OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models. OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so. A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.

Hi all! I have a question for people smart with the law. Do the restrictions in Utah's House Bill 261 (can’t say the word/discuss the concept of oppression or intersectionality or bias etc) apply to private individuals who are invited to speak at public universities?

It’s cool when you can get stuff for cheap. Even better when it’s fun stuff, like the adventures of a Druid and his wolfhound who’s got a thing for sausages. HOUNDED is on sale in Ebook for $1.99 this week. Let your peeps know or take a gander yourself!

Show me something you made without AI My 2019 novelette "The Auditor and the Exorcist" (CC-licensed) features a win for a social credit auditor doing the underpaid, unrecognized human labour that underpins "AI" nrmroshak.com/free-reads/t...

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Canadian authors, take note!

Newest LLM tell/quirk in coding assignments this semester: instead of generating code based on the CSVs that I provide, LLMs have been inventing datasets with rnorm() and sample() (and an obligatory set.seed(42)) and then making plots with the fake data. I'm so tired.

This is encouraging! A vaccine given to breast cancer patients 20 y ago has kept them alive. The 5 yr relative survival rate of women w/ metastatic cancer is 32%. This vaccine elicited long term immune responses. It is too expensive to be antivax. 🧪 corporate.dukehealth.org/news/could-c...

Russia has officially integrated occupied Ukrainian territories into its Southern Military District and plans to begin mobilizing 50,000 to 100,000 residents for the war effort, according to Ukraine’s National Resistance Center. Men aged 18–55, including conscripts, will be recruited by force.

You could make this pic in 5 minutes in Photoshop or with AI. But the fact that the Sun ACTUALLY did this in October (of 2014) is what makes this image AWESOME. Happy almost-Hallowe'en! #scicomm 🧪

Cat running for office: But we're going to get rid of the humans because they've been treating us very badly. And our bowls will be full in the morning- perhaps fuller than ever before

My grandfather had polio as a child. My mom didn't, I didn't, and my son didn't. Thanks, Dr. Salk. Dr. Salk was brought to us by free public education. He went to public school. Tuition for his B. Sc. at CCNY was free. Top-quality free public education saves lives.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

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Don't forget to contact your MLA and tell them to vote NO. #ableg #abpoli

excited to see my story out in the world! um...this one sure is a Sui story. enjoy! and i'm sorry!

Doug Ford’s office has already received over ten thousand emails in the last 24 hours, saying no Bill 60, which would enable landlords to renegotiate leases every year, and refuse to renew without cause. Acorn Ontario is calling this proposal “Ford’s most dangerous act” and they’re right #onpoli

CBC is apparently out of fucks to give writing headlines this morning.

Poynter, a nonprofit org that trains journalists & runs PolitiFact, has a new AI literacy course & toolkit. I was impressed www.poynter.org/tech-tools/a...

The #GovShutdown is on day 23. How many passengers and freight are transported by air? We are not paying the air traffic controllers. It is insane that businesses support the GOP

when Putin demands that Ukraine give him the territory of Donetsk region - this is what awaits the people there murders at the hands of the Russian military Russia claims that they "are Russians" and Russia "is saving" them from "evil nazi Ukraine" saving by murder suspilne.media/donbas/11462...

Your PI/mom/bestie/doctor would love this 👇🐡 🧪

This is the man setting the direction of #AI regulation in the USA in 2025

Friends of the Paleontological Research Institution met today at #GSA #GSA2025 and Carl Brett (Universityof Cincinnati), a great friend of PRI gave a speach on why this place is worth saving Part 1 of 2 #SavePRI ⚒️🧪

ICYMI Russia bombed a kindergarten yesterday. Same "Atrocities R Us" Russia that bombed a maternity hospital earlier in the war

RFK Jr. is an ableist racist transphobic eugenicist who is making everyone less safe. So I wrote a satire about it. "Mission Report From the Tiny Alien Piloting RFK Jr’s Body" Mission Report 892: Project Destroy Humanity v2: RFK Jr To: Kelvian Central Control, Planet Kelvian D 1/16

Maybe I just have a higher sense of self-preservation but if I were a deeply unpopular president I wouldn't suddenly be keen to have a bunch of strange workers and heavy equipment near my home.

File under “Are you fucking kidding me?” This bullshit is going to set the planet on fire so there’s nowhere left to go on vacation. They’re creating fake memories, like we’re a bunch of disposable replicants working in the mines until our batteries run out. Go touch actual grass.

Ottawa friends, this Hamilton press is doing a launch at downtown's best bookstore tomorrow!

The gap between the dark and light blue lines is the gap between the value of pay + stock options (etc) that companies intended to pay CEOs, and what CEOS actually made from exercising their stock options. Not saying insider trading is happening, but when you see a gap like that, you gotta wonder.

These stunningly spooky Bronze Age figurines are genderqueer! 🏳️‍⚧️

SFFH Writer: So, can we get the "FH" portion of this week to step back and let the SF group take over? www.npr.org/2025/10/17/n...

I legit love this. It's cute and playful, and also easy for someone who's not terribly used to That There Internet to work out where to click to get what they want. More websites should be like this one was.

TIL that CEO compensation skyrocketed during the dot-com boom, and never really went back down. CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20 In 1995: 120 In 2025: 281 www.epi.org/publication/...

Charlie Puth has been doing a series of music education videos over on TikTok, and this one about how AI is terrible at creating music is awesome. Imperfect art is what makes us human. ❤️

Spotted on a pole near me. "Personality: SSS"

CA governor Gavin Newsom vetoed both of the major AI bills on his desk that Silicon Valley meaningfully opposed—one making it illegal for bosses to use AI to fire workers with no oversight, one requiring chatbot sellers to ensure their products do not harm children before marketing to them.

If you love Akinator, wait til you find out the genie can recommend you movies & shows available on your streaming services! pepitch.com/recommandati... (French only, deploy Google Translate as needed, recommends plenty of English shows)

Russia has been attacking Ukraine's energy sector week by week Every night drones and missiles aimed specifically at power facilities Sometimes my electricity is cut off due to Russian attacks USA promised 10 air defense systems back in the summer Ukraine has not received a single one #UkrainianView

Very sad news for Canada. On Spec is closing after 35 years.

you can call her a dogkiller on tv, it's legal and true

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military. If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Hiring Bari Weiss to bring down the temperature of the discourse is like hiring Animal from the Muppets to reduce workplace noise

British volunteer Richard Woodruff captured the sound of Shahed drones and air defenses during Russia’s overnight attack on Lviv.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Solarpunk Creatures (also includes stories by @teffeau.bsky.social @brightflame.bsky.social @nroshak.bsky.social ) is also part of the #solarpunk Starter Pack on the Bright Green Futures website: brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/solarpunk-... Come to bookclub to discuss these great stories!