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He was arrested in September 2022 on allegations of bribing an executive related to the Tokyo Olympics in exchange for KADOKAWA receiving preferential sponsorship treatment.

He was later charged by prosecutors and stepped down as chairman of the company on October 4, 2022. He denies the charge. KADOKAWA’s current CEO, Takeshi Natsuno, confirmed as recently as March 2025 that Tsuguhiko is barred from meeting with him and is not involved in the company (Toyo Keizai). Despite Tsuguhiko’s lack of involvement with KADOKAWA, which is active in conventional and short anime while also “actively investing” in AI for production, his words underscore a growing trend.

From the article.

reason based robots

What's that?

This is mandated by UK law. If you created a node so that UK users can bypass this, you would be doing something illegal. You'd probably get defederated.

A GPU?

Hmm. There's only 1 thing I know about top gear. That presenter guy, the old one, what's his name? His father-in-law was awarded a Victoria's Cross for actions during the Battle of Arnhem; the famous a bridge too far. 7 VCs were awarded in that battle, but he was the only one who made it out alive.

I wonder if that ever became awkward. Like guy comes home and says:

• I did this super dangerous stunt for TV today!
• Oh, you did something dangerous, son? Do tell.

smh

That guy should be happy that no AI will ever be trained on their work. It's ok to contribute to progress, but only if it's progress the cool kids approve of. Know your place, nerds.

The most striking image yet to emerge from the fall of Srebrenica comes in a BBC film to be screened next week. It shows the indicted Serb war criminal General Radko Mladic presenting the commander of the UN peacekeeping force at Srebrenica, Colonel Ton Karremans of Holland, with gifts wrapped in Christmas paper. Mladic was evidently in a expansive mood and he had good reason to be: at that very moment his troops were preparing to massacre the 4,000 men and boys who the UN had handed over to him.

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/nov/17/features11

Oh yes. If you're a Dutch soldier you even get free drinks, and it only costs your honor.

Happy 30th anniversary. Cheers to the Dutch Army.

I never understood why Starbucks became big in the US, but I always assumed it was something like that.

I didn't need that mental image. But since you have installed it in my head, I am honor-bound to upvote.

sigh

Now that you mention it, I wonder what that says about the shift of sexual morals. The original French tale was written in 1740.

You asserted that models are trained on private data. You were unable to back up the assertion.

I am not interested in psychological or rhetorical tricks. I see no value in it. If you're willing to have a rational, fact-based discussion, science-style, then I am willing to assume good faith until evidence to the contrary is apparent.

Yes. It's easier said than done. I often find myself thinking, I could do more to make my country better.

But I am just too irritated by the selfishness and privilege on display. Just relocating to a nicer country is an option that 99% do not have. You need to be young and well-educated, or be relatively wealthy. Otherwise, a rich country will simply not have you.

At the same time, those who can just pick up and leave are the same people who are most able to change things for the better. Americans are not risking their lives by speaking up. The rule of law is mostly being followed. Democratically elected representatives hold power.

Freedom and life can be taken from us, but never honor. -Otto Wels, 1933, in the final session of the elected german parliament.

You're ignorant of history and that's a problem.

There were fewer than 500,000 jewish Germans in 1933. That's less than 1% of the population.

The millions who were murdered were mainly citizens of Poland and the Soviet Union. If the nations of Western Europe had prepared themselves better for war and fought with more tenacity, millions would have lived.

The absolute disaster that the Wehrmacht inflicted on the Soviet Union is largely the result of Stalin's defects. Dictators are bad; an obvious lesson. A less obvious lesson comes from the Generalplan Ost. The Nazis wanted to murder much of the population east of Germany; Poles, Czecks, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Russians, and others. Many tens of millions of individual human beings were to be killed, mainly through hunger. Then the territory was to be settled by Germans, That's the whole Lebensraum thing.

Where should all these people have gone?

That's why the Ukrainians today don't have a choice. Putin wants to eradicate the ukrainian ethnicity. We know that. We don't know how many people he is willing to murder; to physically eradicate. Would you take the chance?

In 1939, immediately before WW2 and the holocaust, the MS St. Louis sailed with 900 jewish refugees from Nazi Germany to Cuba. But Cuba refused to take them in, as it had just hardened its laws. The ship sailed to Canada and the USA, but they, too, refused. Something, something, race.

Eventually, the UK, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands took pity on these people and gave them shelter. Obviously, many of those on the continent were murdered in the Holocaust.

Where do you think 65 million US Latinos will go? They live in the US and they will die in the US. One way or the other.

Just a recent example. Of course they’re vague about what “public” means, but if you really believe they aren’t using all the photos, you’d be pretty naive in my eyes.

Ok. You can't give an actual example, so you use emotional blackmail to discourage disagreement. Noted.

If that’s what you want to call conservative go ahead, although it’s not what I’d typically associate with that word.

It's called Chesterton's fence.

Not sure where you see the problem?

To cut right to the chase. The problem is your intellectual dishonesty. First, it's privacy, then it's intellectual property, then privacy again. You try the spiel about sticking it to the corporations. When that is debunked, inequality is fine. Now it's about "intellectual workers", as if any of the higher-ups would share the loot.

You don't give a fuck about logic or reason. You're just throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks. You're working through a list of talking points without ever engaging your brain. A third world guy will do that for a dollar an hour.

And don't tell me that you're doing this for free. Doing free labor for billionaires so that billionaires can get some free money from the rest of us is the stupidest thing I ever heard of. Ahh. But I have heard of it.

Cut the histrionics. Americans aren't being massacred. They are only asked to go to some minor inconvenience to uphold their country's democracy.

The distance between Chicago and Las Vegas is greater than between Berlin and the Russian front line in Ukraine. Are Germans supposed to feel pity for you poor darlings?

Non-Muricans, what's the thought on accepting US refugees?

Stand and fight, you cowards.

The murder of political enemies by the Nazis is usually not considered part of the Holocaust.

The Nazis created concentration camps to detain people immediately after they assumed power. The death camps in which millions were gassed were its own thing within that system.

The detainment concentration camps were for leftists and democrats. Then also people from the margins of society. The so-called "work-shy"; meaning people who had for whatever reason troubles functioning. It would have included Hitler if he hadn't succeeded with that politics grift. Gay people, of course. Jehovah's Witnesses because they were conscientious objectors. Of course, people were tortured and maltreated in these camps, too. But how bad it was very much depended on the status of the prisoner.

The first Holocaust killings are usually said to be the hospital patients who were victims of the Aktion T4 in September 1939 when the war started. Disabled people who needed care were murdered to free up resources for the war effort. One method was locking them in an idling truck and suffocating them with exhaust fumes.

I companies are training models on photos and texts posted only for your friends

Can you give me an example or two of such a model?

And yes of course I believe in intellectual property and copyright, if that was your question. They’re there for a reason,

Thanks for bringing us back there. That's the classical conservative argument. It's not wrong.

One thing you said earlier was: You can have limits on inequality by implementing rules.

So, how do such reforms stack up against your conservatism?

stealing.

Stealing is something you do with property. It's not something you do with privacy.

So what do you mean by "personal privacy"? Most would consider stuff intentionally made public to be explicitly not private. What actually is the problem?