We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Oh god, it’s worse. This is Open Ai dictating to the studios they can “opt out” of OUTPUTS. This isn’t even about the training, as Open Ai thinks it’s all theirs to use for free.

The hubris of these thieves is just obscene. I can’t see them not getting sued for this, it’s just that ridiculous.

It's weird to me that so many of my neighbors voted to take away their own healthcare to give me a tax cut. They need their health care. I don't need a tax cut. Neither does anyone who makes more than me, either.

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

I probably tweet this tune far too often, but with good reason. This sid slaps hard.🔥 #c64 #commodore

People mistaking cruelty for strength is at the root of most societal problems we face today.

System Of A Down, Chop Suey. Hokuto Force #C64
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Shadow of the Beast. Psygnosis, Ocean, 1990. I never knew there was a #C64 release for years. I am most familiar with the #Amiga version. Fantastic raw sid sounds.🔉🎶 #Commodore #C64

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Jeremy and colleagues, Many deals I work on have concepts of conditional notice. This is mine. Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment, which should include at minimum (i) signing on to the firm amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie in its litigation fighting the Trump administration's executive order against it, ii) committing to broad future representation, regardless of whether powerful people view it as adverse to them, (iii) refusal to cooperate with the EEOC's request for personal information of our colleagues clearly targeted at intimidating non-white employees, (iv) public refusal to fire or otherwise force out employees at the Trump administration's directive or implied directive and (v) public commitment to maintenance of affinity groups and related initiatives. This is not what I saw for my career or for my evening, but Paul Weiss' decision to cave to the Trump administration on DEl, representation and staffing has forced my hand. We do not have time. It is now or it is never, and if it is never, I will not continue to work here.

Tonight, hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email:

"Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."

Hey US-based artists, our government is preparing an executive order on AI & asking for public comment. Let's get some letters in (AI corps sure are)! You must submit by 11:59 EST tonight!!

I made a sample letter with submission instructions. Copy mine & augment, or write your own! bit.ly/429UIIw

We are now hosting the DOGE contact list locally. www.2600.com/content/2600...

All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation The legislation hasn't yet passed everywhere, but all 50 states introducing some form of right to repair legislation is a "tipping point” for the right to repair movement.

New: All 50 states have now introduced right to repair legislation. A really amazing milestone for a grassroots movement. Wisconsin just became the last state to do it:

www.404media.co/all-50-state...

Comprehensive Guide to UK's AI Consultation Introduction This document is intended to be an all-encompassing guide on actions you can take to speak out against the UK’s proposed plans to make a broad copyright exception for AI training. This d...

UK Artists/art fans upset about the government's AI copyright legislation plans that throw creatives under the bus, please see this document and fill out the linked government survey by the 25th!!! That's Tuesday!!!! Go go go! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

TDD goes a long way in making sure AI-generated codebases are maintainable and work as intended.

I expect to see a lot more people adhering to TDD out of necessity.

When it’s safety, there is a chance that legal frameworks will enforce it but business treats ethics as an optional PR stunt !

"The artists represented in this sale all have strong, existing multidisciplinary art practices, some recognized in leading museum collections," said a Christie's spokesperson. "The works in this auction are using artificial intelligence to enhance their bodies of work and in most cases, Al is being employed in a controlled manner, with data trained on the artists' own inputs." Says Christies

1/8 Fun update on that GenAi Christies show.

They lie quite a bit about their own show. Here’s a few:

Lie #1 Christies says work on the show comes from data which was trained on participants own inputs in this article below:

techcrunch.com/2025/02/08/c...

This just isn’t the case.

Ladies and gentleman, I present to you … artificial super-intelligence

Book covers for: Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed, The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya MacGregor, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, Monster by Walter Dean Myers, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

Got my first "Violating an Executive Order" and "I'll make sure you lose federal funding" parent threat today for teaching "DEI" books in our upcoming "Liberty and Justice" themed unit. Even in "Blue" Massachusetts we're dealing with this.

Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.

Am old enough to remember two years ago, when literally thousands of people assured me these stupid errors would go away.

They haven’t.

The negative externalities of GenAI never seem to end.

Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared” Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.

all signs point to cooked www.404media.co/microsoft-st...

Good time for a reminder:

At least $12 *trillion* from global oligarchs is hidden offshore in secret tax havens worldwide. And it is headquartered right here in the USA.

Instead of cutting lifesaving programs like the VA, Medicaid, and food stamps, we should be cracking down on tax havens for the ultra-rich.

I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

This is a moment. Remember it.

AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications Anthropic, the developer of the conversational AI assistant Claude, doesn’t want prospective new hires using AI assistants in their applications, regardless of whether they’re in marketing or engineer...

Anthropic, a company that is helping companies replace workers with AI, asks prospective workers to not use AI in their job applications because they want to know if they know how to do anything without AI:

www.404media.co/anthropic-cl...