at different times: haxx0r in cDc PhD in using people for ML and vice versa "theory of mind for autonomous cars" startup guy would you believe, went kablooie at present: newsletter -- buttondown.email/apperceptive &c music, politics, nonsense
Third: In the absence of clear direct benefits, people are just going to focus on the losses. Any use of AI to justify layoffs will blow back on the big tech companies, even if they're not the ones conducting layoffs. Execs think they can discipline their labor forces for free. They're wrong.
i know votes are still being counted but the more i look at this michigan senate map the more it becomes clear that it kind of looks like a mitten
alkright that's enough vote stuff. hope whoever loses is gracious and supports their opponent full throatedly in the general. but a good reminder polls can and do miss badly sometimes, especially in primary elections.
I think a lot of people have severely overreacted to very early returns in this MI-Sen primary. But I’ve kept my cool, because I always believed DemocraticCandidate would win in the end and my plans to support DemocraticCandidate through November remain unchanged.
i support [$democratic_candidate] for [$public_office] and believe that their politics is a perfect fit for [$state]. I would drag my [$genital] over [$harmful_object_or_substance] to vote for [$democratic_candidate] this fall.
KeithI support the winner of the Michigan Democratic primary as the future senator from Michigan.
Guy always looks like he's ready to launch into a monologue about how he's NOT sexually attracted to beets.
I am seeing this exact exchange playing out across social media. Moulton going so low is turning away voters.
When the primaries are over you do your best to set aside your grievances at least until after November. It is the most basic principle of partisan politics.
Church of Civic DutyOk listen I think people should really consider that having a preference in a primary is fine and if you preference doesn’t win the more important issue at hand is not whether or not you don’t like but winning against republicans in November.
it may not be practical or advisable but it is at least plausible that when you're stuck in rooms with a bunch of other weirdos who keep licking each other's asses all day, their butts may indeed end up fairly clean. their mouths tho...
Ben CollinsOh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
Yeah I'm pro pipeline. Pro "piping" truck bed "liner" directly into my mouth because it's delicious!
could use help from immigration attorneys and/or advocates here if y'all don't mind RTing
𝕁, Highly Valued Goose 🪿I have a friend who is mid-asylum process, had her interview and now the app is telling her a decision has been mailed to her house. the EOIR site just says "case information unavailable." the app says this if you drill down which looks a lot like "you're approved." wtf is actually happening?
Tesla will never achieve sustained actual self-driving www.webpronews.com/tesla-inside...
modern adhesives are SO amazing. is there anything more gratifying than having just the right one for the task at hand? i always think that being a materials engineer just seems like it must be incredibly cool. substances! engineered! to be these ways and not those, to do these things and not that!
tweety fishthis is specifically about wood glue in its details but modern adhesives more broadly are absolutely WILD, like often the best choice for permanently affixing heavy masonry and so on
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oxP... A soviet animation was made based on the short story. Its worth a watch.
Будет ласковый дождь / There Will Come Soft Rains (1984) [Eng CC]YouTube video by Алекс Кэрроллwww.youtube.com
Here’s a very nerdy point but if you buy the reasoning that putatively gets you to ‘it’s likely we’re living in a simulation’, the same reasoning completely swamps that likelihood with Boltzmann brains is it’s actually ~0% we’re in a simulation by your lights
"In the Canadian capital of Ottawa, 14% of vehicles were speeding on Katimavik Road last fall while the cameras were in use, but a whopping 80% did in May following their removal." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
What Happens When Speed Cameras Get Shut OffIn 2025, Ontario banned automated traffic enforcement. Now the number of drivers exceeding the speed limit has surged, according to traffic data.www.bloomberg.com
the problem with all Twitter-likes is the nature of the interactions themselves lead to a collective phenomenon that sucks, good thing bsky is just a wrapper over something that can be so much bigger
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒Not here because it's a left-leaning site, here because I see this as a renewed vision of the internet.