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Mary Branscombe
@marypcbuk.bsky.social
Omnivorous technology journalist. girl with the USB earring; author of the Cassidy At Large technomysteries. Buy me a ☕ @ lnkiy.in/IV9SD. she/her. Warning: contains opinions.
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Everyone has read Karl Schroeder’s Permanence where your enhanced digital eyes can’t even see Mickey Mouse in the world unless you have the subscription

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Here's a new piece from ex-Copyright Office GC Jacqueline Charlesworth that generative AI proponents will hate, laying out a straightforward case for courts to rule against fair use for LLM training. Not a prediction or agreement, but I'd be unsurprised if the Second Circuit adopted ~this reasoning.

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MBmaxberger.bsky.social

We should start naming hurricanes after fossil fuel companies.

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MBmarypcbuk.bsky.social

Don’t be a piker, use the Nigel Slater recipe with panettone and marmalade!

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MBmarypcbuk.bsky.social

That's not bread pudding, that's bread and butter pudding! Bread pudding comes out like spotted dick without the suet

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DCdavidchance.bsky.social

Chalmers is now head of the committee on standards in public life.

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ABalanbeattie.bsky.social

He’s plagiarised his own fiction. This man is operating at a level few of us can even imagine.

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ABalanbeattie.bsky.social

A tenner says Johnson concocted this lunatic plan purely to put it in his memoirs.

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MBmarypcbuk.bsky.social

They don't: the protesters explained their rationale. I'm just going further

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MBmarypcbuk.bsky.social

War of attrition because they keep trying things like this - LG used to scan local networks for the names of all media files and send them home, Sony created an ad channel and parked it on the front page where you couldn't remove it

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Mary Branscombe
@marypcbuk.bsky.social
Omnivorous technology journalist. girl with the USB earring; author of the Cassidy At Large technomysteries. Buy me a ☕ @ lnkiy.in/IV9SD. she/her. Warning: contains opinions.
2.1k followers1k following20k posts