Dave Winer

Gracenote, metadata company, sues OpenAI for copyright infringement. Total of AI copyright suits hits 90. Gracenote Media Services, the metadata company owned by Nielsen, sued OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement. This is copyright lawsuit no. 90 in the United States against AI companies. Excerpt:…

Gracenote, metadata company, sues OpenAI for copyright infringement.

I found out recently that my blog is in of the startup set for NetNewsWire.

It's quite an honor to be included in that club.

Thanks Brent! ;-)

it's very easy to deal with at the UI level. plenty of prior art.

thing is if you've sold out you're sold out.

there aren't levels of being sold out.

you just are or aren't.

if bluesky wants to be of the web the character limit has to go.

the web doesn't have a character limit.

if the ny times is garbage the washington post is about as interesting as cbs news.

same with washington post and ny times. i generally do not read them, i don't even play wordle any longer. maybe i should optimize and get rid of the ny times and replace it with the athletic. nba post-season coming soon. ny times is garbage.

I have subscriptions to Wired and New Yorker that just auto-renew. I very rarely read their articles, but I don't ever feel motivated enough to actually cancel my subscription.

The Guardian is the coolest news org, paywall-wise. Why don't they innovate, and create a EZ-Pass for news, and run it for other high quality, reader centric pubs. We pay $1 per article read. That's how I as a reader want to do it. I don't like subscriptions. www.theguardian.com

Shots fired at US consulate in Canada in what police call ‘national security incident’ No injuries reported but security boosted at US and Israeli diplomatic buildings in Toronto and Ottawa

Shots fired at US consulate in Canada in what police call ‘national security incident.’

(like how do you close all tabs in a window, i usually just close the window and make a new one)

just updated my powerbook to the latest macOs, 26.3.1 -- and i don't like the way the f'cked with the look of things. they added stuff i don't want. things that worked the way they always did don't work now.

Fixing the Future Understanding and addressing a broken democracy and a shattered press

Richard Gingras: Understanding and addressing a broken democracy and a shattered press.

if only.

Bluesky has a new CEO, Toni Schneider of Automattic.

bsky.app/profile/toni...

Interesting possibility, hooking up WordPress to Bluesky.

That would give us a way into Bluesky via the web.

That would be a big deal.

What Dave said

The reason we have enough money for a war is that we get to print money because we have the reserve currency that the whole world uses. So we could afford to buy you a house or pay for your healthcare or forgive your student loan debt but we don’t do it because I don’t know.

Journalists cover tech by rewriting what they read on Wikipedia.

I understand that there are a lot of folks on the left who instinctively recoil from religious language, and with good reason given its use by the right.

But please listen to this, and focus on how he's trying to realign "Christian values" so they align with and advance progressive policy goals.

Inside the DHS Campaign Against US Citizens Must Read The Wall Street Journal over the weekend published an extensive...

Inside The DHS Campaign Against U.S. Citizens.

we're way past where we were in vietnam. at that time the protests were about the draft mainly. there was no sense that the vietnam war would become a world war. where the iraq war, only a week old, is already becoming one. and many of the affected countries have nukes.

I'm old enough to remember protests of the Vietnam War.

As a boomer, I hear all the time about how much better subsequent generations are. I sincerely doubt that.

But here's your chance to prove it.

Trump to Times of Israel: It'll be a 'mutual' decision with Netanyahu regarding when Iran war ends. (I miss the days when the American people had a say.) www.timesofisrael.com

My linkblog is an RSS feed. this.how

Also, now that the Dow is so far off of 50,000, I believe that according to the Pam Bondi Rule we are legally allowed to care about the Epstein Files again?

When the boss is AI First we used software. Then software started using software. And now software can use us.

When the boss is AI.

Another screen shot.

What twitter looked like in 2012.

Why wouldn’t Iran attack the US if they could?

Trump looks increasingly desperate to restrict voting rights He is now threatening not to sign any other bills until Congress passes the SAVE America Act.

Trump Looks Increasingly Desperate to Restrict Voting Rights.