Agreed they’re both old and politician would ideally be younger but Trump has a very unique way of speaking that includes delusional, narcissistic, hateful and inaccurate content. There is no way that swapping out like that isn’t recognisable. You seem to be clutching at an idea
That’s what I meant by “wouldn’t hold up in court”. Thanks for filling in the specifics. I wish it wasn’t classified as fair us, I think its an unfortunate way to avoid paying people for training data and that’s hiding the true cost of the system
Its a shame there is no license that forbids AI use. Well, there kind of are but none are common and probably wouldn’t hold up in court. Still, it would be nice to attach to work and communicate that the preference is to not have AI reuse
Oh, I don’t have epilepsy so I’m not avoiding YouTube because of this filter, I’m avoiding YouTube because of the money Google keeps giving to Trump and because I noticed that my tech usage isn’t very diversified and it was pretty pretty dominated by US companies (so if you imagine trade war negotiating leverage, I was giving the Trump administration more leverage). From that perspective, it removes ad revenue which is about all you can do with YouTube besides trying to convince creators to put their videos on multiple platforms (and it’s questionable there is a good alternative platform)
I don’t think anyone has pointed out that the food is on the inside of the circle and the outside world is on the outside of the circle. The inside of the circle and the seal are clean so it shouldn’t matter what it is, it didn’t contaminate the food inside
I originally used this source and I think its higher quality (but substack so got moderated):
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-25-2025
Yesterday the Trump administration said it would not use any of the approximately $6 billion the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) holds in reserve to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
the shutdown plan the USDA released in late September. Then, it said: “Congressional intent is evident that SNAP’s operations should continue since the program has been provided with multi-year contingency funds that can be used for State Administrative Expenses to ensure that the State can also continue operations during a Federal Government shutdown. These multi-year contingency funds are also available to fund participant benefits in the event that a lapse occurs in the middle of the fiscal year.”
Today, in yet another violation of the Hatch Act that prohibits the use of government resources for partisan ends, the USDA Food and Nutrition Service website reads: “Senate Democrats have now voted 12 times to not fund the food stamp program, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Bottom line, the well has run dry. At this time, there will be no benefits issued November 01. We are approaching an inflection point for Senate Democrats. They can continue to hold out for healthcare for illegal aliens and gender mutilation procedures or reopen the government so mothers, babies, and the most vulnerable among us can receive critical nutrition assistance.”
at the same time the Department of Agriculture says it cannot spend its $6 billion in reserves to address the $8 billion needed for SNAP in November, the administration easily found $20 billion to prop up right-wing Trump ally Javier Milei in Argentina.
This might have come up today in a few pages of the novel I’m reading. The main character in the book has a lot of intrusive thoughts and there is a part where they read someone’s blog that has similar thoughts. Anyway, I still don’t know your situation, but I thought I’d put the name of the book here incase its helpful to someone:
“Turtles all the way down” by John Green
Its also a movie by the same name
To be fair, they also have little to gain now besides a slight feeling of doing something good but any alternative has to start from somewhere and need to get momentum.
Yeah, YouTube is really entrenched.
It’s not that hard to set your peertube account to autoupload any YouTube channel but we only get away with the IP issues while peertube is small so it’s not very sustainable.
I wish more of the creators that have ethical issues with the Trump administration’s actions would acknowledge that Google is enabling and actively supporting (at least through larger than usual donations to) the Trump administration and then choose to upload anywhere else, even if they keep uploads in two places. I wonder if they lose more IP control on peertube, it seems unlikely given the alternative is Google. I’ve tried to message a few creators but I think the larger ones have either contracts of fond memories of the community that they grew from.
Sorry, I know this is definitely a tangent from the OP but I was closing tabs and Trump’s comment on pardoning Changpeng Zhao is too good not to share:
Which one? Who is that?.. The recent one? Yes, the? I believe we’re talking about the same person because I do pardon a lot of people. I don’t know, he was recommended by a lot of people. A lot of people say that—are you talking about the crypto person?—A lot of people say that he wasn’t guilty of anything. He served four months in jail, and they say that he was not guilty of anything, that what he did, well, you don’t know much about crypto. You know nothing about, you know nothing about nothing. You’re fake news. But let me just tell you that he was somebody that, as I was told, I don’t know him, I don’t believe I’ve ever met him. But I’ve been told a lot of support. He had a lot of support, and they said that what he did is not even a crime. It wasn’t a crime, that he was persecuted by the Biden administration, uh, and so, I gave him a pardon at the request of a lot of very good people.
Ahahaha. A title cautioning not to watch YouTube with the description of the situation being… a YouTube video.
