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Interestingly if you browse American-hosted online internet firearms accessories websites (and FFLs who will sell you something online to ship to your local FFL), for the most part, it's just a b…

ARIN is also a US non-profit corporation, located in Virginia, but the people who run RIPE and APNIC and AFRINIC might disagree that the Internet is entirely "controlled" by Americans.

Personal agency comes first in Texas only as long as you're a white heterosexual christian man with conservative political beliefs.

Individual states have already been attempting to extradite people from other states for the crime of mailing early term abortion medication across state lines, for example: https://www.g…

What's interesting is that given the fairly general and short in length prompt for the test, none of the models are attempting things like more discrete details of the bike. Such as showing V-b…

> The .com TLD is American, and is therefore subject to American legal proceedings. Ample precedent and prior case law exists that the US Federal government can obtain court orders to seize .COM …

The major architectural difference is that through enforcement of their own domestic legislation, China and Russia both force their ISPs to run all international internet traffic through certain choke…

They're already actively trying to prosecute people who mail medication across state lines.

There's also more than ample legal precedent that only the US federal government has the authority to regulate inter-state commerce, which is clearly what .COM is as an entity run by VeriSign, …

Answered below in same thread.

> It's doing business with TX customers every time it serves an ad to someone there By this same logic if my web server physically located in Canada, the USA or Iceland serves LGBTQ content to…

It's a huge overreach to say that any individual US state has authority over a domain registrar, and even more specifically over .COM as a TLD, given its history with VeriSign and the US federal …

I worry about it about as much as I worry about getting extradited to Thailand to face court for violating a law insulting the Thai king. I am unaware of even a single person of my nationality who has…

It is known to have servers, offices, employees, bank accounts, business licenses in texas?

I think given the history and "ownership" of the specific TLD of .com by verisign and verisign's relationship with the US federal government, it then proceeds to ignore any court orders…

But does a US State control a TLD, really? Is that even something that's within the legitimate legal power of an individual state? Previous .com seizures have been done at the federal court le…

Why should a Netherlands based company that publishes content on the internet entirely outside of this state's borders and jurisdiction be required to show up or respect its authority? By this lo…

The idea that a state court in one particular state can enforce such an absurd law against a company that likely has no business operations or servers in the state is ridiculous. I don't care i…

You kind of can do this already with a raspberry pi strapped to the back of a monitor and "barrier", the successor to synergy, to use the keyboard and pointing device of your laptop on as ma…

I would guess that they want to simulate a percentage of the shock force of a near miss or hit from a (russian, chinese, other equivalent-tech) torpedo or naval mine without actually risking rupturing…

They also periodically use live munitions on decommissioned ships, sinking them, for the purposes of validating all sorts of stuff. https://www.pacaf.af.mil/News/Article-Display&#…

NOAA-19 was dropped on its side because somebody forgot to attach the bolts to the transport platform it was riding on. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=satellite…

Unexpected appearance of the NCC-1701 Enterprise at about 0:40 into the video, but no appearance of star wars star destroyers?

I wonder what would happen if you gave the AI video generation tools a widely ranging prompt to generate a video from Weird Al's "Amish Paradise", and then compared it to the actual vid…

I wonder how much worse this would be if instead of starting with a human-created song: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uptown_Funk Start from an entirely AI generated song, and ha…

The more concerning part is that a much less discerning audience will happily engage with and watch endless hours of AI slop videos. For example what happens if you give a 3 year old a tablet and yout…

True, but in real life I've more than once seen a small Pelican case strapped to a bicycle (long distance touring bikes, people carrying electronics that should stay out of the water). There are …

There is more detail here: https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/new-monkey-species-con... "The newly identified primate is not only genetically and anatomically distin…

I would assume at this point that any SaaS product, LLM or not, where the data doesn't reside on your servers on your premises (or your own colo) is training on the entire corpus of your data, wh…

I'm still waiting for the day that one of these models interprets the request weird and outputs an SVG of a Pelican case. https://canada.newark.com/productimages/large/e…