Brian Kelly

If your business model requires theft perhaps you should be charged with crimes.

Why not just ask people for permission?

Oh what’s that? You don’t think enough people would consent? So you’re just going to steal their livelihoods to get rich and hope they never notice?

AI fans always seem puzzled why some people have a revulsion to AI and one issue is the people in charge of AI are repulsive

why not opt-in? just ask permission first

if this is truly a positive feature then surely copyright holders will be happy to participate and have their work included if asked

just ask permission first

A guy on tik tok onside kicks into random things

"The lack of affordable housing and available jobs is contributing to broader economic immobility."
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Trump administration tries to tamp down panic for high-skill visa holders after last-minute overhaul The president announced Friday that H-1B visas will now come with a $100,000 annual fee, but a U.S. official said it will only apply to new visa applicants.

An absolute clown show.

Avoiding chaos like this is one of the many reasons a for *not* having EOs be the normal method of legislating or regulating. You really want more careful review than “Steve Miller doodled it on a napkin and Trump signed it with a sharpie.”

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

One thing that's absolutely f---ing unbearable on this site is that if you dare to point out that Trump is not actually successfully oppressing all of us on every conceivable front, that not *all* is irretrievably lost, a parade of doomers materializes to denounce you. It's counterproductive. Stop.

Go fash, lose cash

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

This is unreal

This is why you don't hire podcast hosts to lead the FBI. Complete amateur hour over there and it could lead to a murderer getting away.

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

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If my reading of this is correct, you'll have to pay $360 a year for ESPN's streaming service plus the same $149.99 a year for the baseball streaming product, which would represent a 239% increase in price over and above what people who pay for MLB.tv pay now. If, however, the ESPN streaming product is going to include the old MLB.tv out-of-market games, you'll still be paying $360 a year, which is more than double what you're paying now for MLB.tv. Though I suppose you could just subscribe to ESPN for the baseball season only and unsubscribe once it's over, so call it $180? Or, given that that the season starts in March now, $210? At present it's unclear, I guess. But it seems pretty obvious that there will be a price increase to watch what we can now watch on MLB.tv. Maybe a $30-60 one, maybe a much, much bigger one, which will no doubt cause a lot of people to simply give up watching games. Rob Manfred and the owners, meanwhile, will pocket a massive one-time payment from ESPN.

Major League Baseball: riding high with a range of compelling and recognizable stars, better pace of games, and increased viewership and interest
MLB ownership: lets do a new tv deal and shoot ourselves in the dick.

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National Museum of American History

📢 The OAH has issued a Statement on the White House Review of the Smithsonian. Read the statement: ow.ly/hgLR50WGhfQ

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

interesting how some tech bros claim college is overrated and people should drop out but “Ph.D level” is a marker of expertise

As someone who lives with an actual PhD - rather than one of Sam Altman’s robot pals - I do not believe or his legions of boosters are terribly familiar with what it feels like to talk to a PhD-level expert in any topic.

As a writing teacher, I don’t believe any of the below to be acceptable uses because of how frequently GenAI misleads and hallucinates. Also, summaries happen AFTER reading and during discussion of the work with the teacher and classmates. This is how we build inductive reasoning skills.

Ask your little AI friend how Labour's polling, you defeatist clanker-loving numpty.

The assumption that generative AI could be a "valuable partner" is unevidenced and the example activity is critical thinking work that could better be done in the absence of AI. It's thinking of something you COULD do with AI. Rather than what students SHOULD do to learn.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

The set of conditions to be met for Canada to recognize the state of Palestine is the most responsible suggestion I’ve seen by now

All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.

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