Antwan van Houdt

@jabwd
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I do naughty stuff with computers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ he/him

OK, intellectual property fans, here's a draft law review essay I wrote for you about AI and copyright, entitled "The art critics won't save you from the robots". It's really about a trend in copyright jurisprudence which is distorting the AI debate. You shift the trend, you fix the debate—and possibly a lot of what's wrong with copyright.

1/7

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6999539

Well, backblaze just sent me a mail about their $335M deal with Coreweave, so I guess Backblaze is about to get ridiculously expensive like all the other IT services and products lately 😞
Cops in Schedule one are so generous but they're going to make me run out of ammo! They give so many guns away x.x

Didn't see this at the time but it's currently doing the rounds on linkedin

"The AI engineering impact data shows that output is up. It also shows that the work required to ensure that output is safe, correct, and maintainable has not decreased. It has increased substantially."

Aye if only anyone could have foreseen this etc

https://www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acceleration-whiplash-takeaways

The AI Engineering Report 2026: The AI Acceleration Whiplash - Ten Takeaways

What two years of telemetry data from 22,000 developers reveals about AI's real impact on developer productivity, code quality, and business risk in 2026.

I have a used (visible on the keyboard esp), but with relatively new battery MBP2015 that I have no real use for anymore. If you know anyone with little means who would get joy out of a free Mac, please DM! Would love to make someone happy with this older device!

#askfedi

And Microsoft Edge just installed itself as in my dock.... without asking? Hello? What? I know tech companies don't know the word consent but this is insane.

#uninstall

So, #pridemonth ...

I'm a white straight middle age man and my timeline is full of rainbows in all sorts of flags, stickers and cats - and I fucking love it!!  

Over at Instagram I've seen: none.
Not even a single pride post.

God, I love the fediverse.
Thank you for being you! ❤️

PSA:

If you are wearing smart glasses and come to the ER, the smart glasses people are going to get a recording of my history, exam, and discussion of your results. You wouldn’t believe how often I unexpectedly find cancer, or syphilis, or other conditions you may not want big tech to immediately be privy to. Meta isn’t subject to medical privacy laws. It also isn’t my job to recognize your camera and give you a heads-up. In fact, big signs in the ER tell you recording is not allowed.

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP

it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form

the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows

GLAAD has a good writeup on it here:

https://glaad.org/fcc

TELL ‘EM NO

direct link to comment form:
https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express?proceeding%5Bn