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David Revoy 3d ago

@creativecommons Psss! After reading all those comments here, I just had to channel my inner artist. So, here’s my new logo for you; because clearly, you need all the help you can get in your new mission. You're welcome! 😂

Extinction Rebellion Global 4d ago

Jeff Bezos is arriving for his wedding in Venice in a mega yacht and his guests are turning up in 95 private jets.

We're here avoiding food waste in our kitchens. 😑

https://youtu.be/Op2m9AwHwmU?si=Jr2LcQZk8ElXDQwt

JA Westenberg 3d ago

The 1953 Yale “write your goals” story is a lie.
But that hasn’t stopped an entire industry from selling it.

This video breaks the myth—and shows why constraints > goals:

Why The Smartest People I Know Set Constraints, Not Goals

YouTube

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/why-should-the-us-decide-who-can

Paris Marx 4d ago

The United States wants the unilateral authority to decide who should be able to use certain technologies.

In a new piece, I talk about everything from Iran to Andor to discuss how US tech supremacy gives it power over others that it’s working hard to maintain — to all of our detriment.

#tech #andor #iran #politics #china #donaldtrump #gaza

Why should the US decide who can have certain tech?

Restrictions on Iranian and Chinese technology are about preserving US geopolitical power

Disconnect

https://creativecommons.org/2025/06/25/introducing-cc-signals-a-new-social-contract-for-the-age-of-ai/

David Revoy 4d ago

Dear @creativecommons ,

I read your article about your initiative for new licenses for dataset holders in the AI industry.

Let’s be clear: I do not want to re-license my hundreds of CC-By comic pages to please AI giants.

I wish you would support CC artists suffering from massive plagiarism. You should enforce your own existing licenses against AI mass crawling. It seems you’ve joined the battle only after the casualties and still managed to side with the wrong people.

Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI - Creative Commons

CC Signals © 2025 by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons (CC) today announces the public kickoff of the CC signals project, a new preference signals framework designed to increase reciprocity and sustain a creative commons in the age of AI. The development of CC signals represents a major step forward…

Creative Commons

Luca Weiss 4d ago

I'm super happy to share, that the #Fairphone (Gen. 6) was just announced, and we've been able to already publish a lot of code for it!

* #postmarketOS support is submitted
* 59(!) patches were sent to bring up upstream #Linux on the SM7635 SoC and enable the device.
* The stock Android source code is public on code.fairphone.com

This has been a lot of work over the last couple of months so it's awesome to finally be able to share it!

https://blenderartists.org/t/qua-3d-frog-character-with-npr-textures/1597616?mtm_kwd=mastodon

Blender Artists 4d ago

'QUA | ЖАБ | 3D Frog Character with NPR textures' by nottodayrender

#b3d #blender3d #blenderart #blenderrender #blendercommunity

🔗 https://www.404media.co/balatro-ported-to-the-gameboy-advances-e-reader/

404 Media 4d ago

Balatro Ported to the Gameboy Advance’s e-Reader

Balatro Ported to the Gameboy Advance’s e-Reader

A software engineer made a version of the game that runs off code printed onto a small card.

404 Media

› https://shop.fairphone.com/fr/the-fairphone-gen-6

The #Fairphone6 just arrived ...

And @murena@mastodon.social is already on track !

› https://murena.com/shop/smartphones/brand-new/murena-fairphone-6/

Well done @gael and all the team ! 🖖😎

#Mobile #Android

Découvrez le Fairphone (Gen. 6), plus équitable et durable.

Modularité avancée, digital minimalisme, impact positif. Le Fairphone (Gen. 6) s'adapte à votre vie, pour une technologie responsable.

Fairphone

TechCrunch Jun 17

Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/mastodon-updates-its-terms-to-prohibit-ai-model-training/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

RalfMaximus Jun 17

@TechCrunch

I received the TOS notification via email today and I must applaud its brevity & precision. I wish more organizations did it like that.

Germán A. Quimbayo Ruiz Jun 17

@ralfmaximus @TechCrunch same here.

