I think its almost always pointless to hold back innovation, but in this case I think a full ban on self driving cars would be a great move.
I agree on both points. Also I think it’s important to characterize the ‘innovation’ of self driving as more social-economic than technological.
The component systems- sensing, processing, communications, power, etc- have a wide range of engineering applications and research and development will inevitably continue no matter the future of self-driving. Self driving only solves a very particular social-economic-technological issue that only exists because of how humans historically chose to address the same issue with older technology. Self driving is more of a product than a ‘technology’ in my book.
So my point there is that I don’t think a ban on full self driving really qualifies as ‘holding back innovation’ at all. It’s just telling companies not to develop a specific product. Hyperbolic example but nobody would say banning companies from creating a nuclear powered oven was ‘holding back innovation’. If anything forcing us to re-envision human transportation without integrating into legacy requirements advances innovation more than just trying to use AI to solve the problems created by using humans to solve the original problem of how to move humans around in cars.
I don’t think it’s a collective or organized ‘they’, probably just a few guys that didn’t appreciate Grusch nosing in on their legitimate classified operations- reverse engineering downed Chinese balloons and whatnot, so they fed him a big fish that had enough truth to sell it but also crazy enough to ‘decommission’ Grusch when he started repeating the crazy parts.
A former military intelligence officer-turned-whistleblower told House lawmakers that Congress is being kept in the dark about unidentified anomalous phenomena.
This is kind of a funny inversion of typical political distraction games. Instead of ‘Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’ we’re getting ‘Let’s pay attention to this guy saying there’s aliens behind every curtain. But still pay no attention to those guys behind me shoveling money into my pockets.’
It’s a great deal for Grusch too. Massive media attention he can turn into book deals and speaking engagements for a lifetime and zero consequences for never even trying to provide proof of his claims. He gets to be a lifetime hero to people that ‘want to believe’ and in a month no one else will remember his name enough to challenge any of his claims.
Perhaps so, but if that was all that was going on here I’m surprised Grusch got to be front and center at this congressional hearing.
See my first point about this being a political brownie-points bonanza. They’ve got a hot stage and a rising star. Of course they’re going to make a good show of it. And even with zero evidence- enthusiastic members of the public can’t get enough and will go on and on about how credible this guy seems because he’s saying things they really, really want to be true.
You can’t even theorize lightly about scenarios where there might have been extraterrestrial interaction with Earth in most contexts without being pretty much branded a kook.
Well, yeah. You can speculate about those scenarios all you want, that’s why sci-fi is so much fun. But ‘theorize’ implies a serious consideration of the event having occurred and there is zero tangible evidence for that and physics itself suggests that in the span of a civilization the chances of even detecting another may be infinitesimally small. So any ‘theory’ of those scenarios would be based on nothing so- yeah- kookery.
The reason the Fermi paradox, (@be_excellent_to_each_other thanks for bringing it up,) is a paradox is because our mathematical estimates regarding extraterrestrial life says it is likely, yet we have not conclusively observed any.
The reason people think the Fermi paradox is a paradox is because they assume insanely optimistic values for L in the Drake equation.
Good point, and if Jesus showed up at the superbowl with Prince’s guitar we’d owe a lot of apologies to a lot of Kid Rock fans who were written off as Kid Rock fans ;)
…and thus, (cringe) That’s not an exaggeration either, it’s just completely asinine, like babbling about ‘ancient astronaut theory’. So don’t get so upset when strangers point out that it’s asinine.
I love when people throw a little tantrum that they’re ‘done’. People that are really ‘done’ don’t have to fuss to anonymous strangers about how done they are ;)
It would be an appropriate comment if we’d just had a congressional hearing about Jesus showing up at the superbowl with Prince’s guitar
The comment is a perfectly valid comparison- we have congressional hearings about religious nonsense all the time. The Prince\Kid Rock part was a goof but are you seriously unaware of how often Jesus and ‘Gods will’ are cited in congressional session?
So if you heard religious kookery in a hearing and then said ‘Well, if God really did bring that hurricane to punish gays it would change humanity’s relationship with religion and science’ - that would be a deeply, stupidly, asinine statement. So it’s just like you adding your half-cent to the UFO kookery. Not sure you can follow that but thought I’d lay it out for you just in case.
