Playing with nano-banana for a blog post, I found this one amusing.

Very interesting study on how musicians are using AI.

Join millions who have switched to Grok.

We're living in the future. My nephew was in class and another student used text-to-speech to answer a question. I've already seen students using real-time closed captioning in class if they're struggling with the language.

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Cat in Paris.

This meeting could had been an emoji.

What History Can Teach Us About Copyright, AI, and ‘Market Floods’ by @derekslater and Aram Sinnreich.

Putting data on the blockchain is such a strangely outdated concept, one of those ideas that sound modern to the clueless public, like putting provenance QR codes on wine bottles.

So I'm just logging in to Twitter, what did I miss?

For those interested in voice cloning after the Vacker v Elevenlabs settlement, I've written a chapter for an upcoming book on this subject, and I briefly mention the case, although it is written from a UK perspective.

The 100x zoom on the Pixel 10 is insane.

It's so bizarre how in US right-winger minds the UK is a lawless island filled with marauding jihadists ready to assault to fearful local population. Why are they so obsessed with us?.

The 'Théâtre D'opéra Spatial' case has flown a bit under the radar given all of the ongoing copyright infringement cases. Prof Ryan Abbot has filed a motion for summary judgement on behalf of the claimant, and it makes for interesting reading.

And people wonder why I'm still in this hellsite. .

Nano-banana seems good for some things, particularly the inclusion of text, but I still prefer Midjourney for most everyday uses. Same prompt, MJ on the left.

Foundation is so frustrating, Asimov is in there somewhere, but the show wants so hard to be GoT in space, even with Pilou Asbek playing an entirely over the top Mule. The acting was already patchy, but this season it has gone truly downhill.

This is not surprising as only 2% of civil cases in the US go to trial. The question is which cases will go the distance? I have always thought that Authors Guild was perhaps the likelier to go to trial as they have something to prove after Google Books. NYT perhaps?.

Wow! Anthropic settling the Bartz case, also not surprising. There had been no settlements and in a short amount of time we see two of them at the same time. We can expect a bunch more.

Having said that, the more I see it, the more I love it. It's the cat.