Damn. I was just starting to rebuild my physical catalog so I could get away from streaming.

How is it these laws can get passed but our legislatures can’t do anything that’s actually important for society? 

It’s pretty terrifying when you think about the possibilities of deception. And also how throwaway content is going to become. We are going to generate content at a volume orders of magnitude larger than our already current excessive volume, and finding the stuff that has real meaning and a real message is going to be even harder.

Also, artists whose work and styles fed this will be put out of business without ever being paid for their work that was used to train these models. 🫤

I just wish there was a standard for marking the cables, so you could look at the cable and tell what it was capable of. All the cables and chargers look the same but have wildly different capabilities. 

Sometimes it feels like the EFF is the only one holding back the tide. Everyone should donate to EFF ❤️

“The Cybertruck does not ship with clear coat, that outermost layer of transparent paint that comes as standard on almost every new motor vehicle on the planet. Instead, each Cybertruck owner has the option to purchase a $5,000 urethane-based film to "wrap your Cybertruck in our premium satin clear paint films. Only available through Tesla."”

That’s bullshit from Tesla, because they definitely don’t have special PPF that isn’t available aftermarket. They certainly have not invented a vinyl film. That’s not an unreasonable price for a PPF job of an entire vehicle, but PPF isn’t suitable for every part of a car. The fact that the paint has no clearcoat at all should not be addressed by charging the customer extra. 

Great article. The most concerning is that Boeing has become yet another enshittified company, chasing profit too hard over all else, and they are going to kill people with their decisions.

“The fact that the mistake was made at all, however, suggests an organization that is decreasingly inclined, or able, to make the kinds of costly, counterintuitive, and difficult-to-justify choices on which it built its exemplary history of reliability. These choices always pertain to marginal, almost negligible, concerns — simply because reliability at high altitudes is all about the margins — so their consequences manifest slowly. But their effects are cumulative and inexorable. “

So he’s a liar and a charlatan? Shocked I tell you! Shocked!

I hope not! I hope they interpret it this way and are willing and able to take action, by removing their catalog or maybe even a class action lawsuit. 

When should we all expect to receive our check for the content we contributed to Stack Exchange? 

It’s Twitter. No need to adopt his pet name for it.

Ticketmaster is truly the bastard spawn of satan and corporate greed, an evil so foul and repugnant that merely speaking its name sends chills through all that hear it and sends children running to hide under their covers.

Good. Jump in.

Always check your sources…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_for_Economic_Education

They literally gave an award to Charles Koch.

The timing is probably just coincidence. He probably submitted a bug bounty weeks or months earlier and it just now got included in release notes. 

Oh no! … Anyway…

There’s something problematic that underlies this that we as a society should all be worried about. It’s been a long time since you could really trust a corporation to be honest with you or to take care of you, maybe never. But you could at least trust the people you worked with and for to be good humans and do the right thing even if it wasn’t the profitable thing. It seems like those days may be gone, where human decisions still had room inside a company that is squeezing everyone for profit.  The human decency is gone from work. The managers that fought for their people have hung up their gloves. Anyone can be laid off, remotely, with no consideration for what it means to them and their family when they lose a job.

They will be told it wasn’t about their performance, which means there wasn’t anything they could have done about it. They are basically told they were powerless to keep their job. That the thing which is so fundamental to their survival on earth and their identity as a person is completely out of their hands and can be ruined on a whim by someone who doesn’t even know their name. By someone who refers to them as a “resource” or a “headcount.”

So we should not be surprised when workers have absolutely zero loyalty to the company, and that they are completely jaded about anyone they work with caring about them beyond what they deliver.

It’s not just that we have created a depressing, impersonal, immoral, spiral-of-death workforce. It’s that we have taught everyone not to trust the people in their professional lives and that kindness is no longer profitable.

I’m holding out upgrading for the holographic nano dark matter drives that have infinite storage capacity and RAID data into 3 alternate universes for security.

Any kind of mandate that tells employees where they need to sit to be effective at their job is misguided. The office should be a place where people can meet to share ideas and work on things together and socialize. They should be available to employees to use when they need them. Not everyone has a quiet space to work at home and some people enjoy the separation between their home and work lives of going to the office. Some people need quiet time to focus on their job without interruption and can do that better at home. Some people need a bit of both and the flexibility to enjoy both makes them more productive.

I don’t get why this conversation is so binary. Why not just focus on flexibility? Create spaces in the office that are appealing and productive and focus on shared work and team projects. People will use offices if they are useful. Put some walls back up in the office and create good focus spaces so even if someone is in the office for a team meeting they can still get their quiet time.

I am on zoom all day with coworkers around the world. I’m not going to go to an office and sit in a 2‘ x 2‘ phone booth all day just for the one meeting I have that’s in person. But if I had a comfortable private office with walls and a little space to pace around and some natural light where I didn’t have to wear headphones all day and fight distractions, I might actually go to the office for that one in-person meeting and spend the rest of the day there being productive. 

Hopefully the next one is permanent

I think they are great if it’s about 40% talk and 60% socialize. The point of talks should be to stimulate a conversation that happens in the hallway. If it’s just one way content absorption, that could’ve been done remotely. 

I desperately miss the networking and socializing and the people I met and the interesting conversations that I could not have planned for. I hope eventually my company starts sending us again.

The answer here are standards like Matter that are interoperable between brands. I get that if I buy all Amazon devices they are going to work better with each other. But if I buy a device from a different brand I should be able to choose whether I link it to Amazon or Apple or my own home-cooked thing. These easy cloud integrations are really important for mass adoption and for the non-tech savvy. They just shouldn’t be a lock in with no choices. 

Wow this article is actually terrifying.

Just wait until one of the clinicians tries to disagree with the AI and they get fired by a hospital administrator who trusts the technology more than the people. 

I deleted every comment and post I had made and then deleted my account when they locked out Apollo. But it sounds like I missed out on getting the secret email and making the investment of a lifetime! /s 

The Current is owned and operated by TradeDesk, the largest ad platform outside of Google. UID2 is their own initiative. So to say this article is biased is… mild.

A simple motion sensor would have sufficed. A classic example of someone getting excited about a Tech buzzword and cramming it into a product.

AM radio? Anyone who is listening to that probably doesn’t have a phone to call anyone about it, inside their Mad Max bunker.

Missed opportunity to name these “energon cubes”

You’re right. Cause I deleted that app months ago.

“They must have sent one DM” - so any rando that has sent an unwelcome DM can follow it with a call?

United Airlines - our planes are decrepit but at least the pretzels are… stale!

Congress’ priorities are fucked.

I don’t get why everyone’s always trying to build humanoids. It doesn’t need to have a human head and operating feet to be a good sex partner.

How can they say it has worked when no one except the media and people that work there actually call it that? 

HP can die in a fiery flameout.

Same. In the brief window when we still had the API, I deleted every thing I’ve ever posted. Every helpful comment, all the well crafted answers to technical questions. I know they are in the wayback machine somewhere but at least Reddit can’t sell them.

Especially in the least productive congress in US history, the odds of any actual vote are low.

Duh, of course it’s not. Even the systems with Lidar and Radar are running into pedestrians. Tesla relies entirely on cameras that can’t see through fog or glare. It works only in ideal conditions and situations, and fails very quickly in all the situations a car would encounter in the real world. 

Time to put pressure on Apple and Google to encrypt these E2E.

Reddit can die in a fire.