Eric Panzer

Y'all do realize that sharing the bad writing of a shameless attention seeker only helps them in the context of a media ecosystem whose entire modus operandi is shameless attention seeking, right?

At this point, nearly all mainstream media are more interested in clicks than truth and good writing

I both agree and disagree. I agree that certain distinctions have been blurred and categories collapsed.

But it's also simply incorrect to imply that the technology that powers ChatGPT is not an example of machine learning, it absolutely is

This is part of why I'm wary of these sweeping statements

Robber barons and corporate execs of all stripes (yes, even the ones that run AI companies) are laughing all the way to the bank that people are scapegoating a broad (and amorphous) class of technology rather than focusing on the power structures that promote its most harmful and unregulated uses

Unpopular opinion, but this op-ed is far more heat than light

Is AI overhyped? Yes. Can it do harm? Absolutely

But it's also catching cancer, helping develop drugs, helping detect wildfires, etc

We need nuance and to distinguish between a technology and its worst users/corporate actors

Yawn-old Slump

I wish we could pass a law that all elected officials must spend 1 week a year in the district they represent with no car and no ride hail.

That George W Bush saw such a huge spike in approval after his administration failed to stop a terrorist attack and without him having yet done anything that actually improved national security tells you so much about the American electorate and media, and, sadly, human nature

But do the ends justify the means?

Someone cracked the encryption?

This is why you want your security team to be very anal

You want to avoid holes in the system

It's important to manage the rear end

There's no buts about the importance of cyber security

Sounds like bum firmware

Open source?

This is Nazi shit, plain and simple

Promoting both state and stochastic violence against an entire nationality of people, it's horrific

Warring is boring, I guess?

ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

Yawn-nald Slump

Evergreen screen cap

I think there is reason to be worried about people's literacy and reading comprehension, but I find this vastly overstated

I feel the need to constantly point out that it was Gen X (a pre smartphones in school generation) that voted most strongly for Trump

Lack of literacy didn't cause Fox News

So we're supposed to believe that the same man who posted this meme did *not* order people's murders and was *not* proud of what he *definitely* did?

The inability of corporate media to full throatedly call Hegseth a liar and a sociopath shows how completely useless and obsolete most of them are

My favorite is where the floorplan magically transitions into an elevation view of a doorway

The original op-ed and the vision from California 4eva puts the cart before the horse by seemingly demanding that local control be neutered with a vaporware promise of State oversight and accountability from a non existant and thus untested state body in a state where even HCD is often toothless

You're making a great case for all the reasons why it's unlikely this place will ever be well served by transit and is thus a very bad place to build a brand spanking new city

The most likely outcome is that this place demands a new freeway and California ends up on the hook for it

If the impossibly wealthy folks pushing this truly believe it will work well and be self-sustaining, they should be willing to fund the completion of a rail line to the project location before they break ground on any neighborhoods

And they should put billions in escrow for future infrastructure

It's special because people with a lot of money want to use it to make more money and are willing to dangle money in front of key people to try to get it done

If these fabulously wealthy backers were actually doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, they'd pay for a rail line first

It's also a politically risky approach because we can sell rural communities on policies that promote infill because it helps keep their small towns/farms from turning into one more suburban bedroom community of the Bay Area, Sac, or LA

If we adopt this scheme, we can't use that pitch anymore

I'm still deeply concerned about how CA Forever would be held accountable for providing all of the goodies they claim this community would have

Our corporate and bankruptcy laws are not up to the task of ensuring this community and its residents aren't abandoned, with CA taxpayers left on the hook

If we really care about the things we claim to care about, we should be fighting to limit localities' ability to deny infill, 𝘯𝘰𝘵 their ability to deny greenfield

This would just make the incentives even more lopsided toward greenfield development

And, once again, where are the roads/rail?

We need more housing. We want it to have access to jobs and transit; and we 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 want it to contribute to sprawl and the loss of farm/wild lands.

So why would we target this state arrogation of local power to benefit/incentivize 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱 development?

I love @bart.gov's campy cute homey holiday decor at Downtown Berkeley Station

It's serving "our favorite elementary School teacher" in the best possible way

Elon Musk is murdering hundreds of thousands across the globe due to his decimation of USAID, and somehow South African whites are more welcome in the US than ever

Can't imagine what differences between them and Afghan people are leading to this double standard

I, for one, welcome our new (non-Tesla) autonomous vehicle overlords

Unsurprisingly, this progressive content mill account doesn't seem to care they are spreading misinformation and blocked me. But in case you want to go find the original post

When someone says "This is not AI", that is precisely when you should look most closely to see if it's actually AI

It's AI