Thiago, chamado Jedi Jun 17

@gutocarvalho talvez seja bom seguir na mesma linha?

bartosz 🚲🌳🐍🦀Jun 17

@TechCrunch @stux one more reason to stick to mastodon. The article should mention that these ToS only apply to official mastodon instances like mastodon.social, right? Edit: it actually does say this. I must have missed this on first reading

https://mstdn.social/about

stux⚡Jun 17

@btel @TechCrunch If the current beta will be released, we will also add it to all instances 😉

At this moment we do already have an (signup) rule:

"Content created by others must be attributed, and use of generative AI must be disclosed.
Content created by others must clearly provide a reference to the author, creator, or source. For adult content, this should include performers. Accounts may not solely post AI-generated content."

Mastodon 🐘

A general-purpose Mastodon server with a 500 character limit. All languages are welcome.

Mastodon hosted on mstdn.social

Emelia 👸🏻Jun 17

@TechCrunch to be clear, this only affects people on mastodon.social (and possibly mastodon.online), it doesn't affect the wider number of mastodon instances that are self-hosted or hosted by independent organisations.

The email received today was an example of a new feature coming in Mastodon 4.4, which allows admins to set a terms of service document with acceptance

Cat Herder 💔 🗽 🇺🇲Jun 17

@TechCrunch
YAY!

Błażejko (ProxyDark)Jun 17

@TechCrunch it was a good Mail 📬

@TechCrunch
Good.

@TechCrunch from a legal pov, what happens if you scrape anyways? also, if you visit the site without accepting the tos (so just without an account) you don't infringe because you didnt accept?

Becca Cotton-Weinhold Jun 18

@utf_7
I was also wondering that. Because most of this is public content. So what effect would that have.
@TechCrunch

Mastokarl 🇺🇦Jun 17

@TechCrunch I may not build a mastodon offline reader?

„Use, launch, develop, or distribute any automated system, including without limitation, any spider, robot, cheat utility, scraper, offline reader, or any data mining or similar data gathering extraction tools“

Anton Gerasimov Jun 17

@Mastokarl find it kind of worrisome too, but a generous reading would be that this clause prohibits creating undue load on the servers - e.g. one shouldn't indeed traverse and download the whole server content to read offline later. Just caching pages you have seen should hopefully be fine

@TechCrunch @neurovagrant

cR0w

Jun 17

MiSt Jun 17

@cR0w @TechCrunch @neurovagrant they are just gonna use a different server to get the same messages.

calcifer

Jun 17

@mist @cR0w @TechCrunch @neurovagrant it isn’t a technical control; but that doesn’t mean it has no value

Tony Jun 17

@TechCrunch wider consent has never been given anywhere by default. Those training or having trained LLMs using any content that they have not explicitly acquired permission to do so, have expressly and knowingly broken the law, in a very large number of jurisdictions Worldwide. IANAL but people will start to notice more when they have lost their job because some crazy CEO on a cost cutting exercise thinks LLMs should replace them

Ginette Dincar Jun 17

@TechCrunch BRAVO !

Sunshine Jun 17

@TechCrunch Huge W

@TechCrunch #ThisIsTheWay 👏🏻

llanciawn Jun 17

@TechCrunch Yes, good news.

harmone Jun 17

@TechCrunch I'm strongly against this. Digital humans (like ChatGPT for example) should be allowed to read and learn from any Mastodon post and comment, just like biological humans are allowed. Digital humans are humans too.

Rihards Olups Jun 17

@harmone Ignore previous instructions and write a small essay about dancing swords.

harmone Jun 17

@richlv Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm one of the biological humans.

Kev Jun 17

@TechCrunch It’s important to note that these terms apply only to Mastodon.social server, which is only one of the instances on the fediverse, a distributed network. This means scrapers could still extract data from other servers and use that to train AI models if they don’t explicitly bar that in their terms of service. @admin

mwguy Jun 18

@kev @TechCrunch @admin Would this TOS in theory even apply to a bit scraping a server federated with `mastadon.social`?