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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.

wow cool did Sentry just fucking HALF the spans included in our plan!?
gotta love when a company introduces a feature you never asked for and doubles the price on a feature you care about
cool cool cool, no action required indeed

#EroticMusings 9: How important is it for characters to be distinct from each other? (visually, emotionally, other ways)
Do you use any frameworks (e.g. astrology, MBTI, elements) or techniques to distinguish them?
I don't use frameworks. What I do is giving them a distinct past and have that past inform their present and their actions.
Fenia feeling too greedy for hav…

On the PI-exponent of matrix algebras and algebras with generalized actions
Thiago Castilho de Mello, Felipe Yukihide Yasumura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21257

On the PI-exponent of matrix algebras and algebras with generalized actions
We compute the PI-exponent of the matrix ring with coefficients in an associative algebra. As a consequence, we prove the following. Let $\mathcal{R}$ be a PI-algebra with a positive PI-exponent. If $M_n(\mathcal{R})$ and $M_m(\mathcal{R})$ satisfy the same set of polynomial identities then $n=m$. We provide examples where this result fails if either $\mathcal{R}$ is not PI or has zero exponent. We obtain the same statement for certain finite-dimensional algebras with generalized action over an…

Identifying Fine-grained Forms of Populism in Political Discourse: A Case Study on Donald Trump's Presidential Campaigns
Ilias Chalkidis, Stephanie Brandl, Paris Aslanidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19303

Identifying Fine-grained Forms of Populism in Political Discourse: A Case Study on Donald Trump's Presidential Campaigns
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a wide range of instruction-following tasks, yet their grasp of nuanced social science concepts remains underexplored. This paper examines whether LLMs can identify and classify fine-grained forms of populism, a complex and contested concept in both academic and media debates. To this end, we curate and release novel datasets specifically designed to capture populist discourse. We evaluate a range of pre-trained (larg…

Federal Reserve Governor
Lisa Cook's lawyer
has filed a lawsuit against Trump
following his unprecedented attempt to fire her on Monday.
Many experts fear that the president's latest action could spell the end of the Fed's independence.

Ukrainian MP, businessman Yaroslav Rushchyshyn dies in motorcycle accident: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/25/ukrainian-mp-businessman-yaroslav-rushchyshyn.html