Been reading Alessandro Portelli’s They Say In Harlan County, Oxford Press: an oral history of Kentucky mountain people from Revolutionary War times til now. The book is a compellng read, not least as the author brings to life the reality of life, death, and survival in the early 20th Century when coal mining on an industrial scale came along. Company camps and company towns were built from which no one could leave, into which no one could enter. U.S. and state law stopped where the camp/town started; the latter having its own law enforcement and “justice” system that served only the interests of the outside owners of the company. As all of our personal information goes into Musk’s AI machine, I infer that we are now the raw material that the world’s billionaires intend to work the “company town” the globe is becoming. Resistance will be met with the same tactics the company used against miners in Harlan County. The question is whether we will push back as the unions did, or acquiesce to life on the billionaires terms. A harsh, excellent history in their own words of what happens to people when there is no institution but the company store.
That’s okay.
Trump isn’t paying for the future PTSD care the ICE agents will need – unless the Republican Congress cuts that funding.
Patel is treating the position of FBI Director as a no-show job.
Ahem
There has never been a better voice in the whole history of humans being able to talk. 
Not unlike trump and his supposed morning security and intel briefings he doesn’t go in for.
Welcome to the party!
He’s going to learn that the library means business with its fines.
Isn’t Dan Bongino his deputy or suchlike?
That horse has already left the barn, I think. There are ongoing lawsuits from various publishers and individual artists and musicians, but the data has already been scraped by the major AI players and used for training. There’s no putting the genie back in the lamp.
Least of all with any government action, now that the tech bros have Trump’s ear, and our geriatric members of Congress don’t know how any of this works. Copyright law has been outdated for years with respect to the age of digital IP and infinite reproduction. The time to do anything about this was years ago.
Yeah, I’ll add that to the list of things I’m not buying. Trump ends up bragging about every crime he has ever committed. He can’t help himself. He deserves ZERO benefit of the doubt here. It’s just that nobody wants to break this new taboo everyone is observing since the election deniers poisoned the well in 2020.
Agreed for the most part, but I’ve always predicted that the first woman U.S. president will be a Margaret Thatcher-type Republican. This goes along with only a Republican could go to China (Nixon), etc. Just my two cents.
Exactly!
No one was forcing this n00b to read the “evil” books. He coulda left them be on the shelf and avoided the fines and unwanted notoriety this will produce for him.
You load 16 tons
What do you get?
Another day older
And deeper in debt.
GOP members of Congress must mainline Red Bull to keep them awake these days.
Well library rule number one should be first time patron applying for a card should only be allowed to check out 10 for the first month.
I swear back in the day my local library, not in county system, had limits on how many books you could have checked out. And I mean in total, not per visit.
Please define “delete IP laws”, because while the current topic is on ai development, there are higher up Trump supporters who are trying to remember if they signed up for this.