2024-09-03T16:50:32Z https://yabu.me Metalpoet :pentagram: https://yabu.me/npub1ts7qxg9mk688a2v4en35duxfyy2chr9gmpt5a7mmvm2jefzpt58q7jy4k9 https://media.metalhead.club/accounts/avatars/109/302/501/373/272/866/original/ba3ce97cd5eb5a3c.jpg https://media.metalhead.club/accounts/avatars/109/302/501/373/272/866/original/ba3ce97cd5eb5a3c.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz7swmv9l8d7rk7jr8zlxlkt4dmh5ny292dskmh5yf3x3kfwcqk4szypwrcqeqhwmgul4fjhxwx3hseys3tzuv4rv9wnhm0dnd2t9yg9wsuccllt0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqq2a40753nzm4k300prpp2rk8ua97nsurw284ll5ja2gz48jjrlg0m64wt'>nevent1q…64wt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You&#39;ve presented exactly zero evidence that basing your currency on wasted energy (literally on BURNING money from the government) is better than just USING the money from the government and doing something USEFUL with the energy !<br/><br/>In the end you would have the same value in money -AND the value created by putting that energy to productive use ! <br/> <br/>Okay... but looking at your username, you are very obviously a bot created to push the scam. <br/>So not worth further engagement. Just block city here we come. 2026-01-26T16:25:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvjenp9twjclpaul7ney0n6zu4vcwy36gafyzkc2l68eh6mlxjnuczypwrcqeqhwmgul4fjhxwx3hseys3tzuv4rv9wnhm0dnd2t9yg9wsuvl8juf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqqdzcj4l7q7ffptw5jy25m7fnds9eq2yrpjwre8fj86fpqx6r2kslnsdeq'>nevent1q…sdeq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>No ledger system you could ever invent will make it any less stupid to base a currency on electricity consumed.<br/><br/>Modern currencies are backed by the productive capability of the economy.<br/><br/>Bitcoin is backed on ANTI-production, on literally wasting energy and turning it into heat, without doing any actual useful work with it.<br/><br/>The energy to mine that bitcoin could have run a protein-folding simulation to help cure a disease, or powered a train to deliver a thousand people to do their jobs on time.<br/><br/>Instead you literally burned it up and say &#34;this backs my currency&#34;. 2026-01-26T16:00:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqql94hzydrg04ha66uz9n5a0gujr4vvsx7urqxc5j3kqtn6hlvuszypwrcqeqhwmgul4fjhxwx3hseys3tzuv4rv9wnhm0dnd2t9yg9wsug7h9um In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs25qhkflj0mzy9mck7remmwfp9zymy6gtrj2zh93rvwww3g2kdd9c9akarm'>nevent1q…karm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>they are goldbugs. The electricity is their alternative to the gold standard.<br/><br/>That the gold standard never ACTUALLY kept governments honest (oh so many government gold stashes were filled with painted lead historically, it happened over and over - and many had silver AND gold, and having bimetalism is no less inflationary than fiat currency) doesn&#39;t influence goldbug&#39;s belief that somehow gold-backed currency was magically better.<br/><br/>What&#39;s an even dumber thing than gold to back a currency ? Wasted energy. <br/><br/>It&#39;s a currency literally backed by ANTI-production ! Energy LOST to any USEFUL work. 2026-01-26T15:22:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvkn7n637tn6k0w9urhcgnhv5wdhaz42av47prytsxsrtl7f0farqzypwrcqeqhwmgul4fjhxwx3hseys3tzuv4rv9wnhm0dnd2t9yg9wsu2f0hvw <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1z7xtq2j2202tfpxl7cmfmac4n45gv6tuyuwjdcfu0gyc58jxek9qc6q5jf" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱</span> (<span class="italic">npub1z7x…q5jf</span>)</a></span> a year ago, after a many months painful househunt, I bought a house in Tilburg. Becoming a home-owner is quite tough in the Netherlands these days as I&#39;m sure you know.<br/><br/>There is one major downside: this must be the worst city in the Netherlands as far as car dependency goes. There is no tram service. Busses only run ever 30 minutes. Most streets lack cycling infrastructure. <br/><br/>The train to the Randstad is really nice, but it&#39;s also dependent on a single line so whenever there is a problem the delays run 3 to 5 hours.<br/><br/>I wonder if there is a video idea in discussing how the ugly stepchild of Dutch urbanism could catch up ? 2025-10-15T11:21:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr22m0xahf2vv59zp7w252uk3y4m0gf2s4emf7nyz4rflvd5tl3aszypwrcqeqhwmgul4fjhxwx3hseys3tzuv4rv9wnhm0dnd2t9yg9wsu8jy4sg What I learned about how hearing aid companies are violating right-to-repair and probably disability rights laws:<br/><br/><a href="https://ajmetalpoet.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/hearing-aid-companies-are-probably-violating-right-to-repair-laws-and-maybe-disability-laws-too/">https://ajmetalpoet.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/hearing-aid-companies-are-probably-violating-right-to-repair-laws-and-maybe-disability-laws-too/</a> <br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1fdrpydz4n2dpgpy5xhsa6rjg8ytggn82mt0addw6sf93272nhhnqsjlvhs" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Cory Doctorow</span> (<span class="italic">npub1fdr…lvhs</span>)</a></span> you are one of the people I am talking about the last paragraph. 