Good practical examples are the car driver vs the Amazon driver. When you drive a car, you go where you want, but at the superhuman speed of a car. The Amazon driver has a computer telling them where to go, how to drive there, and even cameras to watch if you drive according to Amazon's rules. The driver has become the extension of the computer, instead of the other way around. That's a reverse centaur.

Maybe it's Jeffries who has some serious work to do in terms of the conversations that he's going to have with American voters moving forwards.

I don't see anything about heavy equipment. According to the article, it's a creek rather than a full river, but it does claim that the scale of the cleanup could cause a flood risk.

Either way, the real crime is that the authorities never cleaned it up. Authorities failing to do their job will eventually invite people to take matters into their own hand.

I really think everybody should simply refuse to use any of Google's captchas anymore. There are others I don't like either, but Google is the worst. If it's something you need to use, report that the site doesn't work.

But they only want to buy the food, not the gratitude.

From the perspective of the rest of the world, the US is really weird about prices.

Real estate is the one thing he's supposed to be good at, and he's even fucking that up.

They demand uncritical support of Israel, which is basically a terrorist state at this point.

Yeah, that article goes out of its way to call out and condemn entirely justified criticism.

How many Franco-Belgian comics about fighter pilots were there?

Or maybe the real question is: why are half the world's comics from Wallonia?

Is he saying that AI mentally crippled him? Because people have been figuring this out for millennia.

They will investigate anything but the Epstein files.

women gyrating provocatively, and Bad Bunny shamelessly grabbing his crotch while dry-humping the air”

Oh no! Did Bad Bunny steal one of Michael Jackson's signature moves? Did his dancers dance like Shakira or Jennifer Lopez? Has this guy ever seen a Superbowl halftime show?

Do they have any evidence that F-droid serves more malware than Play Store?

With his corruption and sexual harassment, joining the Trump camp makes total sense for him.

That's significantly worse. Assembling a PC without knowing what a cooler is for is bad enough, but to actually cut pieces off complex electronic components, I don't know what kind of state of mind you have to be in for that.

No stupid rules of engagement, no nation-building quagmire, no democracy-building exercise, no politically correct wars.

No democracy, no nation building. So what is the actual goal here? Just to shoot stuff for its own sake?

Isn't this basically a kind of insider trading? They wouldn't be allowed to buy that stock, knowing that this deal is about to happen, but receiving it as part of the deal is okay? That doesn't feel right to me.

OpenAI’s mounting costs — set to hit $1.4 trillion

Sorry, but WTF!? $1.4 Trillion in costs? How are they going to make all of that back with just AI?

I think there's only one way they can make this back: if AI gets so good they can really replace most employees.

I don't think it will happen, but either way it's going to be an economic disaster. Either the most valuable companies in the world, offering services that the next couple of hundred companies in the world depend on, are suddenly bankrupt. Or suddenly everybody is unemployed.

For most people, but especially for the rich, a liveable environment is far more important than a bit more money. Nobody who has saving money as their first priority is going to be living in New York anyway. But a liveable city that's safe, fun to be in, and that you can move around in without fearing for your life, those are far more important to most people.

So I'm not surprised that Mamdani's victory is drawing more people to NY.

He did it while black. That's clearly an arrestable offense.