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They simultaneously see COVID19 as a Chinese bioweapon AND as a mild flu, switching based on context

Orwellian doublethink, except every thought is wrong

Do-gooder derogation is a well studied phenomenon

It’s not only stuff like lack of compassion. It’s stuff like feeling that it challenges your worldviews, makes you feel the other person think their better for taking action you’ve chosen not to take, etc.

They’ll react like that even against those who just try to protect themselves with a mask, just seeing it even if they’re not being asked to change feels like a provocation.

It’s like how Trump and Co talked about “the elites” (various experts) while being backed by the actual elites (billionaires). He wanted you to be scared of people who try to help you. Unfortunately the propaganda worked

A fake bitcoin wallet

Does it match their prior behavior? Then it’s likely to be true.

Yeah it sounds just like existing IME dead reckoning navigation, but with different sensor types

Creative height is the bar for when something becomes protected (facts or obvious patterns aren’t protected), and functional features of a design aren’t protected. In general layouts are mostly functional (with exceptions) but button designs may mostly be expressive.

Also so many head photos taken from an angle right in front of the face or a bit higher, distorting the shoulders in ways you don’t notice but which matters when the algorithm tries to splice everything together into an averaged model

The main program is open, but the development tools are not

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It’s not a competition :/

Besides all the other stuff mentioned, you can invite them to stuff occasionally and prepay everything. Make it a family event if you want to.

Plenty of family subscription services too (including for some of those your listed), although distance limits might come into play for some family subscriptions

Degree of certainty is the difference

Because the far right Israeli politicians are buddies with far right Christian nationalists (who in turn make up many of the Nazi groups)

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197956512

https://www.juancole.com/2022/03/preferring-democratic-nationalism.html

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/right-wing-extremist-group-targets-pro-palestine-figures-in-france/3069385

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/10/college-campus-protests-far-right

They (in particular groups like AIPAC) prefer to reject the opinions of actual Jewish people outside Israel in favor of working with local extremist groups. Israeli far right jews frequently call other jews “antijewish” just for calling for peace. And Nazi types love to help them out. Groups like jews for peace gets ignored because nobody supports them publicly, and Nazi types gets protected by right wing politicians like Republicans.

The only thing they have in common is that all those groups are totalitarian authoritarians, with similar obsessions about Israel’s borders. You’d think those extremists would have a bit more survival instinct - but who am I kidding, if you have brains and common sense you don’t become that kind of extremist…

And as usual it’s a problem because conservatives funnel money to hate groups like this, in all countries

The police regularly dismiss unfounded reports without additional action, it’s how they’re supposed to respond. They’re not supposed to tell people “this thing you’re doing is neither illegal or harmful and the people who got upset had to search for it to find it, but they did get upset so you should stop”

Human involvement isn’t the rule though. Again, that which ends up in fixed form has to carry expression by a human. Otherwise everything from dirt stains to footprints you accidentally create would be under copyright.

The prompts aren’t generally considered enough because there’s too little control over the final expression, the same prompt can create wildly different outputs.

The rule is already human expression in fixed form, of creative height. So you have to demonstrate that you the human made notable contributions to the final output.

Using stuff like controlnet to manually influence how images are shaped by the ML engine might count, there’s some great examples here (involving custom Qr codes)

https://medium.com/@ssmaameri/ai-generated-qr-codes-with-controlnet-huggingface-and-google-colab-a99ffeee2210

It’s human expression that is protected by copyright. Creative height is the bar.

If you’ve done nothing but press a button there’s often no copyright. Photography involves things like selection of motive, framing, etc. If you just photograph a motive which itself doesn’t have copyright, then what you added through your choices is what you may have copyright of. Using another’s scan of a public domain book might be considered fair use, for example (not much extra expression added by just scanning)

Independent creation is indeed a thing in copyright law. Multiple people photographing the same sunset won’t infringe each other’s copyright, at least not if you don’t intentionally try to copy another’s expression, like actively replicating their framing and edits and more.

Casually getting yourself permabanned