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Getty Images CEO Craig Peters says Getty is spending "millions and millions" on its Stability AI lawsuit in the UK and the US, accusing it of copying 12M images (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/28/getty-ceo-

Getty Images spending millions to battle a 'world of rhetoric' in AI suit, CEO says
Getty Images is spending "millions and millions of dollars" on its legal case against Stability AI, the photo licensing company's CEO Craig Peters told CNBC.

‘A timebomb’: could a French mine full of waste poison the drinking water of millions? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/23/french-mine-stocamine-waste-drinking-water-chemicals-alsace-aquifer-aoe

Extraordinarily Expensive Costs Force Getty to Pick Its AI Legal Battles (Ars Technica, 28 May 2025)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/extraordinarily-expensive-costs-force-getty-to-pick-its-ai-legal-battles/…

It’s too expensive to fight every AI copyright battle, Getty CEO says
Getty dumped “millions and millions” into just one AI copyright fight, CEO says.

In Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Man of the People" (part of "Four Ways to Forgiveness") there's a scene where the Hainish protagonist begins studying history. It's excellent in many respects, but what stood out the most to me was the softly incomprehensible idea of a people with multiple millions of years of recorded history. As one's mind starts to try to trace out the implications of that, it dawns on you that you can't actually comprehend the concept. Like, you read the sentence & understood all the words, and at first you were able to assemble them into what seemed like a conceptual understanding, but as you started to try to fill out that understating, it began to slip away, until you realized you didn't in fact have the mental capacity to build a full understanding and would have you paper things over with a shallow placeholder instead.
I absolutely love that feeling, as one of the ways in which reading science fiction can stretch the brain, and I connected it to a similar moment in Tsutomu Nihei's BLAME, where the android protagonists need to ride an elevator through the civilization/galaxy-spanning megastructure, and turn themselves off for *millions of years* to wait out the ride.
I'm not sure why exactly these scenes feel more beautifully incomprehensible than your run-of-the-mill "then they traveled at lightspeed for a millennia, leaving all their family behind" scene, other than perhaps the authors approach them without trying to use much metaphor to make them more comprehensible (or they use metaphor to emphasize their incomprehensibility).
Do you have a favorite mind=expanded scene of this nature?
#AmReading

Investigation: California colleges and universities continue to renew Turnitin subscriptions despite the cost, faulty anti-plagiarism tech, and privacy issues (Tara García Mathewson/The Markup)
https://themarkup.org/artificial-intelligence/2025/06/2…

California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it? – The Markup
Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever.

Hungary, the USA, Britain - ordinary people round the world are marching IN OUR FUCKING MILLIONS against our governments and for humanity.
If I was in the ruling class, I'd be hurrying up that rocket to Mars, to be honest.
FUCK #KeirStarmer FUCK #Trump Fuck

Millions of College Students Could Have Their Federal Aid Slashed Under Budget Proposals
https://www.investopedia.com/college-students-could-lose-grants-11752596

This terrible, terrible bill is going to do direct, material harm to the country
- our health care system is going to be weakened,
- close to 100m people will be paying more for health care or lose their insurance,
- tens of millions will struggle to eat,
- our existential transition to a clean energy future undermined,
- an unprecedented domestic political police force will be established,
- the fiscal integrity of the United States will be in jeopardy t…

Signing This Terrible Bill Will Be A Loss For Trump - And America - Not A Win
Our leaders need to hear our roar of disapproval today, tomorrow, all week. Those of you with Republican Senators or House Members need to be particularly loud now

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick: "If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more." — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/post/3lsp64jee722u