I'm picturing a balaclava with a colorwork motif of balalaikas and baklava. But somebody's probably already done it.

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A looser stitch can work if you don't mind a drapey and possibly see-through fabric. Otherwise your options are to add the extra yarn and see if you can get the correct gauge that way, or knit a larger size at your tighter gauge in order to get the right fit.

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This is stunning.

Interstellar Space Travel Will Never, Ever Happen It's basically impossible and they know it.

Sadly but obviously, Interstellar Space Travel Will Never, Ever Happen open.substack.com/pub/jasonpar...
Such a good essay.
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Who To Trust, George Bailey or Mr. Potter? Although this video and the connected web site don’t mention them, I encourage you to consider moving your money to a credit union. I have been a satisfied credit union member for more than t…

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A close-up of a gray garter rib cardigan collar with brown buttons.

Gray, you say? This is the Rugged Softie pattern.
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Phew! Watched it. Extremely tense and lurid. I give it a thumbs up.

We're just about to watch it. I'll report back.

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This is my all-time favorite Kennedy Center honors performance, and perfect music for today. Happy Solstice, everyone. There are brighter days ahead for us Northern Hemisphereans.
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This is glorious.

That episode was quite weird. As if the goal is to maximize the statistical perfection and/or nutritional value of my tea.

Will it taste like tea made with water sent through a coffee maker, or made with water stored in an urn that's normally filled with coffee? Because I've had that many times, and it's a real shock to the senses. In a bad way.

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A photo collage of knitted socks and cardigans in shades of aqua blue, deep green, red and gray.

Having a sale! All patterns at www.ravelry.com/designers/lo... 15% off through the end of December. Use coupon code LOOKY2025 to get your discount.
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An 1869 Thomas Nast cartoon with the title caption UNCLE SAM'S THANKSGIVING. The drawing shows people of all ethnicities and nationalities sitting around a table. The centerpiece is labeled SELF GOVERNMENT and UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE. In the lower corners is written "Come one, come all" and "Free and equal".

That's very interesting. The senators in the chamber seem to be suppressing smiles throughout.

I know my work (as a translator) is protected by moral rights in Europe, but don't know what those rights cover. Which I suppose is what the German lawsuit, and other ongoing cases in Europe, are trying to establish.

This would come down to what so many US legal questions come down to: who can afford to protect their rights. LLM manufacturers make gazillions off artists' work, and artists' only recourse is to track down and sue every person who knowingly or unknowingly plagiarizes them.

I see. So your point is that the end user should be liable if they then publish that work or otherwise infringe on the original creator's copyright. I wonder how laws written on that model would affect the bottom line of companies making LLMs. It would make using their products even more risky.

If you're referring to prohibiting the use of whole paragraphs of text without the creator's permission, that wouldn't be a new right, it would be the same old right to not be plagiarized. But I may have misunderstood your comment.

The fact that some LLMs have been shown to use texts in ways that would be legally categorized as plagiarism in the US, such as pasting in whole paragraphs from "training" texts, will hopefully lead to appeals to this judge's ruling in future.

Yes, the judge's ruling stated that using legally obtained texts to train LLMs was fair use because it is "transformative". For the AG, getting some compensation for authors was a victory, but considered a "first step" to the establishment of an LLM training licensing system. We'll see.

Correction--the settlement was in September.

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Anthropic settles with authors in first-of-its-kind AI copyright infringement lawsuit A U.S. district court is scheduled to consider whether to approve the settlement next week, in a case that marked the first substantive decision on how fair use applies to generative AI systems.

The Author's Guild won a similar case in the US last month. www.npr.org/2025/09/05/n...

The sweater it came from was always a bit tight, so I thought I would try working it from the top down, with a deep v-neck and sleeves that stop wherever I run out of yarn. See if I have enough yarn for something that fits. Working title: Skinflint Sweater.

A ball of pale-green, fluffy yarn and the first few rows of a raglan sweater knit from the neck down circular needles.

Here's my FLUFF piece. A barely-begun raglan made with repurposed angora/silk blend. At least, I think it's an angora/silk blend. I lost the tag from the sweater.
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