You realize that more Patriots were used during the first three days of the Iran war than were sent to Ukraine total across four years of war, right?

They have absolutely zero spending discipline. For example, they've been treating $50M Reapers basically as disposable munitions, with a quarter of the entire US fleet having been lost already.

According to what this article says:

Under the new rules, AI assistance can still be used, but humans must have written the song, and have performed the lead vocal and primary instruments.

.... under the second principle, all electronic music should be banned. And under the first, Hatsune Miku fans aren't going to be happy ;) Radiohead's "Fitter, Happier, More Productive", Kraftwerk's "Pocket Calculator", Pink Floyd's "Keep Talkin", Benny Benassi's "Satisfaction", etc are gone too.

Even for music that is fully performed by humans, that doesn't inherently say much about the artist. Okay, so they didn't generate the vocals or backing... but that doesn't mean that they didn't just buy it. That's actually really common, just buying riffs, paying for vocals on Fiverr, etc. If you're using that policy as some sort of metric for the artist's talent or work, it's not a good metric. And there's also a presumption that if AI is used at all then no meaningful time or skill went into the track, which is also not true. It may have just been "prompt something a couple times and then just post one or", or it might mean weeks of generation, selection, and esp. mixing and mastering to get what you had in your head. And if something is becoming a chart it, it's far more likely to be the latter.

This is all so stupid - banning the #2 track in the country (yes, it would be banned under the new policy) because you don't like the tools the artist used.

Also, just to be clear, there is no clear distinction between using AI to master and using AI to generate. If, say, a track is clipped, and I use AI to remove the clipping, that data wasn't there before, it's having to fill it in.

Not much, just smaller.

Committees deciding what counts as "art" doesn't have the glorious history that you seem to think it has.

Not that I'm terribly fond of China what would it be a dictatorship and all but it is annoying how the Epstein class is busy trying to make me angry at them for no particularly good reason. They're all good reasons to be upset with the Chinese government what would the human rights violations and all but now this is bullshit.

Ignored... not so far, not quite. Stretched right to the limit, and maybe a bit beyond ("The plane was already in the air, we didn't know that verbal court orders had to be obeyed"), then emergency-appealed direct to SCOTUS, which quickly stays the injunction and then sits on the case for 6-9 months and then often rules that the issue is now moot... that has happened. A lot.

And "simply ignored" could very well still happen if Trump thinks it's important enough. He'll just issue an order (an official act, for which he has full immunity) and pre-emptively pardon the people who carry it out. So far the administration has decided not to cross that line, but if/when it happens, the only people who will be surprised are the ones who aren't paying attention.

Then there are the other cases where there is no injunction because the courts have ruled that only Congress has standing to sue (impoundment, emoluments, etc.), and the bootlicking GOP has declined. In those cases, the government can just violate the law with impunity until/unless Congress grows a spine.

Plus there are the cases where the government has committed outright crimes which only the DoJ is in a position to prosecute, and they're just declining. In the case of the Venezuelan boats the DoJ's inaction gives the International Criminal Court jurisdiction, and they could prosecute (including prosecuting Trump), but the Trump administration is already enacting sanctions against ICC judges and prosecutors and if push comes to shove there's the Hague Invasion Act which would authorize Trump to invade the Netherlands to retrieve US personnel held by the ICC. So, the ICC isn't going to do anything.

"Who's gonna stop 'em?" is a legitimate question.

Yeah but Federal regulations override state regulations. Supremacy clause which is what they're relying on. They have control of the supreme Court thanks to decades of bribes and so here we are..

Even if you're not stupid enough to gamble because you know you have to lose because of course you do you're going to be negatively affected by this because tens of millions of young men will gamble with money they don't have to lose and that will increase crime and cause a ton of other problems.

This is a classic chesterton's fence where you don't take the fence down without understanding why the fuck it was put up. Gambling is highly addictive so it needs to be carefully regulated. Criminalizing it isn't a good idea either keeping it locked away to one state and then heavily regulating it in that state more or less seem to be working. And we just pissed that all away.

Six of nine judges are completely on the take. Google the phrase luxury motor Coach sometime.

It should be a bigger deal that the Chief Justice of the supreme Court is a corrupt sellout but well here we are. Half the country is quaking in their boots because 34 trans girls might play sports and one of the most powerful men on the planet is openly taking bribes and they shrug their shoulders.

I don't know how a species like that survives the next 50 years let alone the next millennia.

That comparison is incredibly unfair to the Cybertruck.

Is destroying the country's economic competitiveness part of the 80% or part of the 20%?

My previous reply was unnecessarily snarky, but I have to point out the "Linux" uses no such thing. GNOME, perhaps? I'm currently running KDE and Ctrl+Alt+Shift+u doesn't do this. Maybe it would if I changed the right setting.

Basically any "here's how you do that" advice is going to be very platform-dependent -- I just use a pair of hyphens. An actual em dash looks nicer, but not that much nicer. Though "—" is pretty easy on /., at least.

Wait... you're going to the National Museum of African American History and Culture (founded in 2003, signed into law by George W. Bush) and you're shocked that there was - somewhere in the 400k square foot building - a chart of stereotypes about white people next to a chart of stereotypes about black people?

Without getting into the question of good or bad, chatbot prose is quite distinct from most professional prose. There are lots of common patterns in AI prose that are fairly rare to nonexistent in human-written prose.

Definitely not. Once you've read enough of it, AI prose isn't just easy to distinguish, it's impossible to miss. It's a very definite and unique style.

I just tried it, doesn't work. Alt-numbers just jump to different browser tabs.

Word? Really?

I'm an EMACS user. Complex key combinations are fine.

You can take real eyeballs and put them on people's tick tock videos and you can easily monetize that because there's so many scams and social media influencers trying to make money there. Plus I bet you can show them literally anything without any age restrictions because the feeds would run with the application's account. You might even get ad revenue from it. Although there's usually very little money to be made doing that the real money on video platforms is either patreon or scams.