No, Your Honor, all of the torrented Blu-ray rips on my Plex server were being used to train AI.
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Somebody posted the source code to the IRS’s Direct File to GitHub. https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file
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"Wall Street analysts have begun to talk of 'TACO trade,' short for 'Trump always chickens out.' The phrase was coined earlier this month by Robert Armstrong of Financial Times and refers to Trump’s habit of threatening extraordinarily high tariffs and then backing down."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #tariffs #taco #TacoTrump #stocks #StockMarket #chicken
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I was curious just how much time in prison people pardoned by Trump would otherwise have had to have served. So I added it up: more than 700 years, including 600 among Jan. 6 rioters.
Gift link: https://wapo.st/3Hfd174
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SentinelOne still down, approaching three hours. It doesn’t look like they have an official status page so https://sentinelonestatus.com/ is all ya got.
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Also, here are some details about the a 24 year old White House staffer in the dataset
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Mathworks are 9 days into a ransomware incident, they disclosed today. https://status.mathworks.com/incidents/h1fjvcr72n87
HT @daniel
@DoNotPunchDown @evacide It's especially hypocritical when the origins of the phrase (if not the phrase itself) are probably in Zionist thought--and existed right from the start of the modern "Israel" project.
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This is your regular reminder that it is not un-Jewish or anti-Israeli to oppose the war in Gaza and call out its crimes against civilians. You are taking a position shared by [checks notes] the former Prime Minister of Israel.
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If I have advice to GenZ, it's to not rely on social network and make use of email. Both in publishing it, and sending to.
I recently connected with someone of immense reputation, just by looking at their blog About Me page. They got back to me in an hour. Do not avoid this medium. Publish yours.
@MisuseCase @GossiTheDog He has thrown a thousand rakes onto the floor and now can't do anything without stepping on one. A completely incompetent fool, but one running the government somehow.
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The 747 used such a revolutionary engine and timelines were so short, the test pilot insisted they install 40 car batteries to run the flight control hydraulic pumps if all four of the engines failed. There was no simulator or testbed. They just had to fly it.
https://youtu.be/4Ht1ogFUBLc
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When lawyers first started getting yelled at by judges for citing hallucinated case law two years ago I naively assumed word would get around and they would all quickly learn not to
This new database has 116 cases from 12 countries where this happened, and 20 of them were from just this month!
https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/ai-hallucination-cases/
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New from 404 Media: authors are getting caught leaving AI prompts in their novels, telling the AI to follow someone else's style. We bought a copy to confirm.
https://www.404media.co/authors-are-accidentally-leaving-ai-prompts-in-their-novels/
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What being a Windows user is like in 2025
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If you want an lol - Microsoft have implemented Copilot on its own GitHub repos and it’s a clusterfuck, you can see MS engineers publicly begging Copilot to work.
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I just remembered an odd little interaction at my doctor's appointment yesterday.
Nurse: Are you wearing a mask because you're experiencing symptoms of COVID?
Me: No, I’m wearing a mask because I don’t want to put myself at risk of catching COVID.
I seriously don’t know how this is still a question, especially in a medical setting where I think EVERYONE should be wearing masks, even before COVID was a thing.
@jplebreton @GossiTheDog Yeah, I guess that's probably true.
Just replace him with an AI. I guess "CEO" is the one job it's suited to replace.
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