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Aron Cody-Boutcher Mar 4, 2023

Tech News Worldwide Feb 23, 2023

The US Copyright Office says you can’t copyright Midjourney AI-generated images

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/22/23611278/midjourney-ai-copyright-office-kristina-kashtanova

The US Copyright Office says you can’t copyright Midjourney AI-generated images

The US Copyright Office will grant copyright for the text and image arrangement in a comic book based on images produced by the AI tool Midjourney but not the images it generated.

The Verge

Aron Cody-Boutcher Mar 4, 2023

Tech News Worldwide Mar 2, 2023

FTC Fires Warning Shot At ‘AI’ Companies Like DoNotPay: Do Not Oversell Your AI

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/02/ftc-fires-warning-shot-at-ai-companies-like-donotpay-do-not-oversell-your-ai/

#joshuabrowder #marketing #donotpay #puffery #a16z #lies #ftc #ai

FTC Fires Warning Shot At ‘AI’ Companies Like DoNotPay: Do Not Oversell Your AI

Over the last few months we’ve had a few articles highlighting the pretty serious questions raised regarding how much of DoNotPay’s (“the world’s first robot lawyer”) …

Techdirt

Aron Cody-Boutcher Jan 7, 2023

Qasim Rashid, Esq.Dec 25, 2022

As a human rights lawyer who has done extensive immigration work, let me make something absolutely clear.

Asylum is legal immigration.
There's no "port of entry" requirement.
There's no "visa" requirement.
There's no "first country" requirement.
You enter the United States, and you apply for asylum.

Because asylum is legal immigration. Period.

Period.

Aron Cody-Boutcher Jan 7, 2023

Ross Bright Dec 23, 2022

Staggering charts in the FT by John Burn-Murdoch show that after 12 years of Tory rule we are poorer, sicker and will die sooner than our peers. Utterly disgraceful.

Aron Cody-Boutcher Jan 7, 2023

Micah Lee Dec 28, 2022

Elon Musk is growing a social network. Just not the one he expected.

New sign-ups have spiked several times on Twitter alternative Mastodon since Musk bought Twitter in October.

https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/twitter-owner-elon-musk-driving-user-growth-mastodon-rcna62832

Twitter owner Elon Musk is driving user growth at Mastodon

A chart shows Mastodon user growth as of December 2022 since Elon Musk purchased Twitter in October.

NBC News

Aron Cody-Boutcher Dec 23, 2022

Judd Legum Dec 23, 2022

Just spitballing here but maybe if you are CEO OF A LUXURY ELECTRIC VEHICLE COMPANY you shouldn’t buy one of the most powerful communications platforms in the world and use it to troll anyone to the left of Ron DeSantis

Aron Cody-Boutcher Dec 2, 2022

Conrad Hackett

Dec 1, 2022

BOOST if you’ve told someone about Mastodon
BOOST and FAV if they joined.

Aron Cody-Boutcher Nov 30, 2022

Conrad Hackett

Nov 29, 2022

The remarkable concentration of total household wealth held by the wealthiest 10%
🇺🇸 US 79%
🇳🇱 Netherlands 68%
🇩🇰 Denmark 64%
🇩🇪 Germany 60%
🇨🇱 Chile 58%
🇦🇹 Austria 56%
🇬🇧 UK 52%
🇨🇦 Canada 51%
🇫🇷 France 51%
🇳🇴 Norway 51%
🇦🇺 Australia 46%
🇪🇸 Spain 46%
🇫🇮 Finland 45%
🇮🇹 Italy 43%
🇯🇵 Japan 41%
https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/e2879a7d-en/1/3/1/index.html?itemId=/content/publication/e2879a7d-en&_csp_=629b9a65616a4d96ca81e8985e607a2f&itemIGO=oecd&itemContentType=book#section-d1e599 @sociology @economics

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Aron Cody-Boutcher Nov 30, 2022

Tech News Worldwide Nov 30, 2022

India’s retail digital currency pilot launches on December 1st

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2022/11/30/indias_retail_cbdc_pilot_starts/

India’s retail digital currency pilot launches on December 1st

Four participating banks, four cities, expansion to come

The Register

Aron Cody-Boutcher Nov 30, 2022

Ged Aug 18, 2018

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The Met's former counter-terrorism chief is warning that neo-Nazis in Britain are "repackaging their aggressive intolerance… and attaching it to mainstream political debate"

@richardwatson1 | #newsnight