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The story of a smart home that can't tell when you're not home! :-)

It sounds so simple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_employment

I suspect commenters so far have missed the fact that this isn't a fuzzy LLM-powered surveillance device. It actually doesn't require an Internet connection, it doesn't record or u…

This seems key: "So, I now limit written papers to two pages and base students’ grades more heavily on oral discussions of their work, which allows me to probe their thought proces…

There are many types of houses in between suburbs and skyscrapers. This is "missing middle" housing. Duplexes, townhouses, small apartment buildings, etc. Look at Old Town Alexandr…

I guess for me, blatant LLM style reminds me of LinkedIn-speak. Both are distracting and come across as fake. Somehow it's more interesting to read something in another human's uni…

You start reading. Then it hits you. The short, choppy sentences. The stock phrases. This wasn't written by a human — this was generated by AI.

https://halupedia.com/this-experiment-may-not-last-long

Maybe a more general focus on getting students to practice critical thinking and fact-checking would be better. AI could be addressed as a small part of that, since chatbots are ev…

You're missing the point—we are each supposed to have our agent summarize the key points for us so we don't have to read all the generated slop! Let me do that now: hmm, this artic…

Sounds like a viral Tweet. Why wouldn't it be able to gain traction?

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I just read Brent Jeffs's book "Lost Boy" last year. The amount of control the church leaders exert over the people is disturbing. (Even after the top leader has been revealed as a…

I don't see why megacorporations and governments are allowed to control the computer I carry around in my pocket, while I'm not.

Ouch. Imagine being let go just a few weeks from vesting. Doesn't seem fair to let someone work for months and months in anticipation of their big prize and then yank it away at th…

You want the government to force employers to provide a social safety net rather than the government providing it directly? The problem isn't that people can be fired, it's that th…

Giving any kind of notice about layoffs while expecting employees to continue working is just bad for everyone. The employees stress out about whether they're going to be impacted.…

Maybe they could be kept on the payroll without access to actually work. But the real problem is any law that would deport someone 30 days after they were laid off, even if they ha…

I've seen this type of thing with OsmAnd too. My hypothesis is that someone messed up when drawing the map, and made the offramp an extension of the highway. But I haven't actually…

About the same time it'd take me to build Twitter.

It was gonna cost 1 million of your tax dollars to build the levee protecting your house, but we're saving you money by building it out of sticks. We'll send a dude out to throw a …

Yo, we decided to build a dam in the creek behind your house. We're not sure what the impact will be on your house and backyard, so watch out. You've got three days, construction h…

Let's hope the beavers allocate sufficient funding to maintain the dam.

I'm not driving, officer, I'm traveling!

Except the ads don't show up anywhere "on the internet", they only show up on the photo editing site.