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Just imagine being that guy’s doctor, having to give him bad news with potentially no cure. That has to be nerve wracking.

She’ll be 35 by inauguration day.

Plus wouldn’t that be two people from California? Talk about giving the Republicans a conniption fit.

Where is everyone calling you a Russian shill now, @[email protected]? LOL

edit: My point is that people only give @[email protected] shit when he post’s anything mildly critical of Biden, but not when he posts anything else. Wasn’t calling him a Russian shill.

I don’t think that Libby itself is. There’s DRM and while there is probably a way to strip it, I don’t think that is easy and/or publicly shared. But Overdrive, which is Libby’s predecessor, allows for DRM free MP3 downloads. But they’ve been trying to sunset Overdrive for a long time. The Windows desktop program needed to download the MP3 files is no longer linked on their site, for example (but is still downloadable if you know the exact link). I’m honestly not sure why it even still works unless it’s to comply with some ancient contract they have with a library somewhere.

Unironically the library. Then just use something like Audiobookshelf to organize your collection.

And I suspect a non-trivial number of young voters are going to be disappointed and less motivated to get out and vote. If democracy and Western Liberalism™ really is on the ballot this year, Biden and the democrats need to be a lot more careful about alienating voters.

Honestly it isn’t looking good for any of us.

The courts get things wrong all the time. I may have to legally abide by their decisions, but I am not morally bound to agree with them.

Courts guarantee an answer, not the right answer.

I don’t buy that legal theory. AI models as they’re trained are the very definition of transformational. It’s fair use.

I’m talking about the state, not whatever it is you choose to do in your personal capacity. I don’t care what you call me. I care if the state labels me something that they can jail me for. This article is about the state labeling pro-Palestine solidarity as extremist. I can’t speak for you, but I don’t think that the state should have the right to quell that speech. If you do, then I think we have fundamentally different philosophies.

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This is something I’ve been shouting from the rooftops every time people online cheer on the idea of “cracking down” on hate speech. It eventually will be used against you because some dipshits will redefine what “hateful” means.

My internet experience has been slower since switching to Mastodon and Lemmy/Kbin. And it’s so nice. The things I see are more interesting. The conversations are usually more well thought out. And lowest common denominator dopamine content isn’t being driven into my eyeballs by Algorithms. I’ve legitimately been happier since the Reddit API debacle.

Long live the Old Internet.