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Now, the legal system is starting to show signs that the defense could be on thin ice. Last week, a US appeals court upheld a ruling that AI legal research company Ross Intelligence had broken copyright law by training its legal search engine on materials taken from Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw legal research platform and database.

This turned out really well and was a cheap solution to my problems (it cost me about$16 but it currently shows me $21 for a screen). In the weeks since I set it up, it's been so useful for everyone else in the house that I'm considering buying one for the kitchen to control all the living room lights without anyone having to take their phones out, and another one in my barn to turn all the lights on whenever I walk in (currently I always fire up the Apple Home app and run a shortcut to turn on the 6 different light switches).

Over two decades at MIT, Hamilton forged new paths in computer science and engineering. Her groundbreaking work included leading the team that programmed the first computers that took humans to the moon.

Marx's theory of alienation describes the estrangement of people from aspects of their essential human nature as a consequence of living in a society structured by private property and wage labour. Developed by the German philosopher Karl Marx and first articulated in his Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, the theory is a foundational concept of Marxism. At its core, it posits that under the capitalist mode of production, workers are inevitably separated from the products they create, the activity of production, their fellow human beings, and their own creative potential.

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Well, this sucks ass.

A drop-in replacement mechanical keyboard for the Atari 400's membrane, that respects the unique design of the computer

The argument is simple: why build something yourself, in JavaScript, when the browser can do it for you? Whatever you build, it’s likely to have poorer performance and worse usability than something the browser could just give you out-of-the-box.

Thoughtfulness about our craft and our relationship to the tools seems like an antidote to atrophy of mind. In an era where we can make literally whatever we want, what parts of the output or process are non-negotiables?

The missing GUI for personal agents. Television gives you and your agent a visual space for creating and working with artifacts.

Building the future on 1982 hardware. A devlog about Vectrex engineering, modern indie dev, and the code that connects them. Click to read Vector & Vertex, by Roger Boesch, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.