“While claiming to fight corruption, Newsom solicited $340M from special interests for allies”—
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/newsom-alleges-trump-corruption-while-soliciting-more-340m

Impressive!

The similarity I was pointing at is that graphic artists are concerned that AI companies can train AI on their work thus an AI can learn to produce original work in the same style as that artist.

Then, like the hotshot employee in your example, such an artist may be out of work or suffer reduced income. Although the artist in this case is not developing the AI agent.

There is the point that what Nadella is saying about AI agents is rather the exact opposite of what you suggest, though they might well be lying their asses off.

Probably the MS structure would be something like: You (the company) will “own” the AI agents that we will possess in our (MS) datacenters. OK, does that give the company a warm and fuzzy feeling?? Hmmm.

Kinda like when I “buy” some movie or video content on Amazon Prime. I’ve had a least one of those purchases fail so far. Ownership without possession or control.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

A visitor from outer space arrives on Earth, and meets with all our heads of state in an open and friendly discussion. The pope gets a turn and asks our new friend, “Do you know of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ?” The alien says “We sure do! He visits our planet a lot and it’s always a great time.” The pope, amazed, asks, “Why does He visit you so often?” The alien replies “I don’t know. Maybe he likes our music or our food, or the dancing and celebration. What did you do when He visited you?”

Let’s say you have a thousand pictures of your deceased mother.
Oh, so sad. What do I do? I make you pay for it. The memories may be yours, but the photos, they’re mine.

So it’s very important, it needs to be nice at first. But then… Yes. Oh, yes. You’re not happy with the way something you really liked turned shitty. What do you do? Contact customer service. Here, talk to a completely useless chatbot. No human available.

Here’s my favourite part: Let’s say someone starts an alternative service. What do we do? We buy them.

So why would a PSA from the government of Norway be in English? I think it must be because Europe is almost completely shut out of this kind of thing, it’s all in the hands of American companies, and so they have to try to make us indignant about it so that we can try to get it to change. They’re not wrong, of course.

https://www.poetry-archive.com/m/christ_in_the_universe/

The concluding stanzas:

But in the eternities,
Doubtless we shall compare together, hear
A million alien Gospels, in what guise
He trod the Pleiades, the Lyre, the Bear.

O, be prepared, my soul!
To read the inconceivable, to scan
The myriad forms of God those stars unroll
When, in our turn, we show to them a Man.

https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2066343347313410289

i think of the mek akin to the social revolutionaries that struck the czarist regime, and served part of the kerensky regime and opposition to the bolsheviks

they provided intelligence, on the nuclear program, when Langley insisted it was impossible, so that earns some credibility, (through the NCIRI) maybe some people were drawn into the web, improperly,

this is a problem with La Causa, the struggle against the Castro regime and it’s puppets, for the first quarter century, they pursued direct action, but there were many disparate factiions, many were ex partisans who fell out with the broad front that the Brothers, had appropriated,

https://substack.com/home/post/p-202242881

I think they are comparing apples and oranges

yes there is a hunger games absurdity aspect about much of this, why marr a beautiful face like that,

returning to blind squirrel mode, Maher endorses the oysternazi, having learned nothing in the last six years,