I have an old x86_64 computer which I am planning to use as a NAS. Which of the 2 is a better option? Is it helpful or better to run on bare metal or as a VM on proxmox?
For me just the convenience of having everything in one box. Simplifies networking too. I run home assistant, openwrt, OMV, an ubuntu dtop VM and a wordpress LXC on a little m93 I jacked up with 32Gb RAM. Backups are dead simple and it’s all on one little UPS.
Some might prefer metal for other reasons but simplicity and convenience are priorities for me, at least in my homelab.
It could all be a big lie, but I find it hard to imagine the utility of it.
Politicians get positive screen time and headlines acting like they care about ‘transparency’ in a context that won’t effect them politically or their donors financially. They get to say a bunch of open-minded sounding but totally non-committal stuff about ‘getting the public the answers they deserve’ but they don’t have to followup on anything. It’s a bipartisan public brownie-points bonanza, plus it’s a distraction from more controversial problems they should be addressing so of course they’re going ‘all-in’.
Elon Musk’s move over the weekend to rebrand Twitter and replace its iconic bird logo with an X is just the latest step in his effort to make over the billionaire’s longtime favorite platform in his image.
In about 48 hours Musk will ‘reveal’ the X rebranding freakshow was actually a ‘market test’ and they’ve gained ‘invaluable user data’ on what totally wasn’t another CEO tweet tantrum that some poor bastards had to try to translate into corporate policy.
I’m sorry for your loss and very sorry you had to go through that. The fact that you can still give the paramedics credit for doing their best is admirable and shows a rational mind is in control of your emotions- but it’s okay to be pissed at them for being so inconsiderate and not respecting your grief. they could and should have done better.
People only remember (if they remember this show) how incredibly schlocky and terrible this show became. Granted, it had more seasons being a trainwreck than being watchable....
I almost started this on Amazon the other day because it’s one of the few sci-fi series I’ve never seen, but I just can’t stomach Sorbo so I started rewatching Lexx instead.
I caught it first on nflix and then bought the seasons on google play and of course now they’re free with ads on youtube and for some reason even logged in it makes me watch ads…
It’s hard to imagine how that show would have flowed broken into 25m segments. It’s weird enough as-produced.
The RFK Jr. hype is baffling. I know there’s some clickbait value to headlines about a Kennedy saying shit you’d expect to hear from Alex Jones, but that’s already lost its novelty. Feels like this media attention is being driven and it sure as hell isn’t by grassroots support for this lunatic.
Yeah I get that they’re complicated charges and justice takes time. But if there aren’t actual consequences before he has another chance to run we’re basically telling future fascists that coup attempts are a pretty good idea because even if you fail you can try again in 4 years and if you succeed the second time you’re all good.
I'm neither an expert nor an american, but the idea that RFK Jr running as a third party candidate will hurt the democrats seems strange to me.
His policies, which can be summed up as "deny reality", align very closely with the modern republican party, not the democrats. It's hard to imagine that he would pull more votes away from Biden than Trump. Are there some people who would vote based on name recognition? Maybe... but surely it can't be that many? Meanwhile "Trump but not a rapist" must appeal to a number of the evangelical republicans...
I think the idea that it will hurt Democrats is coming desperate Republicans that haven’t caught up with the fact that the Trump Era expanded the base of people that will vote straight D as hard as the ‘conservative base’ votes straight R.
In effect they’re thinking I’m still the person I was in my 20’s- someone who would ‘vote their conscience’ with a third party out of disgust for both parties. Not that I’d have ever voted for RFK Jr’s crazy ass, but third party in general seemed like an option. But Trump helped disabuse many of that notion and made the ‘lesser of two evils’ substantial enough a difference to get through to all but the most hopelessly naive and idealistic.
Top AI companies including OpenAI, Alphabet and Meta Platforms have made voluntary commitments to the White House to implement measures such as watermarking AI-generated content to help make the technology safer, the Biden administration said on Friday.
