untangle

Nice. I would love to import the metadata from my Calibre Library. Calibre is great, but it is ancient and its evolution is glacial.

Same. Try the "books on the Battle of Midway" query on Perplexity. The results are great and include the book mentioned in the article (authored by the Naval Aviator).

I graduated from "Annapolis" (AKA USNA, "The Boat School") in the 70's. My second career was in high-tech here in Silicon Valley.

Let me state the "quiet part" of the Naval Academy's mission out loud: It aspires to train the Services' future admirals and generals. It is not a vocational school, nor is it really a college. It's something else.

It strikes me that the relationship between flag-rank officers and their civilian (political) leaders is fair game.

Having said that, the selection of this speaker is edgy. But it's the timing of the event that I think puts it in the bad-judgement-or-worse category. We used to call this "poor headwork."

My recommendation would have been to postpone the event until next year, and then reexamine the issue more closely. And to do all of the above quietly.

And Paypal stretched banking laws. And Youtube was built on the back of countless music and TV videos under copyright. And Airbnb played/plays free & loose with hoteling laws. And Uber with taxi rules. The list is long, and the excesses are large. Move fast and break things. Become too big to fail. This is nothing new. It is core to technological advancement and capitalist enablement.

"End of Programming" will look like a Mag-7 interview: [program design] + [leetcode].

> taxing copyrights and patents

It's an interesting point. I believe (chatGPT4 agrees) that taxes on IP occur via licensing deals, on transactions, and/or through registration fees. But not through anything resembling a RP wealth tax. There are probably some corner cases though.

The USPTO grants human artists an early victory in their struggle with AI generation. I personally don't think that this ruling will withstand the AI tidal wave that's coming. But, for now, some shelter from the storm.

This is interesting but it's old news. Both the linked article and the "FBI PSA" are dated late December of 2022.