the comments, I still read articles. I pay for access to blogs without comment sections. Comment access isnt what pays the bills at Techdirt.

  • On the post: Stifling Free Speech Is Now A Core Plank Of The Republican Platform

    James Burkhardt ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2023 @ 07:45am

    The consitution is explicitly a document that changes. Reading the constitution with words only meaning what they meant at the time of reading is non-sensical. Simply put, various amendments stop making sense because they words they use can't actually connect to the same words elsewhere in the document they are intended to. Originalism is a spaghetti that concerns itself with justifying traditionalism. Originalism is self defeating. Under originalism, the supreme court does not have the power of judicial review to make the rulings originalism makes.

  • On the post: Engineers Gave Elon’s Tweets Special Treatment Because Elon Freaked Out That A Joe Biden Tweet Got More Engagement

    James Burkhardt ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2023 @ 12:22pm

    As the AC's source notes right after claiming its about racism (not islamiphobia as AC claims), the article notes that police blaming victims is a huge issue with actually investigating these rapes, as is the cops allowing witness intimidation.

  • On the post: Engineers Gave Elon’s Tweets Special Treatment Because Elon Freaked Out That A Joe Biden Tweet Got More Engagement

    James Burkhardt ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2023 @ 12:19pm

    YOu heard it here first folks. Police are children who can't do their job. The pakistani mafia control the streets of England now. We arrested them, they intimidated our witnesses, and we rolled over to the mob bosses who threaten a 'woke mob'. All because we can't call the group Muslim? Thats where your theory breaks down. The actual issue is the long history of British anti-pakistani sentiment, and the long history of 'pakistani migrant' criminals being "not pakistani" and often "British citizens"

  • On the post: Engineers Gave Elon’s Tweets Special Treatment Because Elon Freaked Out That A Joe Biden Tweet Got More Engagement

    James Burkhardt ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2023 @ 10:27am

    "All cops are bad" is generally considered "woke". Im not sure "police are ignoring a child grooming ring" is the anti-woke evidence you claim it is.

  • On the post: Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone

    James Burkhardt ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2023 @ 12:05pm

    In normal enterprise software development, these issues would have been caught in testing. He’s an idiot pushing half baked code to production, and all your defense does is confirm, he does not know how to handle development of software.

  • On the post: Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone

    James Burkhardt ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2023 @ 10:23am

    I muted Elon in 2022. Today I got a full feed of Elon. For the 10 seconds it took for me to mute him again. They did more than just fill people's For You pages.

  • On the post: The Microsoft Acquisition Of Activision Blizzard Gets Major UK Pushback

    James Burkhardt ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2023 @ 11:17am

    Thats a narrow market view. Due to Microsoft committing to simultaneous PC/Xbox releases, microsoft is moving games and more importantly Microtransactions, which is where the money is at. If the competition is market share, sure Sony wins if the market is 'consoles', but if the market is the pc/console market, Microsoft is at least in the running. And of course, we don't need to worry about Call of Duty because the ABK merger is actually about getting a dominant position in the mobile market... Tl:DR, MS doesn't need to sell consoles to sell games, and its the games that bring in the revenue, not the console.

  • On the post: Elon Musk Throws A Shit Fit And Fires Engineer Because Not Enough People Are Viewing His Personal Tweets

    James Burkhardt ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2023 @ 01:12pm

    Some of the most successful CEOs rode market trends into big numbers and left the company before the bills came due. Lot of them came out of the dot com boom, where they escaped the consequences of the crash by selling early. Kevin O'Leary comes to mind. Once you have enough power coupons, you can make bets until one pays off. Casually chuck a billion dollars at a break even company.

  • On the post: Elon Musk Throws A Shit Fit And Fires Engineer Because Not Enough People Are Viewing His Personal Tweets

    James Burkhardt ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2023 @ 12:52pm

    What? I could see funny, but how did this get an insightful? Social media 'engagement' as a metric has been repeatedly discussed online and specifically here at techdirt for years. The word engage and its variations like engagement have half a dozen definitions, some with multiple parts. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/engagement This has got to a weird article to hop on after having missed the pop culture train on everything from ST:TNG to Facebook to be that confused by the word.

