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Because it will cost Tesla $10 BILLION dollars to make right. And when it comes out that HW4 ain't getting unsupervised either.... it'll bankrupt @tesla. Unless of course they just 🖕 all their customers which appears to be the game plan at the moment. Right @elonmusk ? Fix my cars or refund me my $30k.
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#7 most voted with 667,000 shares represented. did they really not address it at all?
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Epic meltdown!
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Everything Yann said here is roughly correct, and Musk knows it, which is why he responded like a 14-year-old.
Calling @MKBHD’s video “hate” is misguided and highlights the nearly insurmountable issue the Tesla community has with criticism. There was plenty to criticize about that unveiling and I thought Marques did an incredible job. He is becoming a great force pushing against the growing movement in tech and now automotive of over promising and under delivering.
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Calling @MKBHD’s video “hate” is misguided and highlights the nearly insurmountable issue the Tesla community has with criticism. There was plenty to criticize about that unveiling and I thought Marques did an incredible job. He is becoming a great force pushing against the growing movement in tech and now automotive of over promising and under delivering.
MKBHD hatin’ on the roadster is all you needa know about the guy…
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"User Generated Content" (UGC), is definitely worth being explicitly aware of. This post refined my knowledge on sponsored content. Thx Gerard, for not just this but all you do & have been doing for so long! You're really quite remarkable, dedicated, decent, & respectable! 🙏🏻
Is paying shills to promote mask brands on social media a good or bad thing? WellBefore is running a social media campaign using multiple micro-influencers to promote their masks and I'm wondering what you think about it. You can pay people on social media to create ads, called "User Generated Content" (UGC). You can also give the content creators a percentage of the sales they generate through affiliate links. The idea is to create plausible endorsements by real seeming people that don't feel like ads It's a strategy that can totally work, and it's likely way more influential than videos by technical reviewers such as myself. People are swayed by vivid storytelling, and by likeable people much more so than by statistics. The problem for me is I just don't find many the posts credible, especially when they use AI for the voiceovers. Many of them feel very contrived and I don't feel the content creator actually wears the WellBefore masks off camera. Here's an example of why I feel some of the UGC feels inauthentic. This content creator used by WellBefore even has a bullet point in their bio promising "AI-powered viral content", and her bio title is "Your favorite UGC creator" instagram.com/madina_america… Almost every single post of hers is advertising. So the WellBefore endorsement post isn't organically mixed in with legit standalone content, it's just in a playlist of ads.
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Reuters Climate Monitor Data Dashboard You can drill down to your own location for a very enlightening comparison to now vs the average for 1961 to 1990. reuters.com/graphics/CLIMATE…
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I am the Vice President of Apple Intelligence, and this week I stood on a stage and introduced you to Apple Foundation Models, which I named, which is the part I built. The models are Gemini. They are Google's. We did not make them. I want to be precise, because precision is a value here: we made the words "Apple Foundation Models," and we made them in San Francisco, on a Mac. Here is what I actually shipped. A system orchestrator. It is a layer that sits on top of Google's brain and decides which of Google's thoughts to show you, and in which app, and with which font. I orchestrate. The intelligence is rented. I am the conductor of an orchestra I do not own, playing music I did not write, and I walked out for the bow. For ten years we told you the magic was that we made the whole thing. The silicon, the software, the soul. On your device. Yours. This year the soul is a vendor relationship, and I said the word "seamless" and you applauded, because the word still works even after the thing it described left the building. We reportedly pay Google about a billion dollars a year for the brain. I have a budget line for it. The line does not say "brain." It says "foundation services." I named that too. And the privacy promise, I kept it, word for word, the same sentence as last year. Your data is used only for the task. Google does not see your request. Outside experts can verify our guarantees at any time. I can recite it in my sleep. I recited it over a model I did not build, about a partner I will not name on the slide, and every clause was technically true, which is the only kind of true we ship. Someone in the keynote row asked me, quietly, "so what did Apple make." I said: the experience. He asked again. I said: the orchestration. He asked a third time. I told him that question was not aligned with the roadmap, and he stopped asking, and I gave him a lanyard. We did not build the intelligence. We built the sentence that says we did. And you bought the phone that says it out loud.
