Been thinking about this a lot (not tagging the sender, for their privacy). Most of us won't have the chance for for grand, capital-R Resistance heroics. But every one of us will have a thousand small choices to make about how to live our lives and where to draw lines. Use them well.

In a "Trump loves the death penalty" EO, Trump orders the AG to seek the death penalty whenever possible if a law-enforcement officer is killed or if an undocumented person is accused. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

This is probably fine…

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A pretty comprehensive article on how often AI art infringes on copyright protected material. And specifically, how likely it is that generated art is a near 1:1 copy of something you're just not familiar with

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Em seis países – Polônia, Áustria, República Checa, Hungria, Romênia e Eslováquia –, centenas de milhares de pessoas já tiveram que sair de casa. Em quatro dias, choveu em algumas regiões mais do que o esperado para três meses: glo.bo/3Zt2qMR #JN

my ★★★★★ review of Datena's 🪑

He said *what* out of his own mouth on live teevee?

A little bit wild that a major party candidate for president in what is by all accounts a neck-and-neck race has pinned his entire domestic agenda to a complete misapprehension of what import taxes are and who pays them

1. This is a fantastic thread.
2. This is an even more fantastic sentence: "I encourage those of you not familiar with my career to brush up on it."

I mean, I am known when people ask me things to reply "my bio is accurate", but: that's a fantastic sentence.

AI is so stupid it makes smart people stupid

Interesting…”The French startup that designed the ship, called TOWT (TransOceanic Wind Transport), argues that sailing cargo ships can viably compete with container ships running on fossil fuels.”

Ice Cream Deception

*screenshotting your work and presenting it as my own*
isn't this just what the mind does tho when you think about it

“Let’s use an unmonitored algorithm to generate products based on people’s web search, absolutely nothing could go wrong”

To use the great "Endless growth is the strategy of the cancer cell, and eventually even that kills the host" metaphor, we're now in ... oncolocapitalsm? A society struggles when it focuses on building wealth, but can it survive when the economy is designed around building nothing *but* wealth?