I’m avoiding YouTube so for others like me that want more info here’s a BBC article on the filter itself (not the failure mode):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-edit-videos-without-permission
YouTube has secretly used artificial intelligence (AI) to tweak people’s videos without letting them know or asking permission. Wrinkles in shirts seem more defined. Skin is sharper in some places and smoother in others. Pay close attention to ears, and you may notice them warp
And an Invidious link that lets you view the video:
A feeling that seems to underly this question is that record companies are some capitalist evil nightmare and that crypto is the saviour here. I don’t think any of the comments here address that part so I thought I might try.
I’m guessing most of this post is thinking of small musicians but to think about how much money a record label makes I’m going to be lazy and use a number I saw recently - Taylor Swift grossed 2 billion from ticket sales for her Eras Tour and got about 190 million after tax and payments for services:
That’s a similar sort of order to the fines we’re seeing for laundering in crypto - Binance pleaded guilty to money laundering and paid 4 billion in resolutions:
https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/binance-and-ceo-plead-guilty-federal-charges-4b-resolution
And similar to the gains Trump has made since shortly before coming into office, an estimated 1 billion from crypto:
It seems like a lot of those payments that Trump made money from are some form of corruption. And a large portion of the amount that record labels make.
It’s reasonable to look at the wealth of record companies and to wish it was more reasonable to distributed. It’s also reasonable to look at how little artists make of certain transactions and think there must be something amiss. I honestly have no idea on the accuracy of those two, the world is counterintuitive sometimes but I’m sure there is a lot of room for improvement.
Aiming to use crypto as one of the mechanisms for improvement seems pretty far fetched to me from a pragmatic perspective. (But I think both the anti record company sentiment and the pro crypto sentiment have similar ideologies.) From what I’ve seen crypto has only demonstrated usefulness as a mechanism for:
Okay, I think I understand now.
That’s understandable in that situation but as someone that wasn’t in that situation I was just really slow to understand what you meant.
And it’s not like the mind doesn’t have power over the body (at the very least good / bad spirits make pain easier / harder to deal with) but yeah… some of the sayings people throw out are just shitty. And it does get more insidious. I’m only guessing at your situation but know of people with cancer where people would say things like “I don’t think they have the mental strength to survive this”.
It sounds like a difficult situation to be in. Are you still in it, or have you at least found a way to avoid the frustration and confusion of their comments?
Doesn’t the OP say iOS?
Yeah, after scanning more I liked this comment:
https://lemmy.world/comment/20129966
To the extent they are able, relative to their need. You are clearly far more able than a lot of parents who aren’t well off, like you
I just think some of the comments have “to the extent they’re able” being very privileged economically in a way that can also put down a lot of people less well off.
I’m not sure I completely agree that out by 18 is cutting them off completely. That said, I chose to leave when I was 17 (for university somewhere else on government assistance) and my younger brother became a live at home alcoholic that would get our younger siblings drunk on school nights and cause other issues… so I probably have an unconventional interpretation.
Is this and the upvotes an alt?
I’m shocked by most of the comments in this thread and the commenter is about the only person I can relate to. After living in a few countries and jumping around income levels a bit then I think the commenter grew up in a low economic class and most of the commenters come from a more privileged economic class.
Like, read some of these comments again and imagine you’re a parent with no money, you’d feel like a piece of shit if these comments were some sort of universal truth. Some people will say you shouldn’t bring anyone up in the world if you’re in that position but that has a really quick logical flaw: Think about your parents, then their parents, and eventually you’ll find someone that “shouldn’t have had children” and that basically means either the human race doesn’t exist or the right to have children is only deserved to the privileged.
Maybe I get it. I’m going to try to make an example and I’ll hope you can tell me how I misunderstood. An example might be someone with high anxiety having panic attacks but the people around them are the really empathetic and as time goes on they get irritated (since they aren’t too empathetic) so the end result is them saying things like “its all in your head” or “get a grip on yourself”. In this fake example I’m guessing both groups would get triggered quickly from person they just met that has attributes from the old group. It was tough to frame this in a way that seemed realistic to me but wasn’t really harsh on one group, sorry if I’ve missed the mark there or completely misunderstood.
In that situation, I think everyone still (usually) thinks that if the person with anxiety got a cold their body would still affect their mind and they would get grumpier and more worried. They probably wouldn’t show much care and if they were throwing around quick phrases about it being in your head then they would keep saying it, but I don’t think it would be because of some logic that the body is independent of the mind.
Am I close to understanding, or just really misunderstanding something here?
I never said the current system was perfect or that IP didn’t have problems that are frequently abused (including building monopolies and wrestling rights away from creators)
I just said the counterpoint being pitched has some flaws that I don’t think stand up to practice and included some processes that I think would be part of how it falls apart
Oh wow, it looks like I upset a surprising number of people. Median income at Microsoft is 200k or 94th percentile for the US. Who is reading this and downvoting because someone at Microsoft really might become homeless if they try to work somewhere that more aligns with their ethics?