There’s a capital strike on, and you can’t simply withhold capital or else it is put to use elsewhere so it has to be employed for enshittification.

If you used Google Translate previously for translations, they’ve switched out the backend for Gemini. Most of the existing translation tools have been destroyed and replaced with LLMs already.

I mean, he definitely did it. We all remember the breathless coverage of his 2am ketamine tweets to manipulate the market:

Musk’s May 13 tweet — “Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users” — was “false because the buyout was not, in fact, ‘temporarily on hold,’” the lawsuit says. That’s because Twitter did not agree to put the deal on hold, and there was nothing in the merger agreement the two parties signed that allowed Musk to put it on hold, according to the lawsuit.

I wonder if he has enough clout left with the Trump admin to weasel out of this one, like he did with the Tesla deal.

If I got a satire post from the perspective of a Claudia de la Cruz voter I would giggle and kick my feet like a five-year old at Disneyland.

Maybe it’s just wishful thinking, but generally I think the worst of it stays out of the comments in satire communities. At least, let’s hope it does this time.

If you create a new community and start up megathreads for big news events, people can vote with their feet (so to speak). Folks who don’t like them can keep posting to their communities, and folks who do can join yours. I like a megathread for folks who have a take on an event, but don’t care to read the particular article they’re commenting under — I totally get it can be tedious to read a bajillion articles on the same event just to participate in the conversation, but it’s also annoying for those of us who are interested in discussing the contents of a specific article. Megathreads seem like a good compromise that can make everyone happy, so long as you understand that your thread will not prevent other kinds of posts in other communities.

Oh weird! They must’ve starting taking traffic and moved it inside the paywall. I wish I could get the graph, which is the gist of the article, but the thesis is that when you match players to their registration, the NHL has the most registered Republicans, at ~60%, than any league other than the MLB.

Come join us in !womenshockey@reddthat.com ! The PWHL is in full swing.

There’s a lot of people who come to fedi looking for this spot — maybe it makes sense to see if programming.dev is willing to host such a community?

Seems kinda strange for IFAB to take it up since it doesn’t even really seem like MLS has adopted the rule like Next Pro did.

I think unfortunately we’ve lost a lot of that older meaning as it’s been crowded out by a more racially charged usage.

The word sardonic used to mean what we now use sarcastic for — verbally ironic. Sarcasm comes from the Greek “to tear flesh, bite the lip in rage, sneer” and meant “bitterly cutting or caustic” when it first entered English. For me, although I understand that hypothetically you could have sarcasm that doesn’t have this inherently negative bent to it, the word still retains a fair bit of its original connotation for good reason.

I dunno about your district, but we usually have some pretty good candidates through the DSA on our ballot: https://platform.dsausa.org/

Huge benefits for small cost if we design with this in mind:

It is incredibly easy to press a button on the remote and watch the room temperature drop by 10 degrees Celsius in a matter of minutes. However, perhaps we would not be so reliant on this sudden cooling if our cities offered high-quality and accessible urban design featuring vegetated surfaces, shaded areas, or water elements that help reduce overall urban temperatures. The revitalization of the Cheonggyecheon River in Seoul is a practical example of how we should approach our cities. Following its revitalization and integration into Seoul, it was observed that temperatures along the river decreased by between 3.3°C and 5.9°C compared to a street just a few blocks away.

In addition to urban considerations, when it comes to architectural strategies, passive mitigation of high temperatures relies on several well-known yet perhaps equally underestimated measures. These include shading (via vegetation or built volumes), reflective surfaces, generating thermal mass through materials, proper solar orientation, and cross ventilation. Research suggests that combining these passive strategies can result in an average internal temperature decrease of 2.2°C, a 31% reduction in cooling load, and a 29% energy savings.

Hint: It’s more than you think:

In Chicago, for instance, reimagining those right-of-ways could open up nearly $8.3 billion in redevelopment potential within three miles of the Windy City’s epicenter; in Boston, it’s $16.3 billion.

And in both cities, the annualized household costs of maintaining infrastructure over its lifestyle and paying the costs of driving are north of $23,000 a year — a price so few residents are willing to actually pay that local governments are struggling to fill their potholes.

“What we typically hear in the press is that congestion costs us billions of dollars a year,” Kennedy adds. "But whatever the number might be, it’s usually a scare tactic that’s multiplied by the entire population. When you start breaking that number down per household or per capita, the number is actually not that big — and it’s dwarfed by the overall costs of having to own and operate several vehicles per household, as well as all the infrastructure to go with it.

“We need to get some numbers out there that [show] why our municipalities are effectively broke, why the roads are so bad, and why we have to continually cut services and raise taxes just to tread water as a municipality,” he continued.

It’s cuz Adrian says so:

The headlines can make it hard for a Sounders fan. Majority owner Adrian Hanauer is known for his insistence on a different approach, developing talent through the club’s pathway system. It’s a result that often seems to leave the Sounders in the shadows of flashy signings under the leadership of Craig Waibel, the team’s general manager and chief soccer officer.

In those shadows, seedlings have been growing and the club is seeing them blossom all over the field. The Sounders are expected to start the season with nine players who were born in Washington. There are 16 players on the roster who either came through the club’s pathway — academy and/or MLS Next Pro side Tacoma Defiance — or played college soccer locally in the Roldan brothers, Cristian (University of Washington) and Alex (Seattle University).

We’ll see if the new investors we’re courting feel the same way.

I was worried Jmo was going to be out significantly longer. Kid cannot catch a break.

They both have to be careful about bites (bytes)?

I’m not as quick as you. I got most of the way through article and was still wondering why X would expose a database of historical prompts to an llm for querying by law enforcement.

I mean, most llm makers work pretty hard to conceal the system prompt, and I have no idea why XAi would give Grok access to a database of historical prompts. LLMs don’t have memories by default, and their inability to learn from past experiences is kind of a big stumbling point for a lot of folks. You can ask, but I doubt you’re likely to get anything other than a confabulation.