I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65) Speech (1862-08-06), Union (War) Meeting, US Capitol steps, Washington, D. C.
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Marktbericht: Wall Street im Wechselbad der Gefühle
Wall-Street-Anleger erlebten heute ein Wechselbad der Gefühle zwischen Zinshoffnungen und Konjunkturängsten. Auch der DAX konnte höhere Niveaus nicht halten und schloss leichter.
Der DAX bleibt zum Wochenschluss auf Erholungskurs - Rückenwind kommt dabei auch von der Wall Street. Anleger festigen ihre Wetten auf eine Zinssenkung der US-Notenbank.
Anthropic has agreed to pay a minimum of $1.5 billion to settle the lawsuit brought by a group of authors who sued the AI company for illegally using pirated copies of their books to train large-language models. This covers 500,000 works, but judge William Alsup says if the list exceeds that number, Anthropic must pay an addition $3,000 per work. This is the largest settlement in U.S. history. John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and Jodi Picoult are part of a group of nearly 20 bestselling authors who have sued OpenAI, alleging “systematic theft on a mass scale,” and this ruling could indicate the likely outcome of that case.
Anthropic, a major artificial intelligence company, has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by a group of authors.
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A sketch in my gigantic #sketchbook from last night. Not #urbansketching, but a sketch done in a place that is urban. She posed like this for a few minutes. It was tiring to hold.
I own a late 32bit Intel machine with an SSD and 4GB of RAM. It can barely run Debian 12. Chromium and Firefox are both painfully slow on this machine with modern web sites. I really want to know where these machines „perfectly capable of browsing the web“ are. Even a Raspberry Pi easily outperforms a Core2Duo (which is 64bit, btw.).
I ask partly because I'm thinking of adding some (small, optional) features to Write.as / #WriteFreely that could help you write regularly. For example, formalizing #100DaysToOffload, so you could track your progress on your blog.
People already do this on the platform, so wondering if this would be helpful to have something more structured.
I am shocked that streaming platforms don't seem to do any validation on music submissions. This problem of fake songs and albums is rampant on Spotify and Tidal. And they don't even offer a report button.
@Gargron the number of times Tidal has said “new release by Athlete” and I’ve nearly had a heart attack, then it turned out to be some shitty apparition of electronica or low-budget rap…I’m not pleased
@Gargron @isaaclyman #Deezer has a report button but you get zero feedback if you make a report. Feels like shouting into the wind. Reported a fake single from #DorianElectra that's been up since July with an obviously not the artist album cover. Crickets so far.
Idag har jag avslutat den 3-veckors kurs i Etik inom design som jag håller varje år på Nackademin sedan sju år tillbaka. Jag har fått så många personliga meddelanden från elever skickade till mig under eftermiddag och kväll om vilken ögonöppnare kursen varit för dem. Jag är så jäkla rörd. Och tacksam. Att få chansen att undervisa i det man brinner för är en så'n otrolig ynnest. Människor är fan fantastiska när de får chansen och möjligheten att hjälpa andra. Det är bara galet att så många inte får lära sig att det faktiskt går att välja att vara snäll även i sin yrkesroll.
One should remind people that 1.5°C is a global average but temperature increases are not distributed evenly over the planet. Higher latitudes are experiencing greater temperature differentials. What this means is air that can absorb a lot more water which leads away all the available moisture in a region, and that moisture laden air is transported to somewhere slightly different and it might run into a cold air mass and drop it all in a deluge.
He estado en parte ocupada (satisfactoriamente, no a las puteadas) y en parte con un presupuesto de conexión muy reducido. Vienen las elecciones de medio término con Luna llena y el río muy revuelto (diría más, pero estamos de "veda"), ayer fue el Día de la Historieta, volvió el frío a las puertas de la primavera, y para sorpresa de nadie, estoy cortísima de dinero y con deudas y gastos.
Invoco por lo tanto, y agradezco por anticipado, vuestra solidaridad. (La Ollita Travesti está bien por ahora, fueron muy generosos los aportes.)
Pagar la cuenta de la luz y comprar un anafe eléctrico para cocinar son mis prioridades: $150000 argentinos (USD 110, EUR 94) debieran bastar. Cumplido eso, algún medicamento cuya falta no me mata, alimentos (estoy cubierta en cantidad y calidad, pero cualquier variación es bienvenida), y cargar la tarjeta de transporte público para visitar a mis hijes, que mucho les vengo postergando.
