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Sunday, October 29th, 2023

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    7:05p
    ACLU sides with Trump against gag order

    The ACLU argues that the gag order placed on the corrupter in a civil trial about business fraud is too broad.

    7:05p
    Australian company boss joins PM on Biden visit to explore US clean energy

    An Australian company aims to produce large quantities of hydrogen by electrolysis. hydrogen by electrolysis.

    The other part that's necessary is enough renewable electric generation to run that much electrolysis.

    7:05p
    US unions winning big gains amid ‘Great Reset’

    US workers have become far more eager to organize, and far more ready to strike. They are winning substantial pay increases.

    7:05p
    Scholastic reverses decision to separate books on race, gender and sexuality

    Scholastic, the main publisher of books (other than textbooks) for students in the US, has reversed its decision to put books with queer characters into a separate catalog.

    That decision was aimed at avoiding conflict with right-wing censorship. Reversing the decision means Scholastic will confront the censors head-on. That has a chance of damaging SCROTUS, and since SCROTUS is dead set on wrecking democracy and religious freedom in the US, any damage to SCROTUS has a chance of saving them.

    7:05p
    EU ‘in touching distance’ of world’s first laws regulating artificial intelligence

    The EU is drawing up a directive to restrict "artificial intelligence".

    I get the impression that this directive will also cover machine learning systems. It may be a good thing for the directive to cover those systems, although it is very bad to refer to them as "intelligence".

    The restrictions on facial recognition and emotional recognition are a good start, but I expect they will not go far enough; that they will allow those technologies to be used in ways that would circumvent and defeat the supposed limitations.

    The article suggests that AI may be used as an excuse to make copyright more restrictive, over activities that have never been restricted by copyright as long as human beings have done them.

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