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Filing: CNN sues Perplexity in New York for allegedly unlawfully copying and distributing CNN content, after failing to agree on terms with Perplexity in 2025 (Brian Stelter/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/05/28/media/cnn-sues-perplexity-ai-copyright

CNN sues Perplexity over alleged AI copyright theft
CNN is suing Perplexity, accusing the AI company of unlawfully copying and distributing CNN’s content.

Artificial intelligence has triggered fierce competition for top talent and is also fueling tens of thousands of layoffs this year.
The class divide is widening in Silicon Valley as a tiny group of employees is landing unprecedented packages for AI skills,
while many others struggle to find work
The have-nots are doing everything that used to guarantee great jobs
— refreshing resumes, optimizing LinkedIn profiles and doing interviews
— but companies are much mo…

It must be nice to be able to just walk away from work for a few months because you’re just not feeling it, yet still get paid and have everyone applaud when you come back.
Seriously, the world would be a far better place if we all had Tom Kean’s privileges.

Picked this one over one where I made a happy face because, hey, the Seneca Street Parking Garage behind me is falling apart
#photo #photography #selfie

Die Zukunft der #Synchronbranche steht auf dem Spiel.
#KI-Technologien ermöglichen kostengünstige #Stimmklone und automatisierte

Wie KI das Filmgeschäft verändert: Synchronbranche bedroht
Kann man eine Stimme klonen und per KI übersetzen? Ja. Und das ist ein riesiges Problem für die Synchron-Branche.

I sure do enjoy #EdZitron's podcast #BetterOffline. #AI's going to be a huge crash, but at least there's other people who can see the reality that the hype is desperately trying to pape…

Ed Zitron (@edzitron.com)
Here’s this week’s Better Offline. I run you through how Uber’s COO said the quiet part out loud - that AI’s outputs and efficacy do not match up with its ruinous costs - and how despite its bluster, the AI industry’s grift is failing. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/better-offline/id1730587238?i=1000769758292 Linktr.ee/betteroffline

at the vision fest at abrons arts center, leading off with marshall allen (102?!!) & all-stars including william parker, andrew cyrille, dm hotep, & darius jones, flowing through the outer darkness. then, trae crudup & co. with a powerful milford graves tribute, heartbeat thunder & glitched vocals. #nyc #jazz

from my link log —
Tech ain't that deep - and that's a problem.
https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/tech-aint-deep
saved 2026-07-20 https://…

Tech ain't that deep - and that's a problem | deadSimpleTech
With that in mind, it became fairly clear to me that the tech industry these days has a depth problem: as much as tech is becoming quite a bit more complex, it's also becoming shallower. Learning new things in tech these days, as often as not, simply doesn't give me the same feeling of satisfaction or achievement as learning or writing C back in the first years of my career did. Being effective in tech these days feels as though it's less about understanding than it is about memorising a big li…

Semi-subtoot: there's a certain kind of anti-genocide narrative that draws comparisons between the Gaza genocide and the genocide of Jews, queer, and disabled people during WW2, with an incredulous overtone, the subtext of which is: if the good nations invaded Germany to stop the Nazis' evil in WW2, it's hypocritical for this nations not to take action to protect Gazan civilians now. There are a couple of problems with this line of reasoning, but the most obvious from an anarchist perspective (which sees "good nation" for the oxymoron it is) is that it's ahistorical. The reasons for the various allies' entrance into WW2 are varied, but they weren't about good and evil, and in fact the full depth of the evils of the Holocaust *was not known* in allied countries until after the war. Nations never really do things to "fight evil" like some humans might; they always act out of a kind of (imperfect) self-interest. The motivations for many of the allies were simply "we don't want Germany to conquer and destroy us" (and the imperfection in that motive is amply evident in the appeasement that preceded the war). America was of course not swayed by that motive, and it was the Japanese that (thinking the issue would have to come to a head eventually and that a surprise attack was worth speeding it up) put America in a situation where it joined for similar reasons.
Why is this extra relevant right now? Because neither the US nor any European country is existentially threatened by Israel (or threatened at all in fact, quite the opposite they're all benefiting economically from the situation in Gaza). The lesson of history isn't "brave, good nations will stand up to fight against anyone who commits genocide or other major evils", it's "nations act in their narrow and twisted and often mistaken self-interest (the interest of the national entity, which is often counter to the interest of it's citizens), and they always mythologize their actions after the fact as having been a fight against evil, which sometimes by luck is partially true."
To double down on this point: in the European theater the U.S. war actions were pretty good overall, defeating an evil opponent through military force and being a fairly gracious victor to the civilian populations there. In contrast, in the Pacific theater the U.S. was one of two evil empires duking it out for global dominance at the expense of civilians on both sides. The Japanese empire was a vile regime and perpetrated horrors in China, Korea, and across southeast Asia. The U.S. was barely better, between Japanese internment camps at home, and mass targeting of civilians on Japan, both with the firebombing of Tokyo and especially the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
So if your model of how we stop genocide is "convince the good guys to invade (or exert political pressure) and save the day", your model is wrong. That's not what happened in WW2. I'm not confident I know the perfect solution, but I do think it involves a mass of people making increasingly disruptive protest so that the cost *to rich companies and thus politicians* of falling to intervene is too high to stomach. That's a large part of what succeeded in South Africa, for example. Thankfully, there is already a vibrant protest movement to end the genocide in Gaza, and even though they haven't been fully successful yet, I'm optimistic that as things naturally (and through hard work) fall apart for various fascists politically, that movement will be able to succeed.
#gaza #genocide