Prosecutors seek seven years, citing high likelihood of reoffending, behavior "unrepenting & defiant"; defense admits guilt, asks for only two years.
#GeorgeSantos #sentencing #guilty #plea #LongIsland #Congressional #representative #identity #theft #only the #fourth to be #expelled #from #Congress in #history https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/george-santos-prosecutors-seek-7-years-prison-fraud-case-rcna199808
@BernieDoesIt @Catvalente similarly, people need to explore and use #Patreon alternatives.
Pretty shure platforms allowing and endorsing #NSFW also accept SFW content…
Worst-case y'all gotta learn how to use #Monero for once and get paid that way. There are payment providers like https://nowpayments.io that remove all the uncertainties and instant-convert to #fiat so you don't need to fiddle around with it or any #shitcoin|s!
Feel free to hate and block me if you must, but the reality sometimes is that simple and won't change just because it's inconvenient to admit the #Enshittification happens!
Man accused of wine bar break in, theft found to have been out of jail on bond https://www.diningandcooking.com/1997275/man-accused-of-wine-bar-break-in-theft-found-to-have-been-out-of-jail-on-bond/ ##twitter ##x #accused #app #bar #been #bond #break #Facebook #found #Google #have #in #Jail #man #Meta #news #nextdoor #Of #on #out #theft #to #Wine
Ella Creamer: ‘Meta has stolen #books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’
Writers will gather at the #Facebook owner’s King’s Cross office in opposition to its use of the #LibGen database to train its #AI models
#crime #UK #theft
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/03/meta-has-stolen-books-authors-to-protest-in-london-against-ai-trained-using-shadow-library
In case anyne had any doubt about Blair and his 'institute' (subsidised by us all with generous contributions from commercial partners).
'In a report published on Wednesday, TBI said it backed government proposals to let AI firms train their models on copyright-protected material without permission, unless creatives have signalled they want to opt out of the process.'
Guess he and the kids are not creating anything at all.
https://www.europesays.com/1957814/ Far-right leader Marine Le Pen is barred from seeking public office for embezzlement #CorporateCrime #courts #elections #Embezzlement #EmmanuelMacron #europe #EuropeanParliament #EuropeanUnion #france #FranceGovernment #GeneralNews #JordanBardella #JustinSpike #LaurentWauquiez #MarineLePen #Politics #theft #ViktorOrbán #WorldNews
Oh, crap!
A thief swallowed $770K worth of Tiffany earrings.
Detectives recovered the stolen goods after waiting "more than a dozen days" for the suspect to finally pass them at the hospital.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/thief-swallowed-770k-tiffany-earrings-expelled-12-days-later-florida-p-rcna197988 #press #theft
Japan's regulators are proposing tighter rules for safe deposit boxes following a recent spate of thefts involving bank employees, including barring the storage of cash and other items that can be used to launder money. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/28/japan/crime-legal/safe-deposit-boxes-rules/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #fsa #banks #moneylaundering #theft
@meadow @ReignOfRaining I never liked #subscriptions.
Only #offline #PhysicalMedia are safe from #Enshittification and #theft by the publisher!
Imagine putting away thousands of dollars away for retirement (by law), only to have some unelected apartheid ketamine freak decide that it doesn’t belong to you anymore bc he and other rich guys think they’re entitled to it?
#handsoffsocialsecurity #itsourfuckingmoney #FuckElon #fuckmusk #theft #maga
#crime #theft #archives #Scotland
'National Records of Scotland (NRS) has completed the return of thousands of documents that were stolen from its archives and from other UK institutions by a single individual between 1949 and 1980.
NRS recovered around 3100 items in total, mainly family, estate and business correspondence, that its archivists believe were stolen by one individual, Professor David Macmillan (1925-1987).'
https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/latest-news/return-of-documents-after-historical-thefts/
御守り泥棒
「御朱印書いてください」で御朱印帳を受け取り、裏で書いている間に起こった出来事
Llama 3 mein treuester Leser anscheinend
Meta stealing copyrighted work? https://3dcandy.social/2025/03/meta-stealing-copyrighted-work/ #3dcandy #boost #copyrighttheft #meta #theft
Meta Theft
Beware, all thieves and imitators of other people’s labour and talents, of laying your audacious hands upon our work.
Albrecht Dürer, 1511
I’ve remembered that quotation since it was uttered by Inspector Morse in the episode Who Killed Harry Field? Albrecht Dürer wasn’t referring to Artificial Intelligence when he said it, but it does seem pertitent to what’s going on today.
There’s an article in The Atlantic about a huge database of pirated work called LibGen that has been used by Mark Zuckerberg’s corporation Meta to train its artificial intelligence system. Instead of acquiring such materials from publishers – or, Heaven forbid, authors! – they decided simply to steal it. The piece provides a link to LibGen so you can find your own work there. I searched it yesterday and found 137 works by “Peter Coles”. Not all of them are by me, as there are other authors with the same name, but all my books are there, as well as numerous research articles, reviews and other pieces:
I suppose many think I should be flattered that my works are deemed to be of sufficiently high quality to be used to train a large language model, but I’m afraid I don’t see it that way at all. I think, at least for the books, this is simply theft. I understand that there may be a class action in the USA against Meta for this larceny, which I hope succeeds.
I think I should make a few points about copyright and authorship. I am a firm advocate of open access to the scientific literature, so I don’t think research articles should be under copyright. Meta can access them along with everyone else on the planet. It’s not really piracy if it’s free anyways. Although it would be courteous of Meta to acknowledge its sources, lack of courtesy is not the worst of Meta’s areas of misconduct.
In a similar vein, when I started writing this blog back in 2008 I did wonder about copyright. Over the years, quite a lot of my ramblings here have been lifted by journalists, etc. Again a bit of courtesy would have been nice. I did make the decision, however, not to bother about this as (a) it would be too much hassle to chase down every plagiarist and (b) I don’t make money from this site anyway. As far as I’m concerned as soon as I put anything on here it is in the public domain. I haven’t changed that opinion with the advent of ChatGPT etc. Indeed, I am pretty sure that all 7000+ articles from this blog were systematically scraped last year.
Books are, however, in a different category. I have never made a living from writing books, but it is dangerous to the livelihood of those that do to have their work systematically stolen in this way. I understand that there may be a class action in the USA against Meta for this blatant larceny, which I hope succeeds.
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