$399, what? This is tech from over a decade ago, there are smart phones that sell for under $100. Seems like a stupid gimmick only wealthy parents will buy for their kids.

I hosted Qwen 3.5 9b uncensored on my site at https://masland.tech/ for a while. I didn't really use it and no one else used it so I took it down. These days I'm spending most of my time finding uses for AI and accessibility. One of the next things I'm planning is a video to text reasoning system, primarily for the purpose of grading used electronic devices.

This is probably a good thing, it's more efficient if people live within larger municipal areas closer to amenities. It's very inefficient if we have small towns everywhere that need their own supplies. I'm not saying we should all live in one massive city, just that at scale, things become more accessible to people.

I tried, it didn't make me any money. Pay me $50,000 a year, that's all I'm asking for, and I'll stop right now. I'll even tell other people to stop too.

Not interested, will be fun to check out some live streams very briefly while I continue spending most of my time building stuff with AI though.

AI slop

In a "free market" it would be a worrying sign that the government can just tell one of the highest valued corporations "nope, we're not permitting you to do that, your entire business model is dictated by us". But we don't have a free market, and the stock market doesn't represent the reality of the situation, just like how valuations of AI companies keep going up even though something like GLM-5.2 exists. I think investors are probably just dumb, and we're in a bubble.

The fact that there wasn't a bigger sell off when they banned Fable 5 is ridiculous. The stock market doesn't represent real conditions at all.

They said learn to code. 😂

Yea it's meant to show how smart phones correlate significantly more than vehicle weight, but that vehicle weight is more of an exacerbating factor rather than the cause. Smart phone adoption is absolutely the cause for more pedestrian deaths, distracted driving, I see people driving while looking attheir phone all the time, it's verified fact.

USA smartphone adoption, pedestrian fatalities, and the average weight SUVs/pickups https://lemmy.world/post/48427091

• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA): The historical pedestrian fatality statistics are sourced directly from the NHTSA's Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), which tracks traffic fatalities nationwide. https://www.nhtsa.gov/book/countermeasures-that-work/pedestrian-safety
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): The historical vehicle weight data and the market shift toward light trucks and SUVs come from the EPA's annual Automotive Trends Report, which maintains data on every new light-duty vehicle produced since 1975. https://www.epa.gov/automotive-trends/highlights-automotive-trends-report
• Pew Research Center: The timeline of smartphone adoption and mobile internet use in the United States is tracked by the Pew Research Center's National Public Opinion Reference Surveys. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/01/08/internet-use-smartphone-ownership-digital-divides-in-u-s/
• Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS): The safety analysis regarding vehicle lethality, front-end geometry (the "leading edge"), and blind spots during pedestrian impacts relies on multiple IIHS studies, including their specific analyses of pedestrian crash lethality by vehicle type. https://www.iihs.org/research-areas/fatality-statistics/detail/pedestrians

Probably poor infrastructure, people crossing in the middle of the street, fewer strict speed limits, etc.

Yea but I added the weight and prevalence of heavier cars and nothing changed around the time of reversal, it was steadily increasing as the amount of pedestrian deaths were going down from 1980 to 2008

I hate to break it to you 4chan dwelling normie fucking stupid shit head, but that 25 hrs a week is not because of the Affordable Care Act. It's because of greedy capitalist fucks who are squeezing you for every cent they give you to maximize profit margins well beyond what they need to for a healthy business model.

That's this universe we live in, the powers that be actively fighting progress, yet progress still is made. I'm grateful to those who progress technology and apply it to benefit humanity. The Drump administration just keeps losing.

I look forward to seeing more electric leaf blowers. Sure they have a bit of an annoying high pitched whine when you're close by, but you're not going to hear it more than 5 meters away. I've also been seeing more electric lawn mowers which are also much quieter.

If you ever needed a solid fact to prove this is a massive bubble, here it is.