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The main government proposal is to let AI firms use copyright-protected work to build their models without permission, unless the copyright holders signal they do not want their work to be used in that process – a solution that critics say is impractical and unworkable.

The critics are right, this sounds ridiculous. Like, how would it work if a work is updated to include such an opt-out, does the copyright holder have to tell every AI company about the change, or do AI companies have to continuously monitor the material they use for updates? It better not be the later as AI companies are already bad enough with their horrendous scraping of the web.

It’s critical support because it’s hypocritical.

Apparently this is based on a law from 1861, so it’s about as British as you can get.

I’m sure the ‘protect women’ lot will now fight the UK’s regressive abortion laws as hard as they’ve campaigned against trans people.

But it is seriously fucked up that we don’t afford women their bodily autonomy here. Hopefully that abortion decimalisation that Labour MPs are reported to be pushing goes somewhere.

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Please don’t just post random screenshots, link to where it’s from in the post body. If it’s from Twitter then proxies like Xcancel are preferable, to avoid directing traffic to Apartheid McGee’s website.

Yeah, I hope the guidelines help. I really want to believe that a lot of attitudes we see about trans people are from a place of ignorance rather than malice, though I do fear that I’m being naïve. The admin statement will, frustratingly, take awhile, if at all, as it’s been two weeks since I’ve heard from another admin, unless I make one unilaterally.

Israel supporters only have to vote for one country while the other votes are split between 25 others.

To win we must defeat the great enemy, the People’s Front of Judea!

So I looked up ‘Immortal Chess’ and it appears to be s site akin to Lichess and now I’m just confused.

The Greens having a 2 point lead over Labour with 2024 Labour voters is really quite damning. Really goes to show that the strategy of alienating people that voted for you to win over people that never will isn’t the most sensible.

The Times reports on a separate letter signed by a 100 different Labour MPs, so the rebellion could be bigger, though the article says ministers believe the rebellion will still be confined to dozens.

Also, it’s 83 MPs that need to rebel to defeat the govt.

The comments in question were removed last week and our internal position has been clarified, that there’s no need to change our working definition of transphobia, albeit with some new considerations to allow people to talk about the transphobic actions of the British state. We want to make a statement, but the others seem busy with things outside of Lemmy.

I’m currently working on some guidelines for c/uk_politics to help potentially less informed users navigate the current situation without inadvertently being transphobic.

Hopefully they’re more attentive to this than they are for their Lemmy instance (lemmy.one).

TERFs don’t want trans people using any toilet. TERFs want to push trans people out of public life, and ideally to stop existing all together, by making existing in it as difficult as possible.

“So we pointed out, secondly, that this claim was based on entirely unfounded speculation, which also ignored factors that might result in lengthening the lives of Gazans, given the public health situation existing in Gaza prior to the war, including the extent of obesity. These factors include the possible reduction in the availability of confectionery and cigarettes.

What a ghoulish thing to say, really speaks to how nasty this man is.

Soul Debt - Path of Immolation (Single)

New Voynich Code is good, but I’m going to miss ther old vocalist. Not to say the new one is bad, I think I just prefer the old one.

BUT NEW SOLD SOUL‽ This is fantastic news! I was resigned to never getting anything from them again after they said they were disbanding on Reddit.

Sorry if it came across that hostile, I tend to be snappy after waking up and we’ve had a lot of transphobia lately.

Are the terms afab/amab still okay? I try and use them as opposed to “biological women” as I heard that one could be a dogwhistle before

AFAB/AMAB are fine, encouraged even. ‘Biological women’ is generally used by gender critical types as a dog whistle to mean that only cis women are real women.

My warning was very pointed and specifically about rhetoric, not the actual underlying opinions.

Give me examples on why I shouldn’t use the term “cult” here, yet how it’s okay for other users of this instance to claim a large amount of the British population is in a cult simply because of their religious beliefs…

The trans cult thing is a common talking point by transphobes to discredit the idea of being trans, that it’s nothing more than brainwashing. I really don’t know how you expect “I don’t know who’s leading this movement, but it starts to seem like some weird cult” to come across, but it reads like you saying anyone with a more progressive opinion to you is in a cult. It’s very easy for someone to make the jump from that to believing you think trans movement more broadly is a cult, especially given you’re a transmedicalist.

Also, that comment by Hossenfeffer is clearly made in jest and, unlike trans people, Christians aren’t a marginalised identity in Britain.

Thirdly, this place is where I get to hear the other side. Do you really want to force me to use an echo chamber by banning me?

No, that’s why I gave a warning. I don’t think you appreciate how much more leeway you get because I understand you come from a conservative background. You constantly say you’re bad with this and when I try to clear up the boundaries of what I consider acceptable, you accuse me of engaging in cult-like tactics. Maybe I was too curt, but I’m trying to help you. I’m trans myself, so I hope you can appreciate why I’m sensitive to this stuff.

There’s no need to read between the lines here. I barely know what “dogwhistling” is nevermind people accusing me of doing it.

I’d really appreciate if you did read up on it. I can only moderate based on what you write, not what’s in your head. I and others can’t tell the difference between genuine ignorance or pretending to be ignorant to sneak bigotry in under the radar. The Green Party has a good page on trans/queer dogwhistles.