Now, everyone is so furious about OpenAI stealing a beloved celebrity's voice. But what about the many artists, writers/authors, and creators whose copyrighted works OpenAI stole to create works resembling and replacing those people's products? Not famous enough to generate the same outrage, right? At least now, everyone knows how bad Sam Altman is. He thinks he is above the law. I'm glad someone is standing up to this bully and I hope something good come out of it.
Looking forward to #TeamTrump bringing up a last surprise witness tomorrow who's just some Proud Boy goon specifically there to tell Merchan "it'd be a shame if something happened" to his daughter.
More detail from the International Criminal Court re. arrest warrants for the leaders of Hamas and Israel. Among the war crimes categorized & defined for Netanyahu & Gallant of Israel are:
"cutting off supplies of electricity and water" and "attacks on facilities that produce food and clean #water".
The explicit war crime is "intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare."
This conclusion comes from the unanimous report from the Panel of Experts to the ICC Prosecutor.
Alito flies an upside down flag. Thomas's wife openly supports the insurrection. My latest OpEd details the scary truth that this corruption is who SCOTUS has mostly always been—the greatest obstacle to justice in America.
Let me know what you think: https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/what-if-the-greatest-obstacle-to
I have 38,000 followers on Mastodon. If only 1% of my followers gave me one dollar a month on Patreon, I would be making 38 million dollars every single month. The power of the generosity of strangers blows my mind.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts
Justice Sam Alito sold at least some of his stock in Anheuser-Busch and bought stock in Molson Coors on Monday, August 14, 2023, amidst an anti-trans boycott.
What happened and what’s it mean? At Law Dork, I explain: https://www.lawdork.com/p/alito-bud-light-stock-sale-anti-trans-boycott
Yet another reason to ditch Slack. Like there weren't a hundred already.
If you use Slack for work, your messages and DMs to friends and colleagues are now being used to train the company’s machine learning features — and everyone is opted in by default.
A quiet update to the company’s policy suggests messages, data and files sent by users are helping Slack to improve its in-app features like channel recommendations, search results and emoji suggestions, reports @PCMag. Individual users can’t opt out either, something critics have called a “privacy mess.”
New Report! "Two-Thirds of Court Asylum Applicants Found Legally Entitled to Remain."
Out of 1M+ asylum cases decided by immigration judges over the past decade, 685,956 (66%) were legally entitled to remain in the United States due to asylum or other relief.
Via Kyle Griffin:
New: Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin is calling on Alito to recuse himself from all cases involving the 2020 election.
"The Court is in an ethical crisis of its own making, and Justice Alito and the rest of the Court should be doing everything in their power to regain public trust."
When questioned why a Confederate battle flag flew over his house for a week in 2023, Justice Alito said, “That was my son.”
And the flag of Nazi Germany that was up for a day at the start of 2024? “The dog.”
“And the Pepe flag that is going up for a couple of weeks in September is an innocent mistake,” he added.
Hello #Mastodon friends
Are you still on #Twitter?
GET THE FUCK OFF IT:
"X now treats the term cisgender as a slur"
https://www.engadget.com/x-now-treats-the-term-cisgender-as-a-slur-211117779.html
I'm an astronomer specializing in #SETI, #UV #Instrumentation. #RadioAstronomy, #InterstellarMatter (#ISM), #VolunteerComputing, #BOINC, #SETIatHome, #retroComputing #retroGaming ...Wait a minute... That's not specializing!