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  • Choosing Between All the Knowledge in the Universe and One of Your Friends

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  • If it was me being taking away I would tell the person "take the knowledge, build clean energy on this planet! Trust me, that's totally worth one person! Especially if that person is my lazy ass!"

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    What in the world

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  • Sadly your employer is likely in the right here. Oregon just recently passed a law requiring what you have indicated. Senate Bill 906. It goes into effect January 1, 2026. However, before that point in time, employers are not legally required to spell out anything about your employment to you at any given point so long as they fulfill the requirements to give you a timely W-2 when tax time rolls around.

    As for the $1232, that is quite the amount and I would not see that as reasonable. However, it really depends on if you want to call their bluff on attorney advisement. The letter looks like something they blew out their own printer, but doctors are petty as fuck and will drag your ass into court over six pennies, or at least in the time I've ever known them.

    However, take none of this as legal advice. More like a suggestion and you should absolutely look at whatever your local laws are. Oregon JUST got on the bus about requiring employers to provide exactly the documentation you are requesting. I know, but some States still don't have a legal requirement to provide paystubs. And Federal law absolutely doesn't require that, they only require the whole "things you need to fill out your taxes". In many of the States that don't require it, if your employer does hand it off to you, it puts a ton of responsibility on it being correct on the employer. So some will literally go to a CPA for this one off, which is a much higher rate than a regular book keeper.

    But yeah, your Government just recently addressed this, but it doesn't go into effect until next year. So sadly that new law does not help you here. However, you should absolutely speak with your department of labor to see if there are avenues you can take.

  • ICE Is Using Taylor Swift’s Loophole To Hide Deportation Flights

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  • Oh look, the thing everyone said the thing Musk and Swift were championing because of assignation coordinates for would happen is happening.

    Who knew?! I fucking swear. I think the two of them should rally against regulations that prevent people from storing gasoline in their bedroom.

  • U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector

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  • Socialism? I'm pretty sure someone was against that.

  • James Dobson, founder of conservative Christian group Focus on the Family, dies at 89

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  • I wish hell was real. But even then, that's likely too good for this shit stain.

  • MAGA Rep Says Dead People Personally Told Him They Voted Fraudulently

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  • Are the voters in the room with us now?

  • Pictures of Trump's Swollen Ankles and Hands Boost Health Rumours After He Admits He's 'Not Doing Well'

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  • Satan: Holy shit, we're going to need to make some renovations to match this guy's punishment. Tell the daemons in Cocytus we need something between Antenora and Ptolomaea.

  • DHS Secretary Noem says entire southern border wall will be painted black to stop people from climbing it

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  • That is specifically at the request of the president, who understands that in the hot temperatures down here when something is painted black it gets even warmer and it will make it even harder for people to climb. So we are going to be painting the entire southern border wall black to make sure that we encourage individuals to not come into our country illegally

    What happens when they have oven mits or you know, just gloves, or just wait until night when the metal is cooler and they have cover of night?

    Whatever, I guess I shouldn't care about that $500+ million that goes to put on a single coat that peels off six months later because they didn't prime the surface.

  • Reddit is making summaries of user profiles fo mods.

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  • Web 3.0 should be known as "If you think this place is bad now, just wait till you see our new

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  • Reddit is making summaries of user profiles fo mods.

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  • It's super sad how that site continues to degrade in quality.

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  • amid an ongoing customer boycott over its scaling back of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives

    I mean, I'm sure that played a role. Myself though, I'm just priced out. Target is price slightly above Walmart but with marginal quality improvement. At this point in the game, I'm either dirt cheap or serious investment and I just can't be in-between.

  • In Zelenskyy meeting, Trump jokes about starting a war to halt 2028 elections

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  • The only way he's halting the elections in 2028 is if he starts a Civil War.

  • Tuberculosis Spawning in Crowded, Dirty ICE Detention Centers

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  • Who could have possibly seen this coming?

    They're going to kill everyone there and take zero responsibility. Then someone is going to sue and us taxpayers will have to pay recompense. And zero people will be held accountable.

  • ‘We’re all going backwards’: dismay as Trump undoes Biden student-debt plan

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  • The [Trump] administration claims to be pro-family, but is screwing a lot of people over – including ones with families, including ones who want to build a family

    Yes, that is the point. This administration honestly believes there isn't enough stupid people who will work for pennies in a factory. This is literally according to plan for them. This to them IS IN FACT being pro-family. This is literally how they see it.

    You work a back breaking job, so you have to have a couple who work it just to survive, you have children who won't go to school but instead will work in the factory as well. All your family forever working back breaking work. That's what pro-family means to these people.

    Like I grew up on a farm. I had to pull hands of tobacco, I had to pick blackberries, I had to setup cows for milking, I did things that I'm surprised I lived through. And my family honestly believes that all made me a better person and they didn't like the fact that I left all nonsense when I could. They honest believe I'm a worse person now because I'm not having my third heat stroke like everyone ought to be at my age.

    THIS IS WHAT PRO-FAMILY MEANS TO THEM. Suffering IS pro-family. Being under thumb and never being able to get ahead IS pro-family to them. It's wild I know, but somewhere in their brains this is how you show you really, really, really love someone and care for them. By making them suffer.

    This administration is indeed being exactly their version of pro-family. This is what they define as being pro-family. It's insanity to say the least, but this is honest to goodness what they see as helping people. That "screwing a lot of people over" that is exactly what Trump and his voters see as being helpful, kind, caring, loving, and pro-family as it comes to them.

    Screwing people over, fucking their lives up, and being completely shit, is this weird "tough love" mindset. Suffering is love to them. I don't know how much clearer I can make it for people. But there are folks who honest to goodness believe that you have to suffer your entire life to know love. That, that suffering IS LOVE.

    And those people are the ones running this place.

  • Universal Adds 'No AI Training' Warning to Movies

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  • I follow that up with a clarification in the next sentence.

    So these companies that have feed data into their models that they have not acquired the licensing rights to, should not be allowed to continue onward until that has been rectified.

    Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in the Anthropic case indicated the following:

    • Training LLMs = Fair Use (in general)
    • Scanning Purchased Books = Fair Use (broadly)
    • Pirated Copies and Indefinite Retention = Not Transformative

    Training LLMs typically is transformative because LLMs rarely give regurgitated answers, that is a copy of the data is not stored internally to the model. That storage is important later. But Judge Alsup indicated that there was narrow application to this fair use because it required a license agreement (which Anthropic had procured) to scan works into their model.

    Buying a book and typing a report on it is not much different than what LLMs do and thus Judge Alsup indicated that such was also fair use and "quintessentially transformative".

    Where Judge Alsup drew the line are books and works that were scanned into the model without any permission to do so, be it they obtain that permission from the author or the publisher. Additionally, Anthropic stored the books within their system for additionally training on iterative models. This is not allowed. A model must be augmented by itself or new agreements obtained to start a new.

    So you are correct that LLMs are indeed transformative and are permitted under a fair use defense. But there's limits to that applicability. And again to turn around to what I personally believe. I think all of this is non-sense and more reasons why copyright doesn't make sense in this age.

    Also, I should note, that the output of a model can be subject to copyright violation. Just like you can use Photoshop to make something close enough to an original to get in trouble with trademark, so too can you use image generation to make a copy of something and it too would find you in trouble.

  • Universal Adds 'No AI Training' Warning to Movies

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  • I'm a very hard copyleft kind of person. In fact, I'm at a disagreement to copyright, trademark, patent, etc laws in general.

    THAT SAID The laws are to be followed. And I believe that people should respect copyright while that remains the law of the various nations. So, while I do support image generation and video generation models, I go only do far as to when those models one day respect the law. Which them feeding copyright things into a model IS NOT and SHOULD NOT be legal (unless we also remove copyright et al for everyone, not just large tech corporations).

    So these companies that have feed data into their models that they have not acquired the licensing rights to, should not be allowed to continue onward until that has been rectified. Now there will be people who will say that will slow these tools' development down. Perhaps, I could convince them to spend those billions of dollars to get them to get rid of copyright as a concept altogether. But that, they will not do, because they will inevitably seek protections that once stomped on once they have supplanted most of the industry.

    So that's my take.

  • So I guess we can boycott Penske now.

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  • Some of those that work forces

  • If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs?

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  • The entire point of a C- suite is to have a room full of fall guys for the board

    This can't be stressed enough. Every since the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 which came from the Enron and Worldcom collapses, C-suite exists as the person to go to jail if shit really hits the fan.

    The idea of the law was to hold companies accountable, instead all if has done is force companies to create more layers and places to point fingers, thus muddling everything and making to where no one can be held accountable.

    At the same time, Chief officers now knowing that there's legal requirements, have just demanded outrageous pay and compensation because of the "massive risk" they are taking with any company.

    I'm glad we have SOX, but boy has that law really missed the mark on what it was enacted to do.

  • Attorney General Bondi orders prosecutors to start grand jury probe into Obama officials over Russia investigation

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  • A grand jury would be able to issue subpoenas as part of a criminal investigation into renewed allegations that Democratic officials tried to smear Donald Trump during his 2016 campaign by falsely alleging his campaign was colluding with the Russian government.

    Going to be really difficult to bring it to trial when Paul Manafort was literally convicted of conspiring with Russia. Like they may be able to pander off a Grand Jury on probable cause, but they're going to have to address at some point that Obama looking into Trump's Russian ties was justified since Manafort literally was working with Russia and Manafort was leading Trump's 2016 campaign. Things adjacent tend to cause inquiry.