Leftovers

• Proprietary

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • Futurism ☛ Top Machine Learning Developer Speechless at Simple Question: Should Hey Hi (AI) Simulate Emotional Intimacy?

      Is it "good" or "bad?" Developers can't say.

  • Social Control Media

    • New York Times ☛ Spain to Investigate Social Media Giants, Escalating Trans-Atlantic Tech Dispute

      The government wants prosecutors to investigate X, Meta and TikTok, adding to a growing clash between the U.S. and Europe over regulating social control media.

• Linux Foundation

  • PR Newswire ☛ Linux Foundation Research Finds Open Source Is Key To Driving India's AI Market [Ed: Propping up a scam (slop) and outsourcing - lowering salaries]

    India AI Impact Summit -- The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, in partnership with Meta, today released a new report examining AI adoption in India and the economic and social opportunities the technology presents for the country.

• Defence/Aggression

  • European Commission ☛ “Europe must become more independent – there is no other choice”, says President von der Leyen at 2026 Munich Security Conference

  • The Strategist ☛ Washington’s expectations of allies come into focus in Munich

    US Vice President JD Vance used his speech at last year’s Munich Security Conference to chastise Europe for complacency in its security commitments.

  • New York Times ☛ Jackson’s ‘Keep Hope Alive’ Speech in 1988 Was a Call for Social Justice and Unity

    Though he didn’t win the Democratic nomination for president in either year, Jesse Jackson’s moving speeches at the conventions called on the party to care more about the marginalized.

  • JURIST ☛ Rights group condemns US transfer of detainees with ISIS affiliation to Iraq

    Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday condemned the US for transferring 5,700 detainees with alleged ISIS affiliation from Syria to Iraq, where detainees are at risk of enforced disappearance, unfair trials, and torture.

  • France24 ☛ Drone strikes in the Kordofan's region

    In tonight's programme, 28 people were killed in drone strikes on a market in Central Sudan's Kordofan region. Our correspondent Tom Canetti sits down with Sanda Ojiambo, the Assistant Secretary General and CEO of the UN's Global Compact initiative. And as Muslims around the world are gearing up for the start of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month is already inspiring many to give back to their communities...

  • Defence Web ☛ Why the US can destroy terrorist camps in Nigeria, but not terrorism – security scholar

    US military airstrikes on Islamic State-linked militants in north-western Nigeria on Christmas Day 2025 attracted global attention.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Federal News Network ☛ DIA consolidates open source, media exploitation organizations

    The DIA has consolidated the National Media Exploitation Center and the Open Source Intelligence Integration Center into a single organization.

• Civil Rights / Policing / Accessibility

  • France24 ☛ French court sentences former Senate adviser for upskirt photos

    A French court on Tuesday handed a one-year suspended sentence to a former Senate adviser for collecting over 1,800 mostly sexual images taken in public places or in the Senate building. The man went on trial in 2023 after his colleagues discovered a hard drive in a common area containing the images.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Patents

  • Futurism ☛ Meta Patented Hey Hi (AI) That Takes Over Your Account When You Die, Keeps Posting Forever

    From beyond the grave.

  • Kangaroo Courts

    • JUVE ☛ UPC received 50% more infringement cases in 2025 [Ed: UPC is an illegal and unconstitutional kangaroo court, now exploited by patent trolls and litigation fanatics, as many warned]

      The Unified Patent Court ceased publishing statistics on current number cases since July 2025. In response to a query from JUVE Patent, the UPC announced it would publish an annual report for 2025. However, the court has yet to publish the document.

• Copyrights

  • Public Domain Review ☛ Pigeons Transmogrified: Hannah Glasse’s Art of Cookery (1751 edition)

    A bestselling 18th-century cookbook, containing the first recipe for curry in English.

  • Creative Commons ☛ Building What Comes Next: Community Engagement at Creative Commons

    Over the past year, Creative Commons communities around the world have continued to show what’s possible when people come together around shared values of openness, collaboration, and care. In 2025 we were focused on gathering feedback on our ongoing preference signals explorations, creating and gathering feedback on new governance frameworks for future implementation, streamlining community communication channels, and transitioning to an open source chat platform for community collaboration.

  • Public Domain Review ☛ Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300)

    Unruly steeds from King Mu’s mythology, cavorting across a silk scroll.

  • Digital Music News ☛ ByteDance Quickly Dials Back ‘Seedance 2.0’ After Disney Legal Threats Sink In

    ByteDance vows to strengthen safeguards on its new Hey Hi (AI) video-making tool after threats of litigation from Disney over alleged copyright monopoly theft. Update: Warner Bros. has joined in the chorus of blasting ByteDance for what it calls “blatant infringement” that facilitates user-generated knock-offs of its iconic characters.