Mastodawn

Yozie Dec 19, 2023

Qasim Rashid, Esq.Dec 19, 2023

Republicans are excellent at culture wars to distract from actual issues
 Welfare queens Willie Horton War on Drugs War on Terror Birtherism Creeping Shariah Migrant caravans CRT
Woke And now DEI
 All based in fear & hate. All make America less united. None solve any actual problem. Reject the culture wars. Embrace compassion through action to address actual human rights issues. That’s how we build a stronger nation, world, and future.

Yozie Dec 4, 2023

The Skeptic's Book of Lists Dec 4, 2023

Owning the libs is getting more expensive and more environmentally friendly. I just don't understand this time line.
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#OwningTheLibs
#ElonMusk

Yozie Nov 29, 2023

Max Kennerly Nov 29, 2023

Today in corporate hypocrisy: "There I Ruined It," which uses AI to make song parodies, is in private mode on YouTube thanks to UMG copyright claims.

Let's be clear: if that stuff isn't fair use, then absolutely none of the outputs from big AI models are fair use. Including Google's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZnj45cMnRg

My channel is on life support

YouTube

Yozie Nov 7, 2023

Tim Bray Nov 7, 2023

This is beyond outrageous. Adobe must stop doing this immediately.

https://petapixel.com/2023/11/07/adobe-stock-is-selling-ai-generated-images-of-the-israel-hamas-conflict/

Adobe Stock is Selling AI-Generated Images of the Israel-Hamas Conflict

Do we really need fake images of the war?

PetaPixel

Yozie Nov 5, 2023

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Thomas Zimmer Nov 5, 2023

And so we constantly go through these self-perpetuating cycles: A disproportionate media focus on Biden’s “issues” (his age, or maybe something to do with Hunter!) – followed by polls reflecting that coverage – followed by the media “just reporting” the concerns captured by the polls. 13/

Yozie Nov 5, 2023

JA Westenberg Oct 26, 2023

The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video. Every code tutorial. Every design tutorial. Nobody actually writes out a guide anymore.

It's just "hey guys welcome to my tutorial" and watching 10 minutes of content that mostly isn't relevant...

Yozie Oct 30, 2023

Effin' Birds Oct 30, 2023

Yozie Oct 29, 2023

leyrer Oct 29, 2023

Forbes. Business news you can trust

Yozie Oct 7, 2023

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Eugen Rochko Oct 5, 2023

We already had something that turned text prompts into art, it was called paying an artist.

Yozie Oct 2, 2023

Erin Conroy Oct 2, 2023

Walter Isaacson is a fraud.

"when I opened the Musk biography, I wanted to know if Isaacson had done his homework. The first thing I did was flip to the back, where the author lists his sources for the Ukraine thing. They are: interviews with Musk, Gwynne Shotwell, & Jared Birchall (Musk’s body man); emails from Lauren Dreyer; & text messages from Mykhailo Fedorov, “provided by Elon Musk.”