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The word "robot" was invented to label a being whose worth was defined only in terms of the labor it performed. The point being that to value someone that way is to deny them any chance for humanity. An android is designed to take a place among humans and has the option to aspire to belong among them.

Data isn't a robot, he's an android.

"You never blow the cover of an agent in the field." --Jackson Lamb

> Until 1975, half of Americans said they entertained guests at their home every month.

Television.

Obviously the most proximate human being in the decision-making chain that led to the AI agent being deployed. The nearest person with the power to say no who said yes.

Long-term-stable color photo processing didn't become widely available until the late 1970s-early 1980s.

So if you were an artist and interested in building and maintaining a permanent portfolio, B&W was pretty much your only option.

Yes, but to sue for infringement, you must register the work with the Copyright Office, and the registration must specify clearly what's AI and what's human-created, and only the latter is protected.

It's already been established by court ruling and enshrined in Copyright Office regulations, that you can claim copyright on a mixed AI and human-authored work, but to sue for damages you must register the work, and the registration must clearly specify which parts are AI generated and which are human generated. Copyright can only be claimed on the declared human generated portion of the work.

I have found myself wondering a lot lately about the alternative universe where all the effort and resources devoted to developing and using AI coding and debugging agents were instead simply dedicated to fuzzing human-generated code. How would the code quality and total usefulness of the results have compared?

I for one welcome our new AI overlords.

> makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder

That is to say, just like every headline-grabbing programming "innovation" of the last thirty years.

What's the performance hit?

The best carbon capture device is the ocean, and for the last 10 years or so huge amounts of free-floating sargassum seaweed have grown in warm ocean waters around the world. Nobody is certain why the sargassum has appeared in such volume lately, but it's plausible to speculate that increased CO2 in ocean water plays a role. As far as I can see the only remotely efficient way to sequester carbon at scale is to leverage the ocean by gathering the seaweed and dumping it on marginal or desert land, both to trap the carbon and fertilize the soil, thus promoting additional carbon-binding plant growth.

Whenever I hear the word "culture," I reach for my remote.

Shortly after git became popular, the Subversion team released a tool that enabled replicating a SVN repository or any subset to a local independent repository, which could be used for local development and re-synced to the main repository at any time.

Nice feather in your cap Pritzker, now can you go back to working on a public option for health insurance?

By definition, it is.

It's a dry heat, so as a Florida man I'm sure he felt great.

Um...

Is there a comprehensive list of all supported social media platforms anywhere?

"There's A Riot Goin' On..."

I've also heard that pandoc now supports typst, and will turn typst format files into html, independent of typst's own code. Have not confirmed.

Seems like a worthy breakthrough, but the reported effect only produces temperature differences of 4-5K. They conjecture they can go to 22K deltas in the future.

Can an effect that small be practically scaled to grid-level usefulness, efficiency notwithstanding?

Apple.

The OpenACS web server toolkit has a lot of useful Tcl utilities, including the ad_proc procedure, which wraps proc and allows adding of switches, inline docs, and more.

I think it would be very useful to turn ad_proc into a built-in command and incorporate it into TCL.

https://nstcl.sourceforge.net/docs/nstcl-core/ad_proc.html

I recommend the book How To Talk So Kids Will Listen And Listen So Kids Will Talk.

The same basic techniques work on toddlers, teens and many adults.

Also easier to research the applicable laws in the comfort of your home before you leave instead of trying to triangulate the situation while in detention.

According to the article the Workaway website explicitly says the traveler is responsible for securing the proper visas, which the woman here clearly did not do.

IANAL but I know enough about US law to know that giving accommodation is explicitly barred from being counted as compensation. Workers have to be paid minimum wage regardless of any room or board provided. I would be surprised if the law was much different in the UK.

I don't understand the point of this article.

Was she not working in the US in exchange for accommodation? It certainly seems she was.

Was she not violating US visa rules by doing so? IANAL but it seems plausible she was.

Why did she sign her statement if it was inaccurate? I seem to see a lot of stories of people getting in legal trouble that boil down to 'I signed an inaccurate statement because I thought that would make it all go away.' Is this supposed to be an argument worthy of sympathy?

Is there a reason to see this story as something other than someone was unable to exercise white privilege to avoid consequences for bending (breaking) the rules?

"the prototype is still evolving."

In the USA:

1. The artist owns the copyright.

2. Derived works without permission of the author are illegal, unless under specific exemptions like fair use. The author of a book made into a film continues to own their words, the filmmakers own their original creative contributions to the work. Concepts and themes can't be copyrighted, so unless the Stones quoted Bulgakov's words verbatim, his estate would have no claim.

3. "The ownership of a copyright may be transferred in whole or in part by any means of conveyance or by operation of law, and may be bequeathed by will or pass as personal property by the applicable laws of intestate succession."

4. You'd have to ask the monkey. No.

5. Copyright law only applies to people, so there is no meaning to those concepts.

5-2. Animals and machines are considered property, so property law is applied to them.

6. "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries"