GEMA is the official music publishing collections organisation in Germany. They’re big, they’re powerful, they throw their weight around, and a lot of people think they’re dicks. Large swathes of Y…
  • flere-imsaho 🇺🇦@circumstances.run
    5·
    25 days ago

    @Nomad @nightsky valuing innovation over ethics is never a good choice.

    we’ve re-learned this so many times, it should be already ingrained into any engineering and scientific teaching.

    but there’s always a clever idiot who thinks that this time, this one time it will be special, it will be different.

    • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
      2·
      24 days ago

      if only anyone studied any IBM/VW/… history, we could’ve known things. alas, no-one could have ever undertaken such an endeavour, and the outcomes of such “innovation” and “drive” are unknowable! oh, woe is us, forlorn in the quest for ever improving whatsoever