Some of the more Libertarian ones are rallying around Thomas Massie. He seems like one of the few American politicians who are actually somewhat honest.

fedi in general is generally anti-ai

There are some very loud people who are anti-ai, but there are also subs like !stable_diffusion@lemmy.dbzer0.com that have over 5k subscribers.

Just because that’s what the USA first amendment regulates, it does not mean that is what the concept itself is.

Need to know what country and state. Generally reporting a crime to the police is protected by the common law defence of necessity.

Welcome to reddit lemmy

Their security was a bit wank.

“we can excuse mass surveillance, but we draw the line at racism” is what I get from that.

Aibohphobia, the fear of palindromes

But still boring

Grapheneos are also against allowing users root access, which is fine on PCs.

I do wonder how much of this is just that moderate parties are boring.

They’re arguing it under section 20, probably this part

the making available to the public of the work by electronic transmission in such a way that members of the public may access it from a place and at a time individually chosen by them.

It looks like they’re arguing that by hosting the games valve are acting as a pirate MP3 site.

I think they would have to prove that they did so knowingly, which can only really be done if they ignored takedown notices.

This was inevitable after valve caved to pressure from card processors. The sharks have smelt blood.

Juries are very unpredictable in such cases. And that’s what they are playing on.

This is in the UK, except in very rare exceptions, we don’t have juries for civil matters.

Interesting

The preposition till is ubiquitous in informal register of modern English; nonetheless, in formal register it is often replaced with until or to, except in some varieties, such as Indian English. This predisposition is likely influenced by the widespread misapprehension that till is a clipping of until, which it is not (until being an enhanced form of till). The spelling 'til, itself also deprecated by some writers, was born of that same misapprehension.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/till

You’re a little late https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk_v._Wilkins

Republican Gov. Larry Rhoden signed legislation into law last week that authorizes challenges by individuals and election officials.

It would be a terrible shame if a bunch of people started challenging Larry’s citizenship.

Oddly, due to maritime law, it’s the cargo owners who would have to pay if the ship was only damaged but not sunk.

Depending on your definition of scream, strong enough microwaves can be heard by an unaided human https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_auditory_effect

I used to be an editor on there so have a lot of mixed feelings about it, there’s a lot of bullshit that goes on.

It’s good for hard sciences, but most articles on “soft” subjects like history do have a pro western liberal capitalist bias. Although the amount of bias usually depends on what senior editor decided he owns the article, despite “owning” articles being against the Wikipedia rules.