You just go back to the court showing they’re not paying the court mandated restitution.

Yes it takes time, yes it will probably cost more in time alone than the $155 issue that started it. But you can get increased penalties awarded for failure to pay.

Small claims courts really don’t like big businesses ignoring the little man.

File in small claims court for the fees and time if they refuse or don’t respond. OpenAI isn’t going to bother sending a representative for such a small amount.

Trump 1.0 he was actually there still, easily manipulated but still there. Now he’s just a puppet with dementia.

Don’t forget that they’re only accountable to investors who are extremely gullible, especially in the tech and sales sectors.

So nice of them to help with Spotify’s off-site backup.

How many drug addicts don’t distance themselves from drugs? Why would this be any different?

Not even. E coli is fucking everywhere. Why that of all things?

Agreed, the assets did make it to production, but were replaced in a patch 5 days later. That definitely seems like it was placeholders that just got missed. Which happens, especially for a new small studio releasing their first game.

GenAI being used for temporary placeholders is arguably a correct use case for it. Especially with a smaller development team. If you have a limited number of artists, having them spend time crafting unique placeholders that will be replaced is a poor use of their time and talents that would otherwise be spent working on final art that will actually be in the released game. That is a 100% valid use case scenario for it, as long as the assets are replaced for the launch. And missing a few and fixing that within a week is entirely understandable, not something they should be indicted for.

There is some concern about the exact wording I’ve seen in various articles. Some say that Sandfall told the awards that GenAI wasn’t used in the development, but the articles don’t use a specific quote on their side, and then later saying it was used for placeholder assets. They seem to imply that Sandfall lies about the use to qualify, then later came clean. I’m wondering if that is simply miscommunication, potentially language issues, about the final game not using GenAI. Just because people speak multiple languages, that doesn’t mean that they understand nuanced differences in meaning when not using their native language. I can see the difference between the final game release and overall development being misunderstood depending on the exact wording used.

A year ago that firm would have been worth hundreds of millions of dollars, at the moment it’s a fire sale. They’re almost surely losing millions on the deal.

They’re leaving basically with whatever they were already paid as a partner for the years they were there. Law firms don’t operate like or pay like traditional businesses. Partners at firms like this almost always have to be offered a partnership, and buy their way in. Some partnerships at prestigious firms can have buy-in fees upwards of a million dollars.

The partners then are paid a percentage of the business, depending on seniority and managing status. If there is no business, there is no pay. If the firm goes under, or is bought out, there is little pay because the firm isn’t worth much, if anything.

They’re basically leaving with what they’ve already squirreled away and not spent with potentially lavish lifestyles over the years.

Basically all American fast food places in other countries are infinitely better than the US. Because they almost always have to deal with more stringent advertising and quality requirements and actually have to compete with real restaurants.

Hell the only real advantage in the US used to be price, but they’re now the same price as a full restaurant option, and take about as long. The only reasons they still have customers are nostalgia/habit and people just assuming that because McD’s prices went up so much during the pandemic-era inflation, everywhere else must have as well.

Two options really…

1. Scared by Trump’s threats and not willing to fight like other firms.
2. Support Trump.

Here’s the thing, at firms like this, the prestige of being a partner at a firm that’s been around since 1792 is a primary reason for being there. The money is secondary. And being known as the partners that destroyed the oldest firm in NYC, is a dishonor none of them want to be known for. It’s what they’ll be remembered for, not anything else they’ve done.

Exactly. Simply being in a photo isn’t damning by itself. Depending on where the photo was taken of course.

Especially if you’re a journalist in New York, Epstein worked in finance in NY for over a decade and was at many exclusive events.

Oh this is going to do nothing to make TikTok better in any way, or cause it’s downfall.

It just lets Trump’s friends make money from it now.

The reason is simple. It’s become very obvious very quickly that unless you have billions to develop your own model, and a way to lock users in, there is no way you’re ever going to have a chance at making it back. They’re trying to save themselves from making a bad knee jerk reaction.

But they can’t admit that, so they’re trying to hide it however possible and mitigate the financial damage at the cost of anything else they can use.

The overview effect is a cognitive shift reported by some astronauts while viewing the Earth from space. Researchers have characterized the effect as “a state of awe with self-transcendent qualities, precipitated by a particularly striking visual stimulus”. The most prominent common aspects of personally experiencing the Earth from space are appreciation and perception of beauty, unexpected and even overwhelming emotion, and an increased sense of connection to other people and the Earth as a whole. The effect can cause changes in the observer’s self concept and value system, and can be transformative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect

This one actually does make sense. He actually knows what the fuck is going on. He’s not just a stooge trying to cozy up to Trump.

He has experience with NASA, space contractors, and has been in space performing research for NASA. The Overview Effect shouldn’t be discounted.

Not only the setting off, but any sort of behind the scenes stuff related to it disabled as well. No automatic updating, no background processes to “keep it ready, just in case”. Do that when it’s enabled.

It’s for the default search, but it also has the side benefit of ensuring a secondary browser with decent market share that’s not Chromium-based they can point to claiming they’re not a monopoly.