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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Interesting experiment with UFC clip. Content ID systems are pretty powerful these days. It only took 9 minutes to flag it.

    But that’s the point. Flagging content from corporations is more profitable in the long run even if you lose some traffic because of content removal. But removing spam that generates a lot of traffic would be net a loss, so for-profit companies are incentivized not only to keep it, but promote it.





  • Enhanced protection status gives heritage sites “high-level immunity from military attacks”, according to UNESCO. “Criminal prosecutions and sanctions, conducted by the competent authorities, may apply in cases where individuals do not respect the enhanced protection granted to a cultural property,” it said.

    Any measure will just get vetoed by the US, the most “competent authority” when it comes to being Israel’s bitch.

    The only way to stop destruction of heritage sites is to stop the genocide and war crimes. Because as long as they are unpunished for crimes against humanity, preservation of culture is a mere after fought.








  • I thought it was rhetorical question, so I just added context, since the answer was obvious, but if you need it explained here you go.

    Action itself is not different. Scale, logistics, and consequences are though.

    1. Trump doesn’t have unilateral control of National Gourd. It would require consent of state governors to enact.
    2. National Guard was only there to maintain peace. They weren’t ordered to break up a protest. But it went to shit and he took all of that on himself, learned from it and went to do good (I would love to see Trump admit he did something wrong at least once).
    3. He then banned chokeholds and other restraint methods.
    4. And he moved the case of Floyd’s murder to state attorney general, so that he and other murders could be prosecuted instead of it being covered up.

    If you don’t see how someone learning from a mistake and moving to do better in the future is exactly something we should strive for, you are a lost cause. Because there is no perfect human being let alone perfect politician.