Oh look, the thing everyone said the thing Musk and Swift were championing because of assignation coordinates for would happen is happening.

Who knew?! I fucking swear. I think the two of them should rally against regulations that prevent people from storing gasoline in their bedroom.

Socialism? I’m pretty sure someone was against that.

I wish hell was real. But even then, that’s likely too good for this shit stain.

Web 3.0 should be known as “If you think this place is bad now, just wait till you see our new <quote>feature</quote>.”

It’s super sad how that site continues to degrade in quality.

amid an ongoing customer boycott over its scaling back of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives

I mean, I’m sure that played a role. Myself though, I’m just priced out. Target is price slightly above Walmart but with marginal quality improvement. At this point in the game, I’m either dirt cheap or serious investment and I just can’t be in-between.

I follow that up with a clarification in the next sentence.

So these companies that have feed data into their models that they have not acquired the licensing rights to, should not be allowed to continue onward until that has been rectified.

Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in the Anthropic case indicated the following:

• Training LLMs = Fair Use (in general)
• Scanning Purchased Books = Fair Use (broadly)
• Pirated Copies and Indefinite Retention = Not Transformative

Training LLMs typically is transformative because LLMs rarely give regurgitated answers, that is a copy of the data is not stored internally to the model. That storage is important later. But Judge Alsup indicated that there was narrow application to this fair use because it required a license agreement (which Anthropic had procured) to scan works into their model.

Buying a book and typing a report on it is not much different than what LLMs do and thus Judge Alsup indicated that such was also fair use and “quintessentially transformative”.

Where Judge Alsup drew the line are books and works that were scanned into the model without any permission to do so, be it they obtain that permission from the author or the publisher. Additionally, Anthropic stored the books within their system for additionally training on iterative models. This is not allowed. A model must be augmented by itself or new agreements obtained to start a new.

So you are correct that LLMs are indeed transformative and are permitted under a fair use defense. But there’s limits to that applicability. And again to turn around to what I personally believe. I think all of this is non-sense and more reasons why copyright doesn’t make sense in this age.

Also, I should note, that the output of a model can be subject to copyright violation. Just like you can use Photoshop to make something close enough to an original to get in trouble with trademark, so too can you use image generation to make a copy of something and it too would find you in trouble.

I’m a very hard copyleft kind of person. In fact, I’m at a disagreement to copyright, trademark, patent, etc laws in general.

THAT SAID The laws are to be followed. And I believe that people should respect copyright while that remains the law of the various nations. So, while I do support image generation and video generation models, I go only do far as to when those models one day respect the law. Which them feeding copyright things into a model IS NOT and SHOULD NOT be legal (unless we also remove copyright et al for everyone, not just large tech corporations).

So these companies that have feed data into their models that they have not acquired the licensing rights to, should not be allowed to continue onward until that has been rectified. Now there will be people who will say that will slow these tools’ development down. Perhaps, I could convince them to spend those billions of dollars to get them to get rid of copyright as a concept altogether. But that, they will not do, because they will inevitably seek protections that once stomped on once they have supplanted most of the industry.

So that’s my take.

The entire point of a C- suite is to have a room full of fall guys for the board

This can’t be stressed enough. Every since the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 which came from the Enron and Worldcom collapses, C-suite exists as the person to go to jail if shit really hits the fan.

The idea of the law was to hold companies accountable, instead all if has done is force companies to create more layers and places to point fingers, thus muddling everything and making to where no one can be held accountable.

At the same time, Chief officers now knowing that there’s legal requirements, have just demanded outrageous pay and compensation because of the “massive risk” they are taking with any company.

I’m glad we have SOX, but boy has that law really missed the mark on what it was enacted to do.

Rule 8, Section 5.

All absentees for whom no sufficient excuse is made may, by order of a majority of those present, be sent for and arrested, wherever they may be found, by the sergeant-at-arms or an officer appointed by the sergeant-at-arms for that purpose, and their attendance shall be secured and retained.

And

Until a quorum appears, should the roll call fail to show one present, no business shall be transacted, except to compel the attendance of absent members or to adjourn. It shall not be in order to recess under a call of the house.

It does not require a quorum, it is a measure voted on by those present. This is the same thing in lots of State legislatures including the US House. There’s usually a rule that allows whoever is present to be able to bring a motion to those present to force those who are not present to the floor. It’s usually one of a handful of motions that don’t require quorum.

If my years have taught me anything, it’s the latter.

My favorite is SQuirreL SQL. Something about that 1990s Java look is always claiming to me.

Amazon makes the majority of its money from AWS. Literally using the Internet makes them buckets of money.

People can boycott it all they want. I just don’t use them, but none of that really hurts Amazon in the end.

If people want to actually hurt Amazon they need to call on the Government to break up AWS, Ma Bell style.

Yes, this tweet is actually devoid of reality.

Nebraska is indeed facing a shortfall in their budget, but it is wholly of their own making. In 2023, lawmakers used the surplus to pass a personal and corporate income tax decrease. However, the surplus was largely due to one time Federal aid they received.

Now that the Federal aid has ended (and it ended because it was scheduled to end, not because Trump ended it), the tax revenues are not enough and the State is -$432M. They raided the rainy day fund for $150M, but all this does is delay the inevitable. The State was hoping that the decrease tax would spur growth and for the most part the State’s economy has been strong but steady, not exactly growing and nowhere near enough to cover this shortfall.

It’s very clear that the State has mismanaged the budget. You cannot use one time aid to fund long term tax cuts, that’s the intelligence of finding a lower paying job because you found a coupon. Nebraska’s Republican led State Legislature is pretty much the largest causer of harm to the State. Not to mention that they also passed LB 243 in 2023 which took a large amount of funding away from Schools, so outside of just ending public education, there’s not much more money they can extract from their favorite thing to extract money from.

But all that said, the State did it to themselves. No need for Trump to be involved.

I will say that the inner party Democrats are absolutely not going to learn any lesson from this.

They will lose the 2028 and wonder who they need to blame outside of themselves. I’ve honestly tried voicing my concerns with the TN Democrat party, but LOL they don’t give a bleep about anything from the State of TN.

I’ll keep speaking my mind but shoot it doesn’t feel like anything is going to move the needle with them.

They were arrested in El Salvador, likely the charge is “Fuck that person in particular”. El Salvador has long since left any semblance of law and order, that’s why Trump has become so cozy with them.

I will be absolutely shocked if the person is still alive a year from now. And this also highlights why everyone knew that trying to mount legal defense from El Salvadorian jurisdiction was never going to happen. The country has demonstrated zero compunction with incarcerating people the government doesn’t like and indicating that legal rationale isn’t needed to justify their actions.

Roughly 2.9 million people who have student loans are age 62 or older. I’m very curious as to how many in that demographic are within this defaulted status. Mostly because any change in social security benefits for a retiree is life altering and if any significant portion of that group that’s defaulted is also this 62 or older group, the changes this will have a massive impact on the population. Retirees that get caught into money troubles not only brings them down, but usually the family that ultimately has to catch them from completely falling through the cracks.

So completely unqualified people, gotcha.

Well the bars kind of need to have a particular bit of strength to prevent prisoners from taking over the place.

The prison camp isn’t where they want to hold them. It’s the Guantanamo Bay’s Migrant Operations Center where they want to hold them. It suffers the same issues at Alcatraz, so either way they want to slice the bread here, they have to go through a set of hoops to get it to any kind of position to hold long term prisoners.