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• On the post: First Of Potentially Many Google Antitrust Claims Goes To Trial

  

  Pseudonymous Coward ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2023 @ 10:24am

  Thank you for finding a new medium to reenact the pancakes/waffles tweet.

• On the post: The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center

  

  Pseudonymous Coward ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2023 @ 01:26am

  The entire reason gold was used as a currency is that it didn't have any intristic value. It was a shiny rock with no use* outside of decoration, which made it a convenient way to store wealth. *Yes, I'm aware that now we have uses for it as a commodity. That doesn't really apply to the days when people still took the gold standard seriously.

• On the post: First Of Potentially Many Google Antitrust Claims Goes To Trial

  

  Pseudonymous Coward ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2023 @ 01:21am

  If nothing else it warrants some pretty significant scrutiny about his claims. I'll willing to accept that you did just that, but you probably should have expected at least one angry response given the guy's past arguments.

• On the post: G/O Media Gives Another Crash Course On Perils Of Replacing Human Journalists With Half-Baked ‘AI’

  

  Pseudonymous Coward ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2023 @ 01:58am

  This is why people worry about AI taking jobs. It's not about fear of the AI doing it better, it's a matter of the executive class being too busy doing lines of cocaine off each other's dicks to understand what the technology is (and more importantly, isn't) capable of.

• On the post: Move Over, Software Developers – In The Name Of Cybersecurity, The Government Wants To Drive

  

  Pseudonymous Coward ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2023 @ 02:28am

  look I can do Random capitalization Of words too

• On the post: Move Over, Software Developers – In The Name Of Cybersecurity, The Government Wants To Drive

  

  Pseudonymous Coward ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2023 @ 02:24am

  allowing centrists to learn that word was a mistake

• On the post: French Publishers Accuse Musk Of Ditching Snippets To Skirt Ridiculous French Copyright/Neighboring Rights Law

  

  Pseudonymous Coward ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2023 @ 04:19pm

  This is the same sort of thing I see from people convinced that Elon's constant fuckups and destruction of everything people liked (or at least begrudgingly tolerated) about Twitter is actually a twelve-dimensional hyperchess plan handed down by order of the Saudis. It's the same mistake Elon's stans make. Dude's just not that smart.

• On the post: The Fear Of AI Just Killed A Very Useful Tool

  

  Pseudonymous Coward ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2023 @ 07:30am

  *cry

• On the post: The Fear Of AI Just Killed A Very Useful Tool

  

  Pseudonymous Coward ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2023 @ 07:30am

  Merits of the legal threats aside, I'm not going to try too loudly over the loss of What If Cinemasins But Books.

• On the post: Have We Considered That Maybe Elon Musk Just Hated Twitter & The People Who Use It All Along?

  

  Pseudonymous Coward ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2023 @ 04:57am

  Exactly. People (Mike included, apparently) keep acting like everything Elon does is part of some master plan, but it's not. There was never a plan. There was only a monument to the failure of meritocracy, a man surrounded by people who worked to stop him from carrying out his most destructive whims until the illusion of competence had become so absolute that he could convince even them that their work was unneeded.

• On the post: A Bunch Of Authors Sue OpenAI Claiming Copyright Infringement, Because They Don’t Understand Copyright

  

  Pseudonymous Coward ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2023 @ 03:53pm

  Then maybe you should ask those artists what they think about stuff like Midjourney? (Spoiler alert: they're not exactly huge fans.)

• On the post: Court Rejects Attempt To Blame Amazon For The Purchase Of Product Used For Suicide

  

  Pseudonymous Coward ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2023 @ 06:54pm

  Wouldn't be surprised one bit to learn that their lobbying influenced at least one mass shooting given the shit you tend to hear from the NRA, but I'll accept that proving sufficient influence to result in liability would be difficult at best.

• On the post: In 303 Creative, By Happily Helping One Bigot, SCOTUS (Perhaps Inadvertently) Helped The Larger Fight Against Bigotry

  

  Pseudonymous Coward ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2023 @ 02:02am

  For someone who writes legal analysis, you seem grossly ignorant of rulings like DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services and Castle Rock v. Gonzales.

• On the post: The Good, The Bad, And The Incredibly Ugly In The Court Ruling Regarding Government Contacts With Social Media

  

  Pseudonymous Coward ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2023 @ 10:20am

  It’s highly likely that this will not survive an appeal.

  If we lived in a nation where judges DIDN'T regularly get nominated for the sole purpose of pushing whatever bullshit the Republicans have decided to glom onto this week, perhaps.

• On the post: Sam Altman Wants The Government To Build Him A Moat

  

  Pseudonymous Coward ( profile ), 24 May, 2023 @ 11:24am

  Given how hard it is for its biggest defenders to define, or even show basic comprehension of, I also doubt Congress will do much better.

• On the post: How About Using AI To Determine Whether Or Not Something Is Creative Enough To Get Copyright Protection

  

  Pseudonymous Coward ( profile ), 19 May, 2023 @ 04:01am

  Eh, I've seen people literally calling it a death threat.

• On the post: Twitter ‘Shadowbans’ Bellingcat After Musk Attacks Them, Then Tries To Retcon A Nonsense Explanation

  

  Pseudonymous Coward ( profile ), 17 May, 2023 @ 03:48pm

  You're asking me to believe that a US government intelligence op would actually do stuff that would make right-wingers look bad? I mean, maybe, but it doesn't exactly have a lot of modern precedent.

• On the post: How About Using AI To Determine Whether Or Not Something Is Creative Enough To Get Copyright Protection

  

  Pseudonymous Coward ( profile ), 17 May, 2023 @ 03:42pm

  Is this something "AI" would even be capable of? It feels like the same overhyping of a technology that's increasingly harder to find moral use cases for, just in a different direction than most of the MBA dropouts are pushing it.

• On the post: Six Months In: Thoughts On The Current Post-Twitter Diaspora Options

  

  Pseudonymous Coward ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2023 @ 10:40am

  You can test stuff like "do we have a block feature at all" without inviting the general public to sign up for your website, dumbass.

• On the post: Six Months In: Thoughts On The Current Post-Twitter Diaspora Options

  

  Pseudonymous Coward ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2023 @ 04:58am

  What part of "if blocking is 'a feature that has yet to be implemented', you shouldn't have a user base yet" do YOU not understand?

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