If your favorite celebrity is anywhere near this list, you need to do some introspection.

My partner is my emergency contact point. If you don’t have their number, it means that there’s no case in which your emergency is my problem. Everything else is on an “I’ll get to it if and when I get to it” basis.

On an unrelated note, I don’t have a large circle of friends. :P

So this bit here:

Populate a public list of other users with whom such user shares a social connection within such service or application

seems like the easiest way to circumvent this law, with the least effort. Just hide connections for users in VA, and now you’re not a social media site. You could even give them their own domain like facebookva.com that only they route through, in case the VA govt try to claim all users on the site have to work the same way. Tie them up for years.

Sorry, but any time “workforce” is brought up as a reason for kids, all I hear is “servants to provide for us”. Populations rise and fall, and the myth of Infinite Growth that’s permeated Capitalist thinking is now being applied as a demand on humans. No thanks.

I think Anubis is really focused on scraper-bots feeding AI models, rather than posting bots. It’s based on requests to non-standard endpoints in your own app, which you specify for Anubis in a couple places (e.g. leaving out of /robots.txt or /.well-known).

If you’re using e.g. a python bot that uses headless chromium executing JS to post stuff, you’re probably going to code in known-good endpoints for comments and posts, rather than hitting random ones like a scraper bot would.

Anubis is good for stopping the n-request-per-second spamming of scrapers, but not so much for just blocking non-human bots that post at normal rates.

My last employer was a Fortune 50, and we did automation detection through behavioral mapping, like posting locations, times, and even word patterns (a very cool experimental project that I got to work on, which used a database of normalized English word frequency to detect bots based on language that was too-similar across users, or even too “perfect”, though this was only used as an indicator and never considered definitive). It is extremely difficult to detect human-impersonating bots based on raw network traffic alone.

Nope, just been learning and speaking it for a long time. :)

Good luck with your studies, and you can always dm me if you have any other questions!

By the way, is there a rule to how these short forms are formed?

Yep! Most Japanese verbs (with a few exceptions like ‘shimasu’ becoming suru) use one of the ‘i’ variants (‘i’, ‘ki’, ‘ni’, ‘mi’, or ‘ri’) after the kanji, that indicates they are verbs.

Yakimasu (to burn/ cook), shirimasu (to know), arukimasu (to walk), arimasu (to be), shinimasu (to die), yogimasu (to read).

Ki will become ku in the shortened version, ri will become ru, ni -> nu, etc:

yaku, shiru, aruku, aru, shinu, yomu

I believe the verbs that don’t end in one of those like tabemasu (to eat) will default to ‘ru’ (taberu), but I don’t know if that’s a rule off the top of my head, or if I just can’t think of any others right now.

In the cases where rendaku applies, such as oyogimasu (to swim), the end kana will also have rendaku applied, e.g. oyogu. Ki -> ku, gi -> gu.

The radical for water is actually derived from the standalone kanji. It’s basically an extremely short-stroke version of the kanji.

Ikimashou is just the ‘formal’, full-length version. No difference in meaning. Just as “iku” is the casual version of “ikimasu”.

Ikimasu -> iku

Ikimashou -> ikou

I don’t use streaming at all, I buy every song I own on iTunes or other services that give you DRM-free files. I have a thing (call it a compulsion) about not using “other peoples’ things” when there’s an alternative.

As with all AI, I’m not intrinsically opposed to AI music as a concept, but I don’t want to use it now when the services that make it are leeching off of artists without paying them. I don’t get “into” bands (e.g. I can’t tell you the names of almost any musicians in the bands I listen to), and I don’t usually like concerts, so it’s not like I’ll be missing out on those like some fans would be.

I’m sure “AI” can produce perfectly milquetoast music, but are you ever going to want to listen again? I have tracks I’ve listened to hundreds of times because they mean something to me emotionally (and often have a temporal element wherein I remember where I was living and what I was doing the first time I heard it) – and most of my tracks do not have lyrics.

Layering nonsensical lyrics atop forgettable melodies sounds more like torture than a service providing any value.

I suspect this is mostly an artifact of our current early AI music models. Just like we got past the days of 8-finger monstrosities in newer image models, we’ll get more ‘context-aware’ and sensical lyric models for music. We just won’t be getting there ethically.

Hold onto it in case it’s needed.

Or take half, and have the admins/ mods choose 4-6 charities, and the community vote on which to donate it to.

Holy shit. Somehow it’s both exactly what you expect, and completely shocking. Literal dehumanization and genocide, played as jokes.

Who’s ‘we’? xD

Yes, 君 is ‘kun’ when used as an honorific.

海 is ‘umi’, or sea/ocean. You are correct that the second half of the kanji (母) is the same as the standalone character for mother, but it’s base radical is ⽏, which also just means mother. The first radical, ⺡, means water/ liquid, so you can sort of infer that “water mother” = ocean. Not all kanji work out this nicely with their radical structure, though.

Last part is spot on, ikou (行こう) is the shortened (conjugation?) of iku or ‘to go’ that expresses a suggestion to do, i.e. “let’s (go)”.

I have to since my partner doesn’t speak Japanese, but half the time I end up having to correct lines for them once or twice, to make things make sense. The non-egregious stuff I don’t even bother with. It’s crazy how amateurish some of the mistakes are, or even what are clearly choices to omit entire sentences, for no reason.

おい、ゆうじ君、海行こうぜ

“Hi Yuji!”

The actions of an employee, when reviewed and released by a company, are the actions of that company. A company is just the sum of its employees’ actions.

It’s insane that Lieber essentially argues that free transit is bad because you can’t crack down on fare evasion if there’s no fare to evade.

There is definitely a spectrum of performativeness in public reading, with “Grimes sitting on the sidewalk in designer distressed clothing, reading the Communist Manifesto” at one end, and sitting in a chair at a coffee shop at the other.

We’re performative every day; it’s not like the clothes we wear and how we style ourselves and the choices of people we hang out with in public aren’t also performances that we use to signal information to others. Whether that performance rises to the level of performativeness (derogatory) is mostly just in the eye of the beholder: A non-reader might see any public reading as performative. A non-activist might see any activism as performative. Etc.

The idea is to create fear. Make Palestinians scared to go to aid centers, so you can look ‘good’ on the world stage by allowing in a minute amount of aid, but minimize how many people it actually gets to.

Going with a Bond that young gives too much of a Kingsman, action Mary Sue vibe, for me. Bond is supposed to be an ex-British Navy Commander, iirc, which would be late 30s to 40s. Not under 30.

It will make it extremely risky from a liability standpoint to operate any platform that allows user content.

The EFF has a bunch of writeups on these types of laws. This is the last of a 4-part series on them: Link

Fediverse operators would for example be extremely vulnerable to lawsuits, because almost none of them can afford teams of lawyers to deal with claims, true or not, that they failed to enforce content policies.

Depending on how the laws are written, anyone who could find a piece of objectionable content (which will vary by jurisdiction) could sue the platforms. This makes it very appealing as a route to shut down platforms you dislike, especially if they’re niche.

It consolidates power under large corporations like Meta and Xitter, who can afford to handle legal threats.