If someone breaks the law and nobody enforces it because of the offender’s power, then the law does not apply to the powerful, and the law, subordinated to power, is revealed as illegitimate in its helplessness and/or corruption.
This is the thing about bathroom bans targeting trans people - assault is already a crime! Indecent exposure is already a crime! And laws that protect trans people don't suddenly make them legal
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
Tonight I introduced my 17-y-o to The Court Jester - my first viewing of it in over 30 years - and I'm happy to report that it's still absolutely hilarious. :) There was a LOT of laughing from both of us!
#TinyJoys
Aaaand the upright time is over, but he made it through nearly half an hour and even did some standing, which is fucking impressive for a man who couldn't even sit up two days ago.
Michael is home!
He is very tired and confused and extremely floppy, so he has spent most of his day asleep. But he is trying some awake time propped up on the sofa between me and Jim, who has flown out to Korea to help.
We are watching Critical Role, Campaign 4, which Jim has never seen before.
"Do not forget it, i can remove you from this transaction" goes so hard
Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it’s then, its continuing reality is entirely up to us, dependent on our energy and honesty.
And BOOM goes the dynamite. To all the AI Bros who have slid into my mentions to tell me that you CAN in fact copyright AI materials, the Supreme Court has told you to go suck rocks. A prompt is not authorship. And if there is no author, there is no valid copyright.
www.engadget.com/ai/the-supre...
Fudge, I think?
At the dialysis center today, there is a woman wearing a Popeye t-shirt, and a dozen feet away is an old man in a wheelchair who bears a startling resemblance to the character in the face.
So far, it sounds like an endearing cyberpunk pastiche, genre-aware to the point of parody, but sneakily fond about it.
Michael is not in great shape, but in his lucid moments he's nevertheless trying to describe his new comic idea to me. With some reluctance, not because he doesn't want to share, but because he wants to write and physically can't. Dictation is all he can manage but verbal has never been his way.
This is such an exciting day for me, with the premiere of the film made about my 17 years rewilding an Irish Atlantic rainforest (also the film's title).
What a surreal moment in my life it'll be to see the ecosystem I know and love so well on a big cinema screen!!
A maroon couch with apartment beige wall in background. Atop the back cushion is a fluffy black cat lying partly curled up clockwise with all four paws roughly in same place on left and looking at cameraperson with great love & adorable expression and green eyes with fluffy tail wrapped up toward his face.
Please enjoy adorable Poseidon.
Congress can end this tomorrow.
Contact them.
Demonstrate/protest/donate/what
you can do.
A diversity of tactics is necessary.
And together is the only way we build liveable todays and tomorrows.
if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying
If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.
tcpipeline.org
Michael is back in the hospital. He has new metastasis in his brain. They're trying to stabilize him.
Yesterday was my graduation, and I couldn't even pick up the certificate because I couldn't leave the hospital. Not sure what to do about that, probably write to the school and explain.
Imagine reaching the top of your political career path and it’s just you having to sit behind a pedophile & clap emphatically when he brags about killing your countrymen
None of us, even the most embarrassing among us, will ever even sniff the opportunity to be losers of that magnitude
It's actually always okay to swear, especially when it's a verbal intensifier instead of an attack which is probably most of its present day use in English, but that's a more nuanced explanation than kids are usually taught.
Which makes it all the more remarkable that this is happening.
A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.
It's like $200 to replace the screen and battery every few years. It's like $1000 to get a new phone in this line, and I wouldn't like it as much.
Yes, I am being stubborn about this and will eventually be forced to upgrade, but until then I'm stalling just as hard as I can.
If this is planned obsolescence at work, that is a deeply troublesome approach and I'd like to know how the trick works.
But also, fuck that. I ordered a replacement screen because I am not giving up my phone that otherwise still works and actually fits in my hand without strain or awkwardness.
Love when the phone that is my primary means of keeping in touch with people leaps to its demise from the nightstand for no apparent reason. It had made several previous attempts. Nobody was anywhere near it, and it was placed flat on the top of the nightstand with another phone which did not move!
The Harms of Repealing Section 230: - Negatively impact the stock market and personal retirement savings. - Decimate user-generated content. - Create a significant barrier to entry for new tech startups. - Overwhelm the court system with new cases, tripling federal caseloads. - Increase legal costs for digital services.
Not only is it dangerous for free speech if Section 230 is repealed, there's also a real cost to it. Literaly TRILLIONS!
Call your reps to Protect Section 230 to keep our freedom + economy safe. #SaveSpeech #Protect230
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“The playing field is poised to become a lot more competitive, and businesses that don’t deploy cocaine to help them innovate in everything they do will be at a disadvantage,” says Paul Daugherty, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at Accenture.
Hey, it works!
I just found a thing to add languages under playback and performance that I SWEAR was not there previously. In theory that MIGHT fix it so I no longer get autodubbed languages over any of the preferred languages? So I clicked all the languages in the theory it might work, we'll see.
This setting does not exist in the app available to me, nor on my browser.
I have been looking for such a setting for ages, and sending support tickets for it, etc. So far, no luck.
The option to just turn it off puts it ahead of youtube, then, which does the same thing but requires manually changing the audio settings back to the original on every single video individually.
I watch SO MANY THINGS that are not in English. This has been aggravating me for months.
