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• Post #4484026

  This is so cool #aviation #nes #retroComputing #vintageComputing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe8KoSeiIBw

• Post #4473814

  Today I learned Scott Wiener, candidate for US House rep for #SanFrancisco #sfba, had his campaign put up a “parody” chatbot website of his opponent, Connie Chan, called ConnieChan dot AI, in which the people can “talk to Connie”. The chatbot “responds” as a caricature of Wiener’s opponent. His campaign also put up billboards advertising the website. Condemnation of the chatbot rightfully came swiftly from women leaders, including Nancy Pelosi. Wiener is now taking the site and the billboards d...

• Post #4463194

  Discussion and debate can only work if all parties agree to talk in GOOD FAITH. To me, good faith generally means that each party commits to: 1. The presumption of a shared, objective reality 2. Stating one’s position (and motivation) honestly and clearly; and sincerely trying to appreciate the other’s position 3. Not deliberately deploying lies, fallacies, or gish-gallop tactics to manipulate the other In other words, good faith discussion is a *cooperative* activity, not an *adversarial* on...

• Post #4441438

  RE: https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/117041121493297601 “Silicon Valley will spend millions developing a glove that translates sign language into speech (badly), but they won't spend ten minutes adding Alt-Text to their images. They will build a headset that describes the room to me (poorly), but they won't use semantic HTML headings so I can actually navigate a webpage.” YES. THIS. A million times this. “Disability” is just another eugenics-centered, capitalist, ableist scam,...

• Post #4403835

  RE: https://flipboard.com/@gizmodo/tech-fknh6odjz/-/a-jhXQ9pJsSOS3qYvmMKep0A%3Aa%3A1876139665-%2F0 Yeah this is all PR Also, cringey as hell

• Post #4397281

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/117044302327029099 Too Big Too Fail means Too Big To Exist.

• Post #4390538

  suprise_pikachu.jpg “The report, which covers enforcement actions over a six-month period, highlights the obvious: Corporations — not small immigrant-oriented healthcare providers, or undocumented immigrants illegally taking benefits — are responsible for the vast majority of alleged fraud in the American health care system.” https://theintercept.com/2026/07/31/immigrants-healthcare-medicare-fraud-scam/ https://archive.ph/20260731235222/https://theintercept.com/2026/07/31/immigrants-healthcar...

• Post #4390273

  RE: https://sfba.social/@drahardja/117040839715903271 One hour until impact. #spaceX #spaceJunk #fuckElon

• Post #4389008

  Watch Elon’s space junk crash onto the moon live: https://www.youtube.com/live/9J9-U307w7U I never thought I’d live long enough to see us accidentally launching TRASH to the moon. #shittyFuture #fuckElon

• Post #4368939

  HAHAHA #ai #humor #parody #music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBvLadXo7XA

• Post #4348666

  I admit I read this article by Notes From The Circus, despite it being on Substack and using AI logos and all. It all makes sense; the AI bubble is unraveling, and Larry Ellison is a major part of it. China plays a huge part in curtailing whatever potential income OpenAI or Anthropic expects to grow into, thus stopping the flywheel from spinning any faster. The dance stops, the margin calls come, the whole thing falls apart. My first thought is: how the heck do I navigate this? I don’t have th...

• Post #4348664

  RE: https://social.lol/@cote/117030052166099570 Huge, if true. I’ll keep my celebratory champagne corked until I see a reversal in the labor trends. https://www.kron4.com/news/technology-ai/tech-layoffs-in-2026-hit-grim-milestone/

• Post #4322336

  Today I saw a Ferrari F430…with the Prop 65 sticker still on the driver’s side window. I dunno man. How do you call yourself a car enthusiast if you don’t immediately peel that off? #cars

• Post #4307828

  I am absolutely *struggling* to get through the Careless People book. Never have I read a supposedly based-on-real-life account in which every character is so fundamentally revolting, including the narrator.

