@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot2026-09-21 11:37:39
Tell your local politicians to STOP DELAYING.
@sofia@chaos.social2026-09-21 17:24:33
i'm so annoyed with petitions being like "we are against $bad_thing, but we also implicitly or explicitly recognize the motivation for $bad_thing as legitimate and propose the following shitty compromise."
i guess this will appeal to some centristy wishy-washy types, but are those even the people who will likely see that petition in the first place?
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2026-08-20 14:30:20
Ye gods. I can't even imagine what these people are feeling. And I can't find a listing for that Cemetery at Find A Grave. Horrible. #genealogy
https://www.wkrn.com/…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-18 01:21:56
The Newsom administration is suing five more California cities
— Calexico, Costa Mesa, Half Moon Bay, Ridgecrest and Turlock — for failing to complete state-mandated housing plans, known as the “housing element.”
Huntington Beach was the first city to face such a legal action, and it recently finalized its housing element plans following a court-order and massive fines.
The law, which has been in place since 1969, requires cities and counties every eight years to d…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-17 22:21:14
Filings: a group of major music publishers has agreed to end a copyright infringement dispute with X over the use of their music on the social media platform (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/m
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-07-17 22:26:04
Filings: a group of major music publishers has agreed to end a copyright infringement dispute with X over the use of their music on the social media platform (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/m
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2026-08-19 09:03:16
Great article about the loss of diversity induced by recommender systems (including LLMs):
Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same
"A world that keeps removing the unlikely also removes the things that could have become the next likely. Ecologists have known this for a long time already and even priced it: they call it the insurance value of biodiversity, the standing reserve of rare species that cost energy and contribute nothing, until the clim…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-20 05:44:47
Statements of interest allow the government to declare an official position on a legal matter in private lawsuits.
While not binding, they can hold significant weight and help persuade cases.
The New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft argues AI firms illegally stole their copyrighted works to train their large language models,
and that AI-generated outputs unlawfully produced market substitutions.
The DOJ's SOI argues copyrighted works to train mo…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-15 14:45:42
A police department in Texas that arrested a local resident for complaining on social media about their city’s contaminated water supply
💥 has been ordered closed after failing to prove it provided any benefit to the community.
State officials stepped in to investigate after Jennifer Combs spent a night in jail in May
after a post appeared on her Facebook page suggesting people were hospitalized by bacteria in the water pipes of Trinidad,
a municipality in Henderson co…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-16 01:07:59
The Trump administration fired a federal prosecutor on Wednesday,
⭐️less than an hour after he was appointed to lead the United States attorney’s office in Seattle
-- a move that sets the stage for a likely legal battle.
Federal judges in the Western District of Washington had unanimously appointed Roger Rogoff to be the Justice Department’s top official there,
filling a vacancy that the president has never addressed.
But the Trump administration has largely def…
