hello! I’m Chloé, a nerdy ace trans gal :3

this is my lemmy account that I use sometimes. I am also on the microblogging side of the fedi at @carotte@toot.cat) :3

pronouns are she/her

In burning red text: "wait i can put images here"

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Joined 3 years ago
Cake day: June 13th, 2023
  • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoGames@lemmy.world•Before you buy a game on GoG, see this growing list of 1,140 titles missing updates, DLC, and more....English
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    2 days ago

    GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers

    GOG has apologized for a “Slavic adventure” newsletter sent out today that featured a number of very distinct Nazi runes in its subject line.

    To be clear, this is not a misunderstanding, or images that look kind of alike, or a misinterpretation of an ambiguous situation: That’s a Sonnenrad, a kolovrat, and the extremely unmistakable double Siegrune of the SS—quite possibly second only to the swastika as the most distinctive emblem of the Nazi regime.

    […]

    “We are sorry for today’s newsletter,” GOG wrote in an apology on X. “We made a series of mistakes: We created an unfortunate visual association by placing the runes incorrectly, we used the wrong logo for The End of the Sun, we did not check the display of the newsletter on mobile devices—which came out worse—and we didn’t port the feedback from our German QA to other languages.”

    The apology doesn’t substantially address how the symbols wound up in the email in the first place. The problem with the runes isn’t their placement, it’s that they are explicitly and indelibly associated with Nazis and white supremacists. Just as with the swastika, their meaning prior to the Third Reich is irrelevant: The Nazi links are too clear and prevalent to pretend that any other connection is equally meaningful.

    the article also has a screenshot of the email in question, and of gog’s apology on xitter

  • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AIEnglish
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    2 days ago

    token if someone digitizes a physical medium and makes it available to the public copyright is no longer valid

    only if you destroy the original i guess

    (the real answer is that copyright is and always has been a tool for corporations to control the ownership of culture. what ai companies are doing isn’t fine in the eye of the state because it’s “transformative”, it’s fine in the eyes of the state because they’re corporations selling their products)