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Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.

13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.

The law didn't change.

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…You don't get to open up philosophically loaded words like "consciousness" and "sentience" and "souls" without actually thinking through what they mean if they apply; it's not all shiny fun happy times of "gee whiz bang! honest to gosh AI!" There's real implications to that label, and I know that…

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A squirrel on a fence eating a chip. Statue of Mary in the background.

Urban wildlife photo of the year entry. And yes. That is the Blessed Mary behind. Catholic primary school playground.

A picture of freshly made spicebag heaped on a plate. The potato wedges are mixed in with red onion and long strips of red pepper, sprinkled with spring onion, all coated in McDonnell’s spicebag mix. Surrounding the plate is a bike water bottle from Brixton Cycles (RIP), a can of Newbarn’s Stout, and a glass of the same stout. In the background are piles of books, including Graham Walmsley’s Stealing Cthulhu.

P.S. the spice was mighty last night

Yep. And they fought hard. If they get second, it’s all good.

Don’t see Ireland getting over it. But sure.

I needed the wheezing deep chest laugh this video gave me.

Of course expecting England to beat France in the final week is likely asking too much.

The chaos and uncertainty continues. One point between the top three and England well off the pace is a glorious thing to see.

AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

Low paid workers in the global south are using AI translation to generate Wikipedia articles that, surprising no one, include errors and hallucinations.

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Definitely tomorrow’s job.

@ubiquity75.xyz pertinent to your recent bog reading.

Feck it, I need to move my account over now that I am registered. Digital sovereignty and portability, yo.

I'm with the cool kids now on @eurosky.social

I'm now able to leap tall buildings and my eyes are now laser beams, with the ability to destroy fascists with a grumpy look.

Get you eurosky.social handle before they all go

@justrena.bsky.social

There is some weird fucking horrible truth in the thought that a lot of the time UN forces comprise of post-colonial countries, trying to tamp down the fires of conflict caused by past and current empire. And getting shot for our troubles.

Thought suddenly occurred to me. 5/6 years back, National Museum of Ireland had a massive exhibition about Ireland at war, which was basically history from 1450 onwards.

It finished on Irish troops serving in UNIFIL and other UN operations. And we are not the only post-colonial country to do that.

Same as it ever was.

We are a small enough country that most know someone who has served in UNIFIL. Hope the Ghanaian lads were not seriously injured.

I have been rewatching true detective series one and three episodes in I suddenly think: ‘this is all Aaron Nola country what with the bayou and everything. Baton Rouge ain’t that far’

Maybe we as Phillies fans should be a bit more scared of Nola’s unpredictability.

Oh wow! Go raibh míle maith agat.

100%. Loved his short stories.

I hope you are holding up. Herself said things have been tough for you on the health front recently.

Sophie Oluwole, the trailblazing Nigerian woman who redefined philosophy Oluwole faced a double challenge: a woman in philosophy and an African, confronting both sexism and Eurocentric bias.

By placing Nigeria’s Yoruba thought in dialogue with the famed western philosophers like Socrates, she challenged the assumption that African philosophy was merely folklore theconversation.com/sophie-oluwo...

I also saw it as that. Or one of those Louise Bourgeois massive spider horror sculptures. Either way, deffo not food.

No hookland post is a bad hookland post, but this is an absolute crrracker. 100%.

Mná na Léinte Gorma | Player | Irish Television Channel, Súil Eile Over 12,000 Irish women joined the Blueshirts in 1930s Ireland. Mná na Léinte Gorma uncovers their hidden story-of power, protest, and politics-in a time of turmoil. Their choices shaped a nation-and ...

Over 12,000 Irish women joined the Blueshirts in 1930s Ireland. Mná na Léinte Gorma uncovers their hidden story-of power, protest, and politics-in a time of turmoil.

I was pleased to contribute to this important documentary which you can now watch back on the TG4 Player:

shorturl.at/DSNPU

Great project; great Department: great acronym.

How to have a perfect Philly Day, according to Jill Scott

It starts with a long walk, some museum viewing, and ends with an old school Stacey "Flygirrl" Wilson party. Plus, some very specific advice on ordering cheesesteak and shrimp fries.

This is really sad. A good friend of mine was supported by The Cyclist's Alliance last year and their grant allowed her to do a full season of racing on the continent. Support them if you can!