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Nicolas Cage Says He’s ‘Probably Not’ Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for ‘Spider-Noir’: ‘I’m Not an AI-Friendly Actor’
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/nicolas-cage-ai-waiver-amazon-spider-noir-1236907564/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into VARIETY @variety-Variety

#Georgia’s Communications Commission bans two TV channels from using 93 words and phrases - https://jam-news.net/georgias-communications-commission-bans-two-tv-channels-from-using-93-words-and-phrases/ blatant censorship

Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund “unethical” vaccine trial - https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/10/rfk-jr-still-eager-to-fund-vaccine-trial-that-would-expose-babies-to-deadly-virus/ "would expose newborns in Guinea-Bissau to hepatitis B, putting them at high risk of a lifelong infection, which can lead to liver cirrhosis, liver cancer, and premature death." #murica

Feminist orgs claim #Meta censoring posts about #Cornell 7 case - https://mashable.com/tech/meta-censoring-posts-about-cornell-7-orgs-claim "Florence Pugh received a "sensitive-content" warning on her Cornell post; she doesn't appear to be the only one."

#Batteries are now cheaper than #naturalgas turbines used at many data centers - https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/09/batteries-are-now-cheaper-than-natural-gas-turbines-used-at-many-data-centers/ and amazingly, they will soon be even cheaper; you are a mug if you don't use them

EU calls US sanctions on International Criminal Court 'regrettable' - https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/09/eu-calls-us-sanctions-on-international-criminal-court-regrettable has to be a wake-up call to the civilised world: #trump the mad dictator can do this to anyone. get off US tech and systems #icc

RE: https://journa.host/@fulelo/117415703350243644

#trump has been dying to do this for his mate/boss #putin

"A senior colleague of mine found one of his favourite problems among those solved and attempted to read the accompanying paper. He told me it was so unintelligible that, had he received it as an editor at a mathematics journal, “it would have gone straight into the bin”.
—Melissa Lee, Monash University

https://theconversation.com/is-this-the-mathocalypse-why-openais-latest-results-dump-has-left-mathematicians-in-shock-293837

EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/07/trump-eu-disinformation-conference staggering cowardice by #eu at a time when it must stand up to #trump the bully

RE: https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/117415566348765527

“When the copy failed to load or the model closed it by mistake, the model instead navigated to the website where the real form is normally hosted and submitted the form there.”

US Gov’t Interferes To Get Foreign Sponsors To Drop Conference Because A Panel Asks If The US Engages In Foreign Information Interference - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/08/us-govt-interferes-to-get-foreign-sponsors-to-drop-conference-because-a-panel-asks-if-the-us-engages-in-foreign-information-interference/ great dissection of this sorry saga by @mmasnick

Judge Blocks Utah’s Demand That Websites See Through #VPNs - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/07/judge-blocks-utahs-demand-that-websites-see-through-vpns/

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Anyone know of any student-led anti-GenAI campaigns in UK schools? My daughter hates the amount it gets used *by the school itself* and wants to do something…

noted: my thoughts on Cloudflare assimilating Deno

https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-10-10T10:30Z/

Shokunin Studio: Attack of the Vibe Coded Clones - on all the hugely publicised bad and broken vibe-clones of Photoshop

https://www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/10/9/attack-of-the-vibe-coded-photoshop-clones

I've warned before that any FOSS project incorporating AI output is doing so at their peril.

Previously people leaned on a federal circuit ruling that was *declined to be taken up by the supreme court* interpreting it as a free-for-all to LLM license-wash any project in translation, or really to incorporate any such materials and they would be public domain.

But that doesn't mean we have an answer! We've yet to see!

Annnnnnnnnd: I think we're likely to have that perspective upended soon.

The third circuit issued a recent ruling in the *opposite direction* of the previously well cited federal ruling, that AI training on copyrighted material is NOT fair use: https://www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-of-copyrighted-material-not-fair-use-third-circuit/

Annnnndddddd.... with a bunch of people trying to make LLM-generated decompilation replacements for Adobe's entire suite, we're likely to suddenly see corporations rear up angrily.

Just wait till someone tries to vibewash a Nintendo game decompilation. Hey, what do you think is gonna happen?

RE: https://mastodon.art/@artificial3d/117370454644019570

Let it be known: you do not have permission to ignore the attribution clauses from any of my freely licensed work, including when ingesting into a model whose default operation is to strip attribution

And I will note that CC BY / CC BY-SA / Apache v2 / GPLv3 all have attribution requirements

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/117406652497685923

This. I have not even once gotten a response from an AI bro when I brought this up.

One of the trade-offs with publishing FOSS software is that your work gets attributed. If you don’t do that, you don’t use my work according to the terms I have published them.

And the. They look at me weird when I call it theft.

3. Okay, so what would convince you that a piece of software (often phrased here as "an AI", gah) is conscious/can feel pain/etc?

Honestly, I'm really tired of this extremely silly question, but here is my answer:

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and I am not the one making the extraordinary claim, so it is not my job to specify what the evidence should be.

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