Those three are objectively awful. 8 is fucking *bananas*.

I have to think it's phraseology. Starmer is always trying to appease Trump, even when finally standing up to him. Calling it 'easing Trumps fears' offers the US an offramp. In classic Starmer fashion it's also pointless: Trump doesn't want an off-ramp, or the suggestion that he is scared of anyone.

It bakes my noodle how few people (including within the fan base) seem to recognize how well he was playing pre injury. Prior assumptions are hard to shake I guess

Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...

When water is coming from an aquifer, we often *do* treat it like an externality because we are collectively a bit dumb. We have measurably changed the angle of the earth's axis due to groundwater use... (for agriculture, not for data centers)

Human-pretending-to-be-a-muppet is the role Steve Buscemi was born to play.

I don't know that it was even that hard. There are plenty of legal avenues in place to deal with insurrectionists, they just didn't bother to apply them to the people at the heart of it.

This can't bear repeating enough. Biden won, Trump *attempted a coup*, and then the democrats basically did nothing until it was far too late.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

An illustration of climate geoengineering techniques, including stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), cirrus cloud thinning (CCT), and marine cloud brightening (MCB), and their proposed delivery systems and potential impacts. Natural stratospheric aerosol release from a volcanic eruption is also shown for context. Surface albedo geoengineering (SAG), which is based on increasing the albedo of various surfaces, is also represented with two examples: installing white roofs on urban buildings and modifying plants and shrubs surface.

I would have love to put solar geoengineering strictly in the #SciFiScience posts. But it's something that a lot of people are working seriously on.
Yet once someone looking at the details, they found that the space for “low-risk” action may be very small. 🧪

Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It always bothered me that a man as consistently wrong about everything else managed to come up with a genuinely useful idea. Finding out that he nicked it is like finding the last jigsaw piece in the buttcrack of my sofa. Thanks dude!

Nobody knew who Horst Wessel was until Goebbels sold him as a martyr. I suspect Kirk is about to become real famous real fast, unfortunately.

I mean, yeah, obviously Vance et al would carry on in the same vein. But the longer he's in power, the more entrenched these people will be and the more likely they are to make it stick.

None of the available futures look good for America, but 'Trump dies soon' is probably one of the better ones.

The Mecha-Striesand effect?

Condescion, conviction and catastrophic consequences - the Blair triptych.

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

They've spent a long while convincing themselves that they are defenders the of 'western civilization', I guess they've warped all of classical and renaissance Europe into some kind of proto Reich in their minds..? That, or they think Michelangelo was a vigilante turtle

I don't know how facetious or otherwise this reply is supposed to be, but I think it illustrates something important. These LLMs are nothing like the AI that sci-fi conditions us to expect. AGI might be possible one day, but LLMs are just turbocharged autocorrect.

Nice straw man. My actual answer: you can trace the data set that an LLM is trained on. If that includes copyrighted material, the output should fall under the same purview.

Is there to discern when aping a style has gone too far. The flip side of the argument is that no machine system can ever be accused of plagiarism, ever, rendering the concept of IP pretty much null, for the exclusive benefit of some tech valley bros. That's a council of despair, imo.

Their depiction of Ghibli columbine absolutely would be, but that's a digression. A human applies their own creativity. If you want to be all hard-AI-humans-are-flesh-robots about it, maybe that's just an advanced version of what an LLM does. But humans make laws for humans, and plagiarism law

Being influenced by art that we love is part of the human condition. There is a fine line between influence and plagiarism and the law won't always get it right, but I think we all understand the distinction. Generative AI is, by it's very design, capable of nothing but the latter.

No, but the material that openAI churned through to create it's model and now spits out piecemeal as it's own, absolutely is.

Nah. Naming my child 'Kid A' is some Musk adjacent shit, and I'm not going there.

Badenoch ditching net-zero. It's not a big deal yet as the tories feel so far out of power, but it won't feel that way in a couple of years. Political attacks on climate targets are about to get very loud.

Oh, it's much worse than that. It's about clearing space to install MAGA loyalists who will follow illegal orders when the time comes.

This is about ending American democracy.

Plus, this time he has Vance shit-stirring in his ear. All that crap about 'disrespect' and 'you should be thanking the president' was targeted to set Trump off and it worked a charm. Vance is a dangerous snake.