No it only applies to books because books have an entirely different legal system than everything else.

SCOTUS case: White-Smith Music Publishing Co. v. Apollo Co. (1908) created a new issue for the Government about copying people’s printed works.

Copyright Act of 1909 is passed. New framework is established, books get an entirely different legal system from everything else. Publishers lobbied to prevent it’s passage and fought it especially hard in the Great Depression because libraries were becoming very popular during that time.

But printed books have a whole different thing that applies to them that doesn’t apply to anything else. So you can’t use “physical medium” because books are a special case and have their own special US law.

For books, transformative, has to deal with the intent.

• Book - I want to read them.
• Anthropic - I want to convert it to weights for use in massive matrix multiplication operations.

Since the intent is different, the book first sale doctrine applies here to grant transformative. Which is but just one pillar in their defense.

Same goes for what Google did like a decade ago.

• Book - I want to read them.
• Google - I want to convert it to a searchable database of terms that can refer you to the correct ISBN.

And transformative applies too to things like DVDs, it’s just under a different framework known as the DMCA.

• DVD - I want to watch the movie.
• MP4 - I want to watch the movie.

That’s not transformative.

• DVD - I want to watch the movie.
• MP4 - I want to take clips to make memes.

That is transformative. And again, transformative is but one thing out of the whole “fair use” thing.

This is the thing. Those news articles are oversimplifying a massive amount of legal technicalities. I’m not saying what Anthropic is doing is correct or not. What I am saying is that the conclusion that people are getting from these stories is like the last 10% of a massively technical legal battle. And running with that small amount can lead to conclusions that aren’t true.

And I know someone is going to bring it up. No you aren’t LEGALLY allows to rip a copy of a DVD for your personal use. Violates the DMCA. BUT in order to sue you, a publisher has to know ahead of time before discovery, that you broke their encryption scheme, which if you only keep it personally, is impossible for them to ever enforce. So we have a law that is written in a way, that if you never put it online, it’s impossible to enforce the law. As a summary of how all that works.

What it means.

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Man, I don’t really follow Florida’s primaries and I’m pretty progressive… But dang I hope she loses and that loss is massive. Lady is an insult to progressive politics. Besides she’s made a massive pile off of stock trading, so getting her out is one more gone.

So the case is EMALS had a few corners cut when it was put in. Long story short it’s isolation issues. The old steam systems could isolate a track, the electrical system is just one big unified thing. So on steam, a track goes down they can just turn off that track and keep launching on the others. On the electrical one track goes down, they have to shut the whole thing off, zero aircraft get launched.

There’s already contracts to fix this issue being put out. But this happens with Government projects. Corners get cut to hit a deadline, those cut corners then come back to haunt everyone.

And the thing is what the Government sees isn’t the whole picture. They’re looking at the metric of “number of planes system got into the air”. Which I’m sure we all understand averages here. If a system is getting a 0/hour when one track goes down, that zero brings that average down hard.

But very few want to go back to steam. It’s very costly, requires a lot of very specialized equipment to house all the high pressure systems, and some drones we toss into the air with these systems aren’t made to take the sudden thrust steam gives it. The EMALS system can give a very clean and well defined ramp up for thrust that drone engineers can build around.

But this is one of those things where some wise guy’s cut corners idea starts to threaten a full project because people start getting all worried about sunk costs and what not. But the electrical system is flawed, but we can work around those flaws to bring better isolation to it. It’s just going to take time because… you know, it’s a military vessel, it’s kind of hard to be like “let’s just drag it out of an active war zone and dry dock it for half a year.” Clocks tick differently on projects like that.

But going back to steam, and to be fair it took a while to properly develop those systems as well, is less than ideal. It’s got a much high cost and takes a whole lot more maintenance to keep running. And some aircraft we’d have to yank off duty and fix them to handle steam’s level of yeeting things. But Congress and what not aren’t looking at that dollar metric, they’re mostly focused on “how many aircraft did the system on average get into the air?”

But to be fair here, we are talking about some dude who decided to level an entire wing of the White House before actually going through any kind of approval or formalizing any kind of plan. So… He’s consistent in that whole doing shit and thinking about it later.

Okay. The bill is an interesting one. It does have the side effect that it will significantly damage independent courier services. Which, New York City being New York City and all, they’ve got a lot of two or three employee ran courier services.

I get what the ultimate goal here is. Amazon would then have to pay particular wages, insurance, 401(k) options, etc. That’s a great goal. But Amazon contracts a lot in NYC. Which means the courier business in NYC isn’t owned completely by a single entity, now the primary customer of that industry is one really big company, but Amazon doesn’t own any of those couriers.

What this will do, is force Amazon to buy all of them out. Hire the employees and give benefits. But it will also mean that Amazon owns most of the NYC courier service in the city at that point. Now obviously, it’s better for Amazon if they don’t have to have employees and just subcontract, but push come to shove, if they have to by law take stake, they’re going to want to own all of it. And when Mamdani is gone, they’ll have a unique position to convince a Mayor from the other side to pull the ladder up.

Now all of this is just me thinking out loud. Don’t take any of this with any significant grain of salt. I get what the goal is here, I’m cool with that. But forcing Amazon into the courier service in NYC and take ownership, I can’t imagine them wanting to play fair once they get in. And this honestly relies on a lot of the “new invented” local union that this would create to mitigate a lot of issues.

I get the goal, I’m just thinking concentrating Amazon into pure entity that dominates entirely a local industry is asking for trouble. Maybe I’m being cynical.

They are picking up law-abiding citizens. They’re destroying families, jobs.

