Todd Rowell

I keep thinking about how so-called AI is literally just time-displaced human intelligence. Bottled human decision-making, by converting human acts of perception and description into data via effective slave labor, that can be replayed for first-world elites who have given up on thinking themselves.

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Oh no! I’d wondered what happened … alas.

I look forward to the iPhone Desiato and macOS Disaster Area

roses are red
violets are blue
singular they
predates singular you

One of the victories of the "AI" industry is that the use of the word "intelligence" for their product has led to people conflating a massive appropriation of intellectual property for an database sorted and outputted with algorithms, with what actually happens in human brain, one artwork at a time.

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

They really want this to be their Reichstag fire

Wait, it has Olyphant?

Sold

Wait …cowboy hat, or not? Just let me have this.

Co-signed

Plus then you can pat their dogs

Cars are still a million times worse, of course. There’s no comparison.

Honestly I think we cyclists are judged even harder because we’re visibly people (to pedestrians, not sure wtf drivers think) whereas cars are anonymous machines.

I still leave 3ft for pedestrians tho.

Agreed to both you and Peter. I do think even well-meaning cyclists should be giving pedestrians more space, though … I’ve watched my riding friends treat people on foot like slalom cones and I’m just … wow.

I’ve been on the receiving end too and it’s not pleasant, even though I’m used to bikes.

“I deliberately made myself deaf to the world and then got angry when I didn’t hear a thing!”

They are the biggest cowards, both physically but especially intellectually

Very tradwife

Dead bodies are immune and death is natural, so: no lies detected

I’m bringing a few rolls to the next Zumi ride

They are chalky and WONDERFUL

Except the chocolate ones, those I’ll spit right across the table

Stickers and sprays all over the place

I want a presidential candidate who promises to construct Union memorials and statues all over the country.

And yeah, North and South. Blanket Virginia with statues of Thomas, who actually chose the right side.

Hell, put one of Sherman in the middle of Peachtree Park.

Lots of Copenhagen wheels?

How did those things ever stay true?

I kind of dug the idea tho

If you want a faster ebike, get an e-motorcycle with a license plate and get licensed for road use. Maximal acceptance is going to be a demonstration of Gresham's Law: bad bikes will drive out good bikes (or all bikes).

Yes, this exactly. Like Russ said, people don’t even notice regular ebikes, and so aren’t going to realize how great they are for so many.

I fear a maximal e-bike acceptance strategy is only going to hurt us all in the long run. I’d be happy to accept a hard limit of like 16-18mph on them instead.

Oh, you’ve seen the Reevo?

https://youtu.be/AB7pBrudFbg

I tried, but could not make it.

Not sure if that was his influence or not though, given how much a TV production is affected by all the hands that touch it, especially those of e.g. media execs…

Really makes me wonder how Dilbert managed to be funny?

He released a book in the 90s called “God's Debris” or something which made it clear his brain was utterly busted … but I’m sure the cancer didn’t help.

If you want to be really scared, take a look at how those things basically can’t deal with cyclists (unless something has changed since last I looked) and then think on how many of their “drivers” use “autopilot”(eyeroll) all the damned time.

Start a thread about helmet pressure, or tire doping

(Autocorrect wanted that to be “tire coping” and that’s a different topic)

(Also tire doping is totally a thing, I should have said something like lycra-of-way)

The interpreter set the dial to 11

I’m game to turn that tax knob right up to the bell.

Until the marginal rate is back up to 90% I think we’re better off without them at all.