Being an unskilled but charismatic person has been a desire since the start of human trade. Ask the first person doing the worlds oldest profession if they'd rather have charm or technique to earn their keep. Humans have always wanted the cheap, fast fix for the ego.
Jesus Fucking Christ. It's 2026, Trump has been putting his boot on the necks of major networks and studios for a year and a half now. I realize you probably fell into a coma in 2016, but ten years later, the free press, regardless of what you think of it, or fair you imagine it is, is under direct assault. Fuck off with the "MSM" bullshit and grow the fuck up.
Not even that, I think. They're supposed to pay Iron Mountain what OSS would have paid them. One presumes there was some markup on it. Which should at least somewhat offset those legal fees.
The problem here is that presumably Nine PBS has already paid OSS, who in turn was supposed to pay Iron Mountain, but didn't, and now Iron Mountain has locked things up. And now Nine PBS will have to pay a second time to get their data back.
people complain they can't install them in their rented flats and all the spoils go to the people who have their own roofs to put them on
For what it is worth, Germany has pioneered what's referred to "balcony solar": a modest set of solar panels, plus an inverter with good safety architecture, which plugs directly into a wall outlet and backfeeds the premises. These get their name from the notion that you can drape the panels over a balcony rail, plug in, and start making power. The systems are modest: a few kW max, but that can make a dent in the energy budget of most flats. Some systems can also pair with modest-sized batteries (oversized power-banks). These systems gives renters with access to sunshine the ability to make some of their own power. They are available in the US now, too, although most states' regulations don't specifically allow them yet. Plus, owing to the differences in Europe vs US home wiring, you may need to be careful about what you plug into.
It won't do, because of course it won't
I agree. If digital distribution was going to make for lower MSRPs, you'd already see it in the world: buy a physical disc at retail for $X, or buy the digital copy of the same game for $Y, where Y never has been the case for the same title.
By Anthropic's description, if I write thousands of words of my own work and ask Claude to check for any spelling mistakes, and Claude says "one typo, you wrote CIa instead of CIA, fixed" what comes back has the watermark
The watermark comes from subtle choices in the frequency of words. For the watermark to be effective, Claude needs to be able to mess around with word choice in order to leave its imprint. Changing the spelling of a single word gives Claude no place to add a watermark.
AI isn't inherently bad, the system under which AI is being developed is. Capitalism commodifies everything, including humans... slavery is the logical end state of capitalism, commodifying not just the factory or the raw materials, but the worker themselves. In a non-capitalist society, it wouldn't matter that AI ingests and reuses creative output... creators are not beholden to capitalists in order to have food or housing or healthcare. In a non-capitalist society, AI would not be trained on winner-takes-all modalities. We get to a Star Trek world where you can conjure up damn near anything you want in a holodeck by leveraging AI... but only if it's in in a NON-capitalist society.
A 300 million dollar 387-foot professionally crewed yacht NOT maintaining an effective emergency channel watch, and not responding to the US Coast Guard when called upon, is definitely suspect even in the most complimentary light.
This is a story about humans in distress reaching out to a billionaire's boat. If your response is buh-buh-buh-insurance or buh-buh-buh-maritime-law, you're pretty firmly missing the point. This is ultimately Zuck's PR crisis regardless of how many levels of indirection he can employ to cover his ass liability-wise. He owns the boat. He hired the people. His monkeys. His circus.
His monkeys. His circus.
In India's caste system, dysentery is a major problem.
I don't follow the logic here: you're saying that India's caste system is a cause for dysentery? Dysentery is a problem in lots of places in the world that don't historically have caste systems. Gemini's response of "the fact that poor Dalit families cannot afford these alternatives..." is insufficient, because it applies to poor people the world over. Please do tell me about the Dalits in Africa.
Recall that dysentery was even a problem here in the US once upon a time.
Covered under fireworks.
Yeah, but starting a wildfire because you think people need some spectacle about the sex of your unborn child is a special kind of failure. I'd say it's distinct from fireworks, which is more everyday dumbassery.
Funny, how the authors don't hate the would-be arsonists — nowhere close to their disdain for the "rich and powerful", who might (might not!) profit from the betting...
Can't it be both? I mean, we already have laws against arson, and convictions for starting wildfires happen every year. Doesn't that demonstrate some animus against those perps?
"Sometimes insanity is the only alternative" -- button at a Science Fiction convention.
