The Who's Who of AI

“Iman Khazrak, Narges Nejad, Mohammadhossein Homaei, Mostafa M. Rezaee, Robert C. Green II LoRA-Diffusion: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning via Low-Rank Trajectory Decomposition https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12328”

“Recent appearances (cont'd): * F@#$ the AI Overlords (On The Media) www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm... * Why AI Won't Replace Workers But Will Crash The Economy (Smart Cookies) www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRRm... 189/”

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“If your theory is that markets deliver prosperity by spurring businesses to provide superior products and services at lower prices needed to attract and retain workers and customers, competition is a must-have. Without competitors, companies are "too big to…”

“Upcoming appearances (cont'd): * Brighton: Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Carole Cadwalladr (Brighton Dome), Sep 8 brightondome.org/whats-on/LSC... * London: Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Riley Quinn (Foyle's Picadilly), Sep 9…”

“Upcoming appearances (cont'd): * Brighton: Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Carole Cadwalladr (Brighton Dome), Sep 8 brightondome.org/whats-on/LSC... * London: Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Riley Quinn (Foyle's Picadilly), Sep 9…”

“New research presents TC-Padé, which enhances diffusion model sampling efficiency with Padé approximation, achieving 2.88× speedup in image and video generation without sacrificing visual quality. This method mitigates limitations in low-step sampling. http…”

“Recent appearances (cont'd): * AI, automation and enshittification (Telecoms.com) www.telecoms.com/ai/the-telec... * The AI Enshittification Bubble (Hidden Forces) hiddenforces.io/podcasts/the... 22/”

“They missed the fact that under Canada's anti-circumvention law (Bill C-11, the Copyright Modernization Act of 2012), it remains illegal to undertake the reverse-engineering needed to exercise the rights these new laws (seemed to) enshrine: pluralistic.net/…”

“#10yrsago Worst of McMansions: architectural criticism of inequality’s most tangible evidence web.archive.org/web/20160814... #5yrsago Provocateur copyrights a Magic: The Gathering Deck pluralistic.net/2021/08/14/a... #5yrsago Disneyland at a stroll plurali…”

“#10yrsago Worst of McMansions: architectural criticism of inequality’s most tangible evidence web.archive.org/web/20160814... #5yrsago Provocateur copyrights a Magic: The Gathering Deck pluralistic.net/2021/08/14/a... #5yrsago Disneyland at a stroll plurali…”

“That'is nearly impossible to imagine happening with solar OEMs, who face so little competition that they all put binding arbitration clauses in their terms of service that take away your right to sue, no matter whether they cheat you or burn your house down…”

“The result: today, virtually every country in the world has a law that makes it illegal to disrupt American tech giants: pluralistic.net/2026/05/05/t... 37/”

“In 1998, Clinton signed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). DMCA Section 1201 makes it a felony to practice adversarial interoperability, establishing penalties of $500k and five years in prison for people who reverse engineer and modify products: …”

“Under the exemptions the anti-circumvention, *every* blind person is expected to *personally* reverse engineer the controls in Adobe and Amazon's ebook formats, write an exploit that lets them extract their texts and repackage them in a new, open format: pl…”