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  • My central and autonomic nervous systems. Mine are shite and have been since I was wee. Even a clean reinstall of the original operating system would likely help a ton, but if the open source community could go through the files and find the all the bugs, who knows what I could make of my life. At the very least I'd be able to work again.

  • My new hobby is watching Asian drama series over the internet. The cliches and conventions are new to me and I like how the series are longer so they can do more than is typical in shorter UK and European ones. They also tend to cover a much broader range of the emotional spectrum and with greater depth. A lot of drama addicts tend to go racing on to the next one but when I stumble into one which puts me in a better head space, I'll let it linger. So from that, my second current hobby is learning the words (in Mandarin, Korean or Thai) to some of the theme songs. My different approach leaves me feeling like a bit of an outsider in the fan circles but it's what's working best for me.

    This has been a gey dreich not-summer for gardening here so that feels like more of a albatross than a hobby right now. I listen to opera, traditional musics from around the world and try to read a fair bit too, but just getting through the day takes up so much of my energy it doesn't happen as much as I'd like. I used to do a lot more things and be a lot more interesting. I miss that.

    Good luck with all of yours :)

  • Or more like, we need MANY initiatives which will reach many different people. Relying on governments or council-based organisations (I used to work in community education centres in the UK, so first hand experience here) will reach some. Religious communities will reach others. Same with voluntary organisations and charities. Our societies are in such a mess we need ALL of it.

    You see the need, so use the essay as inspiration for trying to find ways to reach more people rather than slapping off a cheap and tired dig. That's just one more bit of damage and we need the opposite right now.

  • Chilling effect? Chilling effect? Seriously?

    Because an explicit graphic novel which invented childhood pasts of sexual abuse and exploitation for three famous fairy tale girls was delayed in its UK publication by two years?

    Good lord.

  • Erm, well, yes. That should happen too. Tends to in a good community with a range of views.

    I asked a single question on a single facet of the current internet. For my own information, because I've found reading a range of articles about Chat GPT useful for understanding and beginning to form my own opinion on them. And rather than add any helpful information, you've gone down this tangent? 🤷‍♂️

    Your "In fact" rebuttal, not needed btw, is technically true. I'm more interested in the current actual state of things with a particular bot, not a hypothetical.

    Human-written posts differ in tone from the summary-bot. The bot "writes" more in the tone of an article, which tends to mean a tone of authority. That affects how the "facts" resurface in my memory. Maybe it works differently for the bright young things who've grown up with the internet. IDK 🤷‍♂️

    Of course reading the articles is important. I don't have the spoons to read every article I come across though. I know I don't have much of a life, but still 😂 Scanning comments is a bit more like human interaction and I find that helpful in deciding whether or not to click through to the article.

    And before anyone jumps in with "Then the summary bot will be really helpful to you", please note that my question was about the accuracy of the bot and if anyone was gathering information. I will make my own observations over time but would also like to learn from others'.

  • So do it then. Using discussion amongst religious people re how their communities might better serve all involved to take a swing at belief in the Divine is sloppy and lazy thinking. It might provide you and your kin with a moment of "Yeah, that's telling them" catharsis but surely you can come up with a better and healthier way to nourish your own community.

  • From the article you linked to originally:

    "As a result, the hospital is still entitled to royalties for uses of Peter Pan in the country. However, these rights have several key limitations: "Royalties Only: The provision only allows the hospital to collect royalties, not to grant permission for uses. This came up in 2007 when the pornographic graphic novel Lost Girls was delayed in the UK until 2008, after the copyright Barrie’s work expired."

    From your "this is not the case" wiki entry: "On 23 June 2006, officials for Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) —which was given the copyright to Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie in 1929—asserted that Moore would need their permission to publish the book in the UK and Europe..... [Top Shelf] delayed publication of Lost Girls in the UK until after the copyright lapsed at the end of 2007."

    So two of YOUR sources note the 2007 change in status. Until the end of 2007, GOSH held copyright control in the UK. They no longer do. Barrie died in 1937, 2007 was 70 years after his death. Normal UK copyright law.

    Are you saying that ALL royalties for derivative works/use of IP are an abridgement of free speech in your view? I'm not keen on that redefinition of the term.

  • Is anyone checking the AI "summariser" bot for accuracy? I'd rather not get misleading ideas in my head from a poor summary.

  • This is also an inaccurate and misleading framing.

    It's not censorship or a free speech issue. Neither GOSH nor the government control who can create derivative works. It's just that a percentage of book or ticket sales have to be paid as royalties to GOSH.

    That's it.

  • Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

    Yes, the rich should pay more, a hell of a lot more. I'll go further and say that in a perfect world they shouldn't be allowed to become so wealthy in the first place because the only way to do that is through exploitation of collective resources and other people's labour.

    Yes, Great Ormond Street should be fully funded via the government, as should the rest of the NHS. Yes, it should be stable and not subjected to party politics, disaster capitalism or grift. We're a very long way from any of that though and we are talking about children's lives. And even in a perfect world, more money will still be of use.

    Children need new stories but they don't need new Peter Pan stories specifically. Moreover, writers and other creators who want to write new Peter Pan stories can still do so. They just have to pay a percentage of the income from the use of this particular IP in the UK as royalties.

    I'm not keen on your framing at all.

  • Key point - rights to certain royalties were given by the author to the leading children's hospital in the UK. This makes it very different indeed. Helping fund Great Ormond Street Hospital is the far greater good.

  • My tablet, in part because I didn't expect to take to ebooks so well (yay dark mode!) and because I don't want more devices (cost to the environment + need to keep charged etc). An e-ink I can also listen to podcasts on might be my ideal. I use a laptop for social media and general internetting, which means minimal distraction problem on the tablet.

  • I would really love to get one or two small press subscriptions again. I had one from Fitzcarraldo for a bit and it was such a delight when a new one, completely unknown to me, arrived in the post.

    But I had to be rehoused into pensioner housing last year and it's a tiny cottage. For every thing which comes in, something has to go.

    Books are hope. And we all need more of that.

  • Have you seen his article on "brain fog" as a disorder of executive function too? I send that to health care workers in hopes they'll understand my needs better. That's the aspect I need the most help with as I age and one the health care system isn't set up to handle.

    Wishing you an ok enough day.

  • This is so much of my life 💔

    Ed Long's work on long covid and ME/CFS is crucially important. He explains these things better than I'm literally able to.

    Wears your masks everyone. Covid isn't over and every infection is playing Russian roulette on having this for your life. Unless you lived with it or are very close to someone who does, you don't understand what you're risking. It's incomprehensible how debilitating this is. And mind-numbingly tedious and boring.

  • imma feelin old. i remember well when many of these originals came out 😂

  • Mahalia ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

  • A bit more history: Gloria Jones' version of Tainted Love was big on the Northern Soul underground dance scene in the industrial cities in the north of England in the late 60s/early 70s. Marc Almond knew it from there. Northern Soul DJs sought out overlooked gems and gave new life to a particular style of older songs from northern industrial cities in the US ❤️

  • According to Yonit Levi on her podcast Unholy: Two Jews on the News, the supreme court could rule this law unconstitutional. I don't know what to think, I'm not in a position to have any say, I can only hope and support from afar.

  • UK infrastructure, especially our shite housing is not set up for us to become Scandinavian.

    The Scottish government is moving to require Passivhaus standards in housing construction - beginning 2025. And we're progressive on this for the UK. Meanwhile the local council is slowing putting ceiling insulation in its council-owned housing. We're at the basic ceiling insulation level here. Whenever the Gulf Stream goes, it's going to be incomprehensibly painful.