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Some (mostly Democrat) lawmakers literally calling for banning memes. What a time to be alive. https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4850752-lawmakers-crackdown-ai-deepfakes-grok-backlash/

Oof. I like the Cybertruck, but when this issue happens to more trucks pulling trailers it’s going to result in Tesla being forced to say the Cybertruck can’t safely pull a trailer, and regulatory agencies enforcing that. This issue doesn’t look fixable at all with recalls. Could be the end of the Cybertruck.

Right when the Trump campaign had the opportunity to present itself as the party of free speech, a day after Durov’s arrest, Trump calls for jail for flag burners. He keeps his foot gun loaded at all times.

An increasingly capable open weight text-to-video AI:

GitHub

GitHub - zai-org/CogVideo: text and image to video generation: CogVideoX (2024) and CogVideo (ICLR 2023)

text and image to video generation: CogVideoX (2024) and CogVideo (ICLR 2023) - zai-org/CogVideo

We’ve been bouncing around between $58k and $69k for around 6 months now. Can we go a year?

Sometimes I wish I had an account on X just to tell authoritarians who find the 1A an obstacle, like this guy, that they should face the guillotine (one that drops slowly).

Uncensored social media is now a crime in Western countries. They have no moral high ground over Russia or China. “Authorities believe that Telegram's lack of moderation, collaboration with law enforcement, and the instruments it provides (disposable numbers, and cryptocurrency) make it an accomplice in drug trafficking, paedophilia, and fraud.”

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov 'faces 20 years in jail' over 'failure to stop terrorism & drug trafficking' festering online

Eventually California will just launch smoke-detecting drones that home in on someone smoking and incapacitate.

Carlsbad bans people from smoking in their own apartment – NBC 7 San Diego

If open source AI models continue to even kind of keep up with proprietary models, it’s almost guaranteed that the US gov will attempt to restrict it with export controls and placing liability on devs for model “misuse.” Sucks, but I don’t see it going any other way.