Tootfinder

Trump has cooled on his Russian counterpart, recently referring to him as “crazy.” He may still act on his stated desire to do business with Mr. Putin but will be unable to deliver either Ukraine or the West. Hard facts forbid it. Russia’s brutal war has horrified and terrified the West, jolting it into a collective effort of containment and turning Europe conclusively against Russia.
Opinion | Putin Has Lost the West. This Was Not the Plan. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/opinion/putin-trump-nato-russia.html

Two tech groups are backing Anthropic's appeal of a court ruling allowing a copyright class action, saying potential big settlements could chill AI investment (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

"“Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy” has plenty of phrases like “task force,” “initiative,” “framework,” “collaboration,” and “harmonizing authorization processes,” but it repeatedly pleas for “more research” on chemicals and toxins that are already accepted by the wider medical community a dangerous."
'I’m horrified as a mother': Make America Healthy Again moms turn their backs on Trump - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/donald-trump-maha-mothers/

#Anthropic apparently claimed «it cost Google $34.5 million "to set up a 'Books Rights Registry' to identify owners for payouts under the proposed settlement" in one of the largest cases involving book authors prior to the AI avalanche of lawsuits».

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

Two tech groups are backing Anthropic's appeal of a court ruling allowing a copyright class action, saying potential big settlements could chill AI investment (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

I would be happy if the AI industry actually had to pay authors for their work in accumulating ideas and knowledge and expressing them via their copyrighted works (registered copyright or not.)
The AI industry is whining "we are so big, we need to violate the law, we need to steal the work of others without even the pretense of compensating them, oh woe are we, oh woe are we".
There is a gap in our laws of copyright. Copyright covers expression, patents cover ideas. B…

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

Learn not to be horrified by mere "AI"
Learn to be horrified by inhumanity, oppression, commoditization of labor, deskilling people, disrupting lives, acquiring control of society and culture, of misinformation, of uncaring bullshit.

I get a kick out of talking to experienced software engineers just after they have encountered ML research scientists for the first time

What can go wrong?
Google's healthcare AI model, dubbed Med-Gemini, invents a body part — "basilar ganglia" — that simply doesn't exist in the human body.
#AI
https://

Learn to be horrified and offended by customer support that goes nowhere, by inaccessible remedy for problems. Learn to be horrified by the denial of humanity at scale.