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Yes, and I'm saying that generating predictable slop is totally free now, humans behaving like machines turns out to be replaceable by machines.

It wouldn't surprise me that a company with an effectively unlimited budget could fund enough researchers to solve breakthrough problems, all while using LLM's (which are excellent…

they don't, cite one example of well written LLM prose? they can definitely infer a lot more slop than people have patience to, and anyone writing or reading slop prose has realise…

I found this 3b1b guest video on diffusion helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv-5mZ_9CPY

You seem a bit distracted by the links instead of the content that can be accessed by clicking on them, they show that in tens of instances, your personal anecdote about how flock …

Flock's value proposition is having a national surveillance network, local PD are not their only customers, here is yet another instance where oops, a camera that they promised was…

There are dozens of ways for it to be done, but here's an example of how Austin PD worked around contract termination: https://www.kut.org/crime-justice/2026-02-12/austin-tx-apd-f.…

> The police observing your car driving down a road is not threatening, and acting as if it is is hysteria. Yeah, but a national license plate surveillance system that lets a singl…

> If your muni votes to shut the cameras off, they will shut the cameras off. That's simply not true: there are numerous instances of municipalities having to fight flock to get ca…

You made the same claim based on a personal anecdote in multiple places in this thread, giving it the same reply seems reasonable, but I'll grant there's probably a better way than…

reproducing the same links as above: https://www.lakeexpo.com/news/politics/felony-charges-droppe... https://www.wmtv15news.com/2026/06/05/dane-county-covers-flo... https://www.cne…

Reading the definition of personal information from CCPA ( https://cppa.ca.gov/regulations/pdf/ccpa_statute.pdf ), I'll produce the relevant parts: 1798.140 (v) > “Personal informa…

re: the commisioner: > In January of 2024, the Camden County Commission passed a county ordinance banning the use of all automated license plate readers in the county (a 2023 ordin…

IANAL, but making some assumptions to fill in gaps, it seems they are avoiding having to comply with CCPA and other privacy laws like this: they harvest camera data and retain the …

Exactly: Elitist ivory tower as in free education for all that want it. 8th order effects like a well functioning society that isn't on the verge of collapse, where people live wel…

Briefly: education is concerned with thinking, vocational training is concerned with task performance. There are lots of synergies and gray areas between the two, e.g. certain kind…

Why should taxpayers pay for jobs training programs? since these vocational students expect to make lots of money with their certificate in hand, they can just take out a loan. thi…

Those students should be separated from the students that want to learn, I know who I want to hire, or be sitting next to on the line and so does everyone else with a pulse: it's t…

Most of higher ed in the US are not education, they are trade schools for white collar work.

Education is not something arcane, TBH it's really the vocational schools that should be forced to call themselves something different. 99% of university students are not there for…

Show some respect and stab me in the back at least!

Remember web browsers? compilers? web servers? databases? windows embedded? server operating systems? the blood is all over the wall, hundreds of billions of dollars in lost revenu…

It will take time to build up to a point where it's competitive on paper, it's insane that you're comparing a first-gen product from a rag-tag crew to the hardware produced by behe…

Using CoMaps gave me the "Oh shit!" moment for the first time that the convergence of enough high quality open map data and a reasonably designed maps app to consume it was finally…

this is not an effective long term strategy in a collaborative environment that is advancing for the same reason that having a private secret fork of the linux kernel with a few pr…