It's not your condo anymore, either

Sora 2 is not being “misused” when people use it to produce racist, transphobic, misogynistic, & otherwise vile images—it exists to make it easier to put these images out into the world. Calling it a “misuse” is a grave misunderstanding of what these companies are up to, & lets OpenAI off the hook.

Screenshot text from The Atlantic: For now, money is still pouring into the AI industry. But there’s also something circular about these investments. To wit: OpenAI has agreed to pay $300 billion to Oracle for new computing capacity, Oracle is paying Nvidia tens of billions of dollars for chips to install in one of OpenAI’s data centers, and Nvidia has agreed to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as it deploys Nvidia chips. Attempts to illustrate these circular investments have produced a series of byzantine charts that one software engineer referred to on X as “the technocapital hyperobject at the end of time.” The consensus seems to be that although this is legal, it likely cannot go on forever.

if not Ponzi, why Ponzi-shaped?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

*frantically asks ChatGPT how to short ChatGPT*

It's Halloween - IF you live in a city, there is no good reason to be out on suburban roads unless it's a necessity, and then you should be driving like there are no sidewalks and there are kids walking on the road - like the street I live on. Bare minimum that drivers can do.

For wearing Dodgers caps - what the hell? Blue Jays are in, let's see: Canada, you know, part of the commonwealth, with a, oh, I don't know ROYAL FAMILY...

Robert Caro's LBJ biographies. And, of course, The Power Broker

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Blasphemy! The god of cookies....

I get that - he's trying to undermine the PM but the the Feds are delusional in thinking that they can negotiate.

Dougie is a mobster and an idiot, but there never were negotiations - Trump would have done what he just did no matter what Carney did: there's no negotiating with terrorists.
At least DoFo shortened the timeline of the inevitable...

Is this a good dish for the 7M people at the 'No Kings' protest yesterday? Oh, right, according to @nytimes.com that didn't happen...

Dougie loves his F-150, just sayin...

On May 1 last year, a vehicle registered to one of Doug Ford's cabinet ministers blew past an automated speed camera, going 70 km/h in a 40 zone and netting a $450 fine.

Life vs death

Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.

the folks who are making a big deal about banning speed cameras sure have been caught by speed cameras a lot

Spoken like a Canadian that is mystified why you folks are making excuses to not do anything to save your democracy.

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

Yankees paid tribute to Charlie Kirk? Well the Blue Jays have Alejandro Kirk.

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Yep, that's right: it's a massive risk, and there will be violence - the alternatives were options around a year ago, they aren't now...

Those people ain't gonna have jobs soon and there will be no healthcare for them either: what do they have lose? Nothing: what do they have to gain? Everything

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

I got this reference

Woo, woo! Go Canada!!!
#uciworldchampionship

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

So now taxpayers will have to pay for traffic safety measures, rather than having law-breakers foot the bill through fines. How is that good for taxpayers? www.cp24.com/local/toront...

Take him to court: removing these will kill people - I'd like to see what judge says about this. Forget looking for logic or arguing with him - it's just for his belligerent male suburban voting cohort - take him to court.

I wish every mayor & councillor in Ontario who doesn’t carry water for Ford would speak up like this. Ask yours what they think & why they aren’t talking, if they aren’t. This isn’t just Toronto’s stupid inane fight.

Unfollowed - "just reporting: you make your own decision" sorry, that ship sailed years ago

"Bloor-High Park" hmm, go what do you know...