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“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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Jason Kint@kint.bsky.social · 6d ago

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

great art articulates eternal truths

After reading the article: headline and lede are far more provocative than the article itself. The writer came to Taiwan in April at the peak of Cheng Li-wun's "para-diplomatic" efforts. It shows. A lot can change in 5 months. Pandering to China remains a losing strategy for politicians in Taiwan.

Alan Sunley@alansunley.bsky.social · 2w ago

Full article here

The inclusion of Pendleton, named after the Pendleton roundup rodeo, is particularly interesting here Its supply chain is interwoven between the U.S. & Canada and the brand has been unabashedly pro U.S. military/veteran It’s a quintessentially north American product whose logo is a literal cowboy

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2w ago

So it would appear that the White House has banned the importation of Crown Royal, Canadian Club, and all other Canadian whiskeys/scotches. Stock up if they're one of your favorite brands, because the U.S. might not get any new supply for the next couple years...

not what the report said, at all, but clickbait gonna clickbait

Futurism@futurism.com · 3w ago

"Data centers can be bombed with conventional munitions."

"We are at a recruiting high that we haven’t seen since the early '90s. We are at capacity." After years of recruiting shortages, the Coast Guard's largest training center is preparing to keep up with a rise in recruits. From Stars and Stripes' Kaylyn Barnhart Batista:

‘We are at capacity’: Coast Guard’s largest training center prepares to keep up with rise in recruits

The Coast Guard is seeing a surge in new recruits, putting pressure on the service’s largest training center, which is already at capacity.

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Over the past 8 years, Jeff Schogol has been a steadfast and reliable teammate, a trusted voice for our audience, and the heart of Task & Purpose. Today is his last day, and as he leaves, we want to take a moment to reflect on his incredible contributions and the impact his work has had.

The collective shrug in Washington to news that the national debt has passed $40 trillion demonstrates how drastically the politics of deficit spending has changed in recent years. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/u...

In Trump’s Washington, Ballooning National Debt Stirs Little Action

The relative indifference to the news that the U.S. government now owes $40 trillion demonstrates how drastically the politics of deficit spending has changed.

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Ontario Lacus is a lake on Titan. A Moon of Saturn. Saturn, a faraway planet. But who knows what the limits are for this WH 🤦

Jason Perry@volcanopele.bsky.social · 4w ago

Sigh, I just had to have a conversation about whether the EO covers the reference to Ontario Lacus in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature on the USGS-Flagstaff website.

Dolly Parton, one of the greatest singer-songwriters in country music who was also much cherished for her philanthropy, has died aged 80. Read more: www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

“I fear for the day when a visitor's National Park experience is interrupted by being pulled over and held at gunpoint because a license plate reader misread their plate.”

The National Park Service Is Using Flock. Rangers Are Pissed

“I fear for the day when a visitor's National Park experience is interrupted by being pulled over and held at gunpoint because a license plate reader misread their plate.”

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man, this was a really depressingly common view even among non-pedophiles if you go back and look at stuff. also if you ever want to be truly 'what the fuck' read reviews of Lolita from the time, a book where Nabokov is Not Subtle.

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · last mo.

On the day of Gajdusek’s release, friends, including the neurologist Oliver Sacks and the physicist Freeman Dyson, met him at the jail, along with four of the children he had brought up. “Whatever he may or may not have been doing, it was clearly not bad for the kids," Dyson said

The most bombed McDonald's in the world is in my old neighborhood. It has withstood at least nine bombardments. It is also Ukraine's first McDonald's, opened in 1997 to hours-long lines. Since then, it has become an island of normalcy in the wartime: www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

Russia struck this McDonald’s at least nine times. It’s still open.

The walls are pockmarked from shrapnel and the golden arches melted at Ukraine’s first McDonald’s. But the restaurant, a symbol of the country’s Western aspirations, still serves as a refuge in Kyiv.

