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• Post #2939278

  @TheLancashireman@hostux.social @Anomnomnomaly@beige.party @woo@fosstodon.org @kbsez@mstdn.social @kibcol1049@mstdn.social The three hours is mostly because of inefficient locating of people vs. goods and services. If i want a qualified doctor, for instance, that's LA. My hobby is building random electronic things from surplus equipment -- again, LA. Most things aside from staples are in the big city, so that freeway is a car park for 8 to 12 hours a day. There is mass transit by rail, but i...

• Post #2886733

  @dbattistella@mstdn.ca The most generous interpretation of that is that they are unimaginative enough to think that the world will continue on the way it is today, with people doing the guiding and creating, using their tools to augment their intelligence rather than replace it. People don't work like that, though, and i'm pretty sure that they're banking on people letting their intelligence atrophy until they're reliant on LLM's, which are *not* AI. They are also convinced t...

• Post #2780576

  @kibcol1049@mstdn.social This news left me bog-smacked.

• Post #2708565

  @kibcol1049@mstdn.social i guess it would depend on how *many* trees were planted; the city that i grew up in could almost be considered a broadleaf forest, and was quite pleasant, even on a 100° F day. Of course, the effect would be much larger in a place that was mostly pavement. The current awareness of the role of heat, taken into account by city planners now, was rare until recently. The city i'm in now is unbearable in the summer, being mostly paved and with few trees.

• Post #2577372

  @Deanconturso Thanks for the follow!

• Post #2566776

  @Kierkegaanks@beige.party @kibcol1049@mstdn.social i almost choked on my coffee again - people just have to be less witty early in the morning xD

• Post #2566350

  @kibcol1049@mstdn.social Another example of sacrificing users' privacy to train their in-house AI (as Meta is doing) is Google, which quietly started feeding users' photo collections and emails into their LLM's.

• Post #2566062

  @muminitaly@mastodon.scot @kibcol1049@mstdn.social Excellent points, to which i would add that any debt owed to the state not only can't be forgiven, but often is collected if one's benefits would exceed a certain amount. Here, if you have more than a few hundred dollars in cash, you don't qualify for disability payments, even if the hearing you appealed rejections two or three times to get (and have to attend in person) found that you *are* legitimately disabled, and cannot be emplo...

• Post #2565653

  @kibcol1049@mstdn.social @titia@toot.community I grew up in the US in the 70's and 80's, if that gives a bit of context. His mom kept the household afloat somehow on her wage as a secretary, but they still lived in abject poverty, despite her wage disqualifying them for assistance. Mostly because his dad would usually take money from her, i assume.

• Post #2558182

  @kibcol1049@mstdn.social Or, at the very least, upbraid Trump for his boorish manners.