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  • Seems like it might be a bit more nuanced than that. From the article:

    There is a federal law, C-3, which deems it an offence for anyone who “intentionally obstructs or interferes with another person’s lawful access to a place at which health services are provided by a health professional.” As far as I saw while I was passing the hospital, the entranceway was clear and no one was stopped from entering or exiting the building. Other than vague mentions, I found no specific evidence that people were prevented from entering or exiting the building.

    Update, Feb. 15, 11:06 a.m.: It has come to our attention that the University Ave. entrance to Mount Sinai Hospital closes at 6 p.m. daily. The protest passed by the hospital around 8 p.m., two hours after that entrance had closed. See the bottom of the map below for the University Ave. entrance hours, accessed today from the Mount Sinai Hospital website.

    So this may not have broken those laws. There was apparently an incident where the crowd blocked the car of a doctor that was trying to drive home, so perhaps some more care needed to be taken, but I think everyone's just really on edge right now and looking for things to get angry about.

  • No, I said things about AI and open source. I raised open source as part of my counter to your argument that this is "concentrating wealth."

    Here, I'll explain in detail what's going on.

    In response to an article about Reddit licensing your content to AI trainers, captwolf said "it's time to purge your account." Presumably as a way to stop that from happening. I asked why that was a bad thing, specifically how it harmed us in any meaningful way. You came in at that point and suggested:

    • It's a scheme to further concentrate wealth
    • It harms everyone but the 0.1%.

    I raised open source as a counter to the "wealth concentration" point, because open source does the opposite - it spreads the wealth to any who want it. It puts these resources into the commons.

    I also pointed out that I personally benefit from AI tools, so it does the opposite of harming me. As I am not part of the 0.1%, that's a counter to your second point.

  • I was directly addressing all of the points you raised.

    You said it concentrates wealth, but open source does the opposite of that - it allows small companies and individuals to earn money using the technology without having to pay for its use.

    You said it "harms everyone but the 0.1%." I am benefited by it, not harmed, and I am very much not part of the 0.1%.

  • My original question remains unanswered. "It may help someone I don't like because they are richer than me" is a pretty weak concept of "harm."

  • I draw plenty of benefit from AI tools. There are open source models that anyone can run.

  • Why? How does it harm you in any meaningful way?

  • If you're talking about Glaze or Nightshade, those techniques are not proven to be particularly effective. Lots of people want them to work but that doesn't make it so.

  • This is just another gripe about how Microsoft is putting AI into everything. If it's really just about the position of a button (which apparently can be changed in the settings if you still want it there) it's even more petty. Certainly not worth posting about on a general technology community.

  • They're not going to force the Gazans, no. They're just going to systematically flatten Gaza and shoot people and if the Gazans choose to flee to Egypt, well, that's out of Israel's hands.

  • I must admit, "Linux becomes the refuge of luddites" was never on any bingo card I could have conceived of for 202X.

  • I've seen the occasional controversy about restoring medieval castles. This one comes to mind as a particularly unusual and controversial case - the remains of the original castle were so badly degraded that there wasn't really much left, so the restorers built obviously modern-looking walls that had the original castle's fragments embedded in them held up in the correct places and shapes. Sort of like a reconstructed dinosaur skeleton where a bunch of the bones were missing.

    Putting the original limestone cladding back on the pyramids would be interesting, it would probably "look fake" because the original pyramid cladding was extremely smooth and clean much like a modern concrete structure would appear. People don't expect it to look that way. Sort of like how a lot of the old marble statues and architecture from ancient Greece and Rome used to be brightly painted, but those wore off and now everyone thinks of pure white stone when they imagine what an ancient sculpture from there is supposed to look like.

    Edit: In violation of the norms of social media, I read the article. The plan with the pyramid wasn't even as drastic as I thought, apparently for the pyramid that they were considering doing this to the original cladding is still available. It's just fallen off and is lying around the pyramid's base.

  • I guess people want them to be fashionably ruined.

    Frankly, I think re-cladding the pyramids would be great for keeping clues around, provided they don't touch the existing stones while putting new ones on. That'll stop erosion from digging deeper into the existing structure.

  • Where did politics enter into this? The appeal of angry mob membership is universal.

  • I'd say it's not even really their place to be "examining the whole economic system." Each individual is just a regular Joe who put in their time at a job over their life and would now like to reap the rewards of their effort in retirement. It bothers me when people insult other people simply for being caught up in a systemic issue that's beyond their control.

    The solutions for systemic problems need to be systemic as well. If we as a society don't want to see housing move over to an exclusively rent-based system then we'll need to address it through things like zoning changes and other legal reforms. When people oppose those things by voting against them, then we can start to apportion blame around.

  • And another 75% are from people who just like being part of an angry mob.

  • Plenty of for-profit companies use open protocols and don't harm them in the slightest.

    Almost any website you visit, for example.

  • We believe in open protocols and hate walled gardens!

    Except our walled garden!

  • Indeed fuck that, but I don't see what it has to do with what I said.

  • The tools I want to see integrated into Firefox already exist. I've used them. It's just a matter of putting them together with it.