Coming soon: Arch de triomphe.

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.

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.

Did you mean Small Axe? Or is there a different series I’m not aware of?

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

Funny you mention HZD, I just fired it back up a couple weeks ago and completed the main story last weekend.

This is about changing streets, not maintaining existing bus/bike infrastructure.

It’s still stupid, just for a slightly different reason.

Wow, I’m so used to the “small government” GOP in Texas using the state legislature to force cities into compliance with their dogma, it’s almost refreshing to see another horrible state do it.

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.

Tax records don’t have to include the customer if it’s retail. If that was a requirement cash businesses would have massive problems, and the rule of keeping those records for seven years significantly predates our current model of credit for everything.

Beyond that, if I go to a restaurant they don’t have my name and address or any other information. Businesses need to keep records like “we bought x from y for $z,” and “we sold x to a for $b.”

And even further, the government could clarify that (if in some countries customer data was part of tax data) that the law was now to protect customer privacy and data.

The EU GDPR doesn’t go nearly far enough.

If I order online, my data only needs to be retained until I get my item. A electronic receipt can be sent via email.

Social networks should have human moderation, and not insist on retaining real-world data about users.

These things could be accomplished through regulation, and if enough countries (or US states) put those regulations in place it will eventually be more cost-effective for companies to implement the changes globally.

The FBI knew the identities of all the bombers who bombed black churches in Mississippi in the sixties and didn’t say a word until they needed to pressure a guy about another investigation. I am completely unsurprised they sat on suspicions about Les Werner for decades.

I think of a tiny robot arm and sensor array that lets a human surgeon see and work on smaller parts of a patient than they could otherwise manage safely.

I guess that would be a cyborg surgeon.

The Pitt is covering this, and in an early episode from this season they had one of the doctors point out that the LLM transcription incorrectly labeled a medication.

Medicine has a very low tolerance for errors. If I ask ChatGPT what episode of Downton Abbey shows lord whatshisface vomiting blood and it tells me that episode was the Red Wedding, worst case scenario is I look dumb. If Claude tells a doctor “this patient doesn’t have any existing medications that are contraindicated for propofol,” and it’s wrong, that patient may die on the table.

If we had a functioning regulatory framework in this country there would have been a law passed somewhere around 2010 restricting the kinds of data collected and how long it could be stored. Instead we have data brokers selling data to cops outside fourth amendment protection and it’s totally fine because people “agreed” to have their data collected and sold on the open market.

Beautiful, I just wish they hadn’t insisted on keeping the parallel parking and planted some trees instead.

Jesus, I can only imagine the trauma watching some of that shit would cause.