The biggest con is the industry's war to make Kei trucks illegal in the US.

This is probably the most prescient episode of Star Trek ever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_Tense_(Star_Trek%3A_Deep_Space_Nine)

Basically Sisko and friends go back in time to America in 2024, where it's illegal to be homeless and they get put in an open air prison.

Hacker news is full of people LARPing as corporate crisis management officers, or counsels for the defense. Every post you get about "company caught grinding up babies to fuel forever-chemical cancer machine" will get a ton of posts by people arguing that actually it's a net positive for the world and how could anyone be against such amazing innovation?

More of a fart reel than a sizzle reel.

The basic message was "stop resisting" because AI is "inevitable." I think it's telling that this is the message the industry is going with.

Unfortunately Mozilla's brand new CEO is a McKinsey ghoul: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chamberslaura/

I mean that's great and all but it looks like it's yet another group trying people from all over the UW Madison campus. Why don't these groups occasionally consider even taking a bus trip to Milwaukee?

Here's a video of the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K22a8I_6iZo

@seahorse@midwest.social I think this is happening again? I made a few comments on a thread at !europe@feddit.de and they did not propagate.

Specifically here:

• https://midwest.social/post/6549339
• https://feddit.de/post/6766998

It's extremely hard to separate out the actual technical terms from the hyperventilating booster lingo in this space. Unfortunately a lot of it is because there's overlap. "Hallucination" is a well-defined technical term now, but it is also a booster term because it implies a consciousness that doesn't exist.

However this:

machine that is able to reason about mathematics

Is absolute bullshit.

I guess a protip is you have to tell it explicitly in the prompt who it's supposed to steal from.

For instance, midjourney or SD will produce much better results if you put specific artstation channel names along with 'artstation' in the prompt.

People act like Chicago got bamboozled. That's not how this happened at all. I remember when the deal went down and it was obviously a shit sandwich. It was straight up corruption. Daley cronies denied the city their honest services by acting as agents of the parking meter company. Who was paying them.

I just came here to see if this was happening to anyone else. I also notice problems with lemmy.ca and feddit.de

I noticed a lot of posts missing when visiting via midwest.social versus the native instance. I can't remember if it was lemmy.world or something else, but it seems like this instance has federation problems.

Some people like the antics of Bozo the Clown. I enjoy the antics of Stammering Elon.

Do you have one? The Thinkpad trackpoint was great but no other company that put a "nub/nipple" on their laptops was as good. I think IBM put a lot of effort into that device and whatever knockoffs Dell, HP etc were using were clumsy and uncomfortable in comparison.

Considering the police have elected and then reelected a notorious bad cop with a record of unjustified violence to represent them as FOP president, this is not even remotely surprising.

Does the trackpoint work like an old IBM thinkpad? If so this would be a really neat computer.

Maybe they could have agreed to vote for Biden in exchange for retaining the position? This is what this is all about anyway.

There have been solid, foam filled or gell filled bike tires for a long time.

The fundamental problem is that the ring of pressurized air in a pneumatic tire is a shock absorber. When you hit a bump the entire tire (even the part that isn't touching the ground) contributes to the dampening because it turns into a shock wave in the donut of air. When you switch to any sort of tire that doesn't have pressurized air in it, the dampening can only occur by deforming the tire in contact with the ground, and it's not going to be anywhere near as good. Typically you end up with a tradeoff between uncomfortable ride on the one side, and bottoming out on the rim and lots of rolling friction on the other.

In 2004 I was a radical young man protesting for bikes and against the Iraq War. At one of the meetups another kid who had been at the RNC protest in New York showed us this software someone had hacked together overnight to broadcast SMS messages. Basically you could send an SMS to a VOIP phone number and it would echo the SMS to everyone subscribed. They were using it to communicate in the crowd at the protest and avoid police kettles. It was pretty cool but I admit I didn't really see it as being more broadly useful.

Later that night the group went for drinks and I was talking with one of the older radicals and he was telling me that the internet was too good and too powerful and they were going to shut it down. I thought that was absurd. How could they get rid of the internet!? He said they would figure out a way to shut it down, there's just no way they could leave it out there, it's too dangerous for them to do so.

Now I look at the thing we call "the internet" in 2023 and it looks nothing like that internet. The current internet is completely corralled, controlled and monetized. He was totally right. While they never "flipped the switch" on it they used salami tactics little by little until there was nothing left.