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I was absolutely appalled to hear Bonnie Henry say "Personal Protective Equipment, the word we all dread". You may have had an instant visceral reaction to that yourself, but here are the eleven things wrong with what she said:
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For folks waking up to this important news @WHO has declared a public health emergency (PHEIC) for the Ebola outbreak in DRC & Uganda. Only the 9th such declaration in history The strain is Bundibugyo for which we have no vaccine, no treatments. Here's what concerns me:
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About that Trump Mobile t1 phone, it might not be real or ever manufactured and a down payment on it does not constitute an acceptance of order. Wtf? 🤡🤡🤡 nwida.org/trump-mobile-updat…
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Why is the AI backlash growing? Outside of coding (where there is clear value), and a handful of other domains (e.g. brainstorming), Generative AI has been a net negative for society. GenAI has been undermining secondary and college education, opening up mass surveillance, increasing disinformation, delusions, impersonation, phishing, and other forms of cybercrime, nonconsensual deep fake porn, bias in employment and other domains, and economic disparity, drowning the world in slop and unwanted, over-leveraged environment-damaging data centers that risk causing a recession. Simultaneously it has empowered a bunch of people who want to privatize almost all the gains while leave all the downsides to society, taking almost zero responsibility. I don’t think we are better off than we were four years ago. Some of this is technical (LLMs aren’t reliable), some of it is political/economic (such as the utter lack of responsible regulation). Most of this was predictable. Almost none of it is good. All that said, I honestly believes some future form of AI might be great. But Generative AI has hurt more than it has helped, and been managed irresponsibly. It’s no wonder many people have had enough.
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This guy is so boring, cringe, and insufferable. Just the worst of what the US represents.
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Media and tech justice are community defense issues. MediaJustice is raising $25,000 this giving season to seed media and tech justice strategies, political education, and narrative leadership in local communities. classy.org/campaign/c449667
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No birth certificate? No passport? No problem—you’re registered for the DRAFT. But to register to VOTE? The SAVE Act says show your papers first. They’ll send you to war without ID but won’t let you vote without one. WTH! #TrumpVotesByMail
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Public health isn’t just hospitals & doctors, it’s the invisible shield that protects our communities and builds a Healthy #CaliforniaForAll. From injury prevention & food safety to controlling & preventing the spread of diseases & more, public health keeps us thriving.  #NPHW
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Do the public and the markets recognize that the 20% oil supply disruption is as great as use decline during global lockdown in 2020? Yet markets and people don't seem to see what's coming in the near future. Major Feb 2020 pre-impact head in the sand vibes.
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A gallows image directed at a vaccine scientist who spends his career fighting disease. This is what happens when you spend years telling people scientists are the enemy. Words have consequences. Report it and say so loudly.
Please @X I make low cost vaccines to help humanity and debunk pseudoscience. This is unacceptable
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"You are probably getting brain damage from all those COVID infections." This all seems to make sense; people definitely appear to be dumber despite having the world's knowledge at their fingertips, like literal gods. Add this to brain-rot, AI, and TikTok, and you have a recipe for idiocracy🍿 The best part is 50% of people won't believe this, because everything is politicized, including science, and to me, that's hilarious. I'm happy to watch it all and laugh. Reminds me of the quote "To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony." (Richard Leakey) Anyway, good luck, everyone. It's not going to get better. synergies.substack.com/p/you…
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Woo boy, is 2026 gonna be a doozy. My favorite is everyone playing with Grok on here, not understanding you're helping train the AI that will replace you at work, all to enrich the world's wealthiest man. Good luck!
My first vlog as an e-girl where I explain how character swaps work
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