• beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    The lawyer is one of the top cited lawyers of all time too. That heā€™s firing Facebook is a big deal

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      love the linkedin comments trying to insist there will be terrible consequences for this prominent law professor who must just not know his stuff or something

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      Even funnier is, they already allowed a lot of hatespeech just as the right started to embrace generative AI, and everyone else mostly rejected it.

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    Thatā€™s a headline that needs sorting

    Stanford law professor Mark Lemley, a partner at Lex Lumina, is withdrawing from the Kadrey v. Meta case over Meta training its Llama LLM on copyrighted material. Heā€™s ā€œfired Meta as a clientā€ because Mark Zuckerberg has gone full ā€œNeo-Naziā€: [LinkedIn]

    I have struggled with how to respond to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebookā€™s descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness ā€¦ I cannot in good conscience serve as their lawyer any longer.

    So did Rogan ask Zuck to be on the show, or did Zuck ask Rogan?

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      Almost certainly the latter. Rogan has forged a remarkable career in legitimizing authoritarianism, and heā€™s never been more valuable to oligarchs than now.

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        Iā€™ve been thinking on this a lot. Itā€™s genuinely amazing and deeply disturbing how innocuous he seems to people who arenā€™t aware of what he actually is.

        I think heā€™s been able to market himself to his most ideologically aligned audience as a smaller deal than he really is, despite having the highest-possible profile guests on his show.

        For better or for worse this man and his show will be studied for years to come. As someone who was an occasional listener back before the mask-off phase I have so many thoughts on the guy.

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          nah his MOST ideologically aligned audience is made up of actual zealots. my dad was literally screaming at me, ā€œheā€™s got the most popular show in the world! heā€™s a big deal!ā€ because i said i didnā€™t think joe was a smart guy the other night.

          the context was, of course, vaccine skepticism. heā€™s really just diet alex jones, but since heā€™s popular i guess thereā€™s no issue there?

          iā€™m so tired yā€™all.

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            Yeah I donā€™t even know why I wrote that. I think I mean something more like general audiences that are likely to find more points in common with the opinions on the show than points theyā€™d object to.

            People who donā€™t view themselves as political? Not sure.

            A large swath of people will think youā€™re overreacting if you say something like ā€œJoe Rogan is putting a friendly face on disastrous misinformation for millions of trusting listeners all over the world.ā€ or its much milder cousin ā€œThis guy has uncritically nodded along to a lot of bullshit his friends have said on air, I canā€™t listen to this anymore, I think itā€™s weird that you still do.ā€

            Nothing says free thinker like having very particular opinions on irrelevant US current events from across the planet that just so happen to line up with one of the most famous corporate mouthpieces since Oprah.

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              iā€™m so consistently bummed out that duncan trussell loves him so much, but iā€™m pretty sure they were friends a while before he really started down this road.

              like fuck, iā€™ve got some shitty friends. and i would probably also call em out a lot less if they were giving me an enormous fucking platform to just dick around with for funsies.

              heā€™s lowkey on my shitlist until he makes midnight gospel season 2 happen tho. i refuse to believe there isnā€™t a SINGLE streamer interested. pitch it to chick-fil-a or something, cā€™mon!

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                really? the impact to your media consumption patterns and preferences is the biggest problem you have here?

                seriously?

                oof.

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    ā€œif there is media coverage suggesting we have used a dataset we know to be pirated, such as LibGen, this may undermine our negotiating position with regulators on these issues.ā€

    Donā€™t worry about regulators! Itā€™s all good in the nazi hood, right Zuckabees?

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      fucking wild you busted out a Dollar Tree word like abstruse but came here to brag about how you didnā€™t read the article because you couldnā€™t understand its extremely simply worded headline