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AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

This is very welcome news in the face of Trumpist depredations of US public data.
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01/30/preserving-public-u-s-federal-data/

"In recent months the Harvard Law School [@harvard_law] Library Innovation Lab [@harvardlil] has created a data vault to download, sign as authentic, and make available copies of public government data that is most valuable to researchers, scholars, civil society and the public at large across every field. To begin, we have collected major portions of the datasets tracked by data.gov, federal #Github repositories, and #PubMed...."

#DataGov #DefendResearch #Libraries #OpenData #Preservation #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

Preserving Public U.S. Federal Data | Library Innovation Lab

Makes you wonder, huh?

None of this is a surprise if you’ve been paying attention to right wing circles. The end game is a system that caters to rich straight white Christian men with everyone else as a second class citizen.

49.81% of people who voted chose this.

https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/pete-hegseth-shares-video-featuring-35701869.amp

Pete Hegseth shares video featuring various pastors saying women shouldn’t be allowed to vote

His apparent endorsement of the video follows several public comments and instituted military policies that critics say discriminate against women

Irish Star

Sticker of the Day!

This is my sticker based on my painting, "Cat in Boat Pose"!

https://www.joyousjoyness.com/collections/stickers

#art #sticker #orangecat #gingercat #cat

But Trump loves and respects our veterans.
There is a photograph. Chicago’s Polk Street Depot, Sept. 1920—8 figures against a plain wall, 2 battered suitcases between them. Weeks earlier in Paris, TX, 2 sons were lynched, their sisters raped, the family driven out. The image endures as proof: of flight, of what drove it, and of how long the fight for the smallest measure of human decency can take.
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#history #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Texas
Image: The Arthurs at Chicago Polk Street station, Sept. 4, 1920. Source: Chicago Defender.
Sure, Pam.
When the WH calls Fox “fake news” you know it’s jumped the shark.