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.

Oh, did you think the suppurating asshole who occupies the White House would be at all loyal to you? The guy who has betrayed everyone who’s ever called him a friend? What a bunch of doorknobs.

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.

Ooooh, I always wanted to use BeOS.

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.

It’s time for tzatziki sauce on everything

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.

I had only the weakest tolerance for Jack Black’s shtick before he threw one of his oldest friends under the bus, now I have none at all. Glad to hear I’m not missing much.

EXACTLY.

Somehow an elected government official doesn’t know a really basic law.

Okay, I admit it. I don’t have friends.

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.

What’s with his freaky arms in the third panel? And his form is terrible!

He’s a freakish outcast after all!

The possible impact first hit me when I saw the genAI policy on the Asahi Linux site: https://asahilinux.org/docs/project/policies/slop/

Tl;dr is that because Asahi is a project running on super custom hardware, there is no way to be sure LLM generated code is not based on proprietary (Apple-owned) code.

Ope, didn’t catch that. Well, a month in Greece with free room and breakfast would be a pretty affordable vacation, and five hours a day with cats isn’t terrible.