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A little null in the head. A little cold in the feet.

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With Alsup, this is consistent with handing Oracle their asses back to them. I really did see him as a hero for that. But this? This is proof that consistency has a dark side.

WIRED@wired.com

A court has determined that it was legal for Anthropic to train its AI tools on copyrighted works, arguing that the behavior is shielded by the “fair use” doctrine, which allows for unauthorized use of copyrighted materials under certain conditions.

wired.comAnthropic Scores a Landmark AI Copyright Win—but Will Face Trial Over Piracy ClaimsWhile the startup has won its "fair use" argument, it potentially faces billions of dollars in damages for allegedly pirating over 7 million books to build a digital library.
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Some people learn abstractly. Some learn through fear. And unfortunately, some will have to learn through pain.

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social

"After nearly five hours, he and his wife were released. They are now pursuing legal action. "It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us." www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...

nbcboston.com‘Treated like a criminal': US citizen says he was detained returning from CanadaBachir Atallah, a real estate attorney from New Hampshire, says he and his wife, Jessica Fakhri, were stopped crossing from Canada into Vermont
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Any day some overreaching imperial state is bitten in the ass by its own machinations is a good day. The bigger they are...

The Colvin Study@ajcoog.bsky.social

The Zionist apartheid and genocide would never have been possible without British mandates and military force after the Fall of the Ottoman Empire; and now Israel snubs the very state that made Zionist butchery and colonialism on the West bank possible? Ony to Zionists would this make sense.

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Prepare for the mother of all contract IT fuckery. Imagine every horror story from the DailyWTF and FailBlog rolled into one. The whole CityTime scandal? Pfft...amateurs. It's gonna be LEGENDARY.

WIRED@wired.com

BREAKING: DOGE is starting to put together a team to migrate the SSA's computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.

wired.comDOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System CollapseSocial Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

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Joe Beda
@h.olysh.it

The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

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WIRED
@wired.com

Cheap drone accessories from stores like Temu make it possible to turn a normal drone into a killing machine. Now anyone—from criminal syndicates to paramilitary groups, from disgruntled employees to ostracized teens—can mod their drones to do remote violence.

wrd.cmLow-Cost Drone Add-Ons From China Let Anyone With a Credit Card Turn Toys Into Weapons of WarChinese ecommerce giants like Temu and AliExpress sell drone accessories like those used by soldiers in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
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But is he tweaking?

NPR@npr.org

Ryan Wedding, a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder-turned-alleged-drug trafficker, "went from shredding powder on the slopes at the Olympics to distributing powder cocaine," the FBI says.

npr.orgA former Olympic snowboarder makes the FBI's Most Wanted listRyan Wedding, a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder-turned-alleged-drug trafficker, "went from shredding powder on the slopes at the Olympics to distributing powder cocaine," the FBI says.
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people who “failed to foresee and save money for their future needs” are to be treated ...“as subordinate members of the species, akin to…animals who are dependent.’” Do you have your education, health care, and retirement personally funded against all possible exigencies? Then that means you.

John Donegan@donegan.bsky.social

It’s all in James Buchanan’s manifesto. The economic theory that is the foundation stone of Project 2025. www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

ineteconomics.orgMeet the Hidden Architect Behind America's Racist EconomicsNobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean

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Cynthia Brumfield
@metacurity.com

"The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds." It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds berthub.eu/articles/pos...

berthub.euIt is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds - Bert HubertThe very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds. Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things the “King o...
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Make America Gamma Again ☢️

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com

The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the matter.

bloomberg.comDismissed Nuclear Bomb Specialists Recalled by Energy DepartmentThe Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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And that's why I'm here 😌

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Maddow: If you don't have Bluesky yet, I recommend it. It is a social media network that doesn't make me want to stab myself in the eye with a rusty fork

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