i want to know where the software was made
i want to know who made the software
i want to know why the software was made
i want to know why software was chosen as the means to the end
i want to know what will happen when the software is no longer available or is changed beyond recognition
As my daughter says, "we are cooked!"
I'm not trying to be pedantic here; the language matters. Children of immigrants are not some special, weird category of citizens; they owe their citizenship to the same thing that the vast majority of the rest of us do. That's the point!
Highlighted section of the Copilot ToS which says "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"
www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this
This is either brilliant or scary:
Anthropic accidentally leaked the TS source code of Claude Code (which is closed source). Repos sharing the source are taken down with DMCA.
BUT this repo rewrote the code using Python, and so it violates no copyright & cannot be taken down!
Still wondering if inequality is out of control?
This piece by @kevinbaker.bsky.social is as good as everyone says it is. Makes me wish I still ran a magazine so I could have the privilege of publishing it! artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/kill-chain
My brother went to Penn and said he felt more like the international students than the Americans.
Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros:
Paramount+
CBS
CNN
Showtime
HBO
Warner Bros
TNT
TBS
MTV
DC Studios
Nickelodeon
Comedy Central
Cartoon Network
And more...
This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped.
State AGs must step in and block it.
Find someone who loves you as much as an *outgoing* GOP congressman loves his country.
A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.
Sharing because it's #TwinPeaksDay and because fiction tells the truth first
Botstein palled around with Epstein for years and helped launder his reputation. The Epsteins cannot exist without the Botsteins. It's time for accountability katemanne.substack.com/p/bards-pres...
Sorry I missed your talk, at a conference!
This is really what I want people to appreciate. I get that it feels good to be like "well that person's a pedophile too!" But in many cases they weren't. They were just people who didn't think it was a big deal. That's terrible in its own particular way.
leon botstein search in the epstein files showing 2,638 results
yeahhhhh
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Biology, History, and the Fate of Human Societies
2. Symbolic Logic
3. Suburban Studies
4. Public Speaking
5. Physics I (& II)
We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it?
[Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
A YouTube link for those looking for it. No words.
youtu.be/btqHDhO4h10?...
Kurt Cobain and John Prine.
A rural MD college decides to hire John Harbaugh to lead its failing English department. Season 2 of The Chair writes itself.
Department of d̶e̶f̶e̶n̶s̶e̶
Department of w̶a̶r̶
Department of conquest.
Glad Rolling Stone published this, especially given the loud silence from the rest of the media on this grim watershed moment in US political history.
Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...
WWE should have given him the peace prize not FIFA.
The Knick (TV though)
Miss 'em.
Morning.
