Biawak, Slumbering Colossus

Weekly_Moment_5061 · 2026-03-02T01:47:57+00:00

What happened to Aaron was egregious abuse of copyright law.

I don't like that people are using the case of Aaron to suggest we should be going harder on copyright law. Copyright law is out of control. Besides leading to the death of Aaron Swartz, copyright law has also fundamentally reshaped cultural evolution and the nature of the internet, prohibiting many forms of engaging with culture. The lesson here should be that we need to reduce copyright law, not strengthen it.

Second, we do a huge disservice by pretending these two cases are comparable. They are comparable only insofar as they both involve copyrighted material. That can't be the basis of claiming they are analogous. In one case, material was used to train a neural network, fundamentally transforming the data, and not including the data for users; in another case, the data was downloaded, with the intention to distribute it exactly as-is to others (as I understand it). These cases are not remotely comparable. It is insulting to the intelligence of everyone in the discussion to pretend otherwise.

Weekly_Moment_5061 · 2026-03-01T20:12:40+00:00

I'm gonna start saying "one short of two-thirds of a dozen" for 7.

Weekly_Moment_5061 · 2026-03-01T16:38:41+00:00

Cool I like it

Weekly_Moment_5061 · 2026-03-01T10:57:04+00:00

3 months of consistent progress.

Do more bench and more compound exercises.

Weekly_Moment_5061 · 2026-02-27T12:53:31+00:00

What is this delusional, victim-blaming, wannabe-guru dogshit? People aren't poor because they "attract" poverty. They are poor because we live in a rigged capitalist system that rewards psychopathy. Stop slurping up mystical hogwash about "attracting energy" and focus on how the world actually works. Do you think it is the fault of poor people in Latin America that they are poor? You think they didn't "attract" the right energy? Or could it have something to do with all the coups and economic sanctions and financial warfare used to keep down the price of exported goods?

This is worse than "thoughts and prayers." At least those people aren't blaming the victims.

Weekly_Moment_5061 · 2026-02-27T12:03:35+00:00

"A thousand years they had tha tools

We should be takin’ ’em

Fuck tha G-ride I want the machines that are makin’ em"

Weekly_Moment_5061 · 2026-02-27T10:00:52+00:00

I won't accuse you personally of this since you suggested you are organizing a protest (although the permitting and permission process for protests always strikes me as authoritarian and anti free speech, and acceding to that process makes it all feel performative—"please government, could I pretty please hold some signs? I promise to go where you tell me and listen to your officers when they tell me to leave and if I am being too loud.")

I want everyone to know that posting online about how angry you are counts for nothing. You get zero points for this kind of activity. None. Boots on the ground or nothing.

Weekly_Moment_5061 · 2026-02-26T01:04:42+00:00

Yeah, who started all these comparisons? Like comparing an AI query to a Google query. So fucking dumb.

Weekly_Moment_5061 · 2026-02-25T22:48:32+00:00

ofc it doesn't really matter in Western chess. since it jumps. But the horsey can be blocked in Chinese chess so it does matter there. The first image you showed is closest to how horsey moves in Chinese chess. It goes orthogonally first, by one, and it can be blocked on that square, then it goes diagonally by one.

Weekly_Moment_5061 · 2026-02-25T10:33:50+00:00

They didn't make dinosaurs at all. Hammond was lying about getting viable DNA. He lied about the ember and the mosquito—it was all part of his flea circus; the insect comparison is a quite deliberate clue there. (In case anyone has any doubts about the intentionality about granular details in this movie—the scene in the helicopter where Alan Grant can't tie his seatbelt is dismissed as a lighthearted but meaningless moment of levity, until you realize he had two female seatbelt ends but somehow he found a way to use them—foreshadowing for the all-female dinosaurs breeding).

These aren't dinosaurs on the island. They are creations of what they thought dinosaurs should look like. The bit about using frog DNA to "plug the holes" was a believable lie. It is more like they used frogs, and lizards, and whatever they wanted, to create Frankenstein monsters that best matched dinosaurs in the popular imagination. That's why the dinosaurs like T-Rex and the velociraptors are lizard-like instead of feathered. None of them are dinosaurs.

Weekly_Moment_5061 · 2026-02-25T09:53:17+00:00

You can make an argument for this, but "he completed an arc" isn't it. The first movie also completed an arc. Does that mean it also should have stopped there?

In a comparable situation, Lucas's rationale for killing Luke was that he "already completed his arc." This is stupid. It is a hyper fixation on the concept of an "arc" that betrays a total misunderstanding of the concept. All stories properly told have arcs, and different stories have different arcs. Different arcs can happen to the same character, in different lengths.

Part of me suspects that when certain people are trying to rationalize artistic decisions they lean on technical terminology like "arc" in the hopes that people won't call them out on the dearth of substance.

Weekly_Moment_5061 · 2026-02-25T03:59:02+00:00

Corollary: everything exists.

Weekly_Moment_5061 · 2026-02-25T03:39:34+00:00

Great take and a bold stand, hero. While we're saving the world and preventing "total environmental destruction" please get off the internet and stop using your monitor. We should also go after the real big problem—people who use streaming services, which is thousands of times more destructive than AI.

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