Pueden enviarme al alias angelastellamatutina (Banco Provincia/Cuenta DNI, desde Argentina) o, por acuerdo con un amigo de la Ollita, a kotopezzani@gmail.com (PayPal, resto del mundo). Como siempre: cualquier monto me sirve, gracias desde ya. Escríbanme ante cualquier duda.
No soy gran fotógrafa, pero disfruto de observar los brotes del arbolito que me protege de los rigores del Sol durante el verano: les comparto las imágenes donde como puedo registro su evolución.
La formación regionalista celebraba este viernes el inicio del curso político en un acto en el que Ibarrola ha dicho que la estabilidad de la que "alardea" el PSN es "nociva" para Navarra
I finally found some late-summer dryad's saddle (Cerioporus squamosus) that looked good enough to harvest..maybe a bit dried out, but it seemed like bugs hadn't touched it. They were everywhere in the springtime, but I kept stumbling upon ones that were too far gone. However, I tried sauteeing one of the smaller lobes, and unfortunately, this one was also already too tough, so now I'm trying making mushroom stock in the pressure cooker. I gave it a good browning first and sent it off to the races. #mushroom #mushtodon #fungi #nature #foraging
Aberglasney Summer Fair September 6 - September 7 We are set to indulge all your horticultural senses at our Late Summer Fair in the beautiful surroundings of the Gardens.The mansion […]\n
"Crime in Washington DC or other large cities can be a significant issue, but it doesn't excuse fascism. Just because crime exists doesn't mean the solution is military occupation."
@TripTilt Dumm sein ist einfach, dumm sein erfordert nichts von dir, wenn du dumm bist hältst du dich meist für schlau.
Ich denke das Hauptproblem liegt darin, dass viele Menschen frustriert sind, über Job, Wohngegend, neue Trends, Unverständnis eines gesellschaftlichen Wandels oder ähnlichem was um sie herum in ihrer Welt passiert.
Da sie Dinge nicht verstehen/ ergründen oder hinterfragen können/ wollen, suchen sie nach zu kurz gedachten einfachen Antworten hierfür.
The Bill Gates who created MS-BASIC in 1976 would have been mad as hell that the language, which provided Microsoft's foundation, would ever be open-sourced.
TL;DR: The article explores the challenges of benchmarking generative AI, highlighting the complexities of evaluating performance across different AI models with a focus on criteria and methodologies. ailawlibrarians.com/2025/09/05… #tech 🤖 #autosum
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss slop in history, five-alarm fires, and AI art (not) at Dragon Con.
EMANUEL: We published about a dozen stories this week and I only wrote one of them. I’ve already talked about it at length on this week’s podcast so I suggest you read the article and then listen to that if you’re interested in OnlyFans piracy, bad DMCA takedown request processes, and our continued overreliance on Google search for navigating the internet.
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“I think that the way [HB 15] went down is a really good sign. We’re hopeful that it means it doesn’t come back again, and that we can preserve some level of transparency for all Texans, because they deserve it.”
Over the last week or so, I’ve been telling the story of how, in the space of a decade, the Bavarian car-maker Glas advanced from the almost toy-like little Goggomobil to the Maserati-like V8 models. I’ve just discovered that I’ve got another photo of the original Goggo, which shows off its design better than the pic I previously posted. Snapped at the Bremen Classic Motor Show in 2014. Another Goggo treat tomorrow.
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A federal judge Friday ruled against the #Trump admin from ending temporary #legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from #Haiti & #Venezuela the right to live & work in the #US.
Chen said #DHS Secy [puppy dog killer] #KristiNoem’s actions in terminating & vacating 3 extensions granted by the previous admin exceeded her statutory #authority & were #arbitrary & #capricious.
When companies do lay-offs I think disabled employees should be the last to cut. My reasoning is the outsized impact job loss has on us as disabled people and our families. Now, I'm fine with termination for cause such as poor performance. I'm just talking about involuntary severence. Now i issue the challenge to kindly employ a little empathy before all those keyboards out there start smoking with all the judgment and vitriol. #accessibility #blind #disability
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