In other news: we have lawyers to protect our copyrights, you don't. Suck it.

So I have a LLM read a book and paraphrase its contents, that's not stealing?

Soon to be the first Greased Priest.

He's 100% committed to getting the Presidency to extricate himself from his situation, and using that office to keep himself out of the reach of justice.

I can only imagine how desperate and helpless an entire generation of children feel in Russia right now, with their fathers sent to die in a worthless war.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - Orwell, 1984

Everyone knows that the real purpose of CAPTCHA tests are to train computers to replace us.

Supreme court: preventing hedge funds from owning single-family homes infringes on their free speech to dictate what you have to pay to not be homeless.

He should have let himself be fired. Then he could have brought a lawsuit against the school district over the matter. The school district would have had to demonstrate their reason to fire him on the record. If the researcher received damages for wrongful termination, the taxpayers would know it's their money that is being frivolously spent to support someone's homophobic agenda.

John Fetterman shows the integrity of John Fetterman. I am sure many of his caucus are nervous about maintaining a majority.

Unless Musk gets a hearing in front of a judge who exposes his own sympathy to fascism, I can't see this case going anywhere. The truth is an absolute defense to libel.

It's quite ominous that retired senior military officers need to say this. It suggests that if Trump is reelected, we could see widespread mutiny, because officers would refuse to accept orders for which they might be criminally liable. Even if SCOTUS makes Trump immune, it does not necessarily make anyone following his orders immune. Choosing between a committing a crime like murder, and another like insubordination, an officer might well choose insubordination.

I remember once when I accidentally turned on my phone during a flight instantly the plane started to plummet out of the sky. The phone slipped out of my hands and I groped for it while people and service items flailed around the cabin as the plane tumbled. Finally I slipped out of my belt and grabbed it. With only 10,000 feet of altitude to spare, I finally managed to get the phone to go into shutdown mode by holding the power button down. The plane righted itself immediately, and I slipped the phone into my pocket quietly and kept a low profile for the rest of the flight.

This is Enron-scale manipulation. Someone's ripping off the public and making a mint with the help of the regulators.

Now that Thomas's image can not get any worse, he's just going to become more overt about trying to destroy the US government from the bench. That's all that will happen.

The point is to show she can intentionally and decisively be cruel and mean, especially to an animal under her custody. This is seen as a desirable character trait to Trump's followers.

Yeah, this is the chaebol system at work. The Faustian deal between these megacorps and the citizens of South Korea means that it is impossible for Samsung to fail or to be accountable for their bad business decisions. South Korea is the most developed cyberpunk technofeudalistic society.

It would seem to me that if a governor could order military actions in another state, that would make this a nation of 50 commander-in-chiefs, not one. I would think that, if not under orders from POTUS, any military actions of the Florida National Guard in another state would be illegal.

How could this man bring the republic so close to ruin? Our democracy must be in a perilous state indeed.

If Summers was really serious about "protecting" trans children, he should have said he was going to place the child into state custody. If there was an actual threat against the child, that's what he should do, but there is not and Summers knows it.

This is like a day's worth of artillery shells for them. Every bit helps.

This is the behavior the maximizes short-term shareholder value, not building a long-term profitable, innovative enterprise. When some other company temporarily discovers a money spigot like Google did, there might be a brief resurgence of such an environment, but generally no one values or wants to protect innovation, as dollars are easily quantifiable and future potential is subjective. This is why 99% of the time people keep their head down and collect their paychecks.

He's ok with it as long as the machines are all running Windows, and he gets his fair share.

How is it a breach if data was shared intentionally? This is a violation of confidentiality.

Every year California is becoming more like Night City. Cyperpunk is supposed to be a dystopia, not an aspiration.

If there are commercials, why should someone need an Amazon Prime membership at all? It becomes just like broadcast TV then, and they should just allow anyone to watch to maximize revenue. They have all this AWS infrastructure to deliver video, why not maximize the use of it?

There's no louder way to telegraph that you are in the closet except by creating an anti-LGBTQ hotline. This is going to be the new Grindr.

Don't worry, they're going to a subscription burger based model. You'll have to pay them each month to enter the restaurant.

They are feuding because it's the only way both of them will stay in the news cycle. People like this will do literally anything to stay relevant, including acting like Mean Girls on the floor of Congress.

Never thought that Russia would become the Republic of Gilead, but I suppose they want to excel at something.

Maybe breaking away from the hive mind and eating fewer tide pods would be good for the public.

Sergei Magnitsky already did this in 2009, but I suppose we needed a reminder.

"When Kissinger got the Nobel Prize, satire died" - Tom Lehrer

In other news, 1600 millionaires have made significant donations to their Congressmen and paid lobbyists. Expect a new "The IRS is evil" campaign soon.

It's a wonder how Outlook and Exchange Server are used by most companies, many of which have sensitive confidential and proprietary data. Choosing Microsoft is all about having someone to blame for your security problems, not achieving secure communications and storage.

When the primary medium of negotiation is of prisoner exchanges, I suppose you can expect humans to become currency.

Perhaps the MAGA base is finally running out of money for their champion to piss away. Though if they had any more, I'm sure Trump would be willing to spend to his very last supporter.

We'll now need AIs to spot AI fakes. AI wins!

The CCP can artificially depress the value of their currency and subsidize their industries indefinitely. They are doing this on the backs of their workers, who should earn more for their labor. They are doing this because their own workers are too poor to provide sufficient domestic demand for their consumer goods, however, this strategy just makes their workers poorer, exacerbating the problem. Chinese exports should be used to make their economy self-sustaining, but they just perpetuate economic bubbles and malinvestment that cause economic stagnation. Neither domestic nor international commerce has never been free of interference or fair.

C. Thomas: Even though I have covered myself in shit, please do not say I stink. It's unfair!