From my perspective, the trans movement is teaching people to hate who they truly are and change themselves.
Do you apply that standard to all of medical science or just gender affirming care? Is breast augmentation also ‘hate, packaged up and gift-wrapped with false love on the outside’? How about palatoplasty, is that also ‘hate’?
It was useful as a wedge issue when denying legal abortions was just an abstract idea. Now even ‘pro-life’ people have to see the consequences and start actually thinking about what they’ve been shrieking about mindlessly for decades. Some of them will start finding nuance in the issue, but they’ll never just think- ‘maybe we should have fucked off and not denied abortion in the first place.’
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Cells of white males have formed in at least 30 states, united around racism and an interest in mixed martial arts. Extremism researchers say they're neo-Nazis looking to mainstream their ideas.
I heard about these on NPR and apparently an ‘Active Club’ got into a scrape with Proud Boys and I thought- someone needs to do a West Side Story adaptation with a Proud Boy and Active Club boy. Has to be a musical in Kid Rock white-boy rap-rock style. Super homoerotic dance-fight choreography… I’ve definitely gone too far with this already…
A federal judge in West Virginia has ruled that the state corrections agency can’t force an incarcerated atheist and secular humanist to participate in religiously-affiliated programming to be eligible for parole.
Donald Trump is angry that the speaker hasn't endorsed his campaign. To placate him, McCarthy privately vowed to hold a vote to clear Trump's impeachments. Now, that promise is coming due.
I went to an evangelical grade-school that pushed the narrative that slavery, while evil, was somehow necessary to introduce black people to Christianity. I thought that was the craziest take I’d ever see on slavery. Evidently I was wrong.
For at least 60 years, there’s never been an election in the town. Instead, the mantle has been treated as a “hand me down” by the small percentage of white residents, according to several residents Capital B interviewed. After being the only one to submit qualifying paperwork and statement of economic interests, Braxton became the mayor.
That last part is kind of significant. I don’t doubt there’s a racial component here but I also think anyone that just assumed an office through paperwork would face resistance in a small town.
I agreed there is racism involved, but you don’t think if you or I rolled into town and signed up as mayor we wouldn’t face resistance? Small town xenophobia includes racism but extends beyond it too.
New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley are introducing bipartisan legislation that would prevent members of the executive and legislative branches — as well as their spouses and children — from trading individual company stocks.
People elected to federal government are already entitled to salaries they can comfortably live on. And they should really be living on that exclusively while serving.
It’s amazing to me how passionately people I’ve known personally will defend politicians ‘right’ to effectively profit from their service far beyond their salaries. Arguments like “If we don’t let them earn more money talented people won’t enter politics” and “It’s not fair to punish them for being successful”. It’s just insane to me.
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Fired Tesla Employee Posts New Video of Full Self-Driving Running Red Light (jalopnik.com)
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UFO hearings: whistleblower David Grusch says ‘non-human biologics’ found at alleged crash sites – as it happened (www.theguardian.com)
UFO hearing key takeaways: What a whistleblower told Congress about UAP (www.cbsnews.com)
A former military intelligence officer-turned-whistleblower told House lawmakers that Congress is being kept in the dark about unidentified anomalous phenomena.
Which is better OMV or TrueNAS or Nextcloud?
I have an old x86_64 computer which I am planning to use as a NAS. Which of the 2 is a better option? Is it helpful or better to run on bare metal or as a VM on proxmox?
Watch Live: UFO hearing underway as House panel pushes for more transparency (www.cbsnews.com)
Twitter's rebrand is the next stage in Elon Musk's vision for the company. But does anyone want it? | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)
Elon Musk’s move over the weekend to rebrand Twitter and replace its iconic bird logo with an X is just the latest step in his effort to make over the billionaire’s longtime favorite platform in his image.
Twitter’s Rebrand To X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Thanks To Microsoft (themessenger.com)
My dad just died a few minutes ago, and the paramedics left a mess hidden under his bed.
My father just died in his sleep. He had passed by the time the paramedics arrived....
