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Anthropic Author Class Action Settlement: How to do Everything Wrong

Tenth Update (Sept 15): The judge gave permission for the class lawyers to update the Anthropic class action website. It should, once changed, reflect the current status of the settlement, which is try to correct allocations, send them into the void. and never hear anything back. The Author’s Guild has an updated advice list for […]

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Government Legal, Laws, and Regs Savannah

Chatham County Commissioners, CAT, and Lessons in Semantics

“It sucks for you, but we’re not gonna pass a tax on your citizens without them deciding,” Kicklighter said. “If they let their citizens vote on it and their citizens approve it, it’ll be approved by this county commission.” The above is from a WTOC article that covered a Chatham County commission decision to deny […]

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Annotated Court Copyright Legal, Laws, and Regs

Anthropic Class Action lawsuit hearing – quick update

I’m writing a bigger piece on the Anthropic class action lawsuit, but I thought I’d do a quick update on the final settlement hearing yesterday. Well, that was interesting. The judge reminds me a bit of Mom, when you’re fibbing and she knows you’re fibbing and you know she knows you’re fibbing but she has […]

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Legal, Laws, and Regs People Political

Don’t condemn the regular police in Chicago and Portland

Folks were upset when Illinois State Police showed up at an ICE protest in Chicago. Some questioned why Pritzker would do so. Were the state police now siding with ICE? The answer to why the ISP showed up can be found in federal judge’s ruling about the federalization of Oregon National Guard in Portland. In […]

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Healthcare Legal, Laws, and Regs

RFK Jr COVID vaccination mess is only the beginning…your food is next

Will we survive RFK Jr’s interventions on vaccinations and food?