You’re talking about birthright trips, which are organized by Chabad, a super Zionist org but not Israel itself. They’re free 10 day trips they give to college age students. It is not some Jewish “coming of age” thing or whatever weirdness you’re, I assume unintentionally, veering into some gross territory with.
Thiel. By far. He is actually very intelligent and not addicted saying the dumbest shit possible on social media. And he is viciously evil.
None of the idiots in these comments or even reporting on this understand how patents work. They didn’t patent anything–they filed an application that has years ahead of it before they argue with the USPTO about what it actually covers, if they ever even achieve a granted application. Their starting point, first claim posted below, is already somewhat broad and easily designed around so I suspect if they get anything at all it’ll be nothing more than an unenforceable line item asset they can use as security for financing purposes.
I am not as optimistic about the real value of this as you are, but my practice is, ironically, IP and general advanced software counseling specialized in ML and decentralized/distributed network tech, so ymmv. Nevertheless, I think the increasing prevalence bodes poorly for the industry and consumers for two very specific reasons. For the industry, a major part of making good lawyers is by having green lawyers be shit lawyers under close supervision and lots of repetition. The rise of legal AI has already totally short circuited that fundamental process quite a bit. The other concern i have is that consumer reliance on these technologies actually pressures legal systems to converge towards greater convolution and arbitrary heterogeneousnes. This is bad because it (a) makes human inspection less and less feasible, (b) introduces a great many failure points that we’ll never be able to discern until it’s too late because of (a), and © makes the surviving equivalent of practitioners (and even automated systems) more vulnerable to the myriad issues with hyperspecialization. It is noteworthy that these are very similar issues facing the software industry.
So the admission of intentionally circumventing the NYT paywall is where this becomes a real actual IP infringement issue for them. From a legal perspective, that is literally as crazy a thing to come out in discovery as Anthropic’s torrenting an enormous chunk of their training corpus. These are IP infringements, totally irrespective their use in training GPTs. I cannot imagine having to represent these idiots.
In many, many significant ways, perpetual civil commitment (to an “institution”) is far more horrific of a state than being in prison. People like you are incredibly fucking stupid.
The US justice system is explicitly punitive and not habilitative. That is why questions of “insanity” as it relates to culpability are critically important, for better or (largely) worse. This means that the outcome kf the process is not victim or even a perpetrator oriented–it is intended to provide the general shitass public with adequate feelings of cathartic vindication. Whether a perpetrator is deemed “sane” or not factors into that heavily.
Sure, you can jump to the defense of this random guy, but by all accounts it sounds like he was just a sociopathic incel. Sometimes the guy everyone is saying is acting like a giant piece of shit asshole is in fact a giant piece of shit asshole and not some virtuous scrappy underdog.
People need to understand that civil commitments are pretty fucking wild. They’re effectively life imprisonment.
BDS covers divesting from Israeli companies/companies with certain Israeli ties and not engaging with its bond markets. There is also a lot of software and technology transfer stuff between US universities and Israel. This House bill is stupid and hopefully dies in Senate.
Do you think that if he dies that suddenly his vote defaults to Republicans or something? For better or worse, Markey is still far more often on the right side of votes than not and Moulton fucking sucked shit through a plastic straw.
Schwartz was saving and distributing copies against the terms of the agreement by which he was able to access journals. What happened to him was heinous but it was pretty dissimilar to how models train on data. And the tormented material was Anthropic, which resulted in the largest copyright settlement in history. Because it was piracy. They briefly tried an argument that their intended use made it fair use, but…that’s never how literally any of that worked.
Not that I disagree with your call for international pressure, but what is happening in the West Bank is genocide. Gaza gets a lot of attention for obvious reasons, but the genocide Israel is perpetrating is not against just Gazans–it’s against all Palestinians and with clear ambition against all Levantine Arabs.
I don’t think this is really all that surprising if you understand how diffusers actually work. They don’t just draw contours and shit. They apply sequential transformations across a matrix of pixels in an iterative fashion, the transformation varies each iteration based on prompt embeddings and the surrounding pixels of each respective transformation, typically starting from a seed of arbitrary static. A lot of images share overwhelmingly identical techniques, with a tiny sliver being responsible for the truly creative deltas. Diffusers effectively learn techniques so it tracks that dropping singular training data here and there doesn’t change much.
The majority of American Jews are not Zionists and a huge and growing portion of those are in fact anti-Zionist these days. Moreover, Jewish people have been at the forefront of almost every Palestinian solidarity movement in the US since before people started finally waking the fuck up in only the last couple of years to this century-long Zionist anti-Arab ethnostate horror project. And we will continue to do so even when we have to contend with pieces of shit like you with your shallow and feckless “solidarity” and sympathy at the same time.
There is a yiddish saying that I’ve taken to saying to fascists and their enablers quite often lately. It begins with “May you illuminate the world like a bright chandelier,” and concludes with, “hanging by day and burning by night.”
I have prosecuted plenty of trademarks. The logos and words are separate trademarks. For the word mark alone, Supergiant and Supermassive absolutely are likely to raise an initial LOC rejection in the same exact class of goods and services. It boils down to whether the similar words are likely to leave a confusingly similar market impression upon consumers. I legit think here it would be hard to argue around with a typical examining attorney–but the trademark office has a ton more lattitude in grants than the patent office, so it isn’t out of the question it could’ve been successfully argued or even granted initially.
It boils down to likelihood of confusion. I think there would be a legitimate concern here, tbh. But they could have come to an agreement when one registered their mark after the other one had already.
I’ve not seen the movie yet, but the comic it is based on is absolutely phenomenal and structured as a sort of myth telling exercise examining personal grief and effectively godhood. The villains are supposed to be one dimensional and incidental to Supergirl’s story.
Sure, that makes sense, but the Jewish bar and bat mizvah ceremonies are literally cultural coming of age traditions, equivalent to a quincinera or confirmation. Thus the immediate ick reaction when you frame chabadniks doing birthright as “coming of age”.