Séamas O'Reilly: I discovered my own memoir had been used to train Meta AI I hate that writers and artists must suffer the indignity of being pickpocketed by the richest men who’ve ever lived.

Having my book stolen by Meta to train their large language models doesn't feel great. But it does present me with another opportunity to declare how much, and how vehemently, I hate everything that Big AI's snake-oil peddling hypemen stand for.

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Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

All is clear in Kyiv.
Let's wait and see what December 31 bring to us.

Today's Ukrainian art: Ruslan Kutniak (born in 1967), Where is my Sun? Where? 2020

"The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices. God gives us the capacity for choice. We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes and we must."

-- Jimmy Carter, 2002, Nobel speech

R.I.P

How much longer do you think you'll have to put up with Rooney? Until Coleen leaves the jungle?

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