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Wie können wir die Klimakatastrophe abwenden? @sarahbosetti wendet sich mit einem offenen Brief an die Bundesregierung. Die sind ja inzwischen sowas wie Podcasts: "Wenn du keinen hast, kannst du dann behaupten, wirklich gelebt zu haben?" #BosettiWillReden

https://www.zdf.de/comedy/bosetti-will-reden/bosetti-will-reden-vom-17-mai-2023-100.html#xtor=CS5-433

👀 #TIL Monopoly wasn't invented by the Parker Brothers, nor the man they gave it credit for. In 1904, Monopoly was originally called The Landlord's Game, and was invented by a radical woman. Elizabeth Magie's original game had not one, but two sets of rules to choose from.
One was called "Prosperity", where every player won money anytime another gained a property. And the game was won by everyone playing only when the person with the least doubled their resources. A game of collaboration and social good.
The second set of rules was called "Monopoly", where players succeeded by taking properties and rent from those with less luck rolling the dice. The winner was the person who used their power to eliminate everyone else.
Magie's mission was to teach us how different we feel when playing Prosperity vs Monopoly, hoping that it would one day change national policies.
When the Parker Bros adopted the game, they erased the "Prosperity" rules and celebrated "Monopoly".
#ElizabethMagie #Monopoly #Landlord
HT Tumblr.com/soberscientistlife

The enforcement of copyright law is really simple.

If you were a kid who used Napster in the early 2000s to download the latest album by The Offspring or Destiny's Child, because you couldn't afford the CD, then you need to go to court! And potentially face criminal sanctions or punitive damages to the RIAA for each song you download, because you're an evil pirate! You wouldn't steal a car! Creators must be paid!

If you created educational videos on YouTube in the 2010s, and featured a video or audio clip, then even if it's fair use, and even if it's used to make a legitimate point, you're getting demonetised. That's assuming your videos don't disappear or get shadow banned or your account isn't shut entirely. Oh, and good luck finding your way through YouTube's convoluted DMCA process! All creators are equal in deserving pay, but some are more equal than others!

And if you're a corporation with a market capitalisation of US$1.5 trillion (Google/Alphabet) or US$2.3 billion (Microsoft), then you can freely use everyone's intellectual property to train your generative AI bots. Suddenly creators don't deserve to be paid a cent.

Apparently, an individual downloading a single file is like stealing a car. But a trillion-dollar corporation stealing every car is just good business.

@[email protected] @technology #technology #tech #economics #copyright #ArtificialIntelligence #capitalism #IntellectualProperty @[email protected] #law #legal #economics

@lex Thanks for the great list! Given the broad range, I can also recommend "Ecotopia" and "Women at the edge of time". Both have a similar atmosphere and while they are technologically from a different era, the ideas still resonated with me.

@PaulB @peterjelinek

Der See rechts im Bild scheint der Stausee Embalse de Valdecañas zu sein.

Die Erde mal anders betrachtet...

#ELI5 Why is water see through?

I'd never thought about it like this. Wow.

Ich verstehe einfach nicht, warum Wasser und Brot in diesem Land höher besteuert werden als internationale Flugtickets und Kerosin. Ich verstehe es einfach nicht.

@sara @julian Maybe, as some motivation that raising awareness helps: For ACM SIGPLAN that actually worked to some degree: https://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Climate/ :)

("worked" in the sense that community members with influence started working on this, not so much in the sense that the conferences have altered their model significantly...)

SIGPLAN and Climate Change

Petitionen: Petition 146290