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Top 5 reasons to hate the Facebook like button #etc #facebook #like #lessig #dublincore #semanticweb #opengraph #metadata Why can't you link to an existing page? How can you have a like button per blog post on your home page? Are we headed towards a world with only one verb?

https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/top-5-reasons-to-hate-the-facebook-like-button

Next step: rename the country to The United States of War.

Larry #Lessig in the preface of Remix (2008), recounts a dinner conversation in Berlin over global warming, where at one point a US American called for a “war on carbon”. He noted that the Germans responded with reticence: “Germans don’t like war.” This sparked, he writes, a recognition in him: “For obvious reasons, the associations with #war in Germany are strongly negative.” Not so in the US.
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#CeterumCenseoAfDEsseDelendam

Striking contrast between the attitude toward parroting in current AI debates (#EmilyBender, #TimnitGebru et al.) and that of Lawrence #Lessig in relation to Creative Commons.

For Bender & co., parroting signals a lack of creativity and understanding:

‘an LM is a system for haphazardly stitching together sequences of linguistic forms
it has observed in its vast training data, according to probabilistic
information about how they combine, but without any reference to meaning: a stochastic parrot.'

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922

For Lessig, it’s a core feature of creative productivity. Writing about how, from Buster Keaton’s ‘Steamboat Bill, we got Steamboat Willie, and from Steamboat Willie, we got Mickey Mouse, and from Mickey Mouse, the Disney Corporation’, Lessig notes how Walt Disney ‘was always parroting the feature length mainstream films’.

https://scholarworks.umt.edu/mlr/vol65/iss1/1/

#digital #parrot
#tech #ai
#ArtificialIntelligence #disney #creativecommons #creativity

@ManonAubryFr

Je viens de lire ton texte.

Il est rempli de grosses bêtises. Navré, c'est un peu abrupte, mais ce que tu écris repose sur ce que aimerais que le réel soit !

Mais, dans le numérique, c'est le propriétaire du code qui fait la loi ! Et sauf à imposer par la loi que #X devienne un logiciel libre, ce que tu écris est complètement erroné. J'en suis navré car ta position semble inspirée de celle d'ATTAC qui elle aussi repose sur de faux savoirs.

Tu parles d'usages numériques sans savoir de quoi il retourne techniquement et donc politiquement.

D'abord, lire #codeislaw de #Lessig est indispensable pour bien comprendre qu'en informatique, la chose politique se décide dès la rédaction du code et des règles.

Ensuite, lire #zuboff sur le #capitalismedesurveillance , mais aussi #Dominiqueboulier sur la propagation.

Lire #ToxicData de @davidchavalarias te sera aussi utile voire indispensable !

La position on se lève et on se bat n'a aucun sens au sein des systèmes informatiques !

Pour t'aider à mieux comprendre le concept de Lawrence Lessig, je pense que cet extrait de Matrix est un outil de vulgarisation opportun, vraiment.

J'ai déjà fait un pouet sur le sujet.

https://social.rouelibre.eu/@bateausurleau/113838832679610647

https://peertube.stream/w/mYnGWpTCjhJWdLgwLbLoDi

Maine's Radical Solution To End Political #Corruption: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96TmkRP6K2U

#politics #lessig #watergate #SuperPACs #elections

Lessig and Seligman laid out ways to resolve this months ago.

One option is that Congress could pass a law declaring that any change a state legislature makes to its results after the popular vote would render the electoral votes not “regularly given,”
which under the ECRA would open them to congressional challenge.

Another option: States could affirm that electors are required to carry out the will of the voters.

Or a legislature could pass a new law before the election granting itself authority to direct electors to vote for the legislature’s choice regardless of the popular vote
—so there would be time for the Supreme Court to strike down that bill (assuming it would).

NONE OF THIS IS LIKELY to occur in time.

Election deniers are already preparing to start the steal.

When I asked Lessig what was his worry level
—about what Trump would try
—on a scale from 1 to 10, he said
“If it’s close, then I’m at 10."

To [Trump], it’s existential. . . . There’s no reason he would hesitate at all to do whatever he can.

