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Rod Mesa
Oh Marshie, Marshie, Marshie, a snail living in a salt mine has more backbone than you do!
The Tennessee Holler ICYMI — After years of pretending she would never stop fighting to get the Epstein files release, @MarshaBlackburn just voted not to release them.
Truly pathetic.
www.wkrn.com/news/tenness...
Charlie Kirk has been shot and killed. (*cough* Thoughts and prayers *cough*)
Here's the question, was it another MAGA, or a gay lover? (I'm betting on a gay lover.)
Here's the question, was it another MAGA, or a gay lover? (I'm betting on a gay lover.)
Watching Star Wars 4 and the scene where Emperor Palpatine (Darth Sidious) tells Luke "Strike down your father and your journey to the dark side will be complete," and I immediately thought of my ex and her kids. 🤣🤣🤣
So, if you're a self-published author with legitimate ISBNs BUT have NOT registered your works with the copyright office then Anthropic and other AI platforms can use your works without paying you!
That's the gist...
https://authorsguild.org/news/what-authors-need-to-know-about-the-anthropic-settlement/
What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement - The Authors Guild
Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v Anthropic, one of the major copyright lawsuits brought by […]
sam henri goldDid you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?
It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself: https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor
Other than the Strauss–Howe generational theory, I think you're bang on!
As a child, I was taken to everything from Southern Baptist churches to Appalachian snake handling churches, and it was always "respect your elders" and "honor thy mother and thy father." Those two things have led to more physical, emotional and sexual abuse than anything else I can name.