Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
we’ve got your back, dagger in hand.
You may be interested in this piece I wrote about liability and the disingenuous indemnity offered by AI companies, including but not limited to OpenAI.
@joybrennan.bsky.social
@joybrennan.bsky.social
When double indemnity means double jeopardy: An examination of Google/Microsoft/OpenAI’s…
by Neil Turkewitz
medium.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
we’ve got your back, dagger in hand.
sometimes the iresome gets tiresome.
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
sometimes the iresome gets tiresome.
have you ever experienced vendor lock-in from a Chinese product? how often from a product not sold by an American firm? is vendor lock-in an an usually American business model?
not uniquely. spotify has obviously gone for lock-in via two-sided marketplace network effects.
who else?
not uniquely. spotify has obviously gone for lock-in via two-sided marketplace network effects.
who else?
November 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
have you ever experienced vendor lock-in from a Chinese product? how often from a product not sold by an American firm? is vendor lock-in an an usually American business model?
not uniquely. spotify has obviously gone for lock-in via two-sided marketplace network effects.
who else?
not uniquely. spotify has obviously gone for lock-in via two-sided marketplace network effects.
who else?
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Sarah Kendzior being gone from Bluesky has to be a mistake.
November 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Sarah Kendzior being gone from Bluesky has to be a mistake.
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This is such a crucial point and a key to winning the battle for this country's soul and others'. Inclusivity, flexibility, generosity, compassion—they all lead to better, more economical and sustainable outcomes.
and honestly the craziest thing about it is that time and again evidence is borne out that BEING GOOD SAVES COSTS. Diversity of opinions enriches work culture and makes teams more strategic. Housing the unhoused saves governments money. Basic income is cheaper on civic systems than mass poverty.
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This is such a crucial point and a key to winning the battle for this country's soul and others'. Inclusivity, flexibility, generosity, compassion—they all lead to better, more economical and sustainable outcomes.
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your honor, the user prompted the computer to unzip the archive, which was a statistical representation of the entire training folder.
any owner of a specific file within the zip has no claim against us, but only the user who opened it
any owner of a specific file within the zip has no claim against us, but only the user who opened it
“OpenAI argued its AI models didn’t store/copy specific training data but, rather, reflected what they learned based on the entire training data set. Since the output was generated as a result of user inputs (prompts), it wasn’t the defendants, but the respective user who would be liable for it.”
OpenAI used song lyrics in violation of copyright laws, German court says
MUNICH (Reuters) -OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by reproducing lyrics from songs by best-selling musician Herbert Groenemeyer and others, a court ruled on Tuesday, in a clos...
ca.finance.yahoo.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
your honor, the user prompted the computer to unzip the archive, which was a statistical representation of the entire training folder.
any owner of a specific file within the zip has no claim against us, but only the user who opened it
any owner of a specific file within the zip has no claim against us, but only the user who opened it
a bit wild to argue that customers using your product as advertised should be liable for trespasses of which they may be unaware.
not sure you want to be the customer, then.
ht @anthonymoser.com
not sure you want to be the customer, then.
ht @anthonymoser.com
“OpenAI argued its AI models didn’t store/copy specific training data but, rather, reflected what they learned based on the entire training data set. Since the output was generated as a result of user inputs (prompts), it wasn’t the defendants, but the respective user who would be liable for it.”
OpenAI used song lyrics in violation of copyright laws, German court says
MUNICH (Reuters) -OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by reproducing lyrics from songs by best-selling musician Herbert Groenemeyer and others, a court ruled on Tuesday, in a clos...
ca.finance.yahoo.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
a bit wild to argue that customers using your product as advertised should be liable for trespasses of which they may be unaware.
not sure you want to be the customer, then.
ht @anthonymoser.com
not sure you want to be the customer, then.
ht @anthonymoser.com
good to know our commanding heights are captained by sober non-narcissists.
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
good to know our commanding heights are captained by sober non-narcissists.
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Could a quote possibly be more on the nose for Bari, the Ellisons, the Trump movement, or this whole era in American life than "what's the point of standards"? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Could a quote possibly be more on the nose for Bari, the Ellisons, the Trump movement, or this whole era in American life than "what's the point of standards"? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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The two party system is incompatible with democracy.
We must change our electoral system to restore democracy.
We must change our electoral system to restore democracy.
November 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The two party system is incompatible with democracy.
We must change our electoral system to restore democracy.
We must change our electoral system to restore democracy.
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“This is now a MAGA court, and Roberts is at the helm."
Taking stock of the Roberts court at 20—and the shadowy forces that built it
"Roberts will go down in history as the most destructive chief justice."
www.motherjones.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
“This is now a MAGA court, and Roberts is at the helm."
a man who has starved and/or withheld lifesaving medical assistance from hundreds of thousands of people thinks Joyce Carol Oates is mean.
November 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
a man who has starved and/or withheld lifesaving medical assistance from hundreds of thousands of people thinks Joyce Carol Oates is mean.
November 11, 2025 at 6:30 AM
“It’s Difficult To Overstate How Concentrated Wealth Is In The US” by @ianwelsh.bsky.social www.ianwelsh.net/its-difficul...
