Ben Liddicott
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@BenLiddicott
...remember there's a multibillion dollar industry based on keeping you in a perpetual state of stupidity, rage, resentment, and paranoia - david burge
We’re saying goodbye to the Sora app. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing. We’ll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work. – The Sora Team
And the guidelines are written for the benefit of prosecutors. They only allow for limited "downward departures" (leniency) and are designed to put almost everyone guilty of a serious crime in prison for long periods.
@toadmeister @CDCgov @spectator New York City reports about 25,000 COVID deaths for a population of 8.3 million. That's 0.3% of the **whole population**. Hard to see how an IFR number lower than 0.3% is plausible. My bet is it will settle between 0.4% and 0.6%.
This meme was originally meant as pejorative satire and ended up describing uncomfortable reality.
@drvolts A few years ago UCLA did a study on room usage. I often think about how useless a porch/dining room is. Why hasn't there been more innovation around how people ACTUALLY use their space in their homes? wsj.com/articles/SB100…
Nobody wears hats anymore. You look at photos from the 60s or before, everyone’s wearing hats. There’s no fashions in hats now, no one wears them. It’s not like the sun or rain could go away An essential article of clothing, gone. Bizarre.
This actually suggests weakness to me. If they knew how to make money from AI directly, their best move would be to keep it for themselves, but they don't, so instead they're pushing it on us, hoping we'll figure it out for them.
The skills needed to run a war, and those needed to fight it, are totally different. Generals should be MBAs and economists and engineers, not soldiers.
If you want to see the best and worst of the Commons, watch Catherine West's snippy response to Geoffrey Cox. Disoriented by a rare display of brilliance in the Commons, she can only call him patronising (inevitably, before reading off a sheet) and her colleagues can only jeer
