Paramount settles with Trump, and then cancels the Late Show.
If it walks like fascism, and talks like fascism, and shuts-up-opposing voices like facism…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20n4q0q9zqo

What an incredibly dark time in America.
#TheAmericanFascist #Colbert #LateShow #Paramount #CBS

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WeTransfer just changed their ToS to allow them to train AI on any files you transfer through them.

Don't use there service, especially for work that you don't have the right to relicense to them (e.g., commercial work that's exactly the most likely to create the huge files WeTransfer specializes in).

(ETA: this is already going boom so I'm muting it.)

https://wetransfer.com/explore/legal/terms

Microsoft president Brad Smith acknowledged that the four rounds of layoffs this year are more about using the money saved to fund AI data centers and GPUs than workers being replaced by AI.

I think this is important for the media to get right versus making it seem like ChatGPT can replace a human worker.

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