Speaking in Asheboro, North Carolina, Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance said something deserving of a round of applause—applause for one, from one. Whoever was captioning at CSPAN felt obliged to specify that only a single member of the audience was clapping at that specific moment. — Read the rest

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This guy made a pocket sized terrarium out of Lego pieces. You can see his process here.

The miniature ecosystem, barely larger than a handful of Lego pieces, features real plants and soil enclosed within transparent Lego elements. 

I hope it will stay sealed and growing for years to come. — Read the rest

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With googly eyes, the Cybertruck looks—dare I say it—kinda cute. 

Twitter/X user "Enginerd32," whose bio reads, "Mechanical Engineer, human biomechanics, quasi-sorta-retired entrepreneur," recently posted four photos of their Cybertruck with various configurations of googly eyes. Of the four choices, "widest," "wider," "narrow," and "narrowest," "wider" was the fan favorite. — Read the rest

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Why Ann Coulter thought it was a good idea to mock Tim Walz's 17-year-old son for his emotional reaction at the DNC, calling him "weird," is a real stumper. But the perpetually mean conservative immediately got her comeuppance with fierce online backlash from both sides of the political aisle. — Read the rest

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The German Navy corvette Braunschweig blasted the Imperial March from Star Wars as it made its way up the Thames earlier this week, amusing locals and reminding them that the German sense of humor can be as appreciably dark as their own. — Read the rest

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Artists defending a class-action lawsuit are claiming a major win this week in their fight to stop the most sophisticated AI image generators from copying billions of artworks to train AI models and replicate their styles without compensating artists.

In an order on Monday, US District Judge William Orrick denied key parts of motions to dismiss from Stability AI, Midjourney, Runway AI, and DeviantArt. The court will now allow artists to proceed with discovery on claims that AI image generators relying on Stable Diffusion violate both the Copyright Act and the Lanham Act, which protects artists from commercial misuse of their names and unique styles.

"We won BIG," an artist plaintiff, Karla Ortiz, wrote on X (formerly Twitter), celebrating the order. "Not only do we proceed on our copyright claims," but "this order also means companies who utilize" Stable Diffusion models and LAION-like datasets that scrape artists' works for AI training without permission "could now be liable for copyright infringement violations, amongst other violations."

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