"Generative AI is here to stay" says the Authors Guild CEO. I reject that. It's losing money at a great rate because it's enormously expensive and has few if any profitable use-cases. (It's also fucking the planet, but apparently no one cares about that.) @authorsguild.bsky.social
Oh, fuck no. Fuuuuuuuuck no. I rebuke this. I rebuke this utterly. I expected better from the Author's Guild.
NEW YORK, October 9, 2024âToday, Created by Humans (CbH), a pioneering platform that enables authors to license their works to AI developers, and the Authors Guild, the nationâs oldest and largest professional organization for writers, announced a new partnership to [âŚ]
Goooooods, I have my falltime ocular migraines. This is the first one I've had in the morning, to boot. Fortunately, I appear to have dodged the worst of the pain, and it's just a very dull ache that I feel deep in muh skull bones. Man, every month there's always *something* wrong with my body.đ
You could post a picture of a piece of bread on the sidewalk and tell me it was making people upset on Twitter, and I would believe you without question.
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They fired 650 people a week ago. This should be illegal!
Microsoft boosted its dividend by 10% and set a share buyback plan of as much as $60 billion
Microsoft Corp. unveiled a new $60 billion stock-buyback program, matching its largest-ever repurchase authorization, and raised its quarterly dividend 10%,
*Staggers out of a Nostalgia Vortex* Well, there goes half my weekend, lost to rewatching almost all of Reboot for the first time since I was a 90s kid. XD Godsdamn, that Season 3 perspective flip is better than I remember.
Ugh, gods, I hate getting used to new glasses. The adjustment period always suuuuuucks. đ
It infuriates me - Concord should open up *very* important discussions about the unhealthy state of the industry and how scarily unsustainable it is. But no, canât have that, heaven forbid the outrage tourists donât hijack another discussion to make it all about them and their delusional crap.