Maybe there’s an opening for a charming people-person executive who doesn’t scare the shit out of people — Bob Iger? — to take over one of the AI labs
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- This is still the most perfect thing. Karen Bass wanted to be like Zohran Mamdani, the pothole fixer. So she posted a video of herself going to a pothole and finding a parked car that prevented it from being fixed. So she put out a No Parking sign and went to get a hamburger.Simone Boyce we got you! Spot a pothole on your street? Send it our way. Report it to 311, through the MyLA311 app or at lacity.gov/myla311.
- What is it with conservatives and the random capitalization of common nouns in the middle of sentences?The Daily Beast published letters that Trump’s 35-year-old aide Natalie Harp allegedly wrote to him “You are all that matters to me. I don’t want to ever let you down. Thank you for being my Guardian and Protector in this Life” thedailybeast.com/natalie-harps-…
- Academics keep pushing this line that is obviously laughable to anyone who *attended* college. Are they trying to send the message that academia is a joke?In defense of Jason Arday, Jason Stanley claims that the “mere overlap of sentences” is not really plagiarism.
- “Insofar as AIs are digital minds” … sometimes I think these people don’t want to win the political fights they’re in.This is arguably the most negative EV policy trend in human history, inclusive of 20th century population controls. In fact, insofar as AIs are digital minds, these ARE essentially population controls.





