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L.A. County leaders to weigh legal action following violent ICE arrests
Citing a recent arrest by immigration agents that bloodied a man in the unincorporated area of Valinda,
Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis said she wants the county to explore a legal counterattack against what she described as the federal government’s “unconstitutional immigration enforcement practices.”
In a statement Saturday, Solis said that she plans to co-sponsor a motion at Tuesday’s Boar…

L.A. County leaders weigh legal action following violent ICE arrests
L.A. County Supervisor Hilda Solis said she intends to introduce a motion to explore the county's legal options 'against unconstitutional immigration enforcement actions.

"Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films."
-Jason Bateman
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Simulating Human Behavior with the Psychological-mechanism Agent: Integrating Feeling, Thought, and Action
Qing Dong, Pengyuan Liu, Dong Yu, Chen Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19495

Simulating Human Behavior with the Psychological-mechanism Agent: Integrating Feeling, Thought, and Action
Generative agents have made significant progress in simulating human behavior, but existing frameworks often simplify emotional modeling and focus primarily on specific tasks, limiting the authenticity of the simulation. Our work proposes the Psychological-mechanism Agent (PSYA) framework, based on the Cognitive Triangle (Feeling-Thought-Action), designed to more accurately simulate human behavior. The PSYA consists of three core modules: the Feeling module (using a layer model of affect to sim…

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Tesla und das Problem mit der Verkleidung #tesla #diner https://www.tmz.com/2025/07/28/woman-inju…

Woman Injured by Falling Patio Furniture at Tesla Diner in Hollywood
A lunch outing turned into a terrifying ordeal for a family at the Tesla Diner in Los Angeles -- and now, they’re planning legal action.

På forsommeren kom det nye KI-retningslinjer for Britisk film, og kort tid etterpå hadde det norske bransjebladet Rush Print en artikkel hvor flere aktŸrer etterlyste noe lignende for norsk film. Det har tatt meg litt tid å svare, men her er min vinkling på KI og film, og hvordan vi bŸr samles for å mŸte utfordringen.
KI-retningslinjer for norsk film? – fredsnotes

Filing: Anthropic reached a settlement in a copyright class action brought by authors whose works were included in two pirate databases Anthropic downloaded (Annelise Levy/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/class-action/anthro…

Anthropic Settles Major AI Copyright Suit Brought by Authors (1)
Anthropic PBC reached a settlement with authors in a high-stakes copyright class action that threatened the AI company with potentially billions of dollars in damages.

I can’t remember who said the Democratic Party is acting like a •minority party• when what we need is an •opposition party•. The piece below captures that feeling (and its venom is fully justified).
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https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/fucking-fight-you-useless-fucks

Filing: Anthropic reached a settlement in a copyright class action brought by authors whose works were included in two pirate databases Anthropic downloaded (Annelise Levy/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/class-action/anthro…

Anthropic Settles Major AI Copyright Suit Brought by Authors (1)
Anthropic PBC reached a settlement with authors in a high-stakes copyright class action that threatened the AI company with potentially billions of dollars in damages.

Public defender’s office seeks removal of Trump’s top federal prosecutor in L.A.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-29/public-defender-moves-to-disqualify-bill-essayli

Public defender's office seeks to remove L.A.'s top federal prosecutor
In a filing Friday, the federal public defender's office in Los Angeles argued acting U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli should be removed because he is unlawfully occupying his post.