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Tesla hit with $243 million in damages after jury finds its Autopilot feature contributed to fatal crash The verdict follows a three-week trial that threw a spotlight on how Tesla and CEO Elon Musk have marketed their driver-assistance software.

A hugely important verdict.

The victims were pedestrians, so Tesla can't argue they knew/accepted Autopilot's risks.

People walking, biking, and inside other cars didn't consent to be Elon Musk's guinea pigs.

Unfortunately they will choose to use it against transgender athletes to lose the 2032 election to Laura Loomer

If Trump defunded NPR does that mean Clairo will never be on Tiny Desk? America's national suicide knows no boundaries

Genuinely incredible bit tbf

Economists take note

Also why is he *only* on Mastodon

in case you missed it: Terence Tao calls for pre-registration of methodology for AI mathematical ability tests, and offers an excellent breakdown of why ability even on a single given task is not a binary variable

mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1148814...

I mean, it kind of is because it was reported and discussed as a serious proposal by a serious candidate and not made up bullshit by a two bit conman

Carter was super religious but *also* he was a born again adult so IMO Bush Sr is a good candidate. Type of shit that counts as a "youthful indiscretion" in Skull and Bones and you're not supposed to engage in it after adulthood

I mean yeah I assume basically all 19th and 18th century presidents who served in the military fucked a dude at least once

Exactly, it's a performance of intelligence by people who think talking like that is smart!

The dark horses imo are Jimmy Carter and HW Bush

Writing helps you develop and organize your ideas but it doesn't mean that your ideas are *better* and a big part of why all the Twitter right wingers talk like Final Fantasy characters is they think that "good writing" makes them sound smarter

The fact that the one game made by an explicitly communist co-op game studio now has three successor studios making a self-proclaimed sequel to it, and dispute the legitimacy of the other two is, of course, the most communist outcome possible.

I put my money on JFK

Well if science magazine hadn't endorsed joe biden back in 2020...

I’m pretty resistant to “look at the latest end of civilization” discourse but “you can bet on the particulars of how someone will sexually harass WNBA players (by throwing dildos on the court) for the amusement of shithead men” really does feel like we’re reaching a breaking point

I go with an H like in ham but probably

People think in the (inherently totalitarian) assumption that everyone who isn't a formal political actor should only do and say things that are advantageous for their side in the formal political system

It's Phil and Claire but also Cam and Mitch

People should own up to the fact that there's no ex ante difference between Ezra Klein and Taylor Lorenz or between the Sierra Club and the Institute for Progress. The difference is actually in the *substance* and *quality* of what they say, which is the margin on which they should be evaluated

Taking the Habermas pilled position that it's fine and good that there's groups of people advocating for various political ideas and freely giving their own opinions on the issues to persuade others. It's actually the responsibility of politicians to decide who to listen to

Article on the enshittification of US power

Ireland's Sunday Independent

This is half the episodes of Modern Family

This Chip will Self-Destruct The U.S. wants to track the location of every AI microchip. And it also wants the power to remotely shut them down. Can the rest of the world stomach the risks?

Via Henry Farrell.

If we want to keep this power, which no one should have, we need to exercise it very cautiously. Other countries often tolerate someone having disproportionate power when that power is used sparingly and in situations where its use seems necessary. Abuse it and watch it vanish.

National suicide baby

Back in 2022 this would have been considered *insanely* antisemitic

wow, volkisch propaganda about wholesome living was actually a crock of shit and these people are all so mortified by intense social scrutiny that they end up with zero ability to curb the worst types of predaiton imaginable?

deepseek does o1 level research for free and meanwhile the americans invented "mechahitler"

🧠 The AI Mirage: July Jobs Report vs. Tech Hiring Truths AI Is Replacing Jobs” they say, but it’s a cover

Friend sent it to me, so had to ask myself. It’s from here: