As someone who’s an IT person I can tell you the vibe is actually, “Well shit, I guess I’m going to actually have to diagnose something.”
As someone who’s an IT person I can tell you the vibe is actually, “Well shit, I guess I’m going to actually have to diagnose something.”
That was the selling point before we got into mass production of disposable plastic everything.
Mostly it’s a Word doc with extra steps.
Caption:
“Are you ready to go where no man has gone before?”
Actually came in here to comment that GOP Disneyland (AKA Russia) is apparently going straight down the tubes.
Asking people to read past the headline? What kind of crazy ass person are you???
Next thing you’re going to start expecting people to think critically or something. 😒
Are you a hammer? Because I think you just nailed it.
This last bit kills me
It’s beyond time that readers and consumers of all cultural output recognise the cost of creating cultural material. If we want authors to survive, we’ve got to stop assuming that authors’ intellectual labour is a public commodity. In the broader context of current generative AI discussions, I think our whole community is fed up with short-sighted arguments that aim to justify the ripping off of authors – whose earnings sit at an average of $18,200 per year.
For the record, the national minimum wage in Australia is $45,905 per year.
It’s so disingenuous. Authors are not making so little because of library sharing or internet sharing. They’re making that little because publishers take the largest cut and have a stranglehold on publishing. 🙄
looks nervously at my personal computer that has been running constantly for 5 years