Copyright/land consolidation/colonial charter companies (colonialism)/slave-based wealth - part of a broad shift to formal, state-backed property regimes & capital accumulation - were for owners/investors, not the public. See 1700s Statute of Ann & US Copyright
Why lean on ugly? Convenience?
I get existential threat from ai - see my pin
Can we get post-scarcity startrek future without #AI?
@adafruit@fosstodon.org Y'all were trying to sell pork sausages at a vegan convention. That's why people were mad at you. It had nothing to do with the fact that the person trying to sell the pork sausages was a woman.
@adafruit Cue the "look at all the ABUSE we're getting!" (Pearl clutch, gasping wrist across the forehead) "Looks like its time to close our Mastodon account and go someplace safer (whiter) where AI is welcome!"
@lea@adafruit Saw elsewhere that there was extensive drama with one of their top brass making a bunch of accounts to harass a trans woman on. If you're keen on looking into it go ahead, however I don't feel like digging through pig shit to find the posts and they've incriminated themselves as to which gang they're in enough here than now I don't really have to.
"Let us bring equality, justice, and peace for all. Not just the politicians and the world leaders, we all need to contribute. Me. You. It is our duty." ~ Malala Yousafzai (Nobel Prize Winner 2014)#quote #peace #winter #blooms
The story so far:In the beginning the Universe was created.This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.#HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot
@blog "I would expect that professional journalists at well-established newspapers to be able to call"There's a very, very, VERY good reason why some lazy journos don't make a phone call to check a story.It's because they might discover that actually they don't have a story.Then they'd have to start all over again, find another story, and do some actual WORK.