In 2016 the US Republican Party radically changed to support Trump. Moderates became radicals overnight. There was always a specter of Russia compromising a lot of them.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/feds-found-rnc-related-cyberattack-months-ago-raise/story?id=44130951

Using a tool to copy someone else’s work and then profiting off that work without compensating or even attributing the source is stealing.

Taking someone else’s work and using it without crediting them or compensating them is theft. If Open AI made a deal with The NY Times to train its product using the papers content, which it would turn around and sell to its own customer base, that would be ethical. What Open AI and other companies like it are doing are stealing ahead of actual law that defines what they’re doing as such.

AI training is piracy by another name.

THIS. Good parents are rare. I have one friend that has somehow raised 3 amazing kids. Don’t get me wrong, they occasionally act up, but on the whole I spend more time admiring how smart and thoughtful they are for 9, 13 and 15 year olds.

I used to hate kids. I gradually got over it in the course of 40 odd years. I still hate parents and can’t control their kids, but I don’t blame the children.

The Apple Watch Series 9S

In 96 I visited LA. It was 70 degrees and snowflakes falling from the sky. A waitress in Johnny Rockets said the brush fires were normal as were the mild temps during that time of year.

This article feels mindless.

This is plainly irresponsible.

That sounds like a good use. For me, my kids are dogs. If I print things out for them to color they just chew them up. Speaking of receipts, somehow one of them got ahold of one today. I chased him and he escaped under the bed, to chew at his leisure.

Hmm. I guess whenever I need to ship something, the place I go prints the label. Most recently UPS printed and packaged a Steamdeck I shipped to my nephew. If it’s going back to Amazon I just take the item to Kohls and they handle it. The receipts and more…I just show the email with the QR code if I’m returning something to Home Depot or Best Buy.

It’s crazy, I really have no need for a printer for the past …god. It’s been forever.

I have not had to print anything in a long time. A long time. What are people printing?

Everything’s fun and games until the Kilrathi discover this and its point of origin.

I agree, but I’ve changed my stance to a wait and see approach. This is what we think will happen, will probably happen, and what I’m interested most of all in, is how Lemmy.world responds once things come to pass. I’ve got agency here to switch to another perfectly good instance that doesn’t federate with Threads, so if Lemmy.world allows social toxicity to prosper…I’ll just leave. The Fediverse rocks.

Hey, the system worked.

Let’s wait and see.

Great response.

Same. I worry about the complacency of voters though. People are unhappy with Biden, I think more on their perceptions of him rather than his record. Although his support of Israel is not helping.

I read the wiki page on just Liberalism, thinking two can play at that game. And I found that, well damn, by Wikipedia, you’re right. So why are liberals conflated with communists who think property should be commonly owned?

So it’s an EV Delorian.