Wednesday, April 17, 2024

There's a set of miniatures based on the main characters in Amazon's Fallout series

The four-pack is up for preorder. (There's many other Fallout miniatures in stock.)




(The first two episodes are fine (I particularly liked the images of the squire, his burden, and the knight) (I hope they produce a set of miniatures based on the squire and knight), but I wonder if there was any internal discussion of whether there was a need for the show to start with a completed rape, since the episode could have easily unfolded in the exact same way with the protagonist realizing the problem before a rape occurred.) (Tough to accept the main character's continuing cheerful naivete in the second episode after the events of the first.)

Author granted partial copyright in book written with ChatGPT

Wired:

The [US Copyright Office]’s notice granting [the human author] copyright registration of her book does not recognize her as author of the whole text as is conventional for written works. Instead she is considered the author of the “selection, coordination, and arrangement of text generated by artificial intelligence.” This means no one can copy the book without permission, but the actual sentences and paragraphs themselves are not copyrighted and could theoretically be rearranged and republished as a different book.

(The activist author is also famous for other reasons.)

Today's news and jokes





Clearance sale on Super 7 figures, including 60% off the supersized vinyl figures

at the BBTS.

Gorgeous photos of Svalbard ice







Tuesday, April 16, 2024

"A federal judge has found that L.A. city officials doctored records in a case over homeless camp cleanups"

LAT:
In some records, the word “bulky items” was replaced by “health hazards” or “contaminated,” after [the presiding judge] had ruled the city’s law prohibiting bulky items unconstitutional.

Alex Albon's panda helmet