Student journalists assemble! The Setonian club fair table is looking spiffy.

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No I didn’t exactly *plan* to spend my Sunday evening tweaking the pedestrian access to the basketball arena and lecture hall of my #steampunk cruiser, but in my defense I did start a load of laundry just now. #blender3d #unity3d #neovictorian

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Rewatching ST:DS9 Continuing from Part 1 (s4e11 “Homefront“), Sisko and Odo puzzle over Starfleet’s reports on the planetwide power outage, noting that the elite cadet group Red Squad was first recalled, then assigned to unspecified field duty. Though the streets are empty except for the security guards, Joseph Sisko opens his restaurant, seeing the guards…

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‘New York Times’ considers legal action against OpenAI as copyright tensions swirl

Be careful of the parts of news stories that rely on ifs and coulds and maybes. Having said that, this is fascinating exploration of what’s at stake. It’s a fact that OpenAI’s business model involved training its large-language model on copyrighted material, without acquiring legal permission to do so, and without any mechanism to share…

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What if Generative AI turned out to be a Dud?

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