The Librarian of Congress is a position appointed by the U.S. Congress and they run the Library of Congress. It’s a a political appointment and for once the lady holding the position, Dr. Carla Hayden, actually has a PhD in Library Sciences. So what’s up? Well, the congressional librarian also hires the head of the copyright office.
Currently A.I. companies around the world are looking for massive amounts of data to feed into their large language learning models. Copyrighted material costs money to buy for such a use. Artists are notoriously worried about losing control of their work permanently once it goes in. That is not irrational. Tests in the past have shown that when you ask the A.I. to write, say, a poem and describe an existing poem that has been entered into its program, it simply retrieves the original poem or writes one so completely derivative it might as well be the same one. Did I mention that Trump’s good friend Elon Musk owns an A. I. company? The same Elon Musk who has advocated for dumping all intellectual property laws for this reason?
Just another payout.

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This woman is being held because she expressed opinions about Putin’s war against Ukraine. She used the supposed freedom of speech we have in the United States (or at least, we used to have) to express her opinion of Putin’s illegal war. No she may be sent back to his clutches. Make no mistake, Trump is doing what his boss wants here…

Harvard scientist facing deportation is charged with smuggling

Your going to let a foreign government give you a replacement for Air Force One? what, and then you’re going to keep it? WTF?

Trump blasts Democratic criticism of Qatar plane gift: ‘World Class Losers!!!’

It this reality?

Wonder what happened to this guy?

#TrumpersAreDumb

Now is the time for a revolution of sanity. Fix money in politics, Fix the American health care system, tax the rich, invest in research and new technologies and fight climate change.

Trump was elected because people know the system isn’t working for them. To quote Bernie from today’s speech, “Democrats need to stop voting for the status quo.”

Our Department of Health and Human Services is led by an incompetent man. Vaccines fall just behind public sanitation and antibiotics in saving peoples’ lives. We don’t need him to lie and create fear about something so important that actually works.

US Health secretary Kennedy revives misleading claims of ‘fetal debris’ in measles shots

No American President has been brazenly corrupt before. I firmly believe the majority haven’t been corrupt at all. But to do it so openly. It boggles the mind.

Sure, Adam Schiff hates Trump, Trump’s fans will all discount anything he says. But this is all real. Donald Trump’s personal wealth has increased dramatically since becoming president. Is that the leader we want?

This is an absolute shattering of the Emoluments Clause

Trump crypto soars as president offers dinner to top holders

Figures.

Papers please.

Video of unidentified men detaining suspect in Virginia court raises civil liberties fears

ICE is so cowardly they must hide their identity.

So now we don’t even take refugees from communism anymore?

Tampa woman deported to Cuba gets separated from one-year-old and U.S. citizen husband

It’s amazing to me that there is a group of Americans who like the idea of making people who are different from them suffer. There are people who enjoy this. “Yeah, he’s gettin’ it done!”

What? Assuming they never took Philosophy, I hope at least they listened in Sunday school, but I rather doubt it.

Update: Yep. The cruelty is the point.

U.S. citizen children, including 4-year-old with cancer, taken to Honduras on mother’s deportation flight, legal advocates say

Update: Gotta love law enforcement. This is the side of it many poor people get to see all the time and almost no suburban white folks ever see.

ICE Invades Wrong Home, Steals Their Life Savings, and Then Leaves

Hegseth had an unsecured internet line set up in his office to connect to Signal, AP sources say

What a bunch of amateurs.

Wife of wrongly deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia forced into safe house after government posts address online

Jeez. They really don’t have a bottom.

Let’s face it DOGE was never intended to cut waste. Here is a good example of why…

If you can make government less effective you can con people into privatizing it. Citizens get screwed and the rich get richer.

Just as when Trump fired the Democrats on the FTC board, this removes another barricade to malfeasance. The monitory party members on the board are there to keep an eye on the majority party who runs the show. They can, and do, report on less than kosher deals. Both Republicans and Democrats have been in the minority in the past and both have done this job. This has never happened before that I can recall. We should all be very worried. I like when the government keeps an eye on those who could rip me off. This removes that protection.

Trump administration removes Democratic members of credit union watchdog