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Elon Musk's X further squeezes developers with apparent new API fees
  • Maybe it's a way to launder dirty money or take bribes, the way solid booking a floor at the Trump Tower for a few months is a way to launder money.

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    Former Google CEO says climate goals are not meetable, so we might as well drop climate conservation — unshackle AI companies so AI can solve global warming
  • It's 2050. The sea levels have risen 3 metres. Hurricane season lasts 9 months of the year.

    Eric Schmidt: ChatGPT 4zz++ Premium Elite, how do we solve global warming?

    ChatGPT 4zz++ Premium Elite: I don't know, but I drew you as a minor being abused unprompted.

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    “Should art be regulated by the SEC?” NFT artists file lawsuit
  • The only purpose of NFTs is to raise sea levels by metres and inundate every coastal city. Owning NFTs is a crime against humanity. Anyone who has ever owned an NFT belongs in prison

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    In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past
  • We're a century away from self-driving cars that can handle snowfall

    Just this year farmers with self-driving tractors got screwed because a solar flare made GPS inaccurate and so tractors went wild because they were programmed with the assumption of GPS being 100% reliable and accurate with no way to override

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    In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past
  • Not sure if we're agreeing and saying exactly the same thing here, but Uber's business model is to get suckers who are bad at math to own the cars. Uber's business model does not work if they have to own their own cars. Self-driving Uber doesn't work because Uber would have to own the cars and therefore has to cover vehicle insurance, vehicle depreciation, and so on out of its own margin.

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    Am I the only one watching the Olympics opening ceremonies? Because WTF am I watching?
  • Technically, they had a few more monarchs (Louis XVIII, Charles X, Louis Philippe I) after Marie Antoinette's husband even if you don't count the two emperors. The fifth republic looks unlikely to lapse, though

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    WHO Lived When?
  • Ivan the Terrible is wrong by 2 centuries. The picture has him as 1754-1793, somehow after Peter the Great, but he actually lived 1530-1584. That's a really weird mistake

    The didn't confuse Ivan the Terrible with Catherine the Great, because she lived 1729-1796 so those dates don't match either

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    Mozilla is trying to push me out because I have cancer – CPO
  • We do have the additional context outside the story that under the interim CEO Mozilla has made two other unpopular decisions:

    • Bought an AdTech company
    • Added AI features to Firefox
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    Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse
  • The Fediverse has 1 million active users. Threads has 130 million active users. This is not an EEE play because a 100% successful EEE play would amount to increasing the Threads userbase by less than 1%. Meta is doing this for non-EEE reasons.

    One possible non-EEE reason would be to have plausible deniability for monopolistic practices. If they make a show of interoperating with irrelevant nobodies like us, they can pretend to be a nice tech company rather than a mean anti-competitive monopoly.

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    All 64 of the countries where it’s illegal to be LGBTQ+ – and yes, it’s all colonialism’s fault
  • Would Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and arguably Afghanistan be the fault of Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist colonialism?

    Stalin made homosexuality illegal in the Soviet Union and continued the Russian colonization of central Asia. Brezhnev invaded Afghanistan. The laws weren't repealed until Russia seceded from the Soviet Union in 1991

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  • www.twowheeledpolitics.ca March 2024 East Don Trail Visit

    A blog about cycling and political advocacy based in Toronto, Canada. (#BikeTO)

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    stevemunro.ca The State of Disrepair

    In July 2023, the Scarborough RT met its unexpected end with a derailment south of Ellesmere Station. The underlying cause was a loose segment of reaction rail struck by the train. The last car sep…

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