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I was tempted to bring over a bad post from the bad place and then I remembered I should be the change I want to see in the world. so! I made black-eyed peas (with garlic, onion, paprika, cumin, tomato paste and soy sauce, obv!) and kale, …

took my 5 y/o to a big hannaford today and he was completely one-shotted by the grocery store bullshit. worlds biggest mark. i refused to get him a dumpling toy and he screamed WE'RE ONLY GETTING THINGS YOU WANT. yeah man i really "want" "…

we’re a week into GTA 6 leaks and people are at the point of believing someone claiming Rockstar lawyers turned up at their house. They also have a crypto coin for “support.” Welcome to the internet in 2026 🥲

My personal belief is that training is quintessential fair use, and if the courts decide it's not, we'll be in a bad place for a lot of other things, including reading assistance tools for the blind & academic research that engages in scra…

It's not entirely settled in courts. Multiple cases, many competing rulings. But, generally, training as transformative fair use seems to be winning. Anthropic lost a case narrowly not because they scanned or trained... but because they th…

"liz aren't you lactose intolerant" that isn't going to be a problem for another... half an hour at least

I think that usually starts in September.

i am against using phrases like, “[brand of chatbot here] told me” or “[brand of chatbot] said.” avoid imbuing these things with unwarranted authority. discourage people from treating apps like sources. “text generated by [chatbot whatever…

It is frustrating how jerks seem to keep getting rewarded.

So sorry to hear this and sending best wishes to you and your family.

I am saying I don't think the process of training alone implicates any of § 106 rights granted to copyright holders. Some of the other things companies do ancillary to the training process itself might. But training... I don't think violat…

FWIW, I also think this was some of the thinking behind @triketora.com's original version of @blockpartyapp.com, which had some really neat "hands off" features for dealing with being on Twitter when you were suddenly brigaded by bad faith…