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Oh this is a way better way of putting it:
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.
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:
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.
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.
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:
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.
This bit of good news seemed to slip through the cracks, and we need something heart warming today:
"Just vibe code everything bro, it'll be fine dawg, just rollback if it's trash, right?"
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.
Realizing one could sum up 90's cartoons as follows:
Dead company walking.
FUNimation's turn around from fan-enemy to market leader started when they hired people who submitted their resumes in Fruits Basket clear files.
Crunchyroll was founded on doing stuff for fans despite the law itself.
Funi-Roll has clearly been poisoned by business people.
"Amuro, I'm doing something extremely wicked"
Literally "selling surplus humvees, armored carriers and tanks to podunk town SWAT teams," but giant robots. GQuuuuuuX continues the franchises' history of trenchant social commentary.
The best thing in the near term that's gonna come out of these pilots isn't piles of money for WB/CN, as they're too dense to seize the bag, but everyone should start following the other work the pilots' creators are doing; follow their socials, webcomics, etc. Show them love if the biz won't!!
Filmed off the TV because I'm lazy and for color commentary:
I'm realizing this article is extra gross as it's really trying hard to conflate Machine Learning (better photos from cellphones, phone navigation, search results, etc.) with full Generative AI (overeager autocomplete, the plagiarism gacha, etc.) Like, it's insidious in its framing on many levels.
The fact this was up with in 3 hours of @techcrunch.com airing them out means they either rushed this out after being cooked publicly, or they specifically ignored their requests for comment while having this counter-response on deck, hoping it'd force a second article that'd push the first one out.