I like that take.

https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/12/disney-says-google-ai-infringes-copyright-on-a-massive-scale/

I wonder if this being right on the heels is related to that.

I’d love that to be the outcome, tbh.

Pretty much. In effect, they just paid 1 billion dollars to shovel their IP into the public domain woodchipper.

I just tell people “It’s free and I don’t get twenty thousand ‘license term updates’ in my email every month”

The title says comedians but the pictures are people who are definitely not funny, so I guess the Saudis are going to want their money back.

How is the color? I’ve been told it makes the screen less sharp, is it noticeable? I kinda want one, been using a tablet for comics lately and it’s nowhere near as good at night.

I have owned 5 kobos over time, and just love them.

All my parking meters require an app, and all of my work logins require pressing a confirmation in an app.

A reasonable and nuanced take? Clearly, lemmy isn’t a very good reddit replacement.

Cool, cool, now block them worldwide, please.

Well, this inspired me to swing my monthly wikipedia donation over to a world book sub instead. It’s bad enough that wikipedia was a very dubious source of info, but now this is just too much.

You mean the bubble of people who don’t want a factually incorrect, environmentally damaging shortcut to provide a summary that’s largely already being done by someone? You’re right.

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Only one who wrote about it was the one who went self-hosted, the rest didn’t talk about it. I would guess it ended up being the final straw, like “why direct people to X to back me instead of just promoting myself where they see me.” Especially if, as you say, the cut was so similar.

7 out of 9, yes, one went to self-hosted, another left in favor of youtube directly, the rest in favor of twitch. The last two I follow on Patreon (Techmoan and My Mate Vince) just sorta rolled past the whole thing.

Too little, too late. I only know 2 creators that I supported who stayed through all this. Most quit patreon when it was announced… this is hardly the worst of the fees they charge people.

Ars technica ProPublica BBC (US) Joan Westenberg XKCD Questionable Content Fireside Fedi

Probably my faves. There’s a few others on pixelfed/mastodon that I follow as well, but more special interest