Matt Lee – Open letter to Adobe – release Flash under the GNU GPL today | Exploring Freedom
Make Flash free software, specifically, release Flash – the player, the editor, the server, for all platforms, including embedded stuff, under the GNU GPL v3 and do it quickly. As soon as you do this, we can start to win.
“What good is it?””
….are all potentially fertile areas for Artificial Intelligence research.
Mediumship, conjuring and marketing all require an understanding and manipulation of human beings that contains a great degree of knowledge and understanding of the human condition. AI implicitly requires this as well, at least in its strong form or in forms that would recognize the Turing test.
So if you would make a machine fool a person into accepting that it has knowledge, look at how people fool people into accepting that thet have knowledge…
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Art & Language and The Red Krayola (nee Crayola) have a new album out this month, around the 25th depending on where you are in the world.
Previews indicate that the sound is a very contemporary 1960s retro and as unlistenably brilliant as ever. The Art & Language work the title and cover draw on is a decade old, so I don’t know how long this has been in the works. But I am absolutely stoked that this is coming out now
More details from Drag City here (scroll down to September).
Order from Amazon US or Amazon UK if you must. But it would be better to order it through your local record shop.
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“No Copyright
No Rights Reserved”
– Worker-Student Action Committees France May ’68, R Gregoire & F Perlman, 1969/1991, Black & Red.
“Copyright (c) In The Making, 1978. Alternative publications may reproduce freely provided acknowledgement is made.”
– In The Making, Number 5 1878, A directory of co-operative projects.
“Our spaceships will have geometries which minimise frontal friction, channel incoming plasma flow into helical (centripedal) internal paths for burning, deflect external (centrifugal) paths for envelope-shaping, push against the background aether-field flow, and shield against internal radiation and magnetic accesses.
We intend to share technology and resources rather than burn bridges. In space, nobody can hear you violate copyright.
The AAA welcomes the reproduction, transmission, storage in any kind of retrieval system, and mutation of this material by those who wish to use it for independent space exploration.”
– Space Travel By Any Means Necessary! The Fourth Annual Report Of The Association Of Autonomous Astronauts, 1999, Le Mouvement Mars 23 & WICAAA.
Does anyone have any other examples? Non-European and/or non-leftist/anarchist examples would be particularly interesting.
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