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Alex Zajac
@azajac
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Mildly competent patent attorney
Dio9sys1679: piracy is on the rise, King Charles is deeply unpopular
2024: piracy is on the rise, King Charles is deeply unpopular
Electronic Frontier FoundationThanks, American Dialect Society, for choosing "enshittification" as the 2023 Word of the Year. @pluralistic's apt term describes how online platforms decay by showing users less and less of what they came for, while keeping them trapped and unable to exit for better alternatives. https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/
Mike Masnick ✅I've seen some people argue that the NYT's new lawsuit against OpenAI/Microsoft is the strongest such lawsuit yet, but... I don't think so. I also don't think the NY Times would actually like the world if it wins, because the NYT *itself* does what it is accusing OpenAI of doing.
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/28/the-ny-times-lawsuit-against-openai-would-open-up-the-ny-times-to-all-sorts-of-lawsuits-should-it-win/
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/28/the-ny-times-lawsuit-against-openai-would-open-up-the-ny-times-to-all-sorts-of-lawsuits-should-it-win/
The NY Times Lawsuit Against OpenAI Would Open Up The NY Times To All Sorts Of Lawsuits Should It Win
This week the NY Times somehow broke the story of… well, the NY Times suing OpenAI and Microsoft. I wonder who tipped them off. Anyhoo, the lawsuit in many ways is similar to some of the over a doz…
Paul Fairie
Michael Roberts
Adam ConoverTAKE ME TO CHURCH
I wanna go to church and sit in a pew
Drink a lil cup of blood
But it's really grape juice
I wanna go to church and sit in a pew
Drink a lil cup of blood
But it's really grape juice
Ken WhiteBlock people who are annoying. All dudebrah arguments against — that it’s weak, soft, etc. — apply equally to not drinking urine.
“Dude, you don’t drink urine? That’s weak bro.”
“Gross. Why would I drink urine? I don’t want to.”
“Maybe you’re just too soft bro. What a pussy.”
ProPublicaLook up which Fortune 500 companies have funded election deniers since Jan. 6.
We recently updated the data to include more than $20 million in contributions.
#Fortune500 #Elections #Jan6 #Campaign
https://projects.propublica.org/fortune-500-company-election-deniers-jan-6/
Apropos of absolutely nothing, a reminder of JFK’s successful Harvard application essay
