That is a superb lineup!
One bad apple for the teacher.
How anyone can be alive now and not acknowledge that we're well into a new era—one where all of our received political “wisdom“ since WWII is due for a thorough critical reevaluation—is beyond me.
But downloading pirated films is still stealing. Stealing is against the law. PIRACY. IT'S A CRIME.
This article mentions an LLM that had 45% of it's content taken from websites in violation of the longstanding Robots Exclusion Protocol (familiarly, robots.txt). We shouldn't have trusted AI firms with our current opt-out method… and now they want a new one? www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/t...
New research from the Data Provenance Initiative has found a dramatic drop in content made available to the collections used to build artificial intelligence.
"Murdoch" is brilliant! As a campaign, it puts a distinctly Google-able search term in voters heads and Murdoch as a figure can start to stand in synecdochally for a host of problems. (Admittedly, it also doesn't hurt that it sounds like perennial villain from TV's MacGyver.)
So only the owner can kick their dog? It was gratuitous. It was horribly articulated. It was a terrible, ineffective appeal that hurt Dem allies. Republicans win because they don’t do that disloyal garbage.
What they conveyed with that Tweet was immediately hurtful and alienating to trans people. But there will never not be the excuse that “the other side is worse!,” so 🤷♂️
The subjects' internal distortions about their party's aims in that article are breathtaking. One thinks "squabbling over the tax code" is why women don't date Reps. One thinks Reps are "a party of clean air, clean water." Lucian headed Twinks4Trump. All seem to have paying jobs in right-wing orgs.