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OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
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I volunteer with CANMN and see them do great work every week. It’s a smaller scale operation bc it’s an all-volunteer mutual aid collective though. If your friend wants a bigger food shelf, Groveland and Joyce Uptown are good options! www.canmn.org

the absolute funniest demographic chart maintained by the City of Minneapolis is its map of divorced dudes (they're all in Downtown West)

Fusilli sucks. People say it’s good for sauce but it falls apart instantly into smaller gross bits. Structurally unsound. Farfalle also sucks. The middle is never cooked enough unless the ends are turning to mush. Thank you for your time.

NY Times Wirecutter page showing "The Best Leaf Blower" with a photo of some rakes

Send this fake NY Times Wirecutter recommendation to every dad you know. It's the only way to save our neighborhoods.

Abortion is a bread-and-butter economic issue. We need to treat it that way | Rebecca Solnit Parenthood, criminality or death: these are now the all-too-expensive options for many women in the wake of the Dobbs decision

Just want to add that reproductive rights are an economic issue and for many women a survival issue. If you can't control your body, you can't control your life.

Napheesa Collier's full statement at the beginning of her exit interview.

She directly quotes conversations with Cathy Englebert that legitimately call into question how the WNBA is being led. (Part 1/2) #WNBASky

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

When miscarriages become crimes 412 women faced criminal charges for pregnancy outcomes. This is what fetal personhood looks like.

What happens when a miscarriage is treated like a crime?
That’s not a hypothetical anymore. It’s happening in the U.S. right now. 🧵 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

idk, lots of republicans think every blue city is a burning hellscape, plus he’s always been a compulsive liar uninterested in actual policy. He’s obv going senile but I don’t think the people around him have to work to help it along, normal fox news is a different reality enough

Inside the Groundbreaking Queer Reboot of 'She-Ra' Creator Noelle Stevenson on how a queer 'She-Ra' came to be on Netflix, and why it matters.

The reboot’s creator is queer and trans and definitely worked to tell the story he wanted. This article is from before he came out as trans (at the time he was out as a lesbian) so it uses the wrong pronouns and name but it’s still a good look at the show! www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Admittedly I didn’t expect to see such a clear example in these replies!!

The Toast - A willing foe, and sea room. A willing foe, and sea room.

I think they just moved it? Doesn’t help with broken links but: the-toast.archive.town

Honestly, it bums me out, but I’m afraid good old fashioned sexism is part of it. Both as in NBA/college fans being dismissive of the W (despite recent surges) and as in less media coverage of the Lynx vs men’s teams (sexism trickling down to less public knowledge of the team)

On the one hand, good, and I sure hope that I get my money owed, and that we all do.
On the other hand, if anyone had actually, you know, ASKED ME whether they could use any of my books in this way, I would not have said "yes you can do it for $3,000." You know, for the record.

Minneapolis current temp is 59 degrees, high of 70

Nic Cage in Con Air, loving the air of freedom

Council VP Chughtai gets dinged for her "fuck Frey" comments on same day Mayor Frey brings forward — yet again — a city contract for a guy who threatened violence against the city council.

Republicans presumably do that too? But I haven’t personally seen Dems taking credit for that big portion of the bill they voted against, which is what I see Republicans doing often

I’ve seen my Dem reps do a version of this; it’s typically that they do the work to get a specific bit of pork that benefits their district into a bill they know will pass, then vote against the bill bc they disagree with the major portion/main thrust of it. So they have it both ways a bit

Losing to a team that then dances in front of you in party hats because it's their cat's birthday gotta be so humiliating

Sorry I'm just in a really bad place right now (United States)

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

Dick’s river rant: 5 years ago today

I wonder if local folks know this is happening at the federal building (by MSP) every day, Monday through Friday. They are kidnapping people that are trying to do “the right thing.”

love to carefully use “spouse” in an email to HR and receive a reply full of “husband” 🙃

Phee can miss a few games without any major consequences but I don’t see them winning the finals without her.

First 25 fans who show up to the Twins game get free uniforms and gloves.

on the one hand we should want people to change their mind so we can stop what's happening now. On the other hand there need to be costs for the ghoulish behavior that got us here, as these people absolutely will do this again given half a chance