Musk rushes out new Twitter logo—it’s just an X that someone tweeted at him (arstechnica.com)
Season 1 & 2 of Andromeda were alright. (lemmy.world)
People only remember (if they remember this show) how incredibly schlocky and terrible this show became. Granted, it had more seasons being a trainwreck than being watchable....
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Lightsaber Lawn Care
Would a lightsaber make a good lawn care tool? I think so....
RFK Jr replaces Trump as Russia's favorite candidate (www.newsweek.com)
A Russian state TV commentator praised Kennedy for injecting "his pro-Russian talking points about Ukraine into the mainstream."
Georgia DA Looking to Indict Trump on ‘Sprawling Racketeering’ Charges ‘Next Month’: New Report (www.mediaite.com)
OpenAI, Google, others pledge to watermark AI content for safety -White House (www.reuters.com)
Top AI companies including OpenAI, Alphabet and Meta Platforms have made voluntary commitments to the White House to implement measures such as watermarking AI-generated content to help make the technology safer, the Biden administration said on Friday.
Trump Threatens Would Be ‘Very Dangerous’ If Jack Smith Sends Him To Jail In New Interview (www.mediaite.com)
Trump threatened it would be "very dangerous" if he were jailed over the new charges he's likely facing, citing the "passion" of his fan base.
Here's what I like from Lemmy so far and hope to see continue and retained for years to come
Lemmy allows you to edit titles in your posts. Reddit doesn’t, for some obscure reason, allow this....
Fox News host caught accidentally making the case for Roe v Wade (www.independent.co.uk)
Jesse Watters makes an argument that sounds familiar to many liberals and progressives
Reddit protests see r/Place experiment immediately hijacked with grotesque graffiti (www.independent.co.uk)
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‘Active club’ hate groups are growing in the US — and making themselves seen, including in Oregon (www.opb.org)
Cells of white males have formed in at least 30 states, united around racism and an interest in mixed martial arts. Extremism researchers say they're neo-Nazis looking to mainstream their ideas.
Judge: West Virginia can't require incarcerated atheist to participate in religious programming (apnews.com)
A federal judge in West Virginia has ruled that the state corrections agency can’t force an incarcerated atheist and secular humanist to participate in religiously-affiliated programming to be eligible for parole.
Ohio Conservatives, Afraid of Losing Abortion Referendum, Try to Make It About Trans Panic (jezebel.com)
New York City to hand out fliers urging migrants to go elsewhere (www.bbc.com)
America's biggest city will hand migrants fliers asking them to go elsewhere as it is "at capacity".
Inside Kevin McCarthy’s secret promise to expunge Trump’s record (www.politico.com)
Donald Trump is angry that the speaker hasn't endorsed his campaign. To placate him, McCarthy privately vowed to hold a vote to clear Trump's impeachments. Now, that promise is coming due.
How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs (news.uchicago.edu)
In the near future, birth defects, traumatic injuries, limb loss and perhaps even cancer could be cured through bioelectricity.
MTG said she was 'uncomfortable' showing photos of Hunter Biden having sex but Americans 'deserve' to see them (www.businessinsider.com)
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene held up naked photos of Hunter Biden during a House Oversight Committee hearing on the DOJ's investigation into his taxes.
Florida Schools to Tell Kids Slavery Benefited Black People (www.thedailybeast.com)
The Florida Board of Education has approved shocking new standards for African American history, despite overwhelming backlash from the public.
A Black Man Was Elected Mayor in Rural Alabama, but the White Town Leaders Won’t Let Him Serve (capitalbnews.org)
DeSantis PAC uses AI-generated Trump voice in ad attacking ex-president (www.politico.com)
A pro-Ron DeSantis super PAC uses an Artificial Intelligence version of Donald Trump’s voice in a new television ad attacking the former president....
Senators introduce bipartisan ban on stock ownership for executive and legislative branch office holders and their families | CNN Politics (edition.cnn.com)
New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley are introducing bipartisan legislation that would prevent members of the executive and legislative branches — as well as their spouses and children — from trading individual company stocks.
Twitter's encrypted DMs are here — but only for verified users (www.engadget.com)
Twitter is beginning to roll out its long-promised encrypted direct messaging feature, but with significant limitations..