It’s Difficult To Overstate How Concentrated Wealth Is In The US
These two charts tell a story. First, the top .1%. Next, the top 1%. This chart is only to 2023. Now what you'll notice is that the top .1% holds about half the wealth of the top 1%. It's like this al...
www.ianwelsh.net
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 AM
“It’s Difficult To Overstate How Concentrated Wealth Is In The US” by @ianwelsh.bsky.social www.ianwelsh.net/its-difficul...
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If I were an American I would save money by simply buying lottery tickets with winning numbers and not those with losing numbers.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If I were an American I would save money by simply buying lottery tickets with winning numbers and not those with losing numbers.
i feel like dementia is aspirational now, given how many famous powerful people now have it.
November 11, 2025 at 5:35 AM
i feel like dementia is aspirational now, given how many famous powerful people now have it.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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🚨 💰 WOW — @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn snuck a provision into the spending bill that would let them sue the government for $500,000 because Jack Smith looked into their phone records around Trump’s insurrection.
The Republican grifting is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
The Republican grifting is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
🚨 💰 WOW — @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn snuck a provision into the spending bill that would let them sue the government for $500,000 because Jack Smith looked into their phone records around Trump’s insurrection.
The Republican grifting is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
The Republican grifting is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
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Blueskyism is actually a fantasy of Bluesky, formed by ignorance and reactionary hope (that this place is full of stereotypes that justify them hanging out with the less objectionable Nazis).
the hipsters, they’re ordering double frufru mocha soy frappuccino. doesn’t anybody order a black coffee anymore
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Blueskyism is actually a fantasy of Bluesky, formed by ignorance and reactionary hope (that this place is full of stereotypes that justify them hanging out with the less objectionable Nazis).
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This is like the classic Chinese Finger Trap of political economy. Fear of individual loss drives the desire for control and obstructs collective action, the manifestation of an intelligent response.
**See also the spiritual CFT. Fear of the loss of ego obstructs higher consciousness.
**See also the spiritual CFT. Fear of the loss of ego obstructs higher consciousness.
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This is like the classic Chinese Finger Trap of political economy. Fear of individual loss drives the desire for control and obstructs collective action, the manifestation of an intelligent response.
**See also the spiritual CFT. Fear of the loss of ego obstructs higher consciousness.
**See also the spiritual CFT. Fear of the loss of ego obstructs higher consciousness.
@jwmason.bsky.social as Green New Kalecki.
(i think he’s right. @schwarz.bsky.social’s “iron law of institutions” applies to particular capitalists and the economy at large. they’d accept economic collapse and catastrophe if that’s what preserves their own capacity to control.)
(i think he’s right. @schwarz.bsky.social’s “iron law of institutions” applies to particular capitalists and the economy at large. they’d accept economic collapse and catastrophe if that’s what preserves their own capacity to control.)
The problem from their point of view is that rapid decarbonization requires public, collective decisions about the organization of production, in a way that threaten capital-owners' authority over both the production process and the political system.
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
@jwmason.bsky.social as Green New Kalecki.
(i think he’s right. @schwarz.bsky.social’s “iron law of institutions” applies to particular capitalists and the economy at large. they’d accept economic collapse and catastrophe if that’s what preserves their own capacity to control.)
(i think he’s right. @schwarz.bsky.social’s “iron law of institutions” applies to particular capitalists and the economy at large. they’d accept economic collapse and catastrophe if that’s what preserves their own capacity to control.)
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The problem from their point of view is that rapid decarbonization requires public, collective decisions about the organization of production, in a way that threaten capital-owners' authority over both the production process and the political system.
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The problem from their point of view is that rapid decarbonization requires public, collective decisions about the organization of production, in a way that threaten capital-owners' authority over both the production process and the political system.
this is why the polity should organize itself through professional representatives, capable of memory and coherence, communicating actively with the represented and bound to pursue their interests.
in the United States we’ve created an institutional environment in which this is impossible, however.
in the United States we’ve created an institutional environment in which this is impossible, however.
(the polity does not remember what happened 2 weeks ago. this is why you had VA GOP winning 2021 the same year the GOP attempted a insurrection)
If the polity cannot remember what happened two weeks ago, every two weeks, then they deserve to have the Republic fall
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
this is why the polity should organize itself through professional representatives, capable of memory and coherence, communicating actively with the represented and bound to pursue their interests.
in the United States we’ve created an institutional environment in which this is impossible, however.
in the United States we’ve created an institutional environment in which this is impossible, however.
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It amuses me how low the Conehead has fallen. open.substack.com/pub/infinite...
Marc Andreessen as Avatar for Societal Decay
How one venture capitalist represents everything wrong with social media
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
It amuses me how low the Conehead has fallen. open.substack.com/pub/infinite...
somewhere there is a Cave, mysterious and magical, a Cave of Paradoxes.
how, for example, can one outrage a squish?
and yet. look around.
how, for example, can one outrage a squish?
and yet. look around.
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
somewhere there is a Cave, mysterious and magical, a Cave of Paradoxes.
how, for example, can one outrage a squish?
and yet. look around.
how, for example, can one outrage a squish?
and yet. look around.