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https://comicbookplus.com would have it legally as the Copyright expired long ago.
What makes you think the copyright has expired?
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All it needed was the emdash
I've been pressing minus twice to type a dash on Mac OS for so long I've forgotten when I started. People are pointing it out to me more and more every day. I think my writing is distinct enough from an LLM for most people, but there's certainly a growing contingent that sees a telltale and assumes everything must be AI generated. Most (all?) keyboards I've used only have a combined hyphen‐minus key (-) which is dist…
If people only fixate on your emdashes, they're just lazy. The bigger AI smell to me is the "it's not X — it's Y," of which the emdash is a part.
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Sorry .. I didn’t realize that zipcomic.com was illegal .. I’d assumed the copyright had expired[0], and checking on DC Universe Infinite isn’t possible, since it’s geolocked and I’m not in a country deemed worthy of it. It’s probably available in Libby or Hoopla, legally. [0] It’s still copyrighted, although it seems that will expire in a decade or so, though. I guess I’ll read it then.
This might be genuinely the first time I can remember hearing someone say they don’t want to commit piracy. No offence, but who cares? Especially for something from 1939.
True, I guess if I'd spent 9 million buckaroonies on the original, I'd feel compelled to download the digital version .. from wherever .. and put the physical edition in an air-tight preservation vault, deep in some bank somewhere.
But .. I just didn't want to encourage piracy among our community, is all.
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Sorry .. I didn’t realize that zipcomic.com was illegal .. I’d assumed the copyright had expired[0], and checking on DC Universe Infinite isn’t possible, since it’s geolocked and I’m not in a country deemed worthy of it. It’s probably available in Libby or Hoopla, legally. [0] It’s still copyrighted, although it seems that will expire in a decade or so, though. I guess I’ll read it then.
back in my day, we had these buildings called 'libraries' which were filled wall-to-wall with many different types of copyright material. Mainly books, but also comics, newspapers and magazines, that you could legally read and also borrow and take home for a few days, for FREE!!
Yeah, I still love to visit my local library, it is one of the most enlightening places in the city.
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#176I have a b&w photo of my (considerably) older brother, from the early 1960s, reading a pile of comic books a foot high. The only cover visible is Spiderman #4. When I was a kid I used to stare at that picture and dream. Needless to say, I kept all my old comics.
I kept all my old comics too, and check the value occasionally on eBay. Most valuable one has yet to top $40.
Turns out a lot of 80s kids had the same idea!
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Reminded me of an exchange I saw decades ago in some TV show or movie (I forget where it was from but it stayed with me): Person A: “We’re going to be so rich.” Person B: “How many times do I have to tell you? It’s not about the money.” Person A: “It’s about all the things we’ll be able to buy with it.” Person B: “Exactly.”
The Jerk?
Could be. I honestly have zero idea. I don’t even recall the people or the setting, just the exchange.
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been pressing minus twice to type a dash on Mac OS for so long I've forgotten when I started. People are pointing it out to me more and more every day. I think my writing is distinct enough from an LLM for most people, but there's certainly a growing contingent that sees a telltale and assumes everything must be AI generated. Most (all?) keyboards I've used only have a combined hyphen‐minus key (-) which is dist…
If people only fixate on your emdashes, they're just lazy. The bigger AI smell to me is the "it's not X — it's Y," of which the emdash is a part.
They’re using a crude linear model to identify AI output, which is not that much different from that which the AI safety industry is peddling, or the people that sell solutions to identify AI output.
You can’t reliably predict the output of a non-linear model with a simple linear model, no matter how hard you wish it.
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#179I remember a painting was discovered, and there was speculation that it was a da Vinci. It was appraised at $30,000. If it could be proven to be a da Vinci, it would be worth a million. For the same item. Crazy.
Supply of money in the hands of people needing a place to stash it: way up.
Numbers of famous historical artists: roughly constant, increasing very slowly
Definition of famous: defined by sale price of work.
Sale price: defined by fame
Ascent to the list of famous/high sale price artists: under control.
Club: big
Your status: ain't in it.
Re: Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold
#180I remember a painting was discovered, and there was speculation that it was a da Vinci. It was appraised at $30,000. If it could be proven to be a da Vinci, it would be worth a million. For the same item. Crazy.
Is it crazy? Clearly the value is the proof itself, not the item, right? Certainly a genuine da Vinci is an investment you can very likely recoup and make a profit on. If I could buy one that’s proven, for a million, and I had a million sitting around, I would. That would be a smart move. The $30k non da Vinci, who knows, could be everything from love of art and total loss to perhaps a small profit. It depends on how…
> Certainly a genuine da Vinci is an investment you can very likely recoup and make a profit on.
I.e. it's worth money because it's worth money.