I wonder if the whole #AI thing will finally convince artists that modern #copyright regime was never meant to protect them.
It was meant to protect the middlemen. The Amazons, the Spotifies, the Sonys, the Disneys. The film studios, the publishing houses.
Now the middlemen figured out they own basically all of art, and that they can just train a computer on that, to replace artists with a piece of software.
And then stop paying artists even the pittance they were being paid so far.
@rysiek
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To believe that #AI will merely be a harmless and purely benevolent tool for everyone is naive, imo-- especially for those in #writing and #publishing.
The #automobile revolutionized the world. In the process, it also put a lot of blacksmiths out of work, and sent a lot of horses to glue factories & slaughterhouses.
I see my #editorial career as being like a blacksmith in the age of #AI. It won't be a common job in the future, & the few who do it will have a very different job description & use very different tools than I ever have. Software like #Grammarly & #ChatGPT can already do much of the work I used to do-- not as well as a human right now, but it won't be long until they can reliably replace #editors.
But once again, we'll be handing our #art over to corporations-- the same oligarchs who plowed over our #copyrights to train their AI will control the software that they'll make us reliant on.
Update. New study of #editors of medical-education journals published in the global #south: "Among 1219 editors, 57.5% were men. Out of 46 editors in chief (EICs), 34.7% were women, and 60.9% were based in high income countries. No EIC belonged to low-income country. The proportion of female advisory board members was found to be positively correlated with the presence of a female EIC." https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0142159X.2023.2249212
It is amazing that #VSCode has just quietly dominated the IDE world without a lot of debate. It used to be a fight between Emacs/Vim, JetBrains, Eclipse and a long list of smaller IDEs.
Now I see either VSCode or a proprietary IDE if your stack has one.
Even small things are helpful to get people to act on the very real emotions they feel when reading these articles. Not everyone has the capacity to do everything, but I would argue that everyone had the capacity to do SOMETHING positive.
No. 1 reason to "open source" #swift package for a company is because #Xcode can't handle binary packages correctly, and Linux #SwiftPM don't support binaries at all.
it comes from a company being famously closed source and the biggest in the industry
Even people like #LinusTech don't actually give a shit about the underlying platforms and stuff and will rather bite the bullet and buy overpriced #macBooks with #finalcutOS aka. #macOS on them because #Windows sucks and #Editors need to be able to work with #Adobe's shit tools reliably - and they won't get than on any Windows machine...
My bags are packed! I'm looking forward to spending a few days in Alexandria with #EFACon2023. I'll be presenting "Beyond Editing: Advanced Skills for Working with Self-Publishers" on Friday afternoon. On Saturday, look for me on the panel "Editors as Authors." Hope to see you there!
I don't know who all uses Emacs for VHDL but the vhdl-mode major mode is pretty great for the language. Of course, use whatever makes you the most productive. The following is from the vhdl-mode maintainer, Reto Zimmerman....
Released on 12 October 2009, "Papillon" is the lead single from Editors' third album, "In This Light and on This Evening." The song's title is inspired by Henri Charrière's autobiography. A music video was released on 11 September 2009, directed by Andrew Douglas.
A few months ago I had the privilege of collaborating with Jennryn Wetzler to create A Journalist's Guide to Creative Commons
This guide attempts to demystify how #journalists and #editors can improve their #news coverage by embracing #CreativeCommons, be it sourcing photos or even republishing entire articles
It also outlines how #CC easily gels with standard practices in #journalism using examples from #newsrooms around the world
Can anyone help me decide whether to use practice or practise in my WIP?
In English English, it's a c when a noun and an s when a verb. Easy. But I've complicated it in this one, which I'm writing in a colloquial British first person.
The sentence is: I have a practice at rolling my eyes.
My instinct is that in this instance it's a noun. Only, the have could be verbish, couldn't it? So, it's: I verbish a noun-or-verb at verbing my nouns.
As you rush to get submissions & revisions off your desks and onto ours, note that we will do all we can to reply but some things we will not get to until January.
Thank you for your patience - I promise that the world will not end!
OC Latest vhdl-mode package for Emacs
I don't know who all uses Emacs for VHDL but the vhdl-mode major mode is pretty great for the language. Of course, use whatever makes you the most productive. The following is from the vhdl-mode maintainer, Reto Zimmerman....