Welcome to the Tech Meme ride home from Monday, August 21st, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

More X shenanigans over the weekend. some solid evidence that major

LLLMs have in fact been trained on copyrighted material,

a ton of it perhaps.

As Arm prepares to IPO, who might join them

depending on how things go, bad news for Adyan is probably bad news for

Strip as well and the rise of high-tech sailing ships. Here's what you missed today

in the world of Tech. There was some drama at the artist formerly known as Twitter over the weekend.

First Elon Musk tweeted that the block feature is going to go away except for in the cases of DMs to be replaced with I guess just better muting or something

Again starting to really feel like Elon is almost daring certain users to abandon the platform at this point.

But then again, Elon tweets a lot of things on X and some of those do happen.

Some of them do not come to pass and yes, I'm aware that I just called it a tweet. Then Saturday or

Sunday came word that many images uploaded directly to Twitter between 2011 and

2014 are not loading and links from those years that use Twitter's native

shortening service are broken to quoting Forbes.

Twitter the social media platform officially known as X appears to have deleted

all images from the website that were

posted between 2011 and 2014. Links that use Twitter's native

shortening service are also broken. It's not immediately clear if this was an

intentional act or an error, but whatever's happening is causing concern among

users who've been on the site for over a decade. News about the photo deletions on Twitter

first went viral on Saturday after user Tom Coates tweeted about it. I confirmed that my own photos on the

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