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paezha

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Carbon-based Turing Test-compliant life-form DBA Professor of #Transportation #Geography at #McMaster University, where I teach and do research on #accessibility, #TravelBehavior, #SpatialAnalysis, #ActiveTravel, #TransportPolicy.

I am an #Rstats enthusiast and big believer in #Reproducible #Open #Science.

I have several hobbies, including #CreativeWriting, #CreativeCoding and #Rtistry.

#geogdon #mapstodon #Rspatial #HamOnt

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ai6yr, to ai
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Axios: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is one of a select group of AI leaders handpicked by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to join a new federal Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board. https://www.axios.com/2024/04/26/altman-mayorkas-dhs-ai-safety-board?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

paezha,
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@ai6yr

Well, isn't that delightful. One of the most antidemocratic, sinister tech bros around, with a huge stake in hyping his garbage tech, invited to advice on public policy that affects his garbage tech.

paezha,
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@ai6yr

I mean, the dude has a plan to share a bunker with Peter Thiel when the shit that he's stirring hits the fan. Is that really someone you want advicing on public policy?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-valley-billionaires-are-prepping-for-the-apocalypse-in-new-zealand

paezha,
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@ai6yr

Why don't they invite Eric Prince to advice on Second Amendment solutions while they're at it.

paezha,
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@paninid @ai6yr

I hate regulatory capture.

Semafor, to random
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‘This is a game changer’: Jill Stein looks to Israel protests to peel off Democrats
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/26/2024/this-is-a-game-changer-jill-stein-looks-to-israel-protests-to-peel-off-democrats?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Semafor @semafor

paezha,
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@hvdsomp @semafor @Semafor

At the very least, another Russian tool

cstross, to random
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Psst: isn't killing pets one of the early warning signs of a psychopath on the road to killing humans/graduating to serial killer?
https://mastodon.social/@JoshuaHolland/112338181513279407

paezha,
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@cstross

This is awful, and yet it manages to pale in comparison to the thousand of people her policies have killed since covid began.

libramoon, to random
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https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/28/jimmy-carter-russia-investigation-trump-lost-1387634

Jimmy Carter says a full investigation would show Trump lost in 2016
By SARAH CAMMARATA
06/28/2019 11:20 AM EDT
Updated: 06/28/2019 12:40 PM EDT

“I think a full investigation would show that Trump didn’t actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election, and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf,” the former president, who served between 1977 and 1981, said at a panel hosted by the Carter Center in Leesburg, Va.

paezha,
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@libramoon @rberger

2016 was the first time that Russia installed a puppet regime in the US. Let's hope it was also the last.

coral, to random
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My favorite mug in the whole world broke today (my fault, a moment of inattention). Dale tried to patch it, so maybe it can be … glued?… But it’s toast 😢😭

I’ll start the process of trying to find a replacement. But it’s going to be so hard, because it was perfect: it held 20+ ounces, the handle was big and sturdy, the walls weren’t unnecessarily heavy (hard for a mug that big), it was dishwasher safe, it was purple, AND it had a bird on it.

Keep your eyes peeled for perfect mugs for me please?

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paezha,
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@coral @Compassionatecrab

Kintsugi?

marklemley, to random
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It is evident from today's Supreme Court argument that several Justices have entirely abandoned any interest in the rule of law even in the face of the Trump-led insurrection.

The Court had an opportunity to restore its credibility by demonstrating, as it did fifty years ago in US v Nixon, that it stood unanimously behind the rule of law regardless of party loyalty. Instead, it seems poised to demonstrate the opposite: that it is dominated by political hacks.

paezha,
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@marklemley @ceoln

Supreme Court of Hacks

StillIRise1963, to random
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Fuck automation. Put HUMANS on the phone. It would go a lot faster.

paezha,
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@StillIRise1963

I am convinced those automated systems work as intended: to offer as little help as possible

paezha,
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@StillIRise1963

I believe that's their purpose. No one can outstubborn an automated system.

paezha,
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@StillIRise1963

🤣

paezha,
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@StillIRise1963

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GottaLaff, to legal
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NOTE: I have stuff to do today. My live posting will be limited. So will my replies/reading your replies.

THREAD: 🧵 #TrumpTrial #Trump #legal 1/…

Klasfeld:

Now

Trump enters the courtroom and is seated at the defense table.

Photojournalists go close up in front of him, as usual, to take their photos.

"All rise."

Justice Merchan takes the bench and invites Trump's lawyer Emil Bove to put their email exchange from Wednesday on the record.

It's an evidentiary issue.

paezha,
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@GottaLaff

NFL

They spoke like the mob, and Trump was their Al Caporn

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Obama advisor Eric Schultz:

wow - NYT reporter says their nonstop coverage of ’s age is retribution for not giving their boss an interview:

“It’s A.G. He’s the one who is pissed [that] Biden hasn’t done any interviews and quietly encourages all the tough reporting on his age.”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/25/new-york-times-biden-white-house-00154219

paezha,
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@Lazarou @GottaLaff

Children and crypto-fascists, it seems

paezha, to random
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— The Blitz

Nonilex, to Law
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Start of testimony day3 (I’m not counting jury selection or off days) 🧵

Publisher to Resume Testimony

, the longtime publisher of The , is expected to return to the stand & describe the deal w/ at the heart of the case, in which is charged w/ 34 .

paezha,
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@Nonilex

Trump is such a big black hole of crap of infinite mass. Every piece of crap around is trapped in his crappy orbit never to leave the crap.

paezha,
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@Nonilex

The sterling reputation of the rag that is barely away from bat boy

DrTCombs, to cycling
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Biking 1.5 miles to school today, my kid & I...

  1. waited while a school bus ran a stop sign
  2. swerved to avoid a car passing us on the left as we turned left
  3. sat at a light for 4 min to get a walk signal
  4. slammed on the brakes to not get t-boned by an SUV in a crosswalk

We don't pollute, make noise, cause pavement wear, or threaten anyone's safety. Yet our roads still force us to defer to cars or risk death.

And we're the entitled ones? Entitled to what??

paezha,
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@DrTCombs

"I'm sorry that my lower reliance on planet-destroying fossil fuels inconveniences your lifestyle."

paezha, to ai
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Of course he doesn't.

He's too busy being a gimp in Roko's Basilisk's basement.

paezha, to random
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The only infinite resource is greed.

Ok, that is not a resource.

mobileharv, to random
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More than half of Columbus remains without sidewalks to protect pedestrians more than 212 years after the city was founded. The price tag to complete the network is big: $3 billion. The LinkUs initiative will help by adding 500 miles of sidewalks near transit stops.

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/communities/2024/04/25/columbus-pedestrian-sidewalk-safety-walking-path-ohio-construction/73260038007/

paezha,
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@mobileharv

$3 billion? Pfftt, that's what facebook loses in a single quarter with its metaverse hallucination

paezha,
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@mobileharv

We could, if we taxed billionaires.

We have been told for decades that the private sector is more efficient. It is now clear that it is more efficient at burning money.

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NY Times - DoJ investigating McKinsey & Company, the international consulting giant, for its role in helping drug companies maximize their sale of opioids. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/business/mckinsey-criminal-investigation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

paezha, (edited )
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@w7voa

Lest we forget, Sundar Pichai of Google started his career at McKinsey.

As @pluralistic recounts, Pichai was chief enshittifier at Google, after backing the side of the enshittifiers in an internal struggle to reduce quality to increase revenue.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/

ajsadauskas, to random
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There was no drone delivery future. There was never going to be a drone delivery future.

Just like there was never going to be self-driving Uber taxis. Or Amazon Go supermarkets on every corner. Or hyperloops. Or earth-to-earth space travel on SpaceX rockets. Or level-five full self driving Teslas.

Just like there will not be a general artificial intelligence ChatGPT in the next couple of years.

They were all scams designed to lure dollars from investors and generate good PR.

It was all bullshit. It was always bullshit.

Nothing more.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/22/24137383/amazon-prime-air-drone-delivery-closing-lockeford-california-phoenix-arizona

paezha,
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@bastardsheep @ajsadauskas @temptoetiam

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