#Lessig #Seligman #Chiafolo #Washington

In their new book, 🔹How to Steal a Presidential Election, 🔹Lawrence #Lessig and Matthew #Seligman describe a troubling scenario.
A 2020 Supreme Court decision in a “faithless electors” case (#Chiafolo v. #Washington) held that
🥺state legislatures have the power to direct electors how to cast their votes.
That ruling, Lessig and Seligman argue, could be interpreted by Republican state legislatures as allowing them to pass a law
👉directing electors to vote for the candidate the legislature chooses, rather than based on the popular vote in the state.
“There are plenty of mechanisms to ensure that the election selects the right slate of electors
—recounts, contest proceedings and so on,” they write.
“But ♦️there are no protections against a state legislature simply ordering whichever electors are appointed to vote for the candidate that the legislature, and not the people of the state, choose♦️.”
In an interview with The Bulwark, Lessig said that an unintended consequence of the Electoral Count Reform Act (ECRA) enacted in 2022 was to shrink the window in which an attempted election subversion could be blocked.
Under the new law, no errors in the electoral vote can be corrected after electors vote on December 17, 2024. 💥If corrupt electors vote for someone other than their states’ popular vote winner, Congress will certify that result on January 6, 2025.💥
Republican-controlled legislatures in several key swing states
—Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin
—could throw the election.
“If they wanted to do it in the safest way possible, meaning in a way to guarantee that they were to succeed,” Lessig said, “they would do it immediately after the election, because the time frame for the Court to intervene would be so short, it’s not clear the Court would have time to intervene.”

https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/start-the-steal-trump-november-2024

I maintain that if #TaylorSwift and #Beyonce organized a #GeneralStrike in support of having nice things, then all of #lessig’s theory of change principles apply.

The world would undergo #transformation.

Harvard professor Lawrence #Lessig on why AI and social media are causing a free speech crisis for the internet - https://www.theverge.com/23929233/lawrence-lessig-free-speech-first-amendment-ai-content-moderation-decoder-interview #copyright

#NowReading Free Culture: How big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity, by Lawrence Lessig.

#FreeCulture #Lessig

Likely to get lost in the indictment news today, but I just wanted to share this fascinating long read from @lessig about the perils and potential of a Constitutional Convention: "Making an Article V Convention Safe for Democracy" https://medium.lessig.org/making-an-article-v-convention-safe-for-democracy-e946f2b77dc6 #ArticleV #ConstitutionalConvention #Democracy #Lessig

@glynmoody As the article notes, a key issue w/patents is that they are often filed for broad concepts, rather than for a functional implementation. Remove that loophole. You wanna patent something, present a working prototype that does what it's claimed to do. (For software, there should be no patents -- we have copyright law to cover the actual code. Patenting a software concept is on par with copyrighting "An orphan discovers they have secret powers and a destiny", and then suing everyone who actually writes a novel using that trope.)
#patent #IP #Lessig

@jeff Architecture is destiny. #lessig

Auguri a tutti per la giornata del pubblico dominio!
Il primo gennaio si celebrano le opere che nell'anno diventano #publicdomain, terminato il periodo di #copyright.

Nel 2023 avremo #Metropolis, gli ultimi romanzi con #sherlock #holmes, opere di Virginia #Woolf...

Qualche elenco qui:
https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2023/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_in_public_domain

https://www.futuroprossimo.it/2022/12/2023-non-solo-metropolis-ecco-le-opere-che-saranno-di-dominio-pubblico/

E ricordiamo il valore di #creativecommons e del lavoro di Lawrence #Lessig

#opensource #cc #openculture

@futurebird Lessig's "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace" seems relevant. Online, architecture is as much destiny as demographics is offline. #Lessig #architecture

https://www.amazon.com/Code-Other-Laws-Cyberspace-Version/dp/0465039146/

‘Pathetic Dot’ is not a great name for a theory, and the diagram on the Wikipedia page isn’t the best, but Christina Bowen reminded me of it during an introductory conversation yesterday. I can’t find it again quickly, but this also reminds me of a discussion I saw about how credit scores can exert almost as much unseen social control over people in the West as very visible social control mechanisms in more authoritarian countries. The pathetic dot theory or the New Chicago School theory was introduced by Lawrence Lessig in a 1998 article and popularized in his 1999 book, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. It is a socioeconomic theory of regulation. It discusses how lives of individuals (the pathetic dots in question) are regulated by four forces: the law, social norms, the market, and architecture (technical infrastructure). Lessig identifies four forces that constrain our actions: the law, social norms, the market, and architecture. The law threatens sanction if it is not obeyed. Social norms are enforced by the community. Markets through supply and demand set a price on various items or behaviors. The final force is the (social) architecture. By that Lessig means “features of the world, whether made, or found”; noting that facts like biology, geography, technology and others constrain our actions. Together, those four forces are the totality of what constrains our action, in fashion both direct and indirect, ex post and ex ante. […] The theory can be applied to many aspects of life (such as how smoking is regulated), but it has been popularized by Lessig’s subsequent usage of it in the context of the regulation of the Internet. Source: Pathetic dot theory | Wikipedia

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2022/12/02/four-forces-that-constrain-our-actions/

Day 43 of #100DaysToOffload: https://write.as/jlj/killswitch-2014-snowden-swartz #killswitch #snowden #lessig