  • On the post: New Details Show Leak Of Supreme Court’s Roe Reversal Could Have Come From Pretty Much Anyone

    James Burkhardt ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2023 @ 12:15pm

    ON the one hand, I am disheartened to hear that for all the bluster about the importance of secrecy, secret documents were handled with about as much secrecy as the eponymous scarlet letter. On the other hand, I am absolutely crushed that prior assumptions that "not being able to track down a culprit" probably meant it was a SCOTUS judge are also torpedoed, because that was based on trusting prior SCOTUS claims about secrecy.

  • On the post: Amid More Game Shutdowns Occurring, John Carmack Weighs In On Preservation

    James Burkhardt ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2023 @ 09:16am

    Those features are optional. At least they were in previous From Software games. Bloodborne is the example I will use (I think its the only souls-game made by From Software I've played for any real length of time). I had to proactively choose, when I loaded it up, to use online features. Maybe that was done away with in DS3, and my limited scope of play is impacting my impression, but there is nothing about Elden Ring, from what I've read, that requires an online connection if you are uninterested in the multiplayer component.

  • On the post: Latest Twitter Problem: Its API Has Been Down And No Info Has Been Provided

    James Burkhardt ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2023 @ 11:10am

    But its not the release of real-time location data, which was your claim.

  • On the post: Charter’s $7 Billion Penalty For Murdering An Elderly Customer Reduced To $262 Million

    James Burkhardt ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2023 @ 11:03am

    Youve shat on a leftist. Just so you know. Look up my history. I understand we don't have a party aligned with global political left in Congress. But we do have political activists on the left. The Bay Area where I live is a battleground ideologically. And globally center-left (social democrat) ideas are discussed locally in politics more extensively than at the federal or state level. My state and local governments have put up several different bills/proposals to address the issues of a criminal background check in employment. While many policies being discussed involve decriminalization, various proposals to deal fix the background check itself have come to the fore. Some outright banned asking about it unless it was a position of public trust (requiring a DOJ fingerprint Background check). Others try to balance concerns on liability by changing various aspects of the check. This is a concept under discussion. I guess this never happened: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/21/california-alameda-county-landlords-background-checks#:~:text=A%20California%20county%20has%20become,discrimination%20against%20formerly%20incarcerated%20people. The unhinged AC refrenced this law (Ban the Box) in particular: https://www.littler.com/publication-press/publication/upcoming-changes-californias-law-regarding-criminal-background-checks Maybe go through my history. These proposals aren't coming from center right democrats. They are filtering up from globally left wing activists to local candidates who might not themselves be leftist, but are courting the support of the anti-carceral, anti-police left that undergirds dem support in the bay area.

  • On the post: Elon Musk Is Basically Zero Percent Of The Way Towards His Goal In Signing Up Users To Twitter Blue

    James Burkhardt ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2023 @ 10:30am

    Its amamzing how many Muskrats are trying to spin this as a positive. Them: He's making 2.3 Million a year! Me: He isn't paying a $44B purchase with $30M/Y. T: He can take it public once its fixed! M: Hes lost $2B/yr in revenue, and contract renewals are not expected to trend upwards. Hes not attacting new investment from the public off the back of $300 million/year, let alone $30 Million/year.

  • On the post: Pretty Much Every Expert Agrees That Elon Has Made Twitter’s Child Sexual Abuse Problem Worse

    James Burkhardt ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2023 @ 10:18am

    IU can't read the NY Times article, but Ars Technica did some reporting which dives into the numbers that concern experts. While suspensions have risen, reports to NCMEC have fallen. This is because Twitter has stopped sending tips on sellers and distributors to third parties, allowing the sellers and distributors to continue to abuse and exploit the children, rather than allow investigators to try to track down the sources of this material to prevent the abuse from continuing. We still see known CSAM (as in, matches the hash of previously identified CSAM stored in public databases that exist to allow you to search for known CSAM without viewing the material) being reported and taking over a week to be removed. In every criticism of pre-musk twitter and CSAM, ignoring reports is like the #1 example of why twitter was bad at CSAM. If the NYTimes can put together a bot to find matches to known CSAM hashes, surely Musk's super team could have already done so for the #1 priority of the company.

  • On the post: Pretty Much Every Expert Agrees That Elon Has Made Twitter’s Child Sexual Abuse Problem Worse

    James Burkhardt ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2023 @ 09:48am

    Elon Musk is Miles Bron from Glass Onion. Hes an idiot who lucked into success and everyone, including musk, thinks hes playing 4d Chess, and the reality is he's an idiot working with the most basic ideas taking credit for things his staff came up with or he stole from 50's Sci-fi.

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