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Using copyrighted content to train AI without permission is not ‘fair use’, US court rules in Thomson Reuters case - Music Business Worldwide However, the ruling might not apply to the music industry’s lawsuits against generative AI developers.

This is an interesting article written from the perspective of Intelectual Property holders in the music industry who are analyzing the case between Reuters (owns Westlaw) and Ross (company who used Westlaw to train an AI).

Fair Use is very complex.

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While we wait for the Supreme Court to rule in a critical redistricting case from Louisiana, this is what the GOP is up to in Texas and Ohio. Remember the GOP's plan is to make it harder for you to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Congratulations! I too found that later on the desire left me. I don’t think about it now except to celebrate sobriety. 22 years now and I love celebrating others’ sobriety! Well done, sir!

Perfect

When the “Papers Please” debate in Arizona raged, one of the huge arguments against it was:

“How am I supposed to feed my family when I get fired for being late to work because I’m stuck at checkpoints because of the color of my skin?”

That should be shouted again more now

Truth yes. Reconciliation will be more difficult compared to the civil war. This time the traitors need to pay their debt to society, revoke MAGA, attend repatriation classes and pay reparations. Otherwise this country will going through this again. And again.

Josh, I’m white and only speak English. But in the summer I get very brown. And my complexion can be mistaken for Hispanic or indigenous or even ME. Am I going to get grabbed as non citizen? Pretty good chance.

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Either way, trumpland is rife with backstabbers. Let them wonder who recorded it.

He basically did, in American-speak.

I posted your article today @gregolear.bsky.social but messed up tagging you. Follow me back please (and thank you).

Sunday Pages: "La Liberté éclairant le monde" A Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi

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As I sit here in the desert, on public land, reading @gregolear Sunday Pages today, I am again reminded how easy it was my whole life to take democracy for granted. One of his best.

“Ignorance, thy name is Trump.” And also his spokesperson at the podium.

A word…

We can be good Democrats and still demand better from the party. In fact, that’s what being a good Democrat is—fighting for its future, pushing for stronger leadership, and calling out those who are failing us.
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March 22, 2025 Perhaps in response to the growing outcry over last weekend’s rendition of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under a legal justification a federal judge has found questionable, President Donald Trump...

March 22, 2025

So… the very same Republicans who said they were cutting SNAP because hunger could be “addressed by food banks”, just cut $500 MILLION in funding for…

You guessed it.

Food banks.

Arrested at gunpoint, charged as a felon: a midwife’s lot in anti-abortion Texas The state with the most radical abortion law is seeking to make an example of Maria Margarita Rojas

“On Monday, the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, announced the first criminal charges under Texas’s abortion ban. Maria Margarita Rojas, a licensed midwife, was charged with the illegal performance of an abortion,” a “second-degree felony, which comes with up to 20 years in prison…” 3/22/25

“President Bukele [of El Salvador] recently met at Casa Presidencial with the co-founders of Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz…” 3/2/25 (Those co-founders are DOGE advisor Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.)
h/t @shanley.com 1/

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

“France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration.” He had been traveling to a conference near Houston, TX. 3/19/25

Former US attorney for Eastern District of Virginia Jessica Aber found dead at 43 Jessica Aber, former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA), was found dead Saturday morning, the Alexandria Police Department said. She was 43 years old. The cause and circumstance...

It never got a lot of attention, but Aber put a WHOLE LOT of child predators w/ties to law enforcement in prison.

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The Hidden History of Trump’s First Trip to Moscow In 1987, a young real estate developer traveled to the Soviet Union. The KGB almost certainly made the trip happen.

Keep sharing this because it is vital to understanding this moment.

The timing of his entry into politics after this trip, the one position he’s held firm on (at odds with past presidents of both political parties) and the unraveling of the post-WW II world order.

www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

Right now, if you don’t have the “right” papers this is the way the regime will treat you if you’re brown.

Eventually, it won’t matter if you have the “right” papers or not. So fight now while you still can.

Lutnick’s mother-in-law has a daughter, Allison Lambert, who is a partner in one of the nation’s largest law firms and is married to a man with a net worth of $1.5 billion.

So, nah, she won't be calling. But if you depend on that monthly deposit to balance your checkbook, you damned well would.

Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest Suspensions affect accounts spreading information about the widespread demonstrations.

Elon Musk’s X suspends accounts “spreading information about the widespread demonstrations in Turkey … sparked by the arrest earlier this week of … Erdoğan's main political rival...” 3/22/25
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DAY 22 MARCH 2025

The last few days in Arizona

11K Arizonans & friends showed up in Tempe
Today, 23K Arizonans & friends showed up here in Tucson to see & here
AOC & BERNIE NO OLIGARCHS

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I find this so inspirational that I’m thinking my freeway bridge sign for the next two Fridays will be

HONK
TODAY.
PROTEST
TOMORROW.

To create a tiny bit of heat for the March 29th #TeslaTakedown Day of Visibility and the April 5th #HandsOff mass mobilization.

This is a wonderful act of leadership by wired !