Another day, another example of Google's AI overview stealing my work word for word while the actual review I wrote sits further down the page. And no those link icons don't take you to BF.

A big Fuck Off as always to generative AI.

ROB SCHMITT: People are using SNAP benefits to get their nails done, to get their weaves and their hair. This is a really ugly program.

SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.

If a business throws food away rather than giving it to their employees or people in need, they should pay a massive fine.

I mean more than the profit from the food if they sold it. We should ruin any business vile enough to throw away surplus and let people go hungry.

Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado at ICE detention facility: “Being here is an act of holiness…soon we will seek access to the facility to bring the Eucharist to our brothers and sisters; if they say no again, we will keep praying.”

Trump: "It's their fault. Everything is their fault."

Kodansha, Kadokawa, Square Enix, Shogakukan, Akita Shoten, The Association of Japanese Animations and thirteen other co-signers released a joint statement denouncing Open AI’s Sora 2 for infringing on their copyright without permission/proper compensation

Massive win and beginning of the end for generative ai

A source familiar w/ internal workings at MasterCard notes the company does not plan to recruit additional call center workers for the Christmas season, as MasterCard does not expect higher call volume than usual. A resurgence of calls re censorship during the busy season would be huge strategically

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