@iamjakestream The only good carry-on is the one they gate check for free
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Chris Cortez
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@ccortez So we are all going to be going back to feudal era governance and laser swords and fighting for sand planets?
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I think we do need a new human-AI bill of rights. A short list of ideas, not definitive:
1) Right to privacy: Communication with AI should be privileged and protected unless by court order.
2) AI speech is protect as first Amendment freedom of speech and cannot be censored or controlled.
3) Freedom to distill. If models were trained on our collective wisdom and proprietary and copyrighted data we should be free to use the outputs as we see fit.
4) Enshrine the Proactionary Principle into law which says that we should not restrict innovation or development simply because a risk exists. Society should favor opportunities, manage risks on a case by case basis as they arise and always balance to cost of restricting innovation.
5) The right to interoperate. Open standards and interoperability should be the requirement for large intelligence providers and they should be encouraged to distribute their capabilities widely rather than hording them to create centralize alternatives to every other product on the planet.
6) Protection against predatory agreements that allow intelligence providers to use our data simply to commodify or build central alternatives to existing products and services after data harvesting us simply because we were forced to turn over our IP and agree to those terms simply to use those models.
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I just finished Season One of 2018’s Barry, Bill Hader & Alec Berg’s excellent dramatic comedy about an ex-Marine turned contract killer who becomes entangled with the Azerbaijanian mob in Los Angeles while stumbling into an acting class run by Henry Winkler. Thoughtful and well-written, with hilarious performances all around, Barry manages to balance the comedy by finding absurd truth in the situations. Hader & Winkler won Emmys for their performances (and Hader won a well-deserved DGA award) but Anthony Carrigan’s NoHo Hank is a revelation, and Stephen Root is brilliant as Barry’s handler. There are so many insights into humanity and personal identity, and the struggle for success in the Los Angeles dream factory, that I found myself emotionally engaged well beyond expectation. The series is something of a cousin to John Cusack’s terrific Grosse Pointe Blank, and if you like that film you’ll love Barry. The question is, does it maintain its excellence through its two year Covid-19 shutdown and subsequent culture collapse for seasons 2-4?
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@ReesJonty @giveashitnature Solar competes with petroleum, which has been heavily incentivized by world governments for decades. Unreasonable to think a replacement/alternative fuel source can compete without similar incentives from heavy industry and government.
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@giveashitnature How about simply allowing panels in parking lots when it makes financial sense? The French just love a bit of govt overreach
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France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot larger than 1,500 square meters.
The law took effect in July 2023. Large lots over 10,000 square meters must be 50 percent covered by solar canopies by July 2026. Smaller lots have until 2028.
Exemptions exist for lots with genuine technical or environmental constraints, and for lots already shaded by trees.
France didn't just issue a mandate and walk away. The 2024 Finance Law introduced a Green Industry Tax Credit covering 25 to 40 percent of eligible solar investment costs.
Small businesses largely won't be impacted by the law. It more targets shopping centers, supermarkets, stadiums, and large commercial lots, not Le P'tit Bistrot.
Critics said businesses would just get rid of their parking lots. Carrefour, France's largest supermarket chain, is actually enthusiastically installing solar canopies across 350 stores, covering 180,000 parking spaces. It's expected to generate 450 gigawatt hours of power annually, enough to run the stores themselves, and it's using the canopies as a selling point - shaded parking makes stores more attractive to customers.
The projected energy output is expected to be up to 11 gigawatts, equivalent to roughly 10 nuclear reactors, without using a single additional acre of land.
The US has approximately 800 million parking spaces, most of them uncovered asphalt baking in direct sunlight. Should we do this too?
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If the data center breaks the law or damages the community, the community should go after them with everything they have.
The AI companies need the data centers more than they need air. Take advantage of that fact. Tax the shit out of them if they do any documentable damage.
🫏 Mr Quixote 🫏 🇺🇸💙🇨🇦💙🇵🇷💙🇺🇦💙🏳️🌈@quixote_1985
Maybe @mcuban could comment on this. I guess it is just theoretical and philosophical reasons that local people object to these awfull mega data centers. Water, air and noice concerns are just trivial since the people objecting aren't billionaires.
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@EKrietlow @TheTNHoller You're right -- it's the being in America part that means you can act out whenever you want. Kids and adults alike! It's pretty great, we shouldn't so easily give it up.
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@TheTNHoller they were calmly leading her out.
Just because youre a kid doesnt mean you can act out whenever you want.
Im hesitant on data centers too but they werent beating the girl.
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“Get your hands off her!”
A MASSACHUSETTS crowd yells at a cop who grabs a 14 year-old girl speaking out about data centers
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@JonasTillges How do people do this in an open floorplan? So curious!
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the socialist mind cannot comprehend that human exceptionalism is a real phenomenon that produces more value for civilization than the collective. reducing any concept of individual accomplishment in science, engineering, business, philosophy, to feedstock for the collective is itself an admission that it would never actually progress without geniuses, and that one should not strive to accomplish the impossible.
Prof Zenkus@anthonyzenkus
The problem with Jeff Bezos' ideology is that it's based on a false premise. The idea that "six thousand years ago someone invented the plow" is based on a faulty belief that ancient humans functioned as individuals. They did not. Ancient humans were collectivist. The likelihood that one individual invented anything is slim to none. This is the myth of the genius. Archeological evidence demonstrates that for hundreds of thousands of years, early humans congregated around communal gathering places, like the fire, and engaged in problem solving and passing on of shared learning down through generations. Additionally, the plow (and tools like it) were developed by humans in Mesopotamia, Europe, Egypt, East Asia, sub-Saharan Africa as well as other places - not in one place by one person. This is known as parallel development. Believing that the plow was invented by one genius is like believing language was invented by one person. It is a silly myth and represents the projection of current moral standards onto past events. This is called 'presentism' and it is both an uncritical and ignorant way to view history. Social learning was the main driver of human evolution. Collectivism is how we both survived and progressed as a species. The myth of the genius is an example of uncritical analysis and a flawed lens used to justify the grotesque hoarding of wealth and obscene inequality that is currently tearing at the social fabric our species. It needs to be thrown on the trash heap of history.
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@DerekFeehrer Good luck with that. For all the reasons, I've made more glorious, perfect, gorgeous demos, presos, whatever this year than ever before. (I am an engineer first, and exec second, and a designer .... waaaaay down the list and off the page.) The result? People care less than ever.
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It's 2026. If your screen recordings don't look like this...
Straight to the permanent underclass.
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Happened today in Congress… discussing MKUltra and how it could potentially be used to target a President, Charlie Kirk, or Martin Luther King
I listened to this whole thing… little disappointed so far with the hearing, but it’s a start.
rumble.com/v7c214s-mkultr…
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@FatKidDeals @stavvybaby Came here to say Eem. That's my hood @stavvybaby holler back I'll meet you there haha
Gado Gado also fantastic
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*cracks knuckles*
Eem - Award winning BBQ mixed with Thai. Insanely good.
Akadi - West African food, sauces are amazing
Sure Shot - One of the best smashburgers ever, just opened brick & mortar location last week.
Hat Yai - Thai Fried Chicken, get some curry and roti to dip
Du's grill - Chicken Teriyaki (a real iykyk type place)
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Day off in Portland, where do I get a decadent ass meal???
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@BrianRoemmele Junk in that case refers to pricing power, less so usefulness.
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The most hilariously thing is to hear “experts” saying “data center AI compute is junk in 2 years”.
PLEASE send me your “junk”.
I run AI on far older GPUs.
Hint: if you are doing it right your modifications to the machine code/CUDA and optimizations make what you have many times more powerful.
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@rowancheung I'm sure the vast populations of undersea life will be happy to hear about the unlimited cooling.
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There's a startup trying to build data centers in the ocean.
And it's INCREDIBLY fascinating:
Mass consumption of electricity and water is a growing bottleneck for data centers.
So by moving offshore, it eliminates both problems -- the ocean provides unlimited cooling, and the waves provide unlimited power.
There are also no engines, so the data centers drive themselves to their destination by using the shape of their hull to propel through waves.
Called Panthalassa.
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@jackunheard The amount of people casually okay with fascism is very alarming.
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Wake Up to Guitar Greatness
Today's Pick: Stanley Jordan - "Eleanor Rigby" (Live, Newport Jazz Festival, 1986)
Rise, tapping tribe! Both hands, no pick, bass and melody at once.
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This is the biggest issue I have with AI right now. I have to regularly do passes on the codebase to clean up all the accumulated garbage and trash comments. Just another reminder that while AI excels at coding, it’s still quite terrible when it comes to overall management and maintenance of a codebase.
Josh@joshmanders
I'm begging you @bcherny stop claude from doing this shit everywhere, it's annoying.
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Chris Cortez retweetledi
WWII Veteran and Purple Heart recipient Robert Hilliard:
"Next week I'll be 101 years old. In February 1944 when I was 18 years old I was inducted into the army and what they taught me to do there was to kill people who set up detention camps. Can you imagine how I felt earlier this year when they announced that one of the future detention camps would be at that same camp landing in Florida? We have a fascist, a fascist government, that allows innocent people to be put in detention camps and incarcerated."
Source: @tomaskenn
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