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Hopeful despite everything. Actor/muso/coder.
Happy Independence Day. May we never again be ruled by tyrants.

Total student loan debt that would have been erased for millions of Americans: $400 billion

Total cost of the Trump tax cuts that largely benefited the wealthy and corporations: $1.9 trillion

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

OpenAI Hit with Proposed Class Action Lawsuit, Accused of Shocking Data Theft - OpenAI, the company behind the popular ChatGPT app, is being accused of stealing a... - https://readwrite.com/openai-hit-with-proposed-class-action-lawsuit-accused-of-shocking-data-theft/ #news #tech #ai
OpenAI Hit with Proposed Class Action Lawsuit, Accused of Shocking Data Theft

In this article, we'll take a closer look at the lawsuit and its potential outcomes, including the allegations made against OpenAI.

ReadWrite

Twitter is falling apart. Reddit is falling apart. Facebook fell apart ages ago. Meta is a trashfire. Instagram is baloney. Google can't even search for anything you want anymore.

You know what website still miraculously works?

Wikipedia.

You should donate to keep it that way.

Well fuck #reddit - they have just undeleted posts I made years ago that I'd removed when I did a purge a couple of years back.

So Reddit didn't actually delete the data - also these videos are no longer on YT so the thumb is cached

They are so fucked #gdpr

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Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments L: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/34112/Heads-up-Reddit-is-quietly-restoring-deleted-AND-overwritten-posts-and C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36354850 posted on 2023.06.16 at 07:36:40 (c=1, p=46)

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Good luck to all the students sitting their English paper today and who are having to contend with the unseen poem.
I'm an adventurous eater, but even I draw a line somewhere

Justice Gorsuch calls Covid safety measures “the greatest peacetime intrusions on civil liberties in American history.”

White wealth privilege is ignoring 400 years of Native genocide, 265 years of Black slavery, & 99 years of Jim Crow—but lamenting 1 year of PTO during COVID.😑

Covid-19 Patients Flung Out Hospital Windows As Public Emergency Ends

WASHINGTON—Picking up thousands of incapacitated Americans by their wrists and ankles and tossing them down to the sidewalks below, Covid-19 patients were reportedly flung out of hospital windows across the country Thursday as the public emergency officially ended. “Well, thank God that’s over,” said ICU head nurse…

The Onion

So, Twitter   decided to pull a DeviantArt move and change its Terms Of Services to include anything you post there on their AI dataset, to re-publish your art and benefit from it without your consent or compensation.

 TIME TO DELETE YOUR ART PORTFOLIO ON TWITTER 

I will only leave my contact information there, nothing else.

#Twitter #artistsonmastodon #TwitterAlert #AuthorsRights #AI #DeleteTwitter