lol, lmao: https://archive.is/a9AJ0
So, the companies building GenAI models claim that slurping up everything they can get their mitts on is "fair use."
Fair use doctrine has a 4-point test:

• what's the reason behind the work? (parody? etc.)
  
• the nature of the work (poetry, letters, etc.)
  
• the amount of the work used
  
• how the use of this work impacts the market value of the original work
  

Check this shit out: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/lexipol-d...-polycule/
You can find the info here: https://ddosecrets.com/article/lexipolleaks

You should check out this show called "Scavengers Reign." It's an animated show about the crew of a corporate spaceship getting marooned on an extremely dangerous and weird planet. They're separated into different groups/individuals so there's several storylines running in parallel. It's truly weird and understands what makes good science fiction: confronting our own humanity, our own fears, and facing the unknown.
I haven't finished it yet but I highly recommend it. I've rarely seen anything that goes this hard on making an alien planet truly alien.

Check this out: https://pubby.games/nesfab.html
You can use this to make your own NES games with a relatively simple programming language. They also have links to a bunch of handy tools to help making such games.

I was interested to see that several Thais who had been captured on October 7th were just released by Hamas. Why were Thais in Israel? Had they been at the music festival perhaps? Why had Hamas taken them?
Here's what I learned: The Thais were in Israel as farm workers and in fact a huge number of Thais are brought into Israel to work the farms. The Thais are restricted to less desirable accommodations near the Gaza strip and so were convenient targets October 7th, caught up in the fog of war as it were.
I also learned that I am very late to the party. Human Rights Council (HRC) writing in 2015 found that, "From 2008 to 2013, according to government figures reported by the Israeli daily Haaretz, 122 Thai workers died in Israel, including 43 from “sudden nocturnal death syndrome,” which affects young and healthy Asian men, five from suicide, and 22 for unknown reasons because Israeli police did not request a post-mortem."
"A Thai man working in a farm in the north of the country told Human Rights Watch that he felt “like dead meat” after a working day that typically began at 4:30 a.m. and ended at 7 p.m. A colleague of his described employers watching them working in his fields through binoculars and treating them “like slaves.” Several groups of workers said they typically worked 12 hours per day, seven days per week, and received only four days’ vacation per year."
"Workers also complained that their employers over-charged them for accommodations and utilities, and artificially inflated the price of certain goods in shops in isolated moshavim where the workers, who often lacked the time, means of transportation, and even rudimentary information about other towns and cities in Israel to travel elsewhere, had no option but to buy food."
The now 10 year old report on Israel's slave labor and human rights abuses goes on for as long as you can stomach it. Maybe things have improved since then?
"In 2020, a report from the workers' rights NGO Kav LaOved found that 83% of Thais in Israel were paid below the legal minimum wage, that many did not receive legally assured entitlements, and that they faced unsafe working conditions and lack of access to medical care." (https://theweek.com/business/jobs/how-di...e-by-hamas) Ok, guess not.
"...in 2022 , a US State Department Trafficking in Persons Report described "the treatment of some Thai workers in Israel's agricultural sector as forced labour." (https://www.ft.com/content/9ddbdee8-c566...ad6c45f641)
As of this writing, there are currently 38,000 Thai workers in Israel living under these conditions. Somehow, I doubt this story will receive the attention that other groups have garnered.

By now you've heard of Project 2025, which has solemnly sworn to feed future generations into the protein swamps of Mars as sustenance for the squid lords. Now, no matter how you may feel about this, I'd like to set that aside for a moment so that we can talk about something near and dear to my heart: Project 1998.

Project 1998 is an effort to leverage fundamental data exchange techniques implemented during the 1980s and 1990s to provide a number of technological alternatives to the technorati or mag 7 set of large technology conglomerates that have taken our data and online existence hostage today. Or in less technical terms,

Quote:Project 1998 represents the best of what made the 1990s internet great, with modern content and thoughtful updates, presented as a robust and semi-portable alternative to some of the privacy-violating, POV censoring online platforms of today.

1. Practical, individually hosted content that doesn't rely on a single platform or point of failure.
   
2. Webrings, the HTML linked sort, that help users to explore related content and navigate to new websites, without the use of social media or a search engine.
   
3. A search engine based on relevancy, not recency, which is navigable using a search box or drill down, with a manually updated index that cannot be manipulated by site owners.
   

1. Project Gutenberg, with callouts to specific works - https://www.gutenberg.org/
   
2. Standard Ebooks - https://standardebooks.org/
   
3. Wikipedia - https://www.wikipedia.org/
   
4. Wictionary - https://www.wiktionary.org/
   
5. Wikivoyage - https://www.wikivoyage.org/
   
6. Wikimedia - https://commons.wikimedia.org/
   
7. Wikibooks - https://www.wikibooks.org/
   
8. Wikinews - https://www.wikinews.org/
   
9. Wikidata - https://www.wikidata.org/
   
10. Wikiversity - https://www.wikiversity.org/
    
11. Wikiquote - https://www.wikiquote.org/
    
12. MediaWiki - https://www.mediawiki.org/
    
13. WikiSource - https://www.wikisource.org/
    
14. WikiSpecies - https://species.wikimedia.org/
    
15. WikiFunctions - https://www.wikifunctions.org/
    
16. MetaWiki - https://meta.wikimedia.org/
    
17. WordNet - https://wordnet.princeton.edu/ - This service appears to be a hot mess, sadly
    
18. Oxford English Dictionary - https://www.oed.com/
    
19. Concordance to the Bible - https://www.biblestudytools.com/concordances/
    
20. Qur'anic Commentary - https://www.altafsir.com/Index.asp
    
21. Resources for Study of and About Quran - https://libguides.brown.edu/Islam/Quran_Hadith
    
22. The Catholic Encyclopedia - https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/
    
23. Concordance to Shakespeare - https://archive.org/details/aet2858.0001.001.umich.edu/
    
24. Almanacs - https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/we...rldalmanac
    
25. US Military Manuals - https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/FM.aspx
    
26. Some sites with public domain classical music - https://citizen-dj.labs.loc.gov/loc-jukebox-jazz/use/
    
27. Archive.org
    
28. Archive.is
    
29. Library websites across the board - Here's a great start https://libguides.rowan.edu/c.php?g=618536
    
30. Government websites, especially ones that host publications
    
31. Open Source Textbooks - https://oercommons.org/hubs/open-textbooks
    
32. The Panama Papers - https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/
    
33. Russiagate - https://bylinetimes.com/2023/02/07/who-w...a-problem/
    
34. Human Rights Council - LGBTQ Terms https://www.hrc.org/resources/glossary-of-terms
    
35. Human Rights Council - https://www.hrc.org/
    
36. Annie E. Cassie Foundation LGBTQ Definitions - https://www.aecf.org/blog/lgbtq-definitions
    
37. The Matthew Shephard Foundation - https://www.matthewshepard.org/
    
38. The Murder of Emmett Till - https://www.loc.gov/collections/civil-ri...mett-till/
    
39. Emmett Till - https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/emmett-till
    
40. College & University Websites, 1900 listed here! - https://searchenginesmarketer.com/compan...lege-list/
    

1. Each search result to have a link to archive.org or archive.is, or  both, as a mirror in case the original is down. 
   
2. Potentially, run a script monthly to submit URLs in the index to a mirroring service (not us).
   
3. Citizen / community based weather on the homepage, just because Project 2025 is defunding NOAA and we're not going to have accurate weather if this keeps up. Also gives people a reason to visit the search engine.
   

Be my friend, please? Or at least share your Steam profile?

This is me: https://steamcommunity.com/id/gorzek/