I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
And update it! A relative passed with a will, but it had not been updated after his wife died. It was designed just to leave everything to each other.
Anyway it took six years to finish probate.
This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.
• 5 main military contractors strangle capacity
• trillion-dollar budgets for planes that can't fly
• only a 2-month supply of rare earths for military purposes
If we have a trillion-dollar military that can't supply itself, then we really only have a contractor enrichment factory.
This is part of a pattern I've started to notice: There are people out there who are loudly committed to off-loading their work to chatbots and come seeking my validation for their position.
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Everything is gender, because I do see this happening to professional/expert women a lot. At least some of this is ‘surely you, a woman, can’t be right when this LLM is saying otherwise’
girl are you the Straight of Hormuz because I see a lot of men greatly overestimating their chances of getting their ship into your channel
It's like they're trying to speed-run all the reasons Kissinger is finally in hell
Go on LinkedIn right now and you’ll find people with advanced degrees and decades of experience facing homelessness. It can happen to anyone. Your “good decisions” aren’t permanent protection from your life going off the rails.
Great. So if you write to BlueSky support about a violation of your intellectual property, they reply telling you to contact another email address, which replies telling you to contact BlueSky support.
Fair play, 'the mad emperor started compulsively buying shoes for his court, guessing their foot size & his courtiers were too scared not to wear them even when they didn't fit' is some classic, on the nose End Days Of The Empire stuff
It was never the rules-based international order that wouldn't allow us to kidnap leaders, invade other countries, or bomb the everloving god out of poor countries
It was that we agreed not to, because it led to very bad outcomes. And we created the rules to reflect this
The rules are not your mum
If a judge ever talked to me like this and I had in fact fucked up this bad, I think I would just walk into the ocean?
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
Well, this aged exactly how I was afraid it would
about 95% of what my parents get up to at church would be fedposting if I tried to describe it to you
The average American senior’s Medicare premiums last year were about 10% higher, or more than $200 annually, because of alleged overpayments to private Medicare Advantage plans, congressional investigators found. 🔗 on.wsj.com/3PcusZX
Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."
I am on team washing machine, personally, but dishwasher is also very valid!
On the one-year anniversary of his detention by federal authorities, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji welcomed Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor, and their baby boy, Deen, to Gracie Mansion to break the fast together.
Thank you for this piece of information, I didn't realize swords of this style were produced for active use that late! Though it apparently was mostly used for practical uses like clearing brush, which makes sense.
Medieval knight themed machete, basically.
And any second I don't owe to the combine harvester I owe to the spinning jenny or the washing machine.
I knew about him killing pro-slavery men in Kansas, I did not know that they used broadswords, and my life is improved knowing this fact.
I wonder where they got them, though. Who had broadswords kicking around in the 19th century still? John Brown, apparently, now I must look up why.
Like obviously he's a terrible asshole but do his aides really think he will notice or care if they discretely swap them for the correct size???
Maybe I'm too sensible but if my boss bought me clothes that don't fit and I thought it was worth pretending that they did, I would have change/resell/whatever the original and purchase the same style in a size that fits.
Just baffling amounts of sucking up and fear happening here.
Basically, take the amount of money you think your favorite author gets, halve it, and then halve it again, and you have a number that's probably a lot closer to their actual earnings from writing.
"But I don't think they make that much!"
Halve that. Halve it again.
we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this:
I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil
In January, Jeffries declined to whip against DHS funding. Then DHS murdered Alex Pretti, and Dems had to play catchup to the politics. Now Jeffries won't commit to whip against Trump's war. This isn't rocket science - unify Dems against bad and unpopular things! www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
