Benjamin

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European. Interests: IP Law, AI, Digital Policy Anonymous. No affiliations declared.

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Screenshot from X of the quote authors blurb: @TheAndrewNadeau Comedian that started Persona Essential, a comedy-forward social media marketing firm that specializes in organic viral content.
Screenshot from Codeberg's TOS showing the no-AI clause: You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools (including services such as Claude, OpenAI Codex). Such projects having an unclear copyright status (see requirements § 2 (1) 1 and § 2 (1) 3) and furthermore have little safeguards to ensure that they do not include harmful code (c.f. § 2 (1) 5).
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” ― George Orwell, 1984
“I would have thought it was quite obvious. Anyone could have thought of it.” “Ah,” said Dirk, “it is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto nonexistent blindingly obvious. The cry ‘I could have thought of that’ is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn’t, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.” from Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
Screenshot of quote by John Maynard Keynes with mugshot of Keynes: Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back
Graph showing Russian CO2 emissions. Emissions increase exponentially during the communist period, with a disruption in 1941. The end of the Soviet Union / the communist system sees emissions collapse by over a third. Afterward, emissions increase again but at a much lower rate that remains much below the peak of 1990.
Graph showing the population of England over the past Millennium. It stays well below 10 million for most of the time. Toward the end of the 1700s it begins to grow exponentially, reaching 10 million in the early 1800s and exceeding 50 million toward the present.
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. From Meditation 17 by John Donne
“The Universe is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore. Many would happily move to somewhere rather smaller of their own devising, and this is what most beings in fact do.” ― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Map from Wikipedia showing countries with and without VAT.
Text of Stephen King Skeet overlaid on Screenshot from THE DEAD ZONE movie.
As the photographic industry was the refuge of every would-be painter, every painter too ill-endowed or too lazy to complete his studies, this universal infatuation bore not only the mark of a blindness, an imbecility, but had also the air of a vengeance. I do not believe, or at least I do not wish to believe, in the absolute success of such a brutish conspiracy, in which, as in all others, one finds both fools and knaves; but I am convinced that the ill-applied developments of photography, like all other purely material developments of progress, have contrib­uted much to the impoverishment of the French artistic genius, which is already so scarce. In vain may our mod­ern Fatuity roar, belch forth all the rumbling wind of its rotund stomach, spew out all the undigested sophisms with which recent philosophy has stuffed it from top to bottom; it is nonetheless obvious that this industry, by invading the territories of art, has become art’s most mor­tal enemy, and that the confusion of their several func­tions prevents any of them from being properly fulfilled. Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally. From On Photography by Charles Baudelaire, 1859
“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy