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OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 7m

If they didn't expect it, they are either stupid or lying.

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 20h

I sometimes believe there should be tests for people before they can fly. I just don't know what those tests would entail. And they would become politicized and racialized. But still.

Something extraordinary just happened

Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 22h

Take the good news where you can.

Something extraordinary just happened
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

But of course there's a but. Or two.

AI is reshaping childhood in China

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 2d

This Friday, Montreal (after this I will hopefully disappear for a few months, at least):

Poster for reading this Friday in Montreal

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 2d

There are countless novels and movies in this fact, both in the future and right now.

Government support and tech companies’ drive for profit fuel a rush to integrate AI tools, from robot tutors to chatbots, in education and caretaking.

restofworld.org

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 2d

Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right

Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in bright red wooly gowns, with a beige trim. It looks sort of like a Santa robe

The Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in black gowns with a bright white kravat, and two thin red vertical lines on the side of the robe

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 3d

This feels performative (like a lot of things that sport a maple leaf) and won't change anything and the Canadian publishing industry will continue to be dominated by the foreign multinationals and we will never admit our publishing policy failed a long time ago and we won't do anything about it.

ACP launches Certified Canadian Publisher seal - Quill and Quire

Under the Certified Canadian Publisher program, books from independent Canadian-owned publishers will have a seal on their back cover, spine, or copyright page that will allow readers to easily identi...

quillandquire.com

Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 3d

In terms of Good Places and Bad Places, there is no Good Place, it's all the Bad Place, online and off: the only Good Places are those without people but if you are there it becomes a Bad Place and this is inevitable. Because people.

Sartre didn't invent the idea, he just made it accessible.

Essay | Why Magazines Fail by Tristram Fane Saunders - The London Magazine

Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 3d

Spammers targeting writers is not a thing I thought I would ever see.

It says so much about the state of everything and I can't wait for the first novel about a writer who clicks on one of these things and what happens next....

Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 3d

The rise and fall of the lit mag in the UK:

Drawing on recent literary magazine closures, Tristram Fane Saunders asks what makes 'little magazines' so fragile, why they matter and why they so often vanish.

thelondonmagazine.org

Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 5d

This was truly something else.

I vaguely remember walking through it stoned and thinking I was way too high (no pun intended) only to realize I probably wasn’t high enough.

Our definitive history of Montreal's Le Palais des Nains

For over 60 years, Philippe and Rose Nicol's miniature palace on Rachel Street was Montreal's strangest attraction where tourists became giants.

www.themain.com

2025 Payback payment details

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Access Copyright @accesscopyright.bsky.social · 5d

Access Copyright will begin its distribution of this year’s Payback payment to creator affiliates on October 9.

More information on this year's payment and how we are responding to the labour disruption at Canada Post is available by clicking below.
accesscopyright.ca/creators/pay...

Access Copyright will begin its distribution of the 2025 Payback payment to our creator affiliates on October 9.

accesscopyright.ca

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 5d

There are outfits specializing in loans for businesses impacted by the....tariffs. Of course.

Wall Street wins big, making high-interest rate loans to cover Trump tariffs

Thanks for reading Inside China / Business!

Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 5d

Last night I had a dream within a dream within a dream and I remembered the entire thing (I rarely remember my dreams) and I don't know what to do with the dream(s).

I also may have written the final part of my WIP and it has nothing to do with the dream(s).

All this to say I'm tired.

“Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink”. STColeridge, 1798

Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 6d

This is a good analysis.

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 6d

Everything is so stupid.

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 6d

A grim read it and weep article.

Everything has always been and always will be about water.

#thehigherthewater

Water in crisis

Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 7d

When a politician manages to blame one or two groups for all your ills know that he is lying to you. Unfortunately, those who most need to hear this dont believe it.

Jane Goodall, conservationist and chimpanzee researcher, dead at 91 | CBC News

Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 7d

well that sucks.

Jane Goodall, the British conservationist and researcher renowned for her work with chimpanzees, has died at age 91.

www.cbc.ca

A different kind of leader gives a different kind of speech

Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 7d

That leader is .... the Pope.

What an odd timeline, man.

A different kind of leader gives a different kind of speech

An afternoon with the Pope

How Switzerland Engineered Itself into Becoming the World's Greatest Transit Nation

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 7d

Bad transit is a choice. Good transit is a coordinated effort.

www.highspeed.blog/anatomy-of-a...

Anatomy of a Revolution

www.highspeed.blog