Mossy Feathers (They/Them)

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Cake day: July 20th, 2023

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  • Nfts legitimately confuse me.

    “Why can’t you put the whole image in an nft?”

    “It’s too big”

    “Why is it too big?”

    “It’d take too long to generate.”

    “Okay, but why?”

    “Because nfts can’t hold that much information.”

    “Okay, but why?

    “Because it’d take too long to generate.”

    “Okay, but why would it take too long to generate???

    “Fuck you, stop wasting my time.”

    “Oooookay. I really don’t understand but okay, fuck you too I guess.”

    Does anyone know why nfts are so small? Everything I’ve read says that they’re fucking tiny, but nothing explains why they can’t be larger, why being larger would be too slow, and so on. They honestly seem like a decent answer to the digital ownership problem of “I want to resell this game like I could 20yrs ago but I can’t because it didn’t come on a disc”, however I get sent in a circle whenever I try to figure out what makes nfts so unwieldy and impractical.

    (Not that I think anyone should be able to own a digital good; I pay for digital things because I want to support people, not because I think digital ownership is a legitimate concept. Imo, because digital things can be copied as many times as you want, you can’t truly own a digital item, and nor should anyone be allowed to try and revoke said item unless said item is illegal for other reasons. However… As long as we live in a capitalist society hell-bent on applying the concept of ownership to a system that’s only limited by your hardware, I think people should have the ability to actually “own” their digital goods (in a traditional sense), which includes things like the right to not have a company take them away whenever it feels like it and the ability to sell digital goods like an IRL market.)







  • Something I’ve been starting to wonder has to do with Israel’s possible nuke(s). I’m wondering if the reason why Biden keeps bowing to Israel is that Biden calls Netanyahu, tells him to stop or he’ll restrict weapons, and then Netanyahu tells him that if Israel doesn’t get US weapons, then they’ll feel backed into a corner with no other options. Biden gets the implication and backs down. As such, if Israel does indeed have a nuke or nuke(s), they may not need the US to attack Iran’s facilities, but are giving the US a chance to do it for them to avoid nuclear weapons coming into play.

    I hope I’m wrong. I’d honestly rather have a president who is spineless than a president who’s being forced into a corner by a supposed ally because they’re threatening to nuke everyone. The latter is extremely scary because it means that calling their bluff could end in a nuclear war.



  • If you want to copyright the prompt, go right ahead. As far as I’m concerned that’s fair game; though I still think you’re a dumbass for getting mad about it.

    As for the image? Fuck off. You can convince people that AI is capable of original works, or you can convince people that AI is nothing but a tool to remix and mashup other people’s artwork.

    If you do the former, then the AI is the one that should receive copyright, not you. If the AI wants to then sell or transfer the copyright to you, then it’s free to do that… Except AI can’t hold copyright because there’s no evidence that it is intelligent enough to do so.

    As for the latter? You’d better start going through your training set to make sure none of the trained images exist in the final image in a large enough capacity to be considered infringing. Otherwise, you may be liable for copyright infringement.

    Either way, go fuck yourself.






  • This guy is almost certainly a cross burner. The article seems like it’s downplaying the fact that it wasn’t the question “do you think discrimination exists in Idaho” that made him angry, it was this:

    “[J]ust because someone hasn’t personally experienced discrimination, doesn’t mean it’s not happening. Racism and discrimination are real issues here in Idaho, as anyone familiar with our state’s history knows,” the statement read. “I highlighted our weak hate crime laws and mentioned the presence of the Aryan Nations in northern Idaho as undeniable evidence of this reality.”

    He probably felt called out by the mention of the Aryan Nation groups. I can’t imagine any other reason why he’d suddenly lose his shit unless he felt called out.