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For those of you who might wonder, USS Midway, now a fabulous museum in San Diego, holds the record for the longest deployment by a carrier at 332 days in 1972-73 off Vietnam. Still, Midway split her deployment into 4-5 week line periods bookended by (gasp! clutch pearls!) periods of liberty ashore.

We only report what we can prove. Information that has been credibly corroborated and we believe would stand up under legal scrutiny Even if the news you're reading is blowing your mind, there's probably much wilder information that wasn't reported because it couldn't be vetted to that standard

Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · last mo.

What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?

totally plausible and incredibly ridiculous. I can write three pages on the trials and tribulations of a matchbook salesman. be curious about everything. see the world before you leave it

Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · last mo.

We are very gradually going to start realizing with horror how completely we have fucked the brains of an entire generation.

We are very gradually going to start realizing with horror how completely we have fucked the brains of an entire generation.

it's only possible bc their constituency populations are so strong but i genuinely think the UK does it right by not announcing any results until they've counted everything

Anchorage Man@sethpartnow.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Regardless of how it turns out NO HE DIDN’T. It’s like saying I have more fingers on my left hand after counting 8 digits from left to right with a ring finger and a pinky still to report.

TVs. I don't know if any single consumer product has improved as rapidly (while going down in cost) as the TV.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

same with Miyazaki's love of planes *and* hatred of bombing.

Astreia@redoubters.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You know how one of the things that makes Hideo Kojima's repertoire of work is the tension between his childlike Wow Military Tech Is Cool and his sincere pacifism I kinda feel like that re: AI. I think the potential downstream effects are devastating but man I find the tech itself *fascinating*

The 30th iteration of the biennial Rim of the Pacific exercise — its largest yet — officially wrapped up on Friday after more than a month of training across the Hawaiian islands www.staradvertiser.com/2026/08/03/h...

RIMPAC wraps up after more than a month of training across the Hawaiian islands | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

The 30th iteration of the biennial Rim of the Pacific exercise — its largest yet — officially wrapped up on Friday after more than a month of training across the Hawaiian islands.

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CK@ckcubed.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Appreciate her reporting but local media, notably Cleveland Plain Dealer, has been covering this for months. National media is late to the story.

Not now Nazi warship!

Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop

Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.

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Like documentaries? Then you probably don’t want the two largest privately held news archives — the lifeblood of documentary film — under the same ownership. Especially when that ownership kisses up to politicians by censoring their critics.

Film producers warn Paramount-Warner merger could restrict access to news archives

By Dawn Chmielewski and Paul Sandle LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, July 30 (Reuters) - A group of film producers has urged the British culture minister to intervene in the proposed merger of Paramount Skyda...

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9 years ago, @mjgault.bsky.social and I wrote opposing reviews of Dunkirk for warisboring.com; he panned it, I liked it. Sadly, I can't find either of our reviews as the site is dead (can anyone recover them?) Here's a screenshot though of the draft I submitted.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I think my oddity here is that I really liked Dunkirk, which I think tends to get ranked towards the bottom of the Nolan filmography?

Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Justice imposed a freeze on property and transport assets owned by the North Caspian Operating Company (NCOC), which is developing one of the country’s largest oil fields, over failure to pay a massive environmental fine.

Kashagan Environmental Fine Enforced in Kazakhstan

An asset freeze could be the first step of an acrimonious fight with the foreign oil majors developing one of the country’s largest oil fields.

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Man who caused Park fire, one of the largest in California history, convicted of arson

Man who caused Park fire, one of the largest in California history, convicted of arson

A judge found Ronnie Stout guilty of starting the devastating Park fire. The 44-year-old Chico man faces 25 years to life and is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 9, according to the Butte County district attorney's office.

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It's not just Taiwan or the South China Sea. These disputes could reshape the geopolitical order in East Asia – or even spark a war.

Beyond the South China Sea: 4 Other Maritime Flashpoints in East Asia

These disputes could reshape the geopolitical order in East Asia – or even spark a war.

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