DUH!

See entry level people believe it’s fundamentals. Smarter people understand that it’s reading people and knowing when they’re dumb enough to invest and knowing when to bail before they wise up. So if you think about it in those respects, it is indeed an honest to goodness “real” thing. People are really being ripped off by con-artist.

But yeah, the days of the 1890s to 1930s of structured investment, measured risk, and mitigation of the unforeseen, those days are dead. There aren’t market fundamentals outside of being able to identify rubes.

and take the economy with it…

Yeah like the last umpteen times this has happened in my lifetime. We live in a society of greed, who knew it would be so unstable?

Futurama meme coming soon.

Senators aren’t impeached. They are expelled. Expulsion requires two-thirds vote in the Senate.

Thom Yorke has literally tried everything for selling music. Though it all he’s seen the music industry eventually consume it.

You can’t invent something new without it eventually turning into what was the old. We can always keep moving the tech, we can always keep inventing some new platform, but we never get to keep to ourselves forever.

The reason why this keeps happening is because people keep trying to apply a solution that doesn’t apply to the problem. We don’t need some NEW method of delivery. We just need to get rid of the OLD system of industry.

It’s rich people. AI is the current excuse. I hate this notion that if we got rid of AI we solve the issue. No, the rich people are still there and they’ll find a new thing to suck everyone’s lives with.

Oh no. Man I had no idea what you were trying to say on first read. No. It’s just this shit happens all the time in Tennessee. Our State Government gets told what the fundamental issue is, they create some cheap stop-gap solution, it fails two or three years down the road.

Like if you ever drive on Interstate 24 in Tennessee this kind of thing is in your face like all the time. Also the State prison healthcare going on here is just chef kiss perfect example of failing to understand root cause.

“Prisoners keep dying in prison because of sickness, I know! Let’s just privatize it.” Prisoners keep dying. “I don’t know where we went wrong?!” It’s hard to feel like justice is served if everything that lands someone in prison exposes them to a incredibly high rate of death by disease.

Yeah, the entire underlying problem are the pipes that lead to the pool as many have tried to tell him. The pipes leading to and from the treatment machine need to be fully replaced. When the pool was renovated in 2012, the pipes installed were for the wrong application. The land the pool sits on is formerly wetlands. So special attention is required for putting in pipes in that area. This wasn’t done and so the soil is literally crushing the pipes allowing water treatment to leak into the surrounding soil.

This is why they’ve had to have people physically go out there and manually treat the pool. The problem is that the treatment is never making to the pool in a large enough volume to make a difference. But the manual treatment requires people in large “unsightly” protective gear to wade through the pool and treat the water. Then they have to rope off the section that was treated to ensure no one tried to enter the pool until the treatment has diluted enough.

Trump keeps doing the thing Trump is known for, cutting corners that ultimately mean more money is spent long term. The problem is the pipes. They need to be replaced. But then the pool has to be closed for large construction and the short term cost goes up. So Trump keeps just putting a band-aid on it over and over and over again like the idiot he is.

He’s been told what the issue is and what the fix is. He just wants a short-term “fix” so he looks good. He’s not actually interested in fixing the pool. The pipes have to be ripped out and new ones installed. That is the only true fix.

Wow who could have guessed?

The Party of Lincoln is dead

Yes, when the two parties fought tooth and nail to prevent any third voice from rising up, the people from the disassociated group decided to usurp one of the main parties, rather than try to make their own.

Literally the Republican party did this to themselves because they just couldn’t bear the thought that Trump might carve out a third party and challenge the status quo.

But the Republican party isn’t the only one this is happening too. We already see socialist entering the Democratic party. The reality should be that we have enough room to have both Democratic and Socialist party in the US. Just like we should have enough room for a Republican and Populist party.

But no, the Democrats and Republicans decided to hold onto the duopoly to the bitter end. Good riddance to both of them. It’s clear that the thing that’s eaten away the classic Republican has made the political group worse. Perhaps that which supplants the Democrats will be better than what we’ve dealt with.

Things to note.

• Gambling is a revenue stream for States.
• States up to this point have been terrible at managing revenue, gambling now gives them this glut of cash.
• Gambling has been promoted as a social activity. Know a gambling platform? Likely there’s a whole social media presence for it. And for some digital platforms that include gambling, they may even have whole social network.
• Aggressive advertising and hidden psychological factors have played a role in how people view it. “Risk-free” sign up, give the impression of harmless entertainment and some platforms deeply hide the gambling aspect.
• Low barrier to entry. Gambling usually has very little friction to get people into the platform, some even allow very low wagers, allowing “everyone” to get in.
• The escape illusion is real for the most hardcore. During periods of high inflation, stagnant wages, and high living costs, individuals look for alternative income sources, looking to escape their current situation.
• And finally, the gig market mindset where everyone feels a need to have a side hustle. Digital income streams with low entry have become popular for fulfilling this mindset.

Human beings are terrible at balancing short-term gains for long-term consequences. It’s mixed into our DNA. Our ancient ancestors, securing immediate calories or escaping a threat was a matter of life and death. Long-term planning wasn’t as critical as immediate survival. Now do note, that’s not an excuse for the people who foolish went head long into this.

This is why this struggle with the rich and powerful is eternal. It fundamentally taps on an ingrained flaw we collective fall for every single time. There is no one solution, there can never be one solution. People must forever fight themselves and the powerful from the exploitation of this fundamental flaw of humanity.

I distinctly remember the conversations about Office’s phone home system and people specifically saying “this seems problematic” and Microsoft hand waving those concerns away.