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Oh this is a way better way of putting it:
Reminder: There's currently (well, on pause while it moves publications) an official Lucky Star sequel manga, and it's called subtitled "Konata's Thirties," as that's the amount of time that's passed. The manga-ka knows that it's EMOTIONAL DAMAGE:
Yep, it's rough watching everyone from late night hosts to lightweight tech YouTubers explain the still dangerous effects & likely intents of this erratic policy both more honestly & accessibly than news outlets. Since Colbert explains how 125% tariffs on China are a systematic risk, CNN should too.
The owner of this business is a old, wonderful friend & a former employer of mine, so please, I need all of my Pacific Northwest followers keeping an eye out for this stuff, especially if you run in nerd circles, so that his dream business, built via decades of grinding, can keep running.
They're doing the thing they've done in Canada for like a year already: letting you pick a bottle of water instead of a soda. It's still only a buck fifty.
Saved you a click.
Costco Founder Jim Sinegal isn't gonna kill Costco CEO Craig Jelinek, yet.
Corollary to @faineg.bsky.social's discourse on "good tech needs no begging to adopt": when the humble web browser has become so encumbered by AI features that an article about using the command line to run GitHub scripts to shut them off is viral news amongst normies, it's a full repudiation of AI.
"Just vibe code everything bro, it'll be fine dawg, just rollback if it's trash, right?"
There's a lot of big news today/this week, but Apple just dropped a nuke of a paper about LLMs & LRMs, specially around "high-complexity tasks where both models experience complete collapse." This is the biggest sign yet that if AI ever lives up the hype, it won't be via those approaches:
[Interior, FBI Crime Lab, Scully & Mulder look over The Grinch's corpse in the autopsy room]
Scully: Odd, his heart appears to have been 3 sizes larger than normal, but there's stretch marks on his aorta, as if it grew suddenly. What could've done this?
Mulder: Not what, who. Cindy Lou Who.
Underlines 2 things:
1. There's people in "flyover" states who can be won over to do better despite prior grotesque rhetoric merely by being faced with human cost of their ideals.
2. Good policy isn't built on compromising a minority's rights, but on creating a dialogue to secure rights for all.
Sad that Costco *has to do this*, but cool that Costco is the kind of company that cares about the majority of it's membership such that *they're openly doing this*, despite it probably making some scalper dweebs incredibly pissy. This is $1.50 hot dog & soda (+ refill) thinking applied writ large.
the energy i try to bring the skyline, despite my intentions
This bit of good news seemed to slip through the cracks, and we need something heart warming today:
At a glance, it's clearly an open-source object ID DNN piping its output to an open-source LLM for summary, all served up via some kind of React or Vue SPA: a combo that a neat undergrad CS project might entail, yet is displayed at CES. This should remind everyone how much CES is repackaged junk.
Realizing one could sum up 90's cartoons as follows:
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& it's been that way:
“During the Vietnam War... every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high.”
― Kurt Vonnegut