ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

#CDCSays go ahead and and eat another brownie if it hasn't kicked in yet

Okay... I have a stupid question to ask #writers before I go to bed and regret it. I'm tired. I'm a little stoned. I've just crawled into my cozy little burrow and am so ready to go to sleep... but I just had a thought. A thought that might evolve into something actually worth writing about. But I'm in bed! It's chilly out of the bed! And I'm very tired. Do I, a sleep deprived, anxious wage-slave choose to either:

A) Stay up until three in the morning typing out this thought

B) Write down prompt to try to expand on it tomorrow (fruitless)

or

C) Just say "fuck it," and turn in for the night?

I'm trying to decide if Medium is still a viable place to grow my audience. Lately when I click on people's links I'm being taken to paywall pages (must be a member to read, not just logged in with my account), and I want to be sure I can set my material to be as widely read as possible.

But I know personally I'm starting to hesitate because it feels very pay walled.

I have two existing blogs there that have been dormant for a while.

Thoughts #writingcommunity? #bookstodon #medium

i love to watch a 3d printer. If i was trying to rob a bank and there was a 3d printer making something next to the vault i would probably fail to rob the bank. I don't know if the 3d printer would really be required for that to happen but i can't see another outcome if a 3d printer gets involved.

Net neutrality means that ISPs don’t get to speed up or slow down your web traffic based on what site you’re visiting. The FCC understood this in 2015, yet left the door open for the creation of fast lanes in their new rules. Tell them to fix this mistake. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/fcc-must-clarify-its-rules-prevent-loopholes-will-swallow-net-neutrality-whole

“It can happen again,” Judge Chutkan, who is expected to preside over Donald Trump’s criminal trial for trying to overturn the 2020 election, said Friday.
“Extremism is alive and well in this country. Threats of violence continue unabated.”
Those threats have become normalized in Republican discourse,
with right-wing figures across the country invoking violence and urging their supporters to arm themselves.
The man behind it all, Donald Trump, has yet to face any consequences thanks to the Supreme Court holding up his case over questions of presidential immunity. 
Since the January 6 attack, Trump has not toned down his own rhetoric,
saying that 2024 could be the “last election we ever have”
—and his far-right supporters could try to make that a reality.

https://newrepublic.com/post/180851/judge-warning-second-january-6-attack-chutkan-trump

They’re really out here proudly demonstrating the automatic crime machine, the hubris is mind boggling

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2018178

Then he sent us to his closett, where we saw among other things two very fine chests, covered with gold and Indian varnish, given him by the East Indy Company of Holland.

“You can’t stop AI crime and abuse now! The genie is out of the bottle!”

It costs literal billions, a small ocean’s worth of water, and electricity that could power nations to keep that genie out of the bottle. They absolutely do not have to make the abuses this easy or cheap

What should I dream about? I will abide by the results of this poll.

#StableDiffusion #AIArt #AIGenerated #AI #GenerativeAI #GenerativeArt

The greatest response letter since "I feel that you should be aware some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters." https://www.404media.co/lol-no-maker-of-fuck-the-lapd-shirt-laughs-at-cops-copyright-threat/ via @jasonkoebler

Today, we filed our final brief in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the publishers’ lawsuit against our library. For four years we've been fighting for library rights—what our founder, @brewsterkahle, calls “a battle for the soul of libraries in the digital age.” https://blog.archive.org/2024/04/19/internet-archive-stands-firm-on-library-digital-rights-in-final-brief-of-hachette-v-internet-archive-lawsuit/

New York AG rejects Trum $175M bond, setting the stage for a Monday hearing which may result in determination that the bond is without effect and lead to asset seizure.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4606053-ny-ag-trump-civil-fraud-judge-declare-175m-bond-without-effect/

"The New York attorney general’s office has asked a judge to void the $175 million bond former President Trump secured to put off paying the larger monetary damage award in his civil fraud case."

Seriously, how is it that insurance companies can track every little infraction that civilian drivers commit, but police departments can't tell when their officers are blatantly breaking the law?

Trump lost a $464M case because he fraudulently overvalued his properties -- from 200% to 3300%

Then for the bond, he found an insurer that is illegally taking on a risk far higher than they're allowed to under NY law -- by 1260%

Trump literally found the Trump of insurance

I spent a long time experimenting with AI before finally writing about it in depth. It can be pretty useful — but is it worth it?

https://www.citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useless/

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #newsletter #CitationNeeded