What is the current price difference between Waymo and Uber/Lyft for same route?
A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
Is AI inherently bad? Of course not.
The question is: WHO controls it & for what purpose?
Does anyone believe that the richest people on Earth are investing hundreds of billions in AI to improve life for ordinary people, eliminate poverty & solve global warming?
I doubt it.
Feels good. I don't know how a company can thrive when there's so much animus towards it, and so many people feel like they're being ripped off. They've made some great products. But it was like an abusive relationship, staying in it too long because there were good times.
If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.
I need to start a gofundme for GPUs or something. Today it's training Gaussian Splats.
Despite today’s outrageous ruling, we all have the right to go about our daily lives free from racial profiling by the federal government.
We will never stop fighting for our civil liberties and our immigrant communities.
So make all the AI jokes you please. :)
But I feel like a lot of the concerns are just sort of Luddite "machine learning = bad". And that's just not the case. We can't put the equations back in a bottle. And sticking our head in the sand isn't going to build a better future.
I honestly don't remember what this one was. Right now I'm cooking up an Unreal render and it's about the same. But I'm also not blanket "anti AI". I agree we shouldn't plagiarize and consume half the energy on Earth, etc.
What's that burning smell?
Sometimes I sit down at a computer and feel like I've been really productive, looking up this, clicking on that, cross-referencing the other. And it turns out I've just been doing captchas and software updates and two-factor authentications and more captchas; and I've literally done nothing.
A terrifying escalation:
Just in from Governor Newsom.
Please don't crash. Please don't crash. Please don't crash. #rendering
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS
I just signed up for TNT so I can catch the premiere of The Librarians, starting in 3 minutes. :)
Need to save the world? Who ya gonna call??? #TheLibrarians!
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Omg so tired of driving in LA. I would LOVE solid alternatives. Mostly just real & interconnected bike lanes.
I worked on VFX for this show, the trailer looks epic. I guess Im signing up for TNT. :)
This is what corruption looks like.
Who else is triggered by the Watch Duty alert sound?
It was an honor to be a part of bringing this show to life. I'm very fortunate to be able to continue that journey. I'm just so fortunate!
Let's do this! :)
Woohooooooooo!!!!!!
Ya know if you cancel Amazon, you’ll be just fine.
I agree with that. But I also agree that there can’t be escape until our democracy seems like it’s on a firm foundation. And I also think that Techdirt and Wired are doing some of the best coverage. “The Republicans said________, and the Democrats said__________.” is exhausting non-reporting.
