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Nope

UK arts must not be sacrificed for speculative AI gains, peers say Ministers urged to abandon plans to let tech firms use work of novelists, artists and writers without permission

The Lords select committee is very clear on where it stands: ‘AI may contribute to our future economic growth, but the UK creative industries create jobs and economic value now’
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Same author, last June: “Identity politics is division and it is fatiguing.”

Color photograph. A long haired tan and black tabby kitten with cerulean eyes is perched atop a tan colored platform on a cat tree. She looks absolutely peaceful and has her face stretched a bit towards the camera as if to get closer. The photo has a very soft focus.

“Come closer…closer… I have a story to tell you.
It begins with a brave and majestic floof, a mysterious red dot, and a battle for the ages…”

#cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky

is there actual evidence of an affair or did this evil man just sexually harass this woman to death

ok, actually, related:

idk how to fix this issue bc i think we've all participated and it is *really* hard when we're also all mentally exhausted and furious, but we gotta stop rewarding these assholes with our attention in an attention economy 😭 (not to say we ignore it, but, just like... not giving them hate-reads)

I want to retire to Chicago, lol

Small baby quilt made up of strips of puffy clouds and bears and stripes in blues and purples and yellows all very soft and pale

New baby quilt almost half way done

No, that I know. My neurologist won’t see me because I’m overseas now what I didn’t understand is that everyone was leaving New Mexico

Wtf?

Okay. I don't know the psychological terms. But shaking a can is a negative thing and causes a fear response, so it's not what I'd do

finally watched Casablanca. wild in this day and age for something to actually live up to the hype

Everything is horrible, so I will share the highlight of my day:

My sister referring to getting a mammogram as getting one's "mams grammed."

It requires that the appointee be a registered Oklahoma voter in the same party as the previous senator — in this case, a Republican — for at least five years. They are also barred from running for the office in the next special or general election. “We’ve set specific eligibility guidelines for the appointee, and also prohibited the person from refiling for the office once the special term is fulfilled to protect the seat from the unfair advantage of incumbency,” Paxton said in a statement at the time. “This bill encourages a robust election cycle for this important elected position, as the appointed individual is only meant to be a placeholder so that we don’t go underrepresented in the U.S. Senate.”

Intereseting tidbit re Oklahoma's Senate seat once Mullin resigns:

Yes, the OK Gov would appoint a temporary replacement, but under Oklahoma law, they would only serve until the November special election *and wouldn't be allowed to run for that.*

Seat warmer ONLY.

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Yikes

This is likely going to increase his anxiety. Dogs do better with positive reinforcement than with negative reinforcement

Give a high value treat for not barking. Do you have a clicker for training?

My dog constantly barks at the front door of my apartment. Does anyone have advice on how to train him or reduce sound from a
my front door (weather stripping, a moving blanket, mass loaded vinyl) so he is less reactive?

Sigh

All the wrong people have audacity

My 5 year old told us proudly and brightly at dinner how he comforted a scared first grader during a lockdown at school by explaining all the ways he could tell that *this* lockdown was a drill.

I used to live in South Bend and I remember it being different than my parents' house in Michigan, but that was in the 80s

My orange creamsicle cat eggsy sitting on a soft pink kid’s chair

All hail Eggsy, King of the Creamsicles, the Oranges, and The First Kitties

Color photograph. A black and white kitten, with her face a mix of both colors, sits calmly atop a tan colored platform and looks calmly at the camera.

Perfectly balanced between good decisions and chaos like a tiny furry yin-yang.

#cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky

Oh.
My.
God.

Hugs

PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

I think we in Japan should be thinking of this too. Of course, we already should due to earthquakes. But this could easily turn into a neighboring country thinking it’s the perfect time to invade another country.