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You don't want a physical disc
You don't want a physical disc for a game that needs patches to function, but can no longer be downloaded
You don't want a physical disc for a game that has to authenticate against servers that no longer exist
You don't want a physical disc that's encrypted and is illegal to decrypt
You don't want a physical disc that can't be read because all the hardware that can read it is dead
You don't want a physical disc that corrodes and is unreadable in 10 years
No, you don't want a physical disc
What you want is OWNERSHIP
It's not about the disc
It's about owning what you've purchased and being able to access it in the future
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In Canada, the next step is to offer the farmer MAiD
Jeremy Clarkson’s Farm show on Amazon is the most radicalizing piece of mainstream media I’ve ever seen
Just one example (bear with me):
Badgers became a protected species in Britain 40+ years ago.
The population has exploded and now frequently transmits tuberculosis to cows
But farmers can’t cull the badger population to protect their cattle because the government still considers them to be endangered
Instead of addressing the root cause, the UK has the most batshit testing regime for cattle
There’s no TB vaccine. So the cattle have to get tested. The vets administering the test have to measure welts on the cows neck. Whether a cow lives or dies comes down to a vet trying to discern 1mm on a caliper (reactive vs non reactive).
If a cow tests positive, the farm (already running on super thin margins) is quarantined and starts hemorrhaging money.
Jeremy Clarkson’s cow (pregnant with twins) has an inconclusive test so it’s separated from the herd. It receives a second inconclusive test so they have to kill it (before it can give birth to the twins).
Now here’s the kicker: the autopsy reveals no sign of TB. It was a healthy cow needlessly killed
So - silver lining the farm should be removed from quarantine, right? WRONG - it’s still under quarantine and has to keep testing and can’t sell its beef
Kafkaesque doesn’t even begin to describe how f’d up it is for British farmers
Told you
The “condo king”, organized a $25,000 per plate lunch, with Greg Robertson, who is now the Liberal Minister of Housing
The same “condo king” that benefits from the $3.2 billion bailout Carney just gave to wealthy condo developers
It’s all right there bro
HT: @scoopercooper
Sure, but how much money and influence have you contributed to the current regime?
Favours for favours
Is it me or did the X algo radically shift recently?
My FYP looks significantly different all of the sudden
Watching Superbowl commercials and realizing that AI isn't starting to look like commercials, commercials already look like AI
How you think about AI changes when you stop comparing it to film and instead look at it as a new advanced form of animation
Massive news: I was commissioned by @xai to create a short film in 2 days using only Grok Imagine 1.0 (stills and video).
So in honor of Groundhog Day, here it is: "Routine" a film about a man in a time loop in suburbia.
Thank you so much to the xAI team and @elonmusk for this opportunity!
If you're an AI video creator, you may notice that I've cracked character consistency in Grok Imagine with this project (check out the kitchen scene). I will do a follow up post explaining exactly how I did that (it was not just prompting).
People are starting to realize that the entire economy has been Minnesota day care scams since we adopted fiat currency
This is the most unintentionally terrifying AI video ever made
m.youtube.com/shorts/h63Z6Z3…
Remember when we were told if we didn't off shore everything and import cheap labor our prices would skyrocket?
How are those prices going?
It's easy to point out the problems today
There are even easy solutions to some of them
However, there is no mechanism in which you can implement any of the solutions
Now what?
See? Horror movie
So… the 1X NEO home robot is not actually autonomous.
Behind the scenes, it’ll often be teleoperated by humans, meaning someone, somewhere, could literally remote-control a robot inside your living room.
I wanted the dawn of embodied AI.
Instead, I’m apparently paying $499/month for a robot avatar with a human pilot.
It’s impressive tech. But also… kind of dystopian?
A robot that looks alive, yet secretly puppeteered, the uncanny valley just got a new basement level.
Feels less like the “post-labor future,”
and more like we just outsourced physical presence itself.
Years from now, historians will write stories about how the search company became incompetent at search
Incompetent bureaucrats always seek to eliminate the competent
They cannot create anything on their own, so they seek to invade, co-opt and usurp from those who do
They'll extract what they can until there is nothing left of value and move on
They are the purest form of parasite and they'll try to convince you they're doing it for your own good
@dhh is a competent man
Turn Rails over to the opinion police and watch it wither away
A group of Lefist Activists are pushing for the Ruby on Rails project to remove the project’s founder (@dhh) because they claim he “holds racist and transphobic views” and “other traits undesirable”.
This group, which compares themselves to the French resistance during WWII, is also demanding the adoption of a “modern Code of Conduct”.
github.com/Floppy/plan-vert-…
