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Dave Ferguson
@daveferguson.bsky.social
Not as bad as you might think.
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You'll find this cognitive land-grab in Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement. It's set to "on" by default, because nothing says respectful community like assuming consent without asking about it.

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In case you needed *another* reason to deplore LinkedIn, I've learned from a colleague that they've automatically opted people into agreeing to have "LinkedIn and its affiliates use your personal data and content you create on LinkedIn to train generative AI models..."

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He's NOT good at firing, except pretend employees on a reality show. He gets other people to do his firing, which gives him security, comfort, and plausible deniability. When (not if) U.S. citizen are killed by his enablers, Teflon Don will blame some Homeland Security chud or Chad he "never met."

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The female relatives on that tree are so overwhelmingly Mary, Sarah, or Catherine that I treasure the girl who married my dad's grand-uncle. Named for (I think) her father, Murdoch, she is... Murdena. (We also have names like Willena, Donalda, and Hughena.)

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Looking on in sympathy; the Nova-Scotia-born branches of my family tree crammed with MacDougalls, MacIsaacs, and 3x as many Macdonalds as any other name. ;-) "There is no joy without Clan Donald; there is no strength without them; the best clan in the world: every good man was one of them."

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Well, he can always buy himself another citizenship and slide out.

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...Blanche: I wouldn't say it was a manipulation. Merchan: This isn't a repost at all. Your client had to type it out. Use the shift-key and all.

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...Now, [Judge] Merchan asks [Trump atty] Blanche about what [Fox TV host] Jesse Watters, in fact, said. Blanche: No. [ =not a direct quote] Merchan: "So your client manipulated what was said and put it in quotes? ...

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@nsil.bsky.social I thought you'd enjoy (insofar as you can, professionally) this exchange at the NY trial. Context: Trump posted a 'qoute' from Watters to which in fact Trump added text inside the quotes...

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There were 11 such districts, and in the most heavily Democratic one (3rd, Norfolk area), 44,000 people had voted Republican in the 2010 congressional election. So 500 signatures didn't seem like a high hurdle.

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Dave Ferguson
@daveferguson.bsky.social
Not as bad as you might think.
32 followers158 following129 posts