This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
looks like AI shops really, REALLY don't want these cases to go to trial. I wonder why 🤔 www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge
Anthropic must pay thousands of impacted authors.
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Bass promoting fare-free LA metro is a really funny example of a politician attempting to pander but instead landing on a proposal that, within the community of people who care a lot about the issue, is a specific shibboleth for not knowing what you're talking about: bsky.app/profile/mayo...
Mayor Karen Bass@mayor.lacity.gov · 2w agoAs Chair, I’ll build a long-term financial plan to make Metro fare-free. I’ve fought for a world-class transit system my entire career because public transit should create opportunity for everyone.
something i learned a few years ago is that the odyssey and the iliad were part of a larger cycle of epics about the trojan war but we lost the other six. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Cy...
Epic Cycle - Wikipedia
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.
Forbes@forbes.com · 3w agoTaylor Farms, which supplies major fast food and grocery chains, was identified as the possible source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak Thursday.
I respect the new Cape Fear’s commitment to being absolutely unhinged
Stephen King@stephenking.bsky.social · last mo.CAPE FEAR: I'm rooting for Max Cady.
Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with
Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 4w ago‘The Odyssey’ women Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong'o, and Charlize Theron stun in Paris.
ChatGPT posters and flyers are polluting real life and driving me insane. Please respond to this with the worst ones you've seen irl. I'll post some in the thread www.404media.co/we-are-livin...
We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’
"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."
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I know it’s not a popular position but I really don’t see mass unemployment from generative AI soon because of structural and technical features of the tech. Gift link where I explain the reasons. It’s distraction when AI will really cause many other big problems. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...
Neil Turkewitz@neilturkewitz.bsky.social · last mo.“GenAI as it currently exists cannot easily replace human beings, because it cannot manifest human intelligence. That won’t stop it, however, from destabilizing society in ways more profound than we might even imagine.” @zey.bsky.social We need to focus less on the frontier & more on the homeland.
"AI agents are agents of the person or organization that deploys them—and should be treated by the law as such [...] To allow businesses to hide behind the excuse of faulty AI [...] would introduce disastrous incentives for corporate misbehavior." 🎯 www.schneier.com/blog/archive...
AI and Liability - Schneier on Security
Earlier this month, a German court ruled that Google is liable for its AI search summaries. Rejecting defenses like “users can check for themselves,” and that they generally know “that information gen...
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SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to show up in full combat gear on a hot summer day to the pool he filled with algae because he gave a paint job to one of his cigar puffing cronies. you are ordered to stop tourists from touching the green water. good luck soldier
skáld@danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 2mo agonational guard deployed to keep people from touching the reflecting pool
Last night, 800 people came to Echo Park Lake to see the Argentina vs. Algeria game as part of 100 watch parties being staged in city parks. Today, LA's City Council is voting to doom the city's parks department
As LA's parks host the World Cup, the city votes to defund them
We always knew these megaevents weren't going to fix our public spaces, but we didn't expect our councilmembers to abandon them as well
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Spot on op-ed from Payton Rockwood asking California state leaders to give urban rail transit the #SB79 treatment - i.e. preempting local veto over rail lines: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor....
Contributor: The Wilshire subway took 46 years. Future projects should skip the decades of objections
California can't afford to entertain lawsuits and stalling by local entities. Transit, like housing, is too important to let NIMBYs interfere.
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seeing alternating posts about the Obama Center and motocross stunts on the White House lawn makes my brain feel like it's being hurled between timelines. (we're in the bad one)
love these regular “oopsy-daisy we leaked all your info” payments 🙄
Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy
I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time. influence.citationneeded.news
Tech Influence Watch
Tracking cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industry influence on 2026 elections in the United States.
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Widow’s Bay has one of the best end-credit needle-drops I think I’ve ever heard
I think the game industry is gonna split, where we'll brand industrial games as AI-filled junk food (and enjoy junk food on its own merits) vs. indie will emphasize some sort of "natural" "organic" "handmade" "100% human" labeling (with all the pros and cons)
There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.