The newest AI (OpenAI, Imagen, Stable Diffusion) don’t scrape. They are trained on billions of images, literally a hundred terrabytes even when compressed, but the AI model is less than 2 gigabytes. There’s literally no where for it to store all those images, so it can’t do a direct copy from any of them. 

Both are legal

simply because it is allowed does not mean it is ethical

... his other businesses and his own wealth.

That would feel rather cartoonish in Andor, in my opinion.

Profanity can certainly be overused. But that doesn’t mean it is always used inappropriately.

I say this really honestly: It always surprises me how there is this big cultural slice of people, a minority, but a large and distinct group, who is really, really, put off by swear words. In ways that seem inexplicable to a lot of people.

This show was utter perfection. From start to finish, utter perfection. So many sublime performances. Fiona’s hologram farewell and Skaarsgard’s speech were both brilliance. A grown up and thought provoking Star Wars (Disclaimer: I love them all) that was bold and well written and beautifully shot and performed by…

The best show of the year was Severance.

Andor is the best Star Wars since the original trilogy.

not enough. He is killing two companies at one time. Teslas stock has dropped 50 dollars since oct 27th. And will probably fall even more because of twitter. 

Mastodon is actually pretty great, but it is a little hard to get set up at first. My advice would be to skip the dedicated app and use the web site (maybe make a web shortcut for your home screen), and be sure to turn on the “advanced web interface” under your settings. Other than that, all you have to do is pick a…

Three months pay and I don’t have to deal with this fucktard twit and his over inflated ego? Yeah that would be a no brainer for me I would smash that “No thanks” button without a second thought. 

I mean would you spend 40B on something that doesn’t make money with that plan in mind? No Elon is an idiot troll and practically always has been and this is proof. It’s not some 4d chess move. 

Andor has easily become my favorite show of the moment and the best since The Watchmen a few years back. This is storytelling, this is acting, this is how to make Star Wars! I’ll be sad in a few weeks when the Season ends, but happy that I will get to binge it all over again

In this case, the answer to what if Deadpool just paused the Movie when he was about to go rescue Vanessa from Ajax because it was too cliché, so went to talk to a robot instead, it would have ruined the movie, and probably prevented them from making any sequels.

Summoning Salt managed to get his shifted by help of being that big a youtuber after kicking off on twitter. Still fucked his income for the vid and apparently even after it was lifted youtube wasn’t showing the video to people.

Clearly him and Minaj should collab to commiserate. 

In this instance, compared to how youtube actually censors stuff, Minaj’s video got a normal age-restriction, as any other youtuber would have. Something went wrong with their algorithm and they didn’t realize that this was Minaj, so they censored her “normally”. But of course, Minaj being Minaj, got the…

Agreed with all your points. The problem is these companies can’t sit still and enjoy the success of what they already have. They have to move and attempt to expand against all reason and their existing userbase’s interests. At the root of it all is greed-induced megalomania.

Just make Instagram Instagram again.