Explain to me like I'm 10 years old: Is the Biden tariffs on electric vehicles, batteries, and solar panels coming from China motivated 100% by politics (and maybe racism), or is there some other (more legit) reason to do it?
@davidho Not a fan of the tariffs, but this is a good explanation / rationalization. Wouldn’t need them if U.S. automakers had gotten their heads out their big, fat SUVs
On the bros trying to build cities in Solano and elsewhere:
“What seems to be happening is people really want to ‘stay in San Francisco,’ but they want to exit society. … They don’t want to have to deal with the complexity, the differences, the poverty, the needs, the caring for others that was always part of urban culture. They want to escape. They want their own currency, their own culture, their own people. And they wanted it to look like Disneyland.”
Boom.
Bust.
“#Peloton’s #CEO Barry McCarthy is stepping down after announcing yet another round of #layoffs, this time affecting about 15 percent of its remaining workforce, or roughly 400 global team members. It’s the fifth round of #layoffs to hit the pandemic darling and comes after McCarthy said on its Q1 2023 earnings call that the company was done with #layoffs and that the ‘ship was turning’”
“the latest chapter in the company’s volatile history”📈📉 https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/2/24146989/peloton-announces-new-round-of-layoffs-as-ceo-quits
I try not to be this person all the time. But occasionally I like to gently remind people that the causality is backwards. Google’s profits are soaring in part because they’re doing layoffs. That’s why they are doing layoffs. There are always 2 ways to increase profits. Make more revenue or decrease operating expenses. (Hint: paying employees is an operating expense) https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/112360560095763105
“You don’t want to consider your shoe something you’re going to throw away, and that’s a long-term change. It’s a mental model that needs to change for us to keep building all the products of the future”
“Products should really be made the same way plants grow: Build it so it’s regenerative, it’s circular”
“estimated that of the 23.5 billion pairs of #shoes that are produced each year throughout the world, 95% of them will end their life as landfill waste. This equates to around 20 million tons of waste every year
The footwear industry has yet to come up with an adequate solution to this problem”
“When paying, you are presented with the option of leaving a tip, no different than pretty much any other interaction with a point-of-sale payment system. But it poses an interesting question—and one we will increasingly be required to answer as the domain of #automation continues to expand:”
“If you see an electric #robot roaming around the office, don’t be alarmed. It could just be DAL-e, #Hyundai’s new electric delivery #robot that can easily carry around 16 cups of #coffee” 🤖 ☕️
“uses #AI#facialrecognition to verify the delivery”
#Project2025 recommendations concerning #health are dispersed among the introduction and various chapters. Together, they argue for an abandonment of the government’s role in promoting #publichealth for American children and adults”
“Schismogenesis isn't a great tactic. It would be far better if we had a set of institutions we could all largely trust – if the black boxes where expert debate took place were sturdy, rectilinear and sharp-cornered.
But they're not. They're just not. Our regulatory process sucks”
“It's a function of #corruption”
“the terrifying epistemological crisis of trying to make good choices in an age of institutions that can't be trusted” https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/25/black-boxes/ by @pluralistic
The BBC used generative AI to help draft promotional emails about Doctor Who and got a bunch of complaints. They will no longer use the technology because of that.
This is a bit silly and is akin to complaining that a spell checker was used to send you email spam. There is a lot of Luddite energy around generative AI and overreactions from companies both for and against it
@carnage4life Luddite energy #ftw
“Luddites were not ignorant. Smashing machines was not a kneejerk reaction to new technology, but a tactical response by workers based on their understanding of how owners were using those machines to make labour conditions more exploitative”
“It wasn’t the invention of these machines that provoked the Luddites to action. They only banded together once factory owners began using these machines to displace and disempower workers” https://theconversation.com/im-a-luddite-you-should-be-one-too-163172
OpenAI is in Hollywood pitching Sora, its text-to-video generator, to A-list directors.
My suspicion is that in the near term it will be more useful as an enhanced version of storyboarding as opposed to replacing live action or animated shots in movies.
@carnage4life
“in order to ensure safe implementation and to give people an idea of what’s on the horizon,” a spokesperson for #OpenAI said in a statement. “We look forward to an ongoing dialogue with artists and creatives”
“safe implementation” 🙄 Safe for whom? Don’t believe the hype