Why do Trump voters have no regrets? Because the people they hate are getting hurt more
Not according to the polls. Rather, the US appears to be a nation of Édith Piafs: they regret rien. I’m not saying that disillusioned Republicans don’t exist; do enough digging and you can certainly find a few. And journalists have been doing a lot of digging. During Trump’s first term, there was a steady stream of media pieces profiling the regretful Trump voter. The genre has remained popular through the first few months of Trump 2.0. But, according to a much-discussed segment by CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten this week, polling proves that the idea of “regretful” Trump voters is “more of a media creation than anything else”.
Meta Says It's Okay to Feed Copyrighted Books Into Its AI Model Because They Have No "Economic Value"
In the ongoing suit Richard Kadrey et al v. Meta Platforms, led by a group of authors including Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company has argued that its alleged scraping over seven million books from the pirated library LibGen constituted "fair use" of the material, and was therefore not illegal.
The specious defenses don't end there. As Vanity Fair spotlights in a new writeup, Meta's attorneys are also arguing that the countless books that the company used to train its multibillion-dollar language models and springboard itself into the headspinningly buzzy AI race are actually worthless.
Ocean temperatures are rising faster than expected, and likely to accelerate
Satellite instruments that have been circling Earth since the early 1980s now paint a stark picture of our warm ocean temperatures: not only are they rising, they are doing so more quickly with each passing decade.
According to a new study, between 1985 and 1989, global averages increased by about 0.06 °C every ten years.