It depends which AI you ask, no? Ask AI made in a mostly white country, you’re going to get pictures of mostly white people. Ask AI made in a mostly Asian country, it’ll be mostly Asian people.

...it’s just what’s more common.

I think you're misunderstanding the author's objection here. The problem is exactly that the genAI will reflect "just what's more common," and that in doing so, it over-represents that which was already over-represented. It glosses over variety and difference, it reduces the past to a cartoon. It's the next bit that's important:

That makes “AI” perfect for creating the form of idealized, fictional “past” that fascists love to allude to (“make America great again“), a past that never existed but that needs to be saved or restored...

This is how the original 20th century Fascists did things, too. It's not a hypothetically Fascist appeal, it's a historically Fascist appeal.

Isn't it telling on our whole culture that a white girl's boobs are one of the things genAI seems to draw really, really well?

The only picture of her that I've seen is really pretty sloppy, too. I've certainly been fooled by a few AI photos at this point, but I don't think this one would have been among them.

I guess the lawsuit claims are always fiction, aren't they? Still, I'm trying to conjure up the imaginary fairy-tale future where Patel could have earned US$250 million if only the darn meany newspapers hadn't laughed at him. I'm not coming up with a lot.

So #4 is obviously "fuck" but then I got stuck

This initiative is (so far) threatening naturalized citizens, not born citizens.

The 14th amendment specifies that naturalized citizens are full-fledged citizens, that there's no legal way to cleave them off as some special subclass. In a sane world that paid more than lip service to the constitution, this this kind of harassment wouldn't fly at all.

This article doesn't use the word "terror." Is the DOJ really using that word somewhere?

Wouldn't using that word be an admission that the National Alliance and/or the Ku Klux Klan were terrorists? I bet this regime doesn't want to do that.

They killed Pocket (they didn't just remove it from FF) some time ago.

I'm not a lawyer, and I'm not going to read the whole 100+ page ruling (PDF), but it sure looks to me like the argument is: "In order to decide if the Ten Commandments are an 'establishment of religion,' we have to ~~make up~~ imagine the moral reasoning of a bunch of dead slavers."

The opinion is long because you can't do all those gymnastics in a broom closet.

Imagine for a moment, that we were living in some crazy mirror-universe, where the regime's explicit goal was to sabotage America's capacity to project its will into the larger world.

In that scenario, what would we expect Hegseth to do differently?

Sometimes, you turn out to be holding the reins of another person's emotional state, whether they've been formally handed to you or not. That's life, that's growing up, that's a reason to be excellent to each other.

Of course, romance isn't the only -- maybe not even the main -- example. This might be most common in a boss / underling relationship. More bosses should take this to heart.

"In The Midst Of Unpopular, Catastrophic War Of Choice, Trump Allies Call For Draft" would perhaps not be a totally neutral headline but I feel like it would be more honest, more forthright.