Jerry C’s canon rock, which now seems to only exist via a secondary source upload 19 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by8oyJztzwo

It is, and the Real McKenzies are awesome. See also Flogging Molly.

A mix of digital (bandcamp/7digital/pulled from CD - 1,132 albums currently) and physical media like records and CDs. Most of it from my ipod or from my computer which is hooked up to my hifi.

Favorite this month? Lots of Dropkick Murphys, Anciients, and Illumina A.D.

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I’ve added the link below the quote, which may help in the future.

I like that take.

https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/12/disney-says-google-ai-infringes-copyright-on-a-massive-scale/

I wonder if this being right on the heels is related to that.

I’d love that to be the outcome, tbh.

I appreciate the suggestion. It quite literally hadn’t even occurred to me, so I’ll be sure to do that for future posts intended for wide audiences.

Oh that’s wild! On fedia there definitely is, as in attached screenshot. I guess they decided that since nobody on reddit ever read the articles anyhow, why implement it :D

I posted the link to Ars, a pretty solid tech news source, but thank you for the direct link to Open AI’s announcement as well. The more sources the merrier!

Pretty much. In effect, they just paid 1 billion dollars to shovel their IP into the public domain woodchipper.

That’s really out there, did they even check the output first?

I don’t have, but have been considering getting. I hear there’s masked bands of kidnappers breaking into homes, so maybe it’s time?

Net connected everything. The cracks are already showing but it’s going to get worse, and then it’ll swing back.

The study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12730 for those not interested in a cracked pop-sci article.

Table 5, I think, is what the pop-sci takeaway is coming from, which is quite an oversimplification. The idea that “150 people” is what humans can understand is, IMO, a misinterpretation of the study. The study refers to multi-tiered groups ranging from ‘Band’ (~45.5) to ‘Tribe’ (~1350.4) based on the degrees of intelligence, cooperation, etc of the members.

If it’s even relevant, it supports the points I raised that communism is a theory that works well only in small select groups, though I would argue it’s probably correlation and not causation in this case. At least until we have evidence of other primates practicing political theory.

Humans are inherently evil. Communism is a beautiful thought experiment that works really well in small select groups, but fails to tolerate the inherent evils that befall it when it begins to scale.

I love it as an idea. I’d love for it to work. Unfortunately, it’s just yet another experiment that falls victim to the “imagine a spherical cow” kind of thinking.

It’s inspired many good ideas, though, that do work. Marx had many good points.

In my case, I simply ended up buying a subscription to Brittanica, which I started using instead. I just don’t trust wikipedia in this era. https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/04/30/our-new-ai-strategy-puts-wikipedias-humans-first/

If an ‘information source’ is planning to start using AI, I’m going to go with one that has some accountability.

How is the color? I’ve been told it makes the screen less sharp, is it noticeable? I kinda want one, been using a tablet for comics lately and it’s nowhere near as good at night.

In fact just a few minutes ago I got another bundle from Humble that I loaded onto my kobo with no issue

I have owned 5 kobos over time, and just love them.