I spontaneously went through a mcdonald’s drive through yesterday to pick up breakfast while i was in a hurry. I ordered one sausage biscuit with egg and cheese. $7.50
I was shocked and checked the receipt. The default sandwich was 5-something (which is ridiculous by itself) and the “cheese” was $1.50.
I think i’m just done with McDonald’s as an occasional thing.
This is feel good nonsense designed to give the governor the appearance of being opposed to AI without him actually doibg anything. So, it’s perfectly in character for Newsom.
I think about 30% of the population would be exhilarated and rally around a false sense of righteous power. About 60% would be absolutely aghast and would make a lot of noise for a few weeks. Then they’d gradually settle into the comfort of being indignant without actually changing anything. After a while the American people would continue doing the same thing they’ve done for the last eight decades: inflicting violence on everyone for the enrichment of a few privileged oligarchs.
As part of an attempt to research more single-use devices (as a way to help focus attention and reduce distractions), I recently learned that there are a variety of interesting e-ink tablets and phones sold by companies like Boox. I’m starting to realize that there are really compelling alternatives on the market that offer different kinds of value than Apple’s visionless product line.
l’ve postured in the past about replacing my Apple products, but for the fist time I’m starting to feel comfortable with the prospect of doing with really interesting and different devices. My iphone is still pretty new, but my ipad (which i use a lot) is probably due for retirement this year. This latest cowardice from Apple may have just pushed me put of the walled garden for good.
I’m hoping for instructional videos, as well as tips on tools that work well for this. There is technique to be learned.
We need to normalize absolutely wrecking these robots in public.
Don’t forget that Apple is the Silicon Valley company that’s built its brand on being all concerned about “privacy”, lol.
What exactly is wrong with Silicon Valley culturally? I ask this, as someone who works in Silicon Valley.
Yes, and the trend feels like it’s correlated with the number of Teslas around here.
It’s the growing suspicion that all of the time effort and knowledge we are sacrificing is actually making the world worse and hurting people.
To understand why, you have to first understand that the systems that brought him all that wealth are not meritocratic.
The only thing I’ve changed is that I’m only going to be voting for people that I actually support, and my support is now almost entirely based on policy. I’m not doing the ‘hold my nose’ harm reduction strategy anymore. It’s become clear to me, after decades of failure, that such a strategy only breeds a middling, unprincipled leadership that stands for nothing and enables the fascist right. I also now embrace litmus tests, like the Gaza issue. It’s an effective shortcut to understand whether a national candidate is corrupted.
So for example, whereas I voted for Harris in ‘24 despite her awful foreign policy and disingenuous domestic policy, I will not be doing that again. Democrats need to do better.
Please please please understand that when you see media stories about stuff like this from AI companies, this is PR. They wrote this story and pitched it to media outlets. None of this is real. OpenAI does some version of this every six months or so. It didn’t happen. It’s fiction designed to attract attention and seed the idea that their technology is oh so powerful, so scary powerful that even they might not be able to contain it. This is meant to attract investors. That’s it.
I worked in technology PR for eleven years. That was before the AI bullshit, but it’s the same game. Believe me. There was a brainstorm meeting when they came up with this and someone wrote it on a whiteboard (or maybe these days it was a figjam). Actually, now that I think of it, they probably just had Claude write the pitch.
It. Didn’t. Happen.
Also, be aware that the media outlets reporting this slop also know it’s bullshit.
Be aware that if your city cancels its contract with flock, that doesn’t mean the cameras cease operating. It just means that your city cops probably don’t have direct access to the data. As long as they are physically installed, the cameras are still tracking you and violating your rights.
Serving capital has been the primary organizing function of the Democratic Party for at least the last 40 years.
Well that literally the opposite of what I said, but okay.
BTW, it’s not only the murder of civilians that makes the US military so evil. It’s also the sheer scope of brutality, in terms of size and time that the US has perpetrated with not only direct military action, but also proxy military actions, and economic and civil violence that is facilitated by the threat of military action.
Other people being shits has no bearing on how big a shit you are.
I stopped having sympathy for service people and their families after enough time passed for them to realize how fucked the leadership is (and the US culture that fuels it), and to have at least not reenlisted. At this point my attitude is that every casualty is tragic, but y’all actively deserve it.
My family is friends with another family who have kids of similar age. All three of their kids have enlisted and/or reenlisted during all of this. So far, I have avoided communicating my opinion to them, but if circumstances force the issue, I’ve already decided that I’m going to be honest with them about my attitude.
The bright headlight thing has been a pet peeve of mine for a while. So, I’m glad to hear that government is apparently trying to fix it. That being said, why would anyone assume that a company like Tesla would comply with this regulation? That company has a long history of violating and flouting laws without consequence. I just have no confidence that US society does “laws” anymore when it comes to corporations.
I cannot get over the fact that McDonalds charged me $7.50 for a sausage egg biscuit with cheese the other day.