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some fics just get you right in the honey nut feelios

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For those of you who may be caught up in this...

"Imagine the outrage if Anthropic and others had illegally siphoned off electricity to build their AI, claiming it was too expensive to pay for it? These vastly rich companies, worth billions, stole from those earning a median income of barely $20,000 a year. This settlement sends a clear message that AI companies must pay for the books they use just as they pay for the other essential components of their LLMs. This settlement lays down an anchor that it is not okay. We expect that the settlement will lead to more licensing that gives author both compensation and control over the use of their work by AI companies, as should be the case in a functioning free market society.”

If you're involved: take your time, read through this carefully, and see what you need to do.

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bug?

bug.

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I'm sure I've polled this before, but!

Feel free to tell me all about them in the tags/comments!

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this screenshot is funny for so many reasons i’m 😭😭😭😭😭

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This was in Sioux Falls South Dakota! The green sky is caused by large hail stones within the storm refracting back green light to the observer.

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one time when I was a kid my parents were arguing while we were driving somewhere and I was in the backseat so I wrote "are you going to get a divorce" on my foot and slowly extended my leg betwixt the seats

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so here's what I've now done to make the internet usable as a person living in the UK without handing my ID and/or facial scans over to random third parties:

signed up for a ProtonVPN account

set up a tunnel from my router to a ProtonVPN server in Sweden

written a python script to query DNS servers for social media domains every 15 minutes and collate the results into a list of IP address ranges

created routing and firewall policies to block connections to those IP ranges on my normal connection and send them through the VPN tunnel instead

set up a second, personal VPN so I can make my mobile devices connect to the internet through my home network even when I'm not at home

now it's time to open source this whole thing so others can enjoy using the internet the same way they did three weeks ago

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sometimes you have to add a little narrative spice to your game of fetch

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Remember children—this tactic is really annoying to the police, so YOU SHOULD NOT become floppy—it’s frustrating to them and makes them look bad and is a waste of resources and no one wants that…

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haaaate that "transwoman" has made a comeback as an acceptable term for allies to use. separate those damn words NOW

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my grandparents' generation had dorothy stepping into technicolor. my parents' generation had vader revealing his identity. my generation had the first riff of supermassive black hole start playing

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my grandparents' generation had dorothy stepping into technicolor. my parents' generation had vader revealing his identity. my generation had the first riff of supermassive black hole start playing

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mark my words

redbubble / trans flag version