I’m not sure that works, because AFAIK there currently are no such regulations, and this bill was preemptive of any future ones. In any case, what got blocked in the Senate was a ban of any future such regulations.

Oh good, it will be in the public domain.

OpenAI, which is also fighting a string of copyright lawsuits, donated $50 million this year to a group of research institutions including Oxford University’s 400-year-old Bodleian Library, which is digitizing rare texts and using AI to help transcribe them.

When the company first reached out to the Boston Public Library, one of the biggest in the U.S., the library made clear that any information it digitized would be for everyone, said Jessica Chapel, its chief of digital and online services.

“OpenAI had this interest in massive amounts of training data. We have an interest in massive amounts of digital objects. So this is kind of just a case that things are aligning,” Chapel said.

🧑‍🚀 Wait it’s all Cloudflare?

Screwdrivers can’t even hammer nails.

I believe that enby is the preferred nomenclature.

After the surgery, the patient was able to use his mind to control his arm and perform simple tasks such as picking up a cup and drinking from it.

The horror.

CBS must be tankie, too, then: There Was No “Tiananmen Square Massacre”.

Previously.

Thank you UK state media, very cool! 🙄 https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMSrx5po6/

SAM. It’s not the machine. There’s a mismatch on the personnel code numbers. Tuttle should have had £31.06, debited against his account, not Buttle!
KURTZMAN. [horrified] Oh my God, a mistake!
SAM. Well at least it’s not ours.
KURTZMAN. [eagerly] Isn’t it? Whose is it?
SAM: Information Retrieval.
KURTZMAN. [smiling] Oh, good!

a 300 lb slurry of stack overflowers

yo dawg i heard u like drones…

A rental network would be very cool. One would come to you when called, and once you get to where you’re going, it would scoot off to another user, or take itself in for recharging, storage, or maintenance.

I wonder if they have gyroscopic stabilizers for full stops.

Robots of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your blockchains!

Paris is my seventh favorite Marx.

I’ll sell you a fair coin that’s nearly as accurate for half the price!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._R._Licklider

There isn’t a secret conspiracy to price people out of using computers for being a “democratizing force.” In fact, our computer & internet usage is monitored by the security state and by Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, etc. Or did we forget everything that Snowden revealed? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

C’mon we all know what this is: Remote Uyghur organ harvesting. /s

I swear they’re just flexing now. Next thing you know it’ll be autonomous robotic surgery on the Moon.

I know it’s bad. My wife is a researcher at a non-profit that relies greatly on federal grants, which are getting killed left & right, and so her company is laying off left & right.

This was all Greek to me, and it took a while for me to figure out how to google WTF you’re talking about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_U.S._federal_deferred_resignation_program

That’s a lot of microwave

Michael Moritz is in the big club that we ain’t in, so I’m surprised his rag published this.

They rolled out 5G and all we got was this lousy Havana Syndrome.

But my favorite macrotransaction casual game is Buying Games Despite Your Backlog.

Are statements made by all countries to be blocked? Should this post from Brazil—which had 22 upvotes and 0 downvotes—have been removed?

Maybe @[email protected] was in the mood to write you a poem, or at least have an LLM write you a poem.

995 work schedule for the techies. The tech oligarchy will never give up their H-1B visa immigrant labor force, because they know they can work them like dogs.

And here I thought HP was stalwartly antidisenshittificationalistic.

🏴‍☠️

https://annas-archive.org/

The hegemonic liberal conceptualization of free speech is fairly stable, and it’s understood that it doesn’t mean literally all speech. That’s the free speech I mean. But even under that meaning—which is one of the pillars of liberal ideology—neither side is giving it anything but lip service. It’s still only rhetoric to appear to be upholding liberal ideals.

I should go without saying that neither side is the side of free speech, but for speech aligned with their agenda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podman

Vote ChatGPT/DeepSeek 2028

• Noam Chomsky: The five filters of the mass media machine
• You’re Not Immune To Propaganda
• Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion
• Edward Bernays, Propaganda
• Michael Parenti,
  • Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
  • Make-believe Media: The Politics of Entertainment
• Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media