after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

prruk.org/when-fascism...

"just immigrate legally bro"

The Red Turtle is such an awesome work. Watched it with each of my grownups on different occasions, and this time daughter wanted to show it to her friend. It’s a miracle that this movie has been made, beautiful, open to any interpretation, simple yet deep.

The future US president suddenly laying claim on the neighbouring territories creates a vibe which, to the fans of certain well-known fantasy series, reminds of the moment when Frodo put on his finger the very ring he swore to destroy, and claimed his rights on it.

One day, Duolingo should write a postmortem on overgamification.

And so it begins.
To me, LLMs are derivative works and there should be an established way to compensate the copyright holders. If LLM could be seen as the way to tap the common knowledge pool, those who fill that pool should be rewarded! That applies to Wikipedia as well, by the way.

Random picture from a recent hike, looks perfect for an inaugural post :)

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