2025-09-19T16:01:39Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy7reddr8mnhmds8ltcvggexxhvw9fxtte0uv0m7fwnky8kfdz5ygzypwrcqeqhwmgul4fjhxwx3hseys3tzuv4rv9wnhm0dnd2t9yg9wsuq8apwr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfpf3lrhm2een05ep8sdxzawdzvj7f5hrkfun3aacww32mpzpq7vsm3rzxg'>nevent1q…rzxg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>maybe because they self describe as a pop band?<br/><br/>However Madonna self described as a rock musician until around 1988.<br/><br/>Pop and Rock were not really considered different genres initially and now we retroactively differentiate them in a way that wouldn&#39;t have made sense at the time. <br/><br/>Hell U2 described themselves as pop ! And Bono criticised boy-band pop for being too sweet and having nothing to say. <br/><br/>Whether you call the Beatles pop or rock literally just depends on what decade you were born in.<br/><br/>So calling ABBA rock is valid in the period..<br/><br/>But today? Its only rock if the band plays instruments. 4 singers today is by definition pop. 2025-07-04T19:32:05Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9nm8aralq5ugjuavq93zzvfe46dp2eqcvv2n87yqnh3qv0vnwa4czypwrcqeqhwmgul4fjhxwx3hseys3tzuv4rv9wnhm0dnd2t9yg9wsumnakf0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqwmg2ruvsy5eu0cnywvy4rexlfdw0tj2pnck8mkgzzvp27gl5hwct3erec'>nevent1q…erec</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>does that mean I have to share my butt under the same licence I received it? 2025-07-04T19:25:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9x8kpm73y4lrkve8lt2gp9m9psl2e0dmd44y4nhezlkj3y43qtdgzypwrcqeqhwmgul4fjhxwx3hseys3tzuv4rv9wnhm0dnd2t9yg9wsuql32lc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8esw0eqjkasvt2gll9y3288r42umqc83ulm8tw9h4ywm8ve57dnsg2mwm8'>nevent1q…mwm8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>where would you even find one today? Maybe in the back room of a mom and pop electronics repair shop (if one still exists) or in a box in a thrift shop.<br/><br/>Or maybe eBay, targetting collectors. Tapes could be a problem too. Does anyone still make cassette tapes? 2025-05-07T21:09:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0duwlty2q0w6yg6s9yr6vz27l0hat8998m2x2gxn0ra8p6hc4ysczypwrcqeqhwmgul4fjhxwx3hseys3tzuv4rv9wnhm0dnd2t9yg9wsuyx8pun In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyncpt4duwc3y97rv63rlsyl8qyzxz4k639402xrajd9v0wg50zdq7ssw2g'>nevent1q…sw2g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>which I think adds yet another reason I support your view that we should treat the question of AI training as a labour rights discussion rather than a copyright discussion.<br/><br/>It&#39;s not at all clear to me that training AI is a copyrightable activity anymore than training humans is - or should be.<br/><br/>But labour doesn&#39;t have that question at all. Labour is first and foremost about human needs.<br/><br/>And making art is definitely a human need.<br/><br/>Making art is what made us who we are as a species. <br/>Most human endeavours we do to survive. But not art: we don&#39;t make art to survive, we survive to make art.<br/><br/>if we no longer make art, will we really exist at all ? 2024-11-18T09:52:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyncpt4duwc3y97rv63rlsyl8qyzxz4k639402xrajd9v0wg50zdqzypwrcqeqhwmgul4fjhxwx3hseys3tzuv4rv9wnhm0dnd2t9yg9wsuu2g84d In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0uyn6vrz77wj3tv4c87qtnsccpty3l0yg3zsjf78mq5q530accrgw8je03'>nevent1q…je03</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>so I fully expect them to argue that, for an AI to be trained on your book is no different than for a kid in a creative writing class to read your book and learn techniques they will later use in their own writing.<br/><br/>Now, of course, AI isn&#39;t actually intelligent. I don&#39;t know if true AI is possible but we both agree that we definitely haven&#39;t achieved anything close to it yet.<br/><br/>One could therefore argue that &#34;training AI&#39; is not like learning because it&#39;s not a real intelligence and isn&#39;t capable of real creative development on top of what it learned.<br/><br/>But do we really want governments deciding who or what is sentient ? What could go wrong, eh ? 2024-11-18T09:40:03Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0uyn6vrz77wj3tv4c87qtnsccpty3l0yg3zsjf78mq5q530accrgzypwrcqeqhwmgul4fjhxwx3hseys3tzuv4rv9wnhm0dnd2t9yg9wsu6hd6cs <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1fdrpydz4n2dpgpy5xhsa6rjg8ytggn82mt0addw6sf93272nhhnqsjlvhs" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Cory Doctorow</span> (<span class="italic">npub1fdr…lvhs</span>)</a></span> your latest collumn had me thinking. We use books to train inteligences now - it&#39;s one of their main uses and always has been. Nobody has ever suggested that, if you&#39;re going to use a book to teach people with, you need to pay for more than buying them a copy of the book.<br/><br/>I fully expect AI companies to raise that argument in their lawsuits: that using a book to learn is definitely not a copyrightable activity since they&#39;ve always been used that way. Indeed, one of the groups of people who MOST rely on books to learn: is future authors.<br/><br/>Great readers make great writers after all. <br/>As writers, we learn from other writers, by reading their books. 2024-11-18T09:36:41Z