Whoever does their Industrial Design is on fire! 🔥

Democrat support is finally bouncing back Democrats have struggled in polls since Trump's 2024 win, but new data suggests their popularity is rebounding.

"Finally"? It's only been 6 months!

www.newsweek.com/democrat-pop...

Who are those guys?

Using copyrighted content to train AI without permission is not ‘fair use’, US court rules in Thomson Reuters case - Music Business Worldwide However, the ruling might not apply to the music industry’s lawsuits against generative AI developers.

This is an interesting article written from the perspective of Intelectual Property holders in the music industry who are analyzing the case between Reuters (owns Westlaw) and Ross (company who used Westlaw to train an AI).

Fair Use is very complex.

www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/using-copyri...

DOGE’s Website Is Just One Big X Ad The source code for the new Department of Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority, while sharing links to the site sends users to x.com.

"The source code for the new Department of Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority, while sharing links to the site sends users to X dot com."

www.wired.com/story/doge-w...

Hi. Yes its me.

It is pervasive. I am hoping we can work to change this.

House Democrats try, and fail, to subpoena Musk Notably missing the vote was Rep. Ro Khanna, who is close to Musk.

On my phone, this headline comes up as:

"House Democrats try, and fail, to ..."

See the full headline below.

New headline:

Republicans block Musk subpoena by Democrats

Both are accurate but blame different people.

www.politico.com/live-updates...

DeepSeek might not be as disruptive as claimed, firm reportedly has 50,000 Nvidia GPUs and spent $1.6 billion on buildouts The fabled $6 million was just a portion of the total training cost.

"DeepSeek might not be as disruptive as claimed, firm reportedly has 50,000 Nvidia GPUs and spent $1.6 billion on buildouts"

www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

Opinion | There are several reasons Musk wants to control Treasury payments. None of them are good. An unelected and unaccountable billionaire wants to dictate what working families can and cannot afford.

Musk used Paypal as a launch vehicle for SpaceX and Tesla. Paypal makes $ from transaction fees.

I think Musk is looking to position himself to get contracts for becoming the govt's payment system. Taking a transaction fee off every gov transaction is huge money.

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Thanks @halsparks.com

This thing is a semantic problem. I like introducing bias into our explanations. In most reporting, bias and censorship are being used interchangeably.

I also need to make a diagram to help explain this!

When and how will robot umps arrive in the majors? Latest on MLB's plan A memo sent to every major league team shed light on how baseball sees the future of automated strike zones.

It seems so dumb that there is a strike zone box on TV for everyone to see except the home plate umpire, right?

This article talks about the challenges of implementing an automated system to call balls and strikes.

Automating anything is deceptively hard to do!

www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

AWESOME!!!

Trump's Media Empire Makes Bold $250M Move into Fintech - Truth.Fi Takes on Wall Street Trump Media expands into FinTech with Truth.Fi, partnering with Charles Schwab to deploy $250M in American-focused investment vehicles. Launch planned for 2025 with multiple offerings.

So we are doing this now?

www.stocktitan.net/news/DJT/tru...

We have lots of thoughts! We will cover this on FriedAI.

"They don't have the money": Musk pokes holes in Trump's AI investment plans The Tesla CEO and Trump confidant countered the president's messaging on new investments in artificial intelligence

New headline:

"They don't have the money": Neither does Musk.

www.salon.com/2025/01/22/t...

Good read here, I found this section interesting:

"The Labor Share of GDP Has Been Constant For 200+ Years"

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says tech leaders are 'pretending to be Republicans' to gain favor with Trump, skirt antitrust laws, and ultimately 'rip off consumers and crush competitors' The Trump administration is expected to be softer on antitrust cases, which as we know are one of Sweeney's major pursuits.

Wedges can be inserted!

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says tech leaders are 'pretending to be Republicans' to gain favor with Trump, skirt antitrust laws, and ultimately 'rip off consumers and crush competitors'

www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

To all those who have followed me through BlueSky or Hal's Friday shows, happy holidays to you and yours! Thank you for all of your support and kind words.

America’s Bird-Flu Luck Has Officially Run Out Bird flu has spread so widely that it was always going to make someone seriously sick.

We are a different country post COVID, keep your wits about you!

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Trump’s $8 billion media company creates a complex set of potential conflicts for the incoming president Trump’s political network, his media business, and his personal wealth have heavy overlaps.

Correcting this headline is easy.

Just remove the word potential.

fortune.com/2024/12/17/t...

Analysis: Wait, exactly how many people work for the federal government? | CNN Politics In 40 years of explosive population, spending and debt growth, the size of the federal workforce has stayed pretty much the same.

Interesting read.

Summary: The federal workforce has barely grown since the 1960s and the billionaire saying we should fire a bunch of them to save money gets billions in government contracts.

www.cnn.com/2024/12/14/p...

Love it!

In this case I used it to quickly get myself up to speed. I then used that knowledge to teach and help my son get through the homework. I think that specialized AI tutors are able to walk you through things like this while not giving the answer.

AI for the win!

my son needed help with 8th grade algebra homework. I couldn't remember how to distribute the powers.

Phone pic of his screen, upload to ChatGPT, asked it to explain how to solve the problem.

It read the image and gave me instructions for how to solve and the right answer.

Agree! Jon Stewart now seems to be the same as a Bulwark contributor or a Never Trumper. Same old message of everyone is bad so give up.

Yes sir!

My headline generator for this article:

New Headline: Trump's Health Appointments Will Erode Public Trust in Vaccines and Evidence-Based Medicine

AOC has been of the most on track in messaging of our representatives. Fires need oxygen, take the oxygen away and the fire goes out on its own. No need to cancel, just ignore!!

SWEET!