Evan 🇮🇹🇺🇸

The easiest way to see for yourself if a model is a glorified autocomplete it to ask it something relevant to spatial logic. Ask it how it might balance an egg, a textbook, a donut, and an automobile. If it were simply autocomplete, the answer wouldn’t make sense.

I think they’re saying “the public” as in nearby drivers and pedestrians that may be in the path of these cars.

It’s exactly like Uber: the main company isn’t profitable and it propped up by VC funding, people that use it to do their jobs aren’t helped much by it, and consumers are ultimately doing harm to the climate by using it.

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NYC Skyline with the Empire State Building in the center

People walking through greenery in High Line park, NYC.

Subway doors with harsh, blue light shining through into a warmly-lit interior.

Image of a span of the Brooklyn Bridge with a slightly-cloudy sky in the background.

Adobe’s new iOS camera app created by the creator of the Google Pixel’s cameras, Mark Levoy, brings me back a decade to an underpowered DSLR.

Pics from (beta) Project Indigo are punchy & resolution is meh (most come out 9-12MP), so the result are photos you’d find in a “Summer NYC 2009” photo album

The worst part is that there’s no economic justification, like in past authoritarian regimes.

Voting Hitler into power is taught as a response to hyperinflation and whatnot, but people voted for authoritarianism here because eggs were 10% more expensive??

Now I don’t mean to claim that all of those trials were fair; the Eastern European trials of Nazis were more focused on popular catharsis, not upholding an ideal of justice.

But I don’t think that’s what OP was referring to, they might have meant the Volksgerichtshof, for Nazi People’s Court.

That’s just how I talk 🤷

Theresienstadt The Theresienstadt camp/ghetto served multiple purposes during its existence from 1941-45 and had an important propaganda function for the Germans. Learn more.

Theresienstadt was notable because it served as a model for international visitors, including the Red Cross.

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The Nuremberg trials were fair trials of Nazis held by the Allied powers. In Western European countries, they were largely fair and had humane living conditions.

These look like an inhumane internment or concentration camp that people will be sent to without due process or any real justice.

On Twitter (before my feed filled up with Nazis), I didn’t need to follow many people; just interacting with content I was interested in was enough to make a pretty great For You page.

I opened it once to find a previous bookmark and my For You feed, which used to be excellent, was full of actual Nazis and Trump supporters.

I really can’t see why anyone stays there anymore.

Thanks! I put a lot of time and effort into making custom feeds, following the same people I followed before, etc., but I still can’t make a timeline that’s relevant like I used to have.

I won’t be going back to Nazi-ville, but it’s still tough to use.

Absolutely; another major piece of this is that BlueSky’s algorithm isn’t as strong as Twitter’s used to be (before it was changed to just show Nazis)

I don’t care for a three-minute segment about a local law on a Sinclair-owned broadcaster immediately following their “terrorism alert” segments that just have news about brown people, not terrorists.

You have a different standard than I do; that’s fine.

I’m nobody! But I still want to hear from people with up-close knowledge of what’s happening in my community, my state, and globally.

Sorry; you’re right! I was looking at his pinned post and not looking beyond that, since the last time I looked, he didn’t have an active account.

I left Twitter and haven’t looked back. But I understand why some people want to stay there, as explained above.

Oh, you’re right! Only the pinned post was showing up when I first clicked it and it seemed inactive.

Yeah, his inactive account.

The PM of New Zealand, my local senator Sean Ryan, etc.

The sort of people who have insightful global or local commentary that Twitter’s algorithm would serve effectively, but BlueSky cannot.

Twitter’s algorithm was way better at surfacing those people. I sometimes want to see a post from the prime minister of New Zealand, but I don’t always want to follow them and see everything they share, if that makes sense?

I didn’t use Twitter because it was full of worthwhile discussions; the comment section has always been awful compared to Reddit.

I used it because it served me timely posts from smart, connected people. BlueSky hasn’t brought those people over.

Include ads, offer a subscription that removes ads, provides additional features, and gives some of the profits to your followers (same as YouTube Premium).

Until it’s postable to LinkedIn, it won’t be mainstream enough…

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Republicans think their job is to keep the government afloat to support Executive Orders and Democrats apparently think their job is to beg Republicans to keep the government afloat

Love it

I need a killer example here, Evan

It wouldn’t quite be true, though, as it wasn’t in 2nd.