It's official: Getty Images is suing Stability AI, creator of Stable Diffusion, for copyright infringement in the US. We've got all the details and a copy of the full complaint right here: https://theverge.com/2023/2/6/23587393/ai-art-copyright-lawsuit-getty-images-stable-diffusion…
“In emails, officials calculated what McNaughton was costing them to keep his crippling disease at bay and how much they would save if they forced him to undergo a cheaper treatment that had already failed him.”
Lies and laughter—what health insurer @UHC said internally when it contrived to deny a life-or-death treatment is even more disturbing than you suspected. https://propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis…
Thread on home prices: Case-Shiller is out today and since home value growth peaked in March 2022 at 20.8% it has decelerated at the fastest pace in history to 7.7% over the year—a 13.1% change in home value growth.
"The rise of labor organizing in tech, long considered taboo, is yet another indicator of workers’ growing wariness that their employers will take care of them in the ways that they have promised."
Deep in the heart of Greenwich Village is an Italian restaurant dating to 1918 that time forgot.
https://ny.eater.com/2023/1/31/23576729/montes-trattoria-greenwich-village-review?utm_campaign=ny.eater&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter… via @EaterNY
“Delivering the news with no personal human contact … ensures [managers] will not have to face the shock and devastation that people feel when they lose their livelihoods.”
“Research shows that high levels of selenium are causing spinal deformities in more than 80% of young Sacramento splittail, a freshwater fish, in the Bay area.”
A recent McKinsey report found that "'women are demanding more from work, and they're leaving their companies in unprecedented numbers to get it.' Those in leadership roles were switching jobs at the highest rate in the history of the survey."
In my life I have received writing and editing feedback, on-camera evaluation, onstage examination, corporate performance review, art critique, and even recorded music assessment. But nothing has proven as withering as my toddler’s appraisal of the dinner I prepared for him 💀
"After Beyond, Impossible and their copycats spent years trying to seduce everyone away from meat, it appears their best customers are, well, the 5% of the population who didn’t eat meat in the first place."
Monterey Park, to me as someone who visits often, is a city and community that really crystallizes, in my opinion, the diversity and vibrancy of Asian Americans.
"In addition to taking his artist royalties for decades, in 1985, Zaentz sued Fogerty for $144 million, alleging the artist’s then current hit, 'The Old Man Down the Road,' ripped off CCR's 'Run Through the Jungle' ... Fogerty had written both songs."
BREAKING: Lisa Marie Presley, the singer and only child of Elvis, has died at age 54 after she was rushed to a hospital, mother Priscilla Presley says.
“[She] was asked to build out an entire content strategy for a popular financial newsletter and work with the team in the office … [Her work] was apparently good enough to be sent out to readers but not land her a position with the company.”
High surf is pounding King Harbor in #RedondoBeach tonight. The waves are crashing over the breakwall, into the parking lot and right up to the front door of the King Harbor Yacht Club. Road into that parking lot has been closed. @CBSLA @NWSLosAngeles@KingHarborYC#CAwx
The Klein News Innovation Camp, an annual journalism unconference in Philadelphia, is January 28. If you're in the region—and yes, I'm looking at you, New Yorkers—you should attend:
“Figuring out how to do something a little less or a little more is likely to yield the best results for most people, even if it’s not going to turn you into a different human.”
NEW: conservatives have a Millennials problem.
In both UK & US, it’s not just that Millennials aren’t voting conservative because they’re young.
Every previous generation grew more conservative with age, but Millennials are not playing ball.
My column: https://enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/a0c1c1b2-eda9-48b6-890a-2bac5ee6a9ac…