Earlier this year, I was seeing cybertrucks on the road regularly. I believe I was seeing at least one a day on most days when I ventured out somewhere. I haven’t seen one in the wild in at least two or three weeks. It’s a little disappointing too, because I miss flipping them off.
I don’t know who he is, but fuck this guy. That’s all.
If the administration can ignore the courts, I guess everyone can now ignore the courts.
Well, Secretary Rubio is among the least christian people in the state department, so…
It’s so un-American to not buy weapons from us. Who do these Europeans think they are?
They got Tuttle instead of Buttle.
I’m old enough to remember when Elon released “the twitter files” in an attempt to demonstrate how the federal government supposedly exerted egregious pressure on private media in violation of first amendment right.
Absolute bullshit. I’m not going to defend the Democratic Party (which is painfully inept), but the Republican Party is explicitly a white-identity interest group. Any crumbs of rhetoric that they throw to other groups has nothing to do with actually helping anyone and is entirely targeted to make their white constituents feel benevolent.
I’m pretty sure that ‘ideal form’ here is a pair of regular-ish glasses. That ain’t happening in four generations unless you’re going to be real creative about what a generation is. It certainly isn’t four years away, like the analogies to iPhones and Apple Watches implies. That’s going to require an absolutely wild amount of innovation to achieve. And, even if that happens, such new technology is going to take many further generations to become remotely affordable enough to be priced for anything like mainstream adoption. Pile all that on top of the lingering curiosities about what problems this interface model actually solves, and the cultural shifts that will be required to get people comfortable to accept pervasive face cameras in social settings, and you’ve got a product line that has niche appeal written all over it for at least another decade or two.
Just think about it for a moment. Apple made a mask, that when you wear it in your face, projects a 3D animated avatar if you face on the outside. That is so weird, f’ed up and dystopian.
I’ve never been more excited to not buy a product in my life.
All those resources available to them, and the biggest idea they’ve come up with in the better part of a decade is that dumb face computer.
I don’t know enough about why the board did this, or what Altman was up to, to form a meaningful opinion about what happened. However, I do know that anything that empowers Microsoft in this industry is a bad thing. Microsoft is a bad actor in every regard and will always behave in ways that ultimately produce worse products than we would get otherwise. Given the potential implications of these technologies, and all the reasons to not trust Microsoft to protect public interests, this news is terrible.
What? Someone downloaded photos that people willingly uploaded to a public network? You don’t say.
Narwhal just went behind the paywhal for me to today. So, I guess I’m finally done with Reddit now? I’ve been in there at least 14 years. It’s just wild to me that I lost Twitter and Reddit after so much time.
This is good news. I’m in favor of anything that makes it more difficult for Amazon to operate.
It should be illegal for entities like BBC to do this. Copyright is meant to be a temporary, limited construct that carves out an opportunity for creators to profit from their works. It is not perpetual legal dominion over specific ideas. Entities that harvest content to train LLMs should pay for access like everyone else, but after that, they can use the information they learn however they see fit. Now, if their product plagiarizes, or doesn’t properly attribute authorship, that is a problem. But it’s a different issue from what the BBC is fighting here.
I think there are some content creators that believe they are owed royalties if you even think about a piece they wrote or drew. That is, of course, absurd in terms of human minds. It’s also absurd in terms of other kinds of minds.
Working conditions in this industry are not great. The turnover rate can reach 80% sometimes. It can be a difficult, stressful and low paid job that few people enjoy. At the same time, the demand for this work keeps increasing as more and more of consumer activity shifts online and remote. It seems to me that the technology may be a net benefit in this case. The public and its regulatory authority should, however, keep a close eye on developments to make sure humans are not left behind.
Every time I read a new story about another example of this, I struggle to understand why people are getting outraged. Did you have some expectation of privacy when you published your thing to the world-connected network run by profit-seeking corporations?
Good, get all these losers into one place. Just saying’.