The news is cool, but that image is just AI nonsense.

Ok, nevermind. I guess we’ll just do nothing. 🙄

The judge making this determination is an idiot.

The judge hasn’t ruled on the piracy question yet. The only thing that the judge has ruled on is, if you legally own a copy of a book, then you can use it for a variety of purposes, including training an AI.

“But they didn’t own the books!”

Right. That’s the part that’s still going to trial.

“The truth will set you free come back to bite you in the ass.”

Those are definitely not people that ever learned to drive a manual transmission.

Please allow me this opportunity to jump in and complain about the minority, but not insignificant number, of people that don’t seem to be aware that that is even an option (just taking your foot off of the gas/accelerator to slowly decelerate).

Every couple weeks or so I seem to find myself behind someone that’s always either accelerating, or braking, with the brake lights repeatedly flashing on momentarily for no apparent reason. It’s like they realize that they’re going just a little faster than they want, and definitely don’t want to accelerate any more, so the only thing they know to do is hit the brake, instead of just taking their foot off of the accelerator. So they’ve hit the brake and now they’re going too slow, so foot moves off the brake and back to the accelerator. Rinse, lather, repeat.

End rant. Thank you for this opportunity to vent.

Be a goldfish.

https://archive.ph/3kynW

https://youtu.be/urNFQw8VIvA

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Who does he think he’s talking to?

“Guys! Guys! Guys! I’ve got a brilliant idea!” Elon Musk to the Space X Engineers.

As one of the people that up voted many of those posts, I can assure you that it was because they were just in my main feed and lumped in with the other news and I didn’t notice what community they were in. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I’ll try to be more vigilant in the future.

There are plenty of very popular general “News” communities. Nobody is going to harass you for posting stuff that’s not really uplifting to any of them.

The sister raised in the US had an IQ 16 points lower than her sibling in Korea. Previous studies revealed that identical twins typically have no more than a 7-point IQ difference, making this case astounding.

https://archive.ph/yA5E9

That was yesterday. It reentered this morning.

https://apnews.com/article/soviet-venus-spacecraft-kosmos-482-93871c98ca9c09a67219e238ed3e2eaa

The uplifting part is how the news media will now stop breathlessly babbling about smoke and how a new pope hasn’t been selected yet.

Tax Eat the rich!

Here’s the thing. Even if he lives up to this promise, it’s still him deciding where that money should go, and it won’t be towards long term support of social safety nets for the commoners. He should just have been paying his fair share of taxes all along and into the future.

Cost of doing business.

In times like these, it’s hard not to wonder if this wasn’t the act of someone on the inside following the Simple Sabotage Field Manual.

More people should read it (it’s short) for inspiration on what skills they already possess (or can easily learn in advance) to fight fascism when the opportunity presents itself

Edit to add excerpt.

Where destruction is involved, the weapons of the citizen-saboteur are salt, nails, candles, pebbles, thread, or any other materials he might normally be expected to possess as a householder or as a worker in his particular occupation. His arsenal is the kitchen shelf, the trash pile, his own usual kit of tools and supplies. The targets of his sabotage are usually objects to which he has normal and inconspicuous access in everyday life.

A second type of simple sabotage requires no destructive tools whatsoever and produces physical damage, if any, by highly indirect means. It is based on universal opportunities to make faulty decisions, to adopt a noncooperative attitude, and to induce others to follow suit. Making a faulty decision may be simply a matter of placing tools in one spot instead of another. A non-cooperative attitude may involve nothing more than creating an unpleasant situation among one’s fellow workers, engaging in bickerings, or displaying surliness and stupidity.

Double check that the AC unit doesn’t pull more than 15A {Amps). That’s all those smart plugs are rated for. It’s probably fine, but you don’t want to start a fire. I’ve seen pictures of smart plugs that melted when used on some refrigerators.