Between Burnet and Lamar

Are you in Austin? Because Austin has that.

Maybe they should try not writing OS code in react. Perhaps they should consider dedicating as many resources to cleaning up code as they do to adding “features.”

Right, I’ve never once had to fill a cars tank with gas, or change the oil, or pay for any other maintenance on one.

This does not bode well for Robert Evans’ plan of dying in a shootout with FDA regulators.

If missing the point was an art, you’d be Michelangelo.

I’m skeptical about the ritual part, but not the sexual abuse part.

And yeah, the fact that it looks like Google and other internet companies are hiding the story is quite disturbing.

Philanthropy from the wealthy is already a way for them to whitewash their image and stave off torches and pitchforks. Charity is premised on the idea that the system is fine, but some people just need help sometimes, rather than acknowledging that the system is wrong and needs to be fundamentally changed. So fuck it, let them show their utter lack of real concern for everyone other than themselves to the world, and learn that they’re not superhuman the hard way.

My thought was concert tickets. An artist could set an absolute maximum for how much a ticket could be resold for, and the energy costs of maintaining the blockchain would be time-limited to after a show or tour completed.

Of course, Ticketmaster would never allow that because it effectively nukes the scalper market, which they also run through stubhub.

Hardware is Chromebook priced. OS,is (AFAIK) full macOS, AKA a posix compliant Unix machine with a pretty nice GUI. Nice enough that several Linux WMs try to duplicate it.

Not knowing your city I can’t speak to that, but I’ve been both a cyclist and a pedestrian in those circumstances and it fucking sucks. People tend to spread out when they walk, and cyclists are typically moving fast enough that walkers are effectively stationary in comparison. So walking becomes a frustrating exercise in dodging bikes, and cycling becomes a frustrating exercise in avoiding clumps of people (along with whatever other crap is placed on the sidewalk without considering cyclists.)

Jake Gotta WHAT??

I guess google included the Buffy episode where a demon “AI” gets its followers to make it a body.

He seems to have threaded the needle of studying the bible and not becoming an atheist or a rabid right winger. His belief does appear to be a major factor in trying to help the people who need help. You know, like Jesus said you should.

A white man who in 2026 has the political sense to say “Gaza is a genocide and that’s a simple moral question,” while Crockett took AIPAC money and voted to continue funding Israel.

Yeah, I couldn’t name a single policy position of hers other than her notable support for Zionism.

The other good news is that Cornyn and Paxton are headed to a runoff, so they can beat the shit out of each other while Talarico campaigns for the general.

Ah yes, the “peace” of brutal authoritarianism and the grave.

The government may not be able to bail these companies out. The scale is even bigger than the housing crisis of 2008, and trust in the current administration is basically zero. I think the most we can hope for is the LLM companies (think OpenAI and Anthropic), and the companies whose services are effectively wrappers for LLMs, and probably Oracle (with its negative cash flow and astronomical debt) all go away. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google probably survive, with some high profile bloodletting, senior executives being purged by their boards. Apple has been the least bullish on AI, so they’re probably more or less safe and the biggest change will be new OS versions that don’t refer to Apple Intelligence. Facebook is structured in such a way that Zucc can’t be removed by the board, so who knows how that plays out.

Palantir and their ilk will likely get whatever they need to survive unless the midterms bring in a shockingly progressive group that cares about people’s privacy and removes funding for mass surveillance.

Notably there have been almost zero data breaches of large banks, because their requirements for security are significantly higher than most other companies. My original comment was not about banks, they obviously need to retain a lot of customer data, and most of that is not exposed to the internet at all. I was talking about things like a pizza shop or an online retailer. There’s no need for Burger King or a webcomic artist I’m buying a print from to have a login or my email address for longer than it takes me to get my items.