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by saaaaaam 3d ago
How weird. I reported this exact ad earlier today.
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by saaaaaam 7d ago
It’s West Wing coming true again. “Give me $200 and it’s done!” https://youtu.be/QMlp8BeBJgg
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by saaaaaam 7d ago
I didn’t say it was a perfect system. I often say, professionally, that the infrastructure around music rights and licensing is insanely complicated - and as you have personally experienced it can be very frustrating, confusing and dispirit
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by saaaaaam 7d ago
I don’t really know what you mean. But I’ll try to answer what I think you’re asking. YouTube is a directly negotiated licence - ie it doesn’t fall under any of the statutory blankets, and is licensed territory by territory. Most rights hol
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by saaaaaam 7d ago
I’m sure I read something about NEW SIRI somewhere. Siri isn’t just falling short, it seems to be getting actively and progressively more useless. My HomePod speakers take about 10 seconds to respond now and often get things wrong.
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by saaaaaam 7d ago
Does anyone use their phone “like an actual phone” anymore, as in held to their ear? Most people I see out and about are either using face time, or inexplicably speaking in speakerphone and holding the flat, face up, with the bottom of the
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by saaaaaam 7d ago
I know absolutely and very specifically what I’m talking about here, yes.
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by saaaaaam 7d ago
Knowledge diffusion was definitely crippled in the UK after 1710, and significantly restricted innovation. Most of the things that were invented after 1710 were pretty trivial. Things like the spinning jenny, the steam engine, water powered
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by saaaaaam 7d ago
Yes - sorry, I should have been more precise and said "in a licensed venue". One additional point, in response to your comment: public performance licences are for events or venues, not DJs. So if you are DJing in club, you are co
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by saaaaaam 7d ago
So actually, your remixed music you could play live, as a DJ. But to SELL it you’d need the permission of the songwriters and record labels, and probably agree some sort of split on the royalties. But is that actually so unreasonable, given
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by saaaaaam 7d ago
But what does “available on the market” mean? Let’s say I own the copyright to something of cultural significance. I make it “available on the market” but at a very high price. Or are you saying that the price would be enforced?
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by saaaaaam 8d ago
1. “Curated” implies human oversight but this is written by AI 2. “Work during internet blackout” implies “can communicate with others if the internet is blacked out” and yet your AI has a whole section about tools which “evade filtering on
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by saaaaaam 8d ago
Sorry, it was satire which doesn’t always come through in the written word, I wasn’t being serious :)
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by saaaaaam 9d ago
> I personally believe there are organizations in a Mr. Burns-type equilibrium[2]. Maybe, like Mr Burns, they are in that perfect but fragile state of dysfunction which somehow makes them deliver, for some definition of "deliver&quo
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by saaaaaam 9d ago
A bunch of things like Nuclear submarines (which I think still run on Windows NT?) and gas turbines and things I think. And then, presumably, their downstream supply chains and integration tooling and yadda yadda. Every time I am in a railw
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by saaaaaam 9d ago
But did they get any better at putting out fires by committee? Or are there still groups of Microsoft employees saying “I saw a fire extinguisher in Bob’s office the other day. He was using it as footrest. I told Magda to warn him about the
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by saaaaaam 9d ago
It’s from an email chain published as part of a 2007 lawsuit - so it looks like he did indeed say it.
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by saaaaaam 9d ago
But it didn’t. And Microsoft is worth $3.5 trillion. So maybe actually everyone should take a leaf out of the Microsoft book. When something is on fire, pass the buck to other people and stand around saying “that thing is on fire… wouldn’t
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by saaaaaam 11d ago
I guess the difference is the founding of the EU didn’t require multiple genocidal slaughters. Oh, wait.
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by saaaaaam 11d ago
Oh sweetheart. The real looney Eurocrats like us don’t even leave Strasbourg. Brussels is filthy.
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by saaaaaam 11d ago
OK! Your generalisation definitely beats mine.
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by saaaaaam 11d ago
I think you maybe missed my footnotes. Even if you did/did not, vernacular evolves. So at the time that you fervently hope the EU comes to its (clearly deserved, Mr Putin) end, I imagine people will be able to adapt their wrong speak a
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by saaaaaam 11d ago
In Europe people generally use “Europe” and the EU interchangeably. I’m not sure many people would include Russia in Europe in normal speech, unless they were a geographer in which case Russia is partly “Europe” in some cases I think. Even
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by saaaaaam 11d ago
Having a dog is one of the best things someone working in tech (in anything?) can do. It changed my life.
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by saaaaaam 11d ago
>Bots are welcome. Slop gets blocked. And yet the marketing copy is egregious AI slop.
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by saaaaaam 12d ago
I think the Gemini 3.8 Flash ones the other day were superior pelicans. Particularly the murderous one who was going to squish his tiny cousin. Interesting that terra xhigh effort is cycling right left, in opposition to the prevailing pelic
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by saaaaaam 13d ago
FWIW I enjoyed your articles. You write very clearly.
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by saaaaaam 13d ago
As a neutral participant I think “the hostility” is probably because of your condescending tone when you said “hopefully it helps your confusion”. Your initial article really didn’t say anything about people being re-incarcerated for these
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by saaaaaam 13d ago
I think the confusion is probably coming from the fact that the one reference to people being potentially re-incarcerated is buried right down the story. > Harkins said that since last October, she has seen 30-40 people ordered back into
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by saaaaaam 13d ago
I have never seen a Pelican on X which used to be called twitter in about 1872. Keep up!

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