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sqgl@sh.itjust.worksto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•I would still download a car if I could. 🚗English3·2 days agoIt is coming for artists to not own their own work. Taylor Swift bought back her own work, Michael Jackson bought Paul McCartney’s work from the record company (which annoyed Paul because he would have done it otherwise).
sqgl@sh.itjust.worksto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•I would still download a car if I could. 🚗English11·2 days agoDo I need to need to pay for the IP of your idea?
sqgl@sh.itjust.worksto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•I would still download a car if I could. 🚗English102·2 days agoPeople do it for clout or for love. Sure, the Hollywood blockbusters would cease being made but that might be an overall social good IMO.
I agree with Brian Eno who describes how, if we had a universal basic income, we would see more artists creating content just for the hell of it. He also explains how there is no “genius”, there is instead what he calls “scenius” where it is an entire artistic scene which breaks new ground but only one or two happen to go viral.
sqgl@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Samsung phones can survive twice as many charges as Pixel and iPhone, according to EU dataEnglish3·3 days agoI don’t see that menu option. I do see Settings -> Battery but it does not count cycles.
Pixel 4a Android 14
sqgl@sh.itjust.workstoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•The great millennial garbage gyreEnglish2·6 days agoBeing a Lemmy person isn’t a great point of connection but it would be nice to see how they interact with other users in other Lemmy communities.
sqgl@sh.itjust.workstoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•The great millennial garbage gyreEnglish16·6 days agoSocial media is raising expectations to unrealistic levels. As if Hollywood wasn’t bad enough for past generations.
THX-1138 (George Lucas’ first movie).
Am surprised it is popular 54 years on.
They were leaked, not guessed.
sqgl@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Next-Gen Brain Implants Offer New Hope for Depression: AI and real-time neural feedback could transform treatmentsEnglish1·6 days agoLobotomy is a bit extreme. Try Trepanning first.
Trepanning was sometimes performed on people who were behaving in a manner that was considered abnormal. In some ancient societies it was believed this released the evil spirits that were to blame.
sqgl@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Next-Gen Brain Implants Offer New Hope for Depression: AI and real-time neural feedback could transform treatmentsEnglish1·6 days agoDepressed ever since puberty when I realised that Hollywood isn’t real life.
sqgl@sh.itjust.worksto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Netanyahu Says It’s Antisemitic For Israeli Soldiers To Describe Their Own AtrocitiesEnglish1·8 days agodeleted by creator
sqgl@sh.itjust.worksto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Netanyahu Says It’s Antisemitic For Israeli Soldiers To Describe Their Own AtrocitiesEnglish1·8 days agodeleted by creator
sqgl@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•China New Internet ID System a Threat to Online Expression: Netizens will require IDs to go on the internet. For now this is voluntary, but there are signs it will not remain that way for long.English9·9 days agoIn Australia it was proposed by the Labor government and it was the Greens who passed the Digital ID bill. (Labor needed either the Greens or Conservatives on board).
It was the conservatives who opposed it (similar to when Conservatives opposed the Australia Card in the 80’s).
Go figure.
sqgl@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and all other publishers of AmericaEnglish122·9 days agoUnless readers want street cred reading only books from publishers who observe the request. There will be a market for “authentic” publishers along with the more liberal slop-friendly ones.
sqgl@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•We need to stop pretending AI is intelligentEnglish4·9 days agoEdit: Huh. Lemmy automatically changed my three fulls stops to the Unicode character.
Not on my phone it didn’t. It looks as you intended it.
sqgl@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts publicEnglish2·9 days agoShouldn’t the burner be the whiter one?
sqgl@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Teamviewer Terminates Perpetual LicensesEnglish15·11 days agoI have been flagged three times by teamviewer. Appealing requires writing an email and waiting weeks. This last time my use was consistent and only ever connected to my home computer due about 10 minutes tops.
They just don’t want free users who don’t upgrade to a monthly subscription but will never say that.
sqgl@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four YearsEnglish6·12 days agoSometimes I want to buy juice that doesn’t have a shitload of sugar in it
You haven’t researched as well as you think you have. Even freshly squeezed juice is unhealthy. You need the pulp too in order to slow the sugar metabolism, in which case you may as well just eat fruit.
Check Robert Lustig re sugars.
None of those things directly threatened the power of an oligarch.