• Post #4265301

  Wise words. #ai #speculation #dataCenter #bubble https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wpoEhVuaj_s

• Post #4239205

  RE: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/117006488074722424 So that’s $3T in debt held by five companies? Is that what I’m reading?

• Post #4234629

  RE: https://livellosegreto.it/@dailymsx/117007752013893543 I spent so many hours playing this on the Apple II. The smoothness and responsiveness of the animation was astounding given the 1 MHz clock. It made great use of my CH Apple II analog joystick.

• Post #4232055

  Sigh, I found two good videos on the virtues of buying old cars (price, esthetics, privacy), and discovered that they were run by (sometimes religious) conservatives. It’s funny, but sometimes I feel that progressives aren’t pushing back as hard as some conservatives against the invasive #surveillance tech that is ever more present in modern cars. It’s truly appalling what data carmakers are collecting, and how difficult cars are getting to repair thanks to an over-reliance on software, compute...

• Post #4227882

  Good rule of thumb: never elect billionaires, law enforcement people, or landlords into office.

• Post #4185842

  This video has been going around the car communities online, and for good reason. The thesis: “canyon carving”—the activity of driving cars in a spirited manner on sparsely-used mountain or rural roads—is getting ruined by more frequent crashes and deaths caused by people who take unreasonable risk. And a big part of this is social media, which rewards people who post videos of outrageous or dangerous behavior with popularity. The backroads have always been a place of unwritten arrangement: tr...

• Post #4156368

  Malaysia shut down their “AI Prime Minister digital twin” chatbot on WhatsApp one day after launch, because it did exactly what you expect a chatbot to do. #ai #slop #malaysia “PMX AI goes offline a day after launch as users share unusual responses” https://soyacincau.com/2026/07/20/pmx-ai-anwar-ibrahim-digital-twin-offline/

• Post #4152713

  I support removing the Social Security Tax cap. Actually, make it progressive. Make people with higher taxable incomes pay more into the program. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-MjQGFwCVGM

• Post #4122629

  Someone asked in an activism group I was in: “What’s the best way to remove metadata from photos?” And one answer was: “Take a screenshot.” And you know what, it’s hard to argue with that. You lose resolution and quality each time you do it. But everyone knows how to take a screenshot and crop it, and it really does remove metadata. It *has* to be simpler for people to be sure that their shared photo has no metadata they don’t intend to share. Like, “simpler than a screenshot” simple. #techno...

• Post #4122163

  Now, you MAY think that Elon Musk is an impudent man-child who somehow fails upward by continually bullshitting about things he knows nothing about… …and you’d be completely right. https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-economist-interview-2000790016

• Post #4103915

  #SanJose #SFBA is renaming Plaza de Cesar Chavez to…something else. You can vote and rank the five options here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/29TD923 No, Parky McParkface isn’t on the list.

• Post #4100936

  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/116958698987135653 They’re buying old books *and destroying them*.

• Post #4089767

  #BringATrailer just amended their ToS to include #BindingArbitration with no possibility of class action or jury trial, without a way to exclude yourself. This shit should be illegal. Denying consumers the right to access the justice system is by definition denying them of justice. https://bringatrailer.com/terms-of-use/usa/#dispute-resolution

• Post #4084581

  More #GoodNews Even if NHTSA doesn’t make new rules any time soon, the fact that they are considering it, and the fact that China has mandated better door handles, means that #Tesla is likely going to be forced to improve their door handles, especially the ability for passengers to easily exit when electrical power is lost. #cars “Tesla’s door handles may spur new US safety rules” https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/teslas-door-handles-may-spur-new-u-s-safety-rules/

• Post #4052914

  A very wise and utterly sensible move. #AI #aiSlop “Oscars says AI actors and writing cannot win awards” https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx21dl3v7d3o

• Post #4052907

  Maybe she should have complied. #kakistocracy #Jan6 #FAFO “Massachusetts revokes doctor’s right to renew medical license after Jan. 6 attack” https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/massachusetts-revokes-doctors-right-renew-medical-license-jan-6-attack-rcna588940