The Questionable Authority

Huge improvement! Now let's talk casting

Key point here:
Not all AI is generative AI. More conventional machine learning is still a thing, and still extremely useful in these contexts.

Wait, doesn't tariff revenue go into the treasury like other revenue? And don't you need an appropriation to spend money?

"Get away with" what?

Definitely distinct, in part because (aside from its use in trolling), adult content has often largely operated outside conventional IP schemes for very independent reasons.

The extent to which Patreon has effectively permitted creatives to monetize their work in a manner that is largely indifferent to intellectual property law protections* is underappreciated and understudied.

*In large part because it's basically a "Distributed de' Midici" compensation model.

Yeah, looking at your initial post, inadvertently or not, I think you did adopt and advance the administration's framing.

Curing cancer is a universal benefit and the costs are still local. So even if it cures cancer, they are still worse off relative to everyone else - they're bearing the costs, in effect, of our cured cancers as well as their own.

The thing about "high-value" is that value is very relative in this scenario.

That kind of manufacturing might be high-value to the shareholders, maybe even to state and national governments. But if its bringing higher bills to locals with few jobs to offset that, it's got negative value for them.

I don't know. If the big square boxes that got built in your neighborhood aren't adding many jobs (and even fewer high-paying ones) to your community while it simultaneously makes you personally worse off, I'm not sure if you care whether it's making AI slop or curing cancer.

me: fandom is so weird you get super invested in the doings of these other people who don't even care about your opinion most of the time and your entire day is based on whether they did good or feel bad and then you have to feel the same way

mom: This is just parenthood

Adjuncts who actually teach the classes: not in picture, not invited to meeting. Busy actually teaching the classes.

Some help needed here, y'all.

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The thing about "high-value" is that value is very relative in this scenario.

That kind of manufacturing might be high-value to the shareholders, maybe even to state and national governments. But if its bringing higher bills to locals with few jobs to offset that, it's got negative value for them.

Took me a second or two to realize you were talking about word count rather than grimdark.

If they had dug in on "threat," there's much more of a chance I'd agree. But the shift in their response to the appeal kinda killed that for me.

Like if Van Halen gets to the dressing room and instead of the candy they asked for someone has taken a shit in the bowl, Eddie is not feeling optimistic about the wiring

Yeah, I don't think it was a stunning exemplar of good judgment or anything. But the ban coming over a day later, immediately after a dust-up with Jay, and their shift on the reason for the permaban from "threat" to "hostile/disruptive" make me strongly question the good faith nature of the ban.

Or I could construct a series of probing questions the way I would for a deposition or cross-examination. Ones that are designed not to engage with you in good faith, but to lead you into making self-defeating and discrediting statements. That would be superficially polite, but probably more toxic.

To put it another way, I could respond to your initial post with something like "damn, you've got to figure out hostility, what did you do to deserve getting that kind of shit sandwich assignment," but follow that with something substantive - hopefully that wouldn't read as toxic.

Depends on what we're characterizing as hostile. It's possible for there to be slightly rude or disrespectful responses that are also productive, and contribute minimally to toxicity. And there are things like sealioning that can be reasonable in appearance, but contribute much more to toxicity.

lol. ok, i laughed.

It's an area with little existing law where the facts on the ground are critical, and where courts have historically been reluctant to intrude.

There are over 500 pages of materials in the national guard one already. Reading takes time. And decisions without reading are....sub-ideal.

That's what I thought you meant.

To an extent, that's why more time wasn't put into it today.

That's the one.

I have been trying to explain a microfiche machine to one of my dear, brilliant, talented, but clearly too young to be alive collaborators. And it is taking the last of my soul.

“Micro…fish?? I have never heard that word in my life.” I recorded the timestamp so it can be put on my tombstone.

That happened.