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I think the NYT is involved in lawsuit claiming garbling them through an LLM is still copyright violation. In any case you could link to them and display the headline, and maybe the first sentence.

An automated system was already made to collect and sort them, that system should provide it's sources. I can self-fact-check anything, but a system that could provide origin sources and didn't is just AI slop.

If human-generated content like this did not provide source would that be called “human slop”? what about system automated by a human coder without help of AI, also “human slop”?

Just „slop“. News usually either come from a reputable source, with internal standards you trust (newspaper). Or from someone who mentions their sources.

This article didn't make complete sense to me. However I think what it describes overlaps somewhat with the "Cravath System" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cravath_System

The wiki page doesn't do it full justice, as I understood it it is:

* A firm can easily end up in a situation where weak performers stay as long as they can, and strong performers leave because they can operate independently. This can have a very strong effect because the partners or permanent management starts seeking out work to keep the bulk of their remnant people busy, which is not the high end work that builds the firms reputation.

* Instead, make offers every year to the top 3 people from each Ivy League law school, but the offers are for 18 months only.

* If the new people aren't going to make partner ever, don't keep them around. Let them know well before the 18 months are up, and have them pick the corporate clients they like and work with them so they can jump over to working for the client directly, and they will then always come back to the mothership when the giant, interesting, complex case comes along.

* Out of each "class" you make partner offer to only the best, maybe none, each year.

This differs from the article because the firm is keeping the best and sending out the rest.

But maybe most firms aren't like the Cravath, they prefer to over charge clients for a weak performer then charge and pay a strong performer ? Maybe this makes sense if you have a very short term view of the life of your firm and it's reputation ?


If I click through to the original article https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/28/texas-fracking-water... , it doesn't seem to justify your summary of "giving protections to oil companies leaving poison in the water". What it describes seems to be a fairly cautious attempt to allow and maybe encourage the "produced" brine water to be treated and used:

"companies that sell the water can’t be held responsible for the consequences if someone else uses the water. Treatment and transportation companies and landowners also qualify for protection, including in cases of personal injury, death, or property damage.

Companies and landowners can only be sued when they are grossly negligent, commit intentional, wrongful acts of omission, break state or federal laws, or fail to satisfy standards set by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, which sets and enforces the state’s environmental rules.

The bill directs the environmental quality commission to write rules around produced water research and reuse."

Basically it seems that responsibility for the water follows ownership of it. Environmental regulations are still in place.


I would appear that you can buy it on Alibaba:

https://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?tab=all&SearchText=asbe...

I have not tried, although I was tempted just out of curiosity -- would it make it through customs and get delivered to me in the US ? The rope and fabric style products should not be that dangerous because they are long fibers that should not break off and float in the air, and the cylinder head gasket material is probably chopped short fibers but it's embedded in a matrix of other stuff.

We probably over regulate the long fiber stuff. The short felt-like fibers we used to mix into plaster, cement, anything needing strength and texture, are probably correctly banned; the risk to reward seems not worth it. Many of those products could use glass fiber just as well.

However, I think the general experience of people exposed to rock or cement dust, basically anything silica based that gets into the lungs, is that is really bad. Handling short chopped mineral fiber of any type seems like something that has to have a huge payoff, like part of a rocket for satillite launches, to be worth it.

This is good to keep in mind because there are some really interesting alternative mineral fiber products out there. Basalt fiber in particular, is sold in a chopped mix for adding to concrete, seems potentially bad. There are some interesting ceramic fibers available too.

https://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?tab=all&SearchText=basa...

https://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?tab=all&SearchText=cera...


Even cotton dust is bad if you breathe enough of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byssinosis


Baker's lung is a thing too. I think about that when I see the dust from my spice grinder when making various powders. No matter what there is airborne dust when I open the grinder. I try to do my wood cutting outside but I am not sanding much. When I refinished my floors I wore dust protection and a loose tshirt over the dust protection to make clean up at the end of the day a bit easier.


In addition to the browser extension, you need a web proxy -- a bit of server side code that acts as the nostr client and gets the page, and displays it over ordinary http/https.

Of course this means the existing web will find multiple URLs to the same content, if many people run the proxy, but that can be mitigated in various ways, or just ignored.


The problem here that the website will act as a gateway which puts the nostr hosted websites in a SPOF risk


The point is not about what Minio's legally required obligations are.

The point is, there is a community project, and Minio has revealed they are leaving the community. It's not illegal that they do so, any more than divorce is illegal, but it's concerning to anyone who views themselves as part of that community.

It raises a point that is it smart to join a new community that depends on the same people or organization.

Your persistent inability to comprehend this makes you look like a poor candidate for future professional collaboration. Maybe you are autistic, maybe just a shill, but it's not helping you.


Maybe I'm autistic, but in this thread is appears that one side is making a rational argument, and the other is an appeal to emotion.

A feeling of a community is not a contract. Complaining about losing that community changes nothing; and I believe that's the point GP is making.


This is an LLM trained using a $100 budget to RENT access to graphics cards. It's not about what you could do BUYING hardware for $100.


Nowhere does he suggest he is buying hardware.


Once the LLM is trained you don't need the rented hardware anymore.


This is related, but not wireless, and works only for the Powershot series of cameras:

https://chdk.fandom.com/wiki/CHDK

It is used for DIY book scanners.


Your country exports timber to China and has a lot of empty land.

Who benefits from this situation ?


Queensland exports about 25% of timber production, but changes are now in progress to ensure local housing demands are met, as the current material costs are exobitant:

https://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/business-priorities/forestry/qld-...


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