I think there’s a fine line between collaboration and committee (members of a band can collaborate to make good music). But capitalism definitely works against art.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•I'd like to ask everyone, which movie have you rewatched more than three times?
2·1 month agoFifth Element was at the top of my movies that I would stop and watch when scrolling cable channels alongside Top Secret, Clue, and Shawshank.
You are thinking only of the modern G rating. Go back in time a bit to find G rated movies like:
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Planet of the Apes
- The Secret of NIMH
- many John Wayne movies including True Grit
Just like society’s thoughts on what is generally acceptable, the mpaa rating system has changed quite a lot over the years.
“Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”
Baruch Spinoza, Ethics (1677)
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News@lemmy.world•'Worst of the Worst'? DOJ Figures Show 97.4% of 614 Detained Immigrants in Chicago Had No Criminal Record
8·5 months agoIt’s even worse if they’re using “criminal record” the same way the FBI has historically (arrested but not necessarily convicted on a felony charge).
I don’t have up to date numbers, but c.2016 the FBI considered ~29% of Americans to have a criminal record.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversationEnglish
1·8 months agoLooks like it does, at least in “private spaces”
https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/penal-code/pen-sect-632.html
(I’m assuming that CA means California and not Canada)
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Technology@lemmy.world•Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversationEnglish
4·8 months agoIllinois requires two party consent for recording in-person conversations at least.
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World News@lemmy.world•Mexit, not Brexit, is the new priority for the UKEnglish
4·8 months agoM’sex-it
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Technology@lemmy.world•Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its MistakesEnglish
2·9 months agoWelcome to the secret robot Internet
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Technology@lemmy.world•AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon studyEnglish
14·9 months agoAnd water
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Isn't Lemmy a treasure-trove for AI scrapers?
6·10 months agoI substituted the flour with applesauce and this tastes terrible. 1/5 stars.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Apple’s most sweeping software redesign disappoints mainland Chinese consumersEnglish
2·10 months agoWe’re all secretly longing for the macbook wheel that was leaked over 15 years ago:
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
2·2 years agoI guess I found my hill:
If you are worried about your sentence leaving ambiguity for your pronouns, then write a better sentence.

It’s made by US Robotics, so it must be a positronic brain.