you, depressed: generative AI may make video social media unusable me, joyful: generative AI may make video social media unusable

Whole subfields exist to credential people who'd otherwise have to defend claims against numbers. They reward fluency in a vocabulary, not the ability to be wrong about anything testable.

Follow these six simple steps to turn Chicago into San Francisco:

Every time we see big tech do the “AI efficiency” layoff bullshit, think about the fact that they’re showing contempt for *paying customers* in addition to their workers. Why didn’t Google use the LLM dividend to bring back Google Reader? Why didn’t Meta finish connecting Threads to the fediverse?

I've become very skeptical of comparisons between AI emissions/water use and almost every normal thing we do, because most people don't know how any normal parts of life actually compare. Here's a very popular older pollution comparison:

90-9. Red state Dem voters know ball

experimenting with inpainting in Waypoint-1.5

I’m quite enjoying no-fucks-given Senator Tina Smith.

America is full of asymmetries that map nearly onto partisan politics and the biggest, to me, is that you can destroy an economy in just under two years, but it takes decades to implement the programs to build it back up.

I should make an advanced deepfake account where I pass off AI art as having been sketched by my own hand, and constantly fill it with angry references to "how much I hate AI" - everyone would say they loved the art then LMAO

Let this radicalize you

People are pretty good at figuring out the most best way to get where they are going; so policymakers should design their transit system for the mode share they want. If the train and the bus are the fastest and most convenient way to get around, people will take the train and the bus.

Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association sucks

For 45 years, Berkeley built virtually no new housing. By the mid-2010s, it was one of the most expensive college towns in America. Around that time, YIMBYs took over and kicked off a building boom. Today, rents are below 2018 levels in nominal terms—a remarkable case of progress on affordability.

Thanks Trump

I do not think it is ageism to point out that a slim congressional majority will be at risk if we nominate a bunch of representatives in their 80s and 90s

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I’m willing to give someone like Petola a slop pass, I am not willing to give people from D+a billion states that privilege

I know a lot of nithya peeps follow me - begging the campaign to embrace the Mamdani comparison and let that be the framing of the campaign for the majority of the city that is *just* starting to pay attention. LA is starving for that kind of political energy of our own and Nithya can deliver it.

A generation ship is the only form of interstellar travel viable without FTL. One of the main challenges in this would be making sure that successive generations maintain the mission they did not opt into, making political scientists the most important scientists for space exploration.

thinking about how a former santa monica mayor tried to dismiss my support of SB 79 solely as "you support this because you think it will give you more opportunities" like that is a bad thing

A lot of AI criticism makes me feel like someone says “the automobile has been disastrous for society” and I’m nodding along like “yeah I actually really agree, I think that car centric urban design has-“ and then they add “also it’s a scam, cars break down after more than ten miles anyway”

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the gas tax has been frozen at 22 cents since 1993. it would be 55 cents now if it was indexed to inflation (which it obviously should be)

Screw Regan, etc., but fees as of 1970 were just a $300 registration fee and a $150 educational fee (about $3,800 in today's money.) The thing that made resident fees skyrocket was Proposition 13, a 1978 initiative that put every CA homeowner on welfare. We should repeal it!

if i were going to run a left campaign for the democratic nomination for president i would also spend a lot of my time in black churches, fwiw

LLMs are maximally offensive when you personally resemble an LLM already

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rare in north america do you get a rapid transit project does all of this: -replaces one of the busiest existing bus routes in a city (wilshire is the 2nd busiest) -is 2-3x faster than the bus (7 min vs 22-30 min) -and way faster than driving (18 min+) los angeles did it. grade-separated rail wins

“housing is a human right but the problem is developers who build housing” is simply not a coherent message Especially when you consider the fact that Seattle has actually done a decent job at building housing and is relatively affordable as a result compared to other high demand cities

I think the cure for the vibecession is to have an actual broad-based recession For obvious reasons, it is important that this recession happen while the GOP holds the presidency

it’s an utter embarrassment for the state of Wisconsin that they keep electing this freak that any normal person wouldn’t hire as an intern

Claude telling me to go to bed smh

Throwing a grenade into the left-NIMBYish boomer email hell thread I have been pulled into.

“We have a shortage of AFFORDABLE housing”, I write from my $2m single family home with a $300k Prop 13 assessment

my favorite thing about LLMs is that trying to train them to lie about specific topics or to regurgitate propaganda causes them to become worse at things

Does Becerra, the candidate, actually believe this though

“Comprehensively and accurately planning an overseas trip somewhere you don’t speak the language” is, I guess, not technically an “everyday” task, but is a hard-mode version of one, and it’s invaluable for me for it LLMs are generalizable tools for labeled knowledge and the use of them is a skill

Congratulations to LA Metro for opening a 4-mile, 3-station expansion today! With 2 more phases coming, the D line extension is one of LA Metro's most important projects, adding heavy rail to some of the city's densest areas and boosting a system struggling to grow ridership

sucks so hard that surfrider is a bunch of NIMBYs

It’s funny how every time you dig into a policy space in this state you inevitably run into “The reason this is so dysfunctional is because we devolve too much authority and discretion to local decisionmaking bodies” Local control pops up again and again as this albatross on the neck of good govt.

Similar to how many people imagine the formal US immigration system to be rational and orderly, I think many people have an extremely optimistic view of the rationality and orderliness of development and permitting of transit infrastructure on the West Coast.

kinda amazing in hindsight that this dude was significantly cooler than any of the actual supervillain billionaires we wound up getting

there's a fairly simple proof that automation will happen eventually

Rae Huang, who at one point tried to pretend that she was pro-housing, is now posting on Twitter about “homeowner protections” and comparing YIMBYism to “trickle down economics”.

my concern with this is that he said absolutely none of this on the debates.

surprised i havent seen this on here yet lol blainsmith.com/articles/jus...

I don’t think it’s sufficient for Democratic officials to treat these rulings like partisan acts from an out of control activist court. They should be regarded as part of a criminal conspiracy against the republic.

Santa Barbara is jacking up its “affordable housing” fee to $160,000 for the average new rental unit. This is a punitive tax on less-expensive new housing intended to prevent neighborhood change, not a good faith effort to make housing affordable to poor and working people.