I don’t know if the headline on the site changed or OP changed it, but to be clear, Delta is not targeting only congressmembers who are voting against the current funding proposal (i.e., this is not a “punish Democrats” targeted action, despite the headline saying those who won’t get special treatment are “members refusing to fund TSA”).

This is the current headline which is clearer: “Delta axes special treatment for Congress members over ‘inexcusable’ refusal to fund TSA”.

OpenAI said it will discontinue Sora, the generative-AI video creation platform it launched in late 2024, without providing a reason for the decision.

That is the strongest indication this is the beginning of the end for the AI bubble. Sora burned a ton of processing power, with no clear value proposition, just to keep the hype cycle going a little longer. Shutting down without explanation leaves the most likely one: they are out of helium to pump into the balloon. And if that balloon isn’t inflating, it’s deflating.

I just checked and civil statute of limitations is five years. Criminal six. There’s hope at least, even if I’m similarly cynical.

I really hope there are people left keeping track of these things, is the only thing. By noon there will be something else awful, by design, that makes us all forget about this.

These are people who would have been intolerably immature even in grade school. Insufferable selfish whiny infants who refuse to do anything that isn’t the single thing they want most, and will break everything if they don’t get it.

Not sure why. I just tried them and they work both in the US and via a Sweden VPN. I’m not sure if they’re geolocked, but I can view them.

They’re in multiple parts but seem all here at least:

https://www.youtube.com/@PlainSite/videos

It’s incredible how every day in this country continues to be unimaginably dumber than the last.

I’m confused, are you American or not?

It seems like you wrote most of the comment being not an American (emphasis added):

More than Americans have, presumably. All this US apologia is fucking hilarious, you guys elected a pedophile.

…then you said you were an American.

It’s fine if you’re not an American. But just engage in good faith please.

Tomorrow you wake up American. You are the same person, nobody asked your permission, you had no say in the matter, but you are within the borders of America, are a citizen, and have no other citizenship. In fact, because you are American, no country will take you, and even if they would, it would take years up emigrate.

What do you do?

“Well, guess we have to hire 33,000 more ICE agents!”

Parnell, the Pentagon spokesman, responded to the ruling in a statement posted to social media, saying the department planned to challenge the order.

“We disagree with the decision and are pursuing an immediate appeal,” he said.

Their first step in the appeal will be to seek a stay of the district court order. And they probably will get it, making this an illusory victory. To recap:

• Step 1: Enact illegal rule/agency guidance/EO. This creates a new status quo.
• Step 2: Ignore any objections and delay during inevitable court challenges to sustain the new rule as long as possible.
• Step 3: Argue in trial court or appellate court that an injunction against the new rule will disrupt the status quo.
• Step 4a: Court rejects the injunction. Go to Step 2.
• Step 4b: Court agrees to the injunction. Appeal, and optionally ignore the court order during the appeal, which only creates more urgency for the appellate court and challenger to address the appeal.

Why do some people like vinyl? Why did the iPod’s scroll wheel evoke joy when used? Why is the OG PSP’s UMD drive clicking open and closed enjoyable?

If you’re looking to abstractly optimize consumption and sharing efficiency, it’s worse. But if you’re looking to optimize personal connection to the art and to other people, having some tactile interaction and giving a physical object that embodies the music arguably does that better.

I’d even bet that if you scanned brain activity of someone opening an MP3 versus someone putting in a disc and hitting a play button, the disc’s physical interaction very likely creates stronger neural pathways that trigger more chemical rewards.

That’s very well said. The bottom line is Democrats’ entire theory of political power is backwards. They need to demonstrate value to get political power. But instead we have Jefferies and Schumer who whine about not having political power so they can’t demonstrate value.

Right…Per the article, the guy is fighting with the town’s lawyers who are apparently sending takedowns to Google without a legal basis.

Per the article, because he wanted to shine light on the fact that you play by different rules if you are wealthy.

From the article:

Parr’s experiment and documentary raises questions, of course, about who gets to have privacy in America. A wealthy enclave has set up the legal and surveillance infrastructure to be able to prevent being mapped. The rest of us, meanwhile, are subject to all sorts of surveillance by our neighbors and law enforcement. “The only reason it’s set up this way is because it’s such a wealthy community,” Parr said. “I know that I was able to do this, but I don’t know if I should be able to do this, and that’s kind of the question that I wanted to tackle. The YouTube comments are pretty crazy man. They’re all over the place. They’re very split 50/50 on that question.”

Seems like a pretty worthy activity to me.

Yup. It’s really as simple as that. Trump is a sociopathic abuser, and the macro version of that is essentially the same as the micro.

Yup, both the Paul Ryan and stock market metaphors are apt.

But taking the Paul Ryan comparison to its conclusion is probably also apt - he never had the chance to buy back in low, because he didn’t factor in that this particular market has no bottom. The only rational move with the GOP, ever, is to just cash out and leave forever.

But they’re bracing for long hours and possible late nights in a bid to build momentum for the bill, which already has broad public support. A recent Harvard CAPS/Harris poll of 1,999 registered voters found that 71 percent support the SAVE America Act.

That’s pretty depressing. But then, I suppose low-information people would support any bill if they just called it “The Good Law Act.”

Oh, right, that’s basically what they did when they passed the, what was it called, Big Conservative Wet Dream Bill last year.

Edit: Oh, seeing the headlines alongside the poll that are all extremely suspect and right-washing, I wanted to check further.

Despite that TheHill reports uncritically about it and it is somehow associated with Harvard, the poll was commissioned by Stagwell Global, a marketing firm that is run by Mark Penn, who is apparently a “deep state” conspiracy theorist and Trump supporter, and contact info for the poll is not Harvard, but Stagwell, who also somehow was allowed to “release” the poll (“Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW) today released the results of the February Harvard CAPS / Harris poll…”).

All in all I feel the most likely fit for the above is this is propaganda and not reliable.

But if you ask hasjohnolivermadelovetoacouch…

Hopefully we live to see them have to argue for their own stupidity as a defense in a criminal war crime tribunal.