If you call them PanoPods you can probably get venture capital funding and then just go buy a train and paint it with a cool design.

And then getting downvoted by people who just disagree with your opinion. I’m one of the Reddit refugees so I don’t know if we brought that with us or Lemmy was like that before but it’s sad to see.

Holy crap. I have Tidal on my phone and Plex at home. I didnt know I could connect them. Thank you!

Reagan was the literal actor hired to play president by a group of Machiavellian assholes, many of whom were also behind the scenes of both Bushes, Nixon, and lots of Republican Congress members. Not disagreeing that Reagan is where they really got traction on their dreams of power, but Reagan wasn’t the architect.

Humans are good decision makers, we’re just not good at paying attention for long periods of time. Which is why I think self-driving cars will eventually be better, but they aren’t yet. And those are expert systems (I refuse to call them AI) trained on a well-curated and limited set of data for a limited and specific purpose. Which is an important difference over the generalized generative models. More data does not make systems, especially more unsorted data.

But here’s another important difference: I can grab the wheel at any time and take over. If we are going to give these systems decision making authority there needs to be an obvious and intuitive override.

The current stuff is smoke and mirrors and not intelligent in any meaningful sense, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t dangerous. It doesn’t have to be robots with guns to screw over people. Just imagine trying to get PharmaGPT to let you refill your meds, or having to deal with BankGPT trying to figure out why it transfered your rent payment twice. And companies are sure as hell thinking about using this stuff to get rid of human decisionmakers.

Apparently, and I didn’t even know that. Of course that’s what they’d do.

Nothing Trump has ever done has been in good faith.

They’re proposing a ridiculous date expecting to “compromise” on after the election.

Be right back. I’m creating 50 truth social accounts and messaging him to show us what a real strong leader he is and go through with it.

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I fear for her, her staff, and their families. There are a lot of rabid Trump supporters. I hope they stay safe.

Also these things he’s charged with are minor in the grand scheme of things and would have been quickly pled out, if the Republicans hadn’t made a mountain out of a mole hill.

He also learned it from his father.

BeBox had dual processors (unusual for the time) and the GUI had a little tool that let you see the load on both, and a little check box to turn off a processor so that you could force all the processes to run on on the other. If you turned off both processors the computer halted.

The Be employee I met at the time said they left it that way because that’s what you told it to do. And it was funny.

I always had to appreciate that commitment to pedantry.

Step one is recognizing Fox News, Newsmax, Salem Media, etc as propaganda channels.

That one really wasn’t as obvious at the time. Netflix was in huge debt and hadn’t really built their streaming platform yet. In fact streaming was barely possible. Blockbuster should have been able to out-compete Netflix at both dvd by mail and streaming but they screwed it up. Netflix won, but may now end up getting killed by the big studios.

It seems like Teslas get way less range when it’s cold, especially the ones without heat pumps. This is no surprise whatsoever but it’s not well covered by EPA range estimates because combustion engines get free heat. So it’s not something people are used to thinking about.

Seems like where Tesla f’d up is by making a team to lie about it instead of just telling people, “yeah that’s what happens.” As usual it’s the cover-up that worse than the crime. Tesla will probably win the case but will look stupid. Should have just been honest about it.

See that’s why I think he really does have dementia though. Dude was always an asshole a probably always a racist misogynist. But he used to be able to make a coherent statement and was reportedly a competent lawyer. Apparently he does not have anyone around him who can or will keep him from going on TV and making a further ass of himself.

I would not be so quick to say he won’t win. There’s a large contingent of hateful and/or brainwashed people who will vote for him even if he’s convicted. He’s still dangerous and so is DeSantis. These people and their supporters are interested in nothing but power for themselves and they don’t care how they get it.

He’s an attention whore. He says whatever gets him the most response but I think he’s sufficiently brain damaged to believe it in the moment, which is why he seems genuine.