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If you removed the dangerous fools in the Trump regime, there would be no one left.

It's sometimes hard to believe this country has produced so many idiots.

I didn't know I needed a "Goofball in a box with a toy" photo today...but yeah, I really did. And that one's perfect. Thanks!

"Accelerate AI adoption" = bring AI slop and hallucinations to the BBC. AI cannot "enhance journalism" in any real way, no matter what the BBC News CEO says.

Trump Says He’s ‘Getting Rid of Woke’ and Dismisses Copyright Concerns in AI Policy Speech The remarks, which came during a keynote speech at a summit hosted by the All-In Podcast, follow President Donald Trump’s newly released AI Action Plan.

ICYMI: The macabre sounding Chamber of Progress—funded by Amazon, Meta, Google, Apple & Twitter/X—says Trump is exactly right. What circle of hell is this? These companies have certainly revealed themselves…& it ain’t pretty.

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The only reason generative AI has any value is the illegal use of the world's intellectual property for training data, and the AI companies have never had any intention of paying for what they stole. In Trump they found a thief-in-chief to agree with them, as long as they bribe and flatter him.

Presidential Pettiness Donald Trump seems to have no theory of governance beyond personal gain and retribution.

Trump's pettiness and small-minded vengefulness takes the place of actual policy making. It taints the air in the executive branch like a forgotten bag of trash in a warm house on a summer day—even when you can’t see it, you know it’s there.

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Is AI Making us Stupider? A short take on why that might be the wrong question by Neil Turkewitz

“In short — AI, at least in its present incarnation, is a deeply toxic tree, the fruit of which is poison to our minds and dulls our senses, replacing originality with derivative output based on predictability. It is, almost by definition, a stupidity-producing machine.”

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So much to indict, so little space. This is nothing but the “everyone is doing it/if I didn’t do it, someone else will” defense. I truly hope it gets the derision it deserves.
And of course, it elides the fact that Anthropic itself uses creative works w/o consent to build its products. Bad guy much?

For anyone who has been following the tragic story of OpenAI whistleblower, Suchir Balaji.

That looks and sounds great! (I'm still planning to have a large, healthy salad for dinner, but that photo is making me feel deprived.)

ALEC is a very dangerous alliance of corporations and RW operatives and state legislators that's been undermining our democracy and increasing corporate power for decades, with very little media scrutiny, as it uses its state legislature puppets to introduce near-identical bills in multiple states.

Generative AI, the type getting 99% of the attention, was so illegally trained on stolen intellectual property that it really shouldn't be used at all by anyone aware of that theft who cares about all the people that IP was stolen from.

Fantastic news! Kudos to everyone involved!

Big news.

The Royal Albert Hall has just become the first 5,000+ capacity arena to permanently adopt the £1 grassroots levy on all commercial rock and pop shows from October 2025 - a move that could raise £300,000 a year to support the foundations of the UK’s live music scene.

..was an actor, but I had to go find the people I was at the party with.

..as surprised and foolish as I did when they saw Star Wars later. I watched the start of that film wondering why the cute blond actor playing Luke looked so familiar, and I finally remembered at the binary sunset scene. I should've asked him more the first time I encountered him, after he said he..

This was more clueless than completely random, but I had two brief chats with Mark Hamill not long before he became world famous. The first at a party, the second when I ran into him the next day, stopped to chat, and a couple of guys came up and complimented me and ignored him. They probably felt..

And as bad as that already is, it will get much, much worse as generative AI is used to create more mindless, meaningless -but highly personalized - entertainment vomited out by AI models trained on all the copyrighted intellectual property the tech bros could steal for their plagiarism machines.

That could help, too, but it would direct payments to the news outlet whose link you saw first. Paying even $1/mo would encourage browsing on a news site and continued subscriptions and donations, which could help smaller sites grow.

Even tax breaks require a government supportive of independent media, which we can't count on right now. I don't see anything wrong with paywalls but they should be lower, maybe even $1/mo cheapest tier (with subscriptions at that level still having ads), which would mean a lot more subscriptions.

It's dystopian.

That kind of delusional conversation would've fit perfectly in "Mountainhead."

Congratulations! And what a gorgeous photo!

Sounds heavenly.

I've found that leaning over a large plate on the kitchen counter usually works to catch all that juice. Though it also helps if the paper towels are within reach.

What BS, WaPo. Trump NEVER finds the right words, and claiming he "fulfilled a unifying public ritual for commanders in chief" is sane-washing and propaganda.

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Thanks! Wasn't aware of that part of the Guardian's history.

I've sold stories to a Conde Nast magazine. That was long ago, but it still reminds me how much better markets once were. It sickens me to think of corrupt billionaires gaining control of more and more of our media.

YouTube video by Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song (Live 1972) (Official Video)

I'd never heard it that way, but after reading your post and listening again, I can understand why someone might have.

Still a great song...

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Some background on ICE doing this type of surveillance using Stingrays:
2020 ACLU article
www.aclu.org/news/immigra...
that links to a 2017 Buzzfeed article about ICE using Stingrays at least as early as 2013:
www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adol...

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At least the NYT had only 5 paragraphs on it instead of what looks like 5 pages in the New Yorker.
It does sound like a terrible ordeal, with one ineffective treatment after another. Incredibly painful, frustrating and scary for him. But buying luxuries as a "revenge tour"?