Michael Harrison: "No no you don't understand. See, these are actually 'First Responder Glasses' for safety"
French Quarter Management District: We will buy 500 pair
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Local politicians who opposed Calvin Duncan's campaign but who also insist on being seen at his swearing in
The post-AI-bubble regulation should start by making it illegal to do circular deals - money invested cannot be used to pay for services, money invested cannot be used for buying hardware, etc, etc. Hell, I'm game for making it illegal to invest in customers at all.
Also important to emphasize as these glasses will largely be used as a workaround against laws banning racial profiling more than anything.
the surveillance aspects of this are also stunning
This is why it’s risky to block out hangover time on your work calendar
everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"
Iran going after Bsky is a genuinely funny waste of resources.
soon our big beautiful navy boats will be filled with people dying from old timey diseases you never even heard of
Anyone who knows anything about how and where the 1918 flu spread first is letting out a big sigh
Anyway what it shows is that your city leaders don't act on principle and actually hate democratic accountability when applied to them. Instead it's all transactional. When you get down to it, they're all Trump, really.
This is also very telling. They didn't want any "subjectivity and politics" involved when it looked like they themselves might be held accountable for giving away public money to corporations. They're fine with that being frictionless. But they also want tribute. So it's tricky
My move would be to simply eliminate the use of PILOTs altogether
City Council wants a right of final approval over PILOT subsidies issued by the Industrial Development Board. In theory this is good idea just for the sake of democratic accountability. In practice I think councilmembers just want to trade favors and collect bribes.
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If Mitch Landrieu runs for President I will need you to contribute to my Gofundme campaign so I can follow him across America making fart noises into a megaphone wherever he goes
This is called Main Character Syndrome and Mitch Landrieu has one of the worst cases of that I've ever seen. www.nola.com/news/politic...
Unsurprisingly, when you post this story to Twitter the most common response is some version of, "actually the kids are too fat"
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This is highly relevant to my interests. A fun thing about being a fan of this band is every 5 or 10 years someone has to write a new concordance to the body of work. And you get to read it.
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The Palantir manifesto has the heritage of the War on Terror written throughout it. Which makes an awful lot of sense considering who staked Palantir at the start.
And so today we have the exact same scenario except this time it is a wasp. The bugs are out here carjacking people.
New Orleans has never been more in debt, more likely to flood, had more unsafe water, or more mass surveillance
SWB diver prepares to work on massive sewer leak under the Industrial Canal
when you know monday is coming
I haven't had any problems with caterpillars coming up through the hole in the floor. Spiders, on the other hand...
Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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The head of the FBI isn't supposed to be getting blackout drunk. He's supposed to be cross-dressing
No it won’t you lying moron.
In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of accounts have emerged on social media featuring A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace. Several accounts have already amassed thousands followers. Some of the posts have more than half a million views.
