Not that I disagree with your call for international pressure, but what is happening in the West Bank is genocide. Gaza gets a lot of attention for obvious reasons, but the genocide Israel is perpetrating is not against just Gazans--it's against all Palestinians and with clear ambition against all Levantine Arabs.

The majority of American Jews are not Zionists and a huge and growing portion of those are in fact anti-Zionist these days. Moreover, Jewish people have been at the forefront of almost every Palestinian solidarity movement in the US since before people started finally waking the fuck up in only the last couple of years to this century-long Zionist anti-Arab ethnostate horror project. And we will continue to do so even when we have to contend with pieces of shit like you with your shallow and feckless "solidarity" and sympathy at the same time.

I don't think this is really all that surprising if you understand how diffusers actually work. They don't just draw contours and shit. They apply sequential transformations across a matrix of pixels in an iterative fashion, the transformation varies each iteration based on prompt embeddings and the surrounding pixels of each respective transformation, typically starting from a seed of arbitrary static. A lot of images share overwhelmingly identical techniques, with a tiny sliver being responsible for the truly creative deltas. Diffusers effectively learn techniques so it tracks that dropping singular training data here and there doesn't change much.

It really wasn't. Heinlein did not write Starship Troopers as an aspirational piece of milscifi and, while he definitely had some questionable politics, my understanding is that he was effectively thinking aloud as he wrote the book.

18F was also mandated to work with state and local governments through various grant programs to upgrade their digital infrastructure. It was a great, albeit still not sufficiently supported, program that of course these silly fucking morons got rid of just to replace with one that has enshitification built right in from the start. Republicans are truly the party of enshitification.

Jewish voices are deeply involved in Palestinian solidarity movements across the world and at almost every level, so statements like this are just fucking insane.

I think this would actually trigger real rioting and violence. And that would give the Trump the veneer of legality he needs for Republican support to enact martial law. And that would trigger more rioting and violence spreading beyond NY. It would be a catastrophically stupid move on Trump's part. So probably by end of the month.

I thought that was weird, too, but that's not what they're arguing actually. Their argument is that these were pirated for personal use by various people on the company network over a course of years and that the IP address is not sufficient to identify the appropriate defendant (not Meta). Accordingly, they argue the case should be dropped because tje pleading does not, and cannot from what has been provided, identify a correct defendant. At first blush, it isn't an unreasonable argument. It would be like suing a university for detecting porn torrents on its network over a number of years (and alleging that the relatively small number of torrents were for AI research/training data).

Also, it's very difficult to get daycare to stick it out with you and once a child is in the 3-4 range, it becomes exponentially more difficult to modify bathroom habits. They will literally shit themselves just because you ask them to use a toilet at this stage.

When our kid had just turned 3, we had started making really solid progress finally. He was good with pee, starting to (slowly) get the hang of pooping, and would actually request to go to the bathroom before bedtime if he felt he needed to. Then daycare basically said they wouldn't deal with poopy training underwear anymore and bring him back with diapers, and all progress was lost. Now, nearly a year later, it feels like we're still clawing our way back to where we were.

Every generation literally doesn't is the point? I do think the framing is bad, but the generational decrease, as a cohort, in attention spans, technical literacy, and skills competency has been a major worry for over a decade now. Computer science educators were sounding the alarm on this in the mid and late teens, for example.

This is pretty common in the US unfortunately. Lots of union leadership and membership both lean hard right. Part of it is due to reactionary thinking and constant propaganda, and part is due to lots of people just being fucking stupid and illogical.

Why are residential and critical infrastructure electric rates uncapped? Prices should not be allowed to be hiked. The material ability to produce the electricity is there no matter what and demand is functionally inelastic--this price hiking doesn't cover any increase in cost of production, it just goes directly to utility company profit lines. We need to stop fucking negotiating with power companies.

May he be a chandelier--so that he hangs by day and burns by night.

Convert it into a museum dedicated to memorializing and studying America's greatest failings and violations.

Probable cause for ICE means a real and reasonable apprehension that if they don't make the arrest then, the individual is likely to flee were they to seek a judicial order or warrant. This is literally impossible to have in premeditated raids. The very act of planning and premeditation necessarily means they had time to seek a warrant before arrest. This person is full of shit and fully deserves to be "litigated in the streets." May they suffer the lack of peace they deserve.

What is described in the second point is literally how Design Patent claims work. They don't work the same way as utility patents. Anyway, yea, people not knowing how patents actually work aside, leadership at the USPTO is currently fucked.

This is a distressingly unusually solid analysis for lemmy. I agree with one exception--writing to memory absolutely counts as a distribution. Accordingly, if a generative model output an infringing work, it for sure could create liability for infringement. I think this will ultimately work similarly to music copyright where conscious/explicitly intentional copying is not itself the threshold test, but rather degree of similarity. And if you have prompts that specifically target towards infringement, you're going to get some sort of contributory infringement structure. I think there is also potentially useful case law to look at in terms of infringement arising out of work-for-hire situations, where the contractor may not have infringed intentionally but the supervisor knew and intended their instructions to produce an effectively infringing work. That is, if there is any case law on this pretty narrow fact pattern.

Few have been as deserving as this man of the old yiddish curse, "Zolst zayn vi a henglomp - hengn baytog un brenen baynakht."

This is brand tarnishment pretty clearly on the trademark side, too. If not for the apparent lasso the admin has around executives' nuts with their green cards (according to the former CLO in an article), this would represent an immense amount of liability on DHS' part. I still wonder if they might nevertheless press forward with litigation just to tamp down on the brand damage tbh

ETA: also, the potential recoverable damages are actually theoretically immense in a case like this, between statutory damages per copyright infringement and loss of sales to brand tarnishment. Very low chance, asymptotic to 0 percent likelihood, but it would be immensely satisfying if this is what zeros out ICE incredible funding bump.

Capitalism and free markets are not the same thing, nor is either particularly necessary to the other.