Burgessing on Content, Board Games and Other Things
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Idle Data (opens the original)
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Weekend Read: The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State (opens the original)
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Love and Kindness at Scale (opens the original)
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Weekend Read: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI (opens the original)
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A new #weekendread format for easier reading. What do you think?📚 #WeekendRead: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory DoctorowOf course I read ’s latest book. I think Doctorow is one of the most important thinkers at the intersection of #AI and #creativity. I also align well with the energy he brings to this space. While I support almost everything he says about the societal impact of this technology, there is one major point where we disagree.<figu
The Fair Use Fallacy (opens the original)
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On July 31, 2026, a German court applied American copyright law to an American company’s training conduct, weighed the American fair use defense on its merits, and rejected it.In other words, Germany is assisting American courts with their interpretation of copyright law since some of our courts seem to be struggling with a basic idea: Stealing at scale is still stealing.The case was GEMA v. Suno (42 O 763/25). GEMA, the German collecting society, sued